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The Butterfly Effect (2004)

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

🍅 34%7.6dir. J. Mackye Grubercerebraltense

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Predestination
2014 · dir. Michael Spierig
🍅 84%7.4science fiction · thriller

both about time travel · shares that cerebral feel

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating

Knowing
2009 · dir. Alex Proyas
🍅 35%6.2science fiction · thriller

shares that tense feel

A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

The Happening
2008 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 17%5thriller · science fiction

same cerebral energy

When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something eve

Sunshine
2007 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 77%7.2science fiction · thriller

same tense energy

Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.

Déjà Vu
2006 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 55%7.1action · thriller · science fiction

both about time travel · just as cerebral

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.

Limitless
2011 · dir. Neil Burger
🍅 68%7.4thriller · mystery · science fiction

just as tense

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 46%6.5science fiction · thriller · adventure

kindred science fiction spirit

After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam,

Cloverfield
2008 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 78%7action · thriller · science fiction

kindred thriller spirit

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

Cube
1998 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 61%7.1thriller · science fiction · mystery

kindred science fiction spirit

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

Tenet
2020 · dir. Christopher Nolan
🍅 70%7.3action · thriller · science fiction

kindred thriller spirit

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

Contagion
2011 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 85%6.8drama · thriller · science fiction

kindred science fiction spirit

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

Predators
2010 · dir. Nimród Antal
🍅 65%6.4science fiction · action · thriller

kindred thriller spirit

A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.

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