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Movies that feel likeThe Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

If you loved The Cloverfield Paradox, the closest films we have are Life (2017), Alien: Covenant (2017) and Sputnik (2020). All three share The Cloverfield Paradox's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Color Out of Space (2020).

🍅 22% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Julius Onahdreadunsettlingtwistycerebralawe
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Life
2017 · dir. Daniel Espinosa
🍅 67%★ 6.6horror · science fiction · mysteryHulu

The same two preoccupations: space, and space station

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

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Alien: Covenant
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 65%★ 6.4horror · science fictionMax

Two things both keep coming back to: experiment and alien

The difference: Trades the twists of The Cloverfield Paradox for an angle of its own

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.

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Sputnik
2020 · dir. Egor Abramenko
🍅 88%★ 6.4science fiction · drama · horrorRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

The difference: Easier on the twists than The Cloverfield Paradox

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

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Alien: Romulus
2024 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 80%★ 7.1horror · science fictionHulu

The same preoccupation in both: spaceship

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

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Vivarium
2019 · dir. Lorcan Finnegan
🍅 73%★ 5.8science fiction · mystery · horrorRent or buy

Both land dread and unease at once

A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.

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Color Out of Space
2020 · dir. Richard Stanley
🍅 86%★ 6.1horror · science fiction · mystery

Twisty where it counts, cerebral underneath

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Cloverfield Paradox does

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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Event Horizon
1997 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 36%★ 6.6horror · science fiction · mysteryParamount+Peacock

Horror with a pulse of awe, in both cases

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1990s show

In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.

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A Cure for Wellness
2017 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 42%★ 6.4horror · mystery · science fictionPrime Video

Dread-soaked mystery in both cases

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

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Don't Worry Darling
2022 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 38%★ 6.3science fiction · mystery · horrorRent or buy

Unsettling science fiction, and it commits to that

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%★ 5.5mystery · horror

Both lean on twists more than on horror

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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A Classic Horror Story
2021 · dir. Roberto De Feo
🍅 55%★ 5.7horror · mysteryNetflix

Mystery built on dread, twice over

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%★ 5.2horror · mysteryHulu

Different title, same corner of the shelf

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

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