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Movies that feel likeThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.

If you loved The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the closest films we have are The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Timecrimes (2007) and X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). All three share The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's dreamlike and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Cloverfield (2008).

🍅 16% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Stephen Norringtondreamlikekinetictensecerebral
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The Matrix Revolutions
2003 · dir. Lana Wachowski
🍅 33%★ 6.8action · thriller · science fiction

Dreamlike and kinetic in the same breath

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

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Timecrimes
2007 · dir. Nacho Vigalondo
🍅 90%★ 7.1science fiction · thriller

Both land tension and ideas at once

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

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X-Men: Apocalypse
2016 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 47%★ 6.8science fiction · fantasy · actionDisney+

Both are built on the same subject: superpowers

The difference: Lighter on tension

After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

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Predators
2010 · dir. Nimród Antal
🍅 66%★ 6.4science fiction · action · thriller

Action built on momentum, twice over

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

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

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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.

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Cloverfield
2008 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 78%★ 7action · thriller · science fictionParamount+Peacock

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

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.

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Pacific Rim: Uprising
2018 · dir. Steven S. DeKnight
🍅 41%★ 5.6action · fantasy · science fictionMax

Common ground: saving the world

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

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Æon Flux
2005 · dir. Karyn Kusama
🍅 9%★ 5.4science fiction · action · thrillerPrime VideoParamount+

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

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Morbius
2022 · dir. Daniel Espinosa
🍅 15%★ 5.1action · science fiction · fantasyPrime VideoDisney+

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.

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The Dark Tower
2017 · dir. Nikolaj Arcel
🍅 16%★ 5.6fantasy · action · science fictionParamount+

Kinetic action in both cases

A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.

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Zardoz
1974 · dir. John Boorman
🍅 49%★ 5.8fantasy · action · thrillerPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: immortality

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

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Hollow Man
2000 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 25%★ 5.9action · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.

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