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Movies that feel likeThe Platform (2019)

A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.

If you loved The Platform, the closest films we have are Paradise (2023), Predestination (2014) and Under the Skin (2014). All three share The Platform's cerebral and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970).

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutiacontemplativecerebraltense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Platform 2 (2024)

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Paradise
2023 · dir. Boris Kunz
🍅 100%★ 6.3science fiction · thrillerNetflix

A system built to strip the poor, seen from inside it

The difference: Corporate dystopia sprawl — less visceral than the pit

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

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

A tight conceptual trap that snaps shut in the final act

The difference: Personal identity puzzle — the target is fate, not inequality

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 attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

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Under the Skin
2014 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 83%★ 6.3thriller · science fiction · dramaNetflix

A cold gaze at humans as bodies, meat and appetite

The difference: Abstract and glacial — mood where the pit gives you mechanism

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

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Primer
2004 · dir. Shane Carruth
🍅 72%★ 6.7science fiction · drama · thriller

Low-budget sci-fi that trusts you to assemble the meaning

The difference: A dry time-travel puzzle — no gore, no fury at the system

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

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Prey
2022 · dir. Dan Trachtenberg
🍅 94%★ 7.1thriller · action · science fictionHulu

Both land ideas and tension at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than The Platform does

When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.

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Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970 · dir. Joseph Sargent
🍅 90%★ 7.1science fiction · thriller

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Platform

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

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The Blackout
2019 · dir. Egor Baranov
🍅 57%★ 6thriller · science fiction · actionPrime Video

Bleak high-concept sci-fi about survival when systems fail

The difference: Militarized action sprawl — spectacle over allegory

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

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Jurassic World Dominion
2022 · dir. Colin Trevorrow
🍅 28%★ 5.6adventure · science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Common ground in both: survival and cautionary

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures.

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The Flu
2013 · dir. Kim Sung-soo
🍅 33%★ 6.6action · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: survival

The difference: Sits closer to action than The Platform does

A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.

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Brainstorm
1983 · dir. Douglas Trumbull
🍅 57%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: 36 years apart, and the 1980s show

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.

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Greenland
2020 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 78%★ 6.4thriller · action · science fictionMax

Both lean on ideas more than on drama

John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.

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Tenet
2020 · dir. Christopher Nolan
🍅 70%★ 7.3action · thriller · science fictionRent or buy

Science fiction built on tension, twice over

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.

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