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Movies that feel likeUnder the Skin (2014)

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

If you loved Under the Skin, the closest films we have are Paradise (2023), Predestination (2014) and Primer (2004). All three share Under the Skin's tense and cerebral 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).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jonathan Glazertensecerebralcontemplative
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Paradise
2023 · dir. Boris Kunz
🍅 100%★ 6.3science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Both land tension and ideas at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Under the Skin does

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

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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

Contemplative science fiction in both cases

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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The Platform
2019 · dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
🍅 81%★ 7drama · science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Both lean on ideas more than on drama

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

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

Both are built on the same subject: alien

The difference: Leans harder into action than Under the Skin does

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

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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

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

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

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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Project Almanac
2015 · dir. Dean Israelite
🍅 38%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller

Science fiction in the same key

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

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

Cut from the same thriller cloth

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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Next
2007 · dir. Lee Tamahori
🍅 28%★ 6.2action · science fiction · thriller

The same science fiction instincts

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

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War Machine
2026 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 66%★ 6.3action · science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Both know what they want from thriller

On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.

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