
Movies that feel likeUnder the Skin (2014)
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).
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If Under the Skin hit the spot, these will too

Both land tension and ideas at once
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Under the Skin does

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Contemplative science fiction in both cases

Both lean on ideas more than on drama

Both are built on the same subject: alien
The difference: Leans harder into action than Under the Skin does

Thriller built on tension, twice over
The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

Science fiction in the same key

Cut from the same thriller cloth

The same science fiction instincts

Both know what they want from thriller
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