20 best movies like Inception (2010)

List of the best movies like Inception (2010): The Prestige, Arrival, Coherence, I Care a Lot, Cloud Atlas, Upgrade, Red Notice, They Live, Interstellar, Time Lapse.

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Markimdb: 8.5
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:05

    A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, India
    Duration02:32

    Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:29

      On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom

      A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore
      Duration02:52

      A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryAustralia, USA
      Duration02:28

      A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA

        An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.

        Markimdb: 8.6
        Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
        Duration02:49

          Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

          Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:37

          A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has less than 10 minutes to figure out how he got there.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryFrance, Israel, Germany, USA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:02

          A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, France
          Duration01:58

          An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Spain, United Kingdom, France
          Duration02:24

          Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:29

            With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
            CountryUSA, South Africa, United Kingdom

            After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a secretive group and their attempts to summon a horrific, mystical entity, and soon his life—and the lives of those close to him—are in grave danger.

            Markimdb: 4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
            Duration02:07

            Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

            Markimdb: 1.9
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:25

            Massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, resulting in unstable weather and freezing temperatures that will be unsurvivable by nightfall. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing family in Egypt must battle the rapidly cooling temperatures that usher in a new Ice Age, covering the Sphinx, Pyramids, and Sahara Desert with mountains of snow.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
            Duration02:27

            Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict Jericho Stewart. When he wakes up with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and eliminate him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration02:35

            Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthouse of the Artemis, a closed old hotel, has a rough night dealing with troublemaker clients: thieves, assassins, someone from the past and the one who owns the place and the whole city.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA, South Africa
            Duration02:17

            Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:03

            Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, France
            Duration01:41

            A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

            Markimdb: 4.5
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
            CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

            It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Beautiful scientist Faith Clavell, storm chaser Tommy Tornado, and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:41

            A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.

            Markimdb: 3.7
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, Germany
            Duration02:25

            Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be injected into victims in order to kill them at will.

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryCanada
            Duration01:29

            A gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrefantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA, Australia
            Duration01:43

              In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
              CountryUSA, China
              Duration01:58

              In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

              Markimdb: 6.5
              Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
              CountryUSA, China, Brazil
              Duration02:36

              An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.

              Markimdb: 6.1
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:58

              In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller
              CountryCanada, USA
              Duration01:52

              Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.

              Markimdb: 4.3
              Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:05

              After a massive shootout, a mysterious stranger (Van Damme) arrives at a local hospital on the brink of death. Then, a foreign gang brazenly comes to the hospital to hunt him down. His nurse, the sole surviving witness to the follow-up shootout, must face an FBI interrogation that unlocks a plot of international intrigue and revenge. With enough twists and turns, KILL'EM ALL will keep you guessing until the final bullet is fired.

              Markimdb: 5.8
              Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
              CountryUSA

              A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.

              Markimdb: 5.8
              Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
              CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
              Duration02:02

              Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration01:45

              A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.

              Markimdb: 4.9
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller
              CountryUnited Kingdom
              Duration02:03

              When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once the group are attacked by enemy combatants, they soon realize this is no game after all. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot ‘em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it’s for real.

              Markimdb: 4.8
              Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
              CountryUnited Kingdom

              This intense action-thriller unfolds in real time as two embattled souls fight for their lives. Gary Oldman stars as a vicious crime boss out to kill Nick, the lone witness set to testify against him. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to unknowingly deliver a poison-gas bomb to slay Nick, but after she rescues Nick from certain death, the duo must confront an army of ruthless hired killers in order to survive the night.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany
              Duration01:51

              A 16-year-old girl raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe. Tracked by a ruthless operatives, she faces startling revelations about her existence and questions about her humanity.

              Markimdb: 3
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:28

              A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
              CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom

              Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

              Markimdb: 6.1
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:14

              The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, smart and logical, and the perfect choice to learn more about the spacecraft.

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genreaction, thriller, drama
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration02:08

              The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.

              Markimdb: 4.5
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
              Duration01:16

              In 2065, the crew of the Pegasus are searching for a new home for humanity. As they approach their potential new world, the discovery of another ship could be the key to their salvation, or doom them and the rest of humanity to extinction.

              Markimdb: 3
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA

              When miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking the North Atlantic, exposing a deep seismic fault that runs the length of the North American continent. Joining forces with government seismology expert Dr Amy Lane, Boomer must now race against time to stop the chasm that is threatening to tear America - and the entire world - in half.

              Markimdb: 5.7
              Genrehorror, action, drama
              CountryUSA

              Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.

              Markimdb: 3.5
              Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:33

              Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther's own supporters abduct and frame him in the murder of an innocent teenage girl, an unprecedented era of persecution is unleashed. Out on personal recognizance, Luther escapes police surveillance in search of the truth. And suddenly, a once-normal life is targeted by a team of ex-military operatives who wage a relentless campaign to eliminate the incriminating evidence. As evangelist turned fugitive, Luther vows to expose anyone involved with or profiting from the girl's murder; a mission that brings him face-to-face with the coming storm of persecution that will threaten the entire Christian community in America.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:56

              Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent.




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