20 best movies like Paycheck (2003)

List of the best movies like Paycheck (2003): Freejack, Eagle Eye, The Anomaly, The Thirteenth Floor, Looper, Chappie, Boy 7, The Commuter, In Time, Upgrade.

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Markimdb: 5.4
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
CountryUSA

Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:58

    Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.

    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: 7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:40

    Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions.

    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: 6.8
    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: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryNetherlands, Hungary, Belgium
    Duration02:02

    When Sam regains consciousness in the middle of a crowded subway, he doesn't know how he got there, where he came from nor his own name. He franticly searches for his identity, using the contents of his backpack. Slowly but surely he realizes his life is in great danger.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, China, Canada
    Duration01:55

    A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, action, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as 'time keepers'.

    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: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:30

    Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryGermany, France, Australia
    Duration02:38

    Set in 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law Dr. Farber, an American who is being chased by the CIA. They want to confiscate a device his father invented which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions. On the run they travel the globe from Berlin to Lisbon to Moscow to Tokyo, ending up in Australia at his father's research facility, where they hope to play back the recordings Farber captured for his blind mother.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted to water-way duty Tom, along with new partner Jo Christman, navigate the three rivers looking for clues and discovering bodies. This time the victims are women Tom knows, he must find the killer to prove his innocence.

    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: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:32

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      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.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada, France, Turkey
      Duration01:41

        The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:58

        Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police - controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen, the leader of the free world - Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter to find the head of the underground resistance and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

        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: 6.5
        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: 5.5
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA, Netherlands, United Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
        Duration02:13

        In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Malta, France, United Kingdom, Hungary
        Duration02:03

        After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:30

        Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground, far away from inquisitive eyes.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        A reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer replete with plans to butcher specific people, and investigates on his own, finding that every trail leads to a 9-year-old orphan living in a group home.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany
        Duration01:41

          When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:47

          Two researchers in a green alternative energy project forced on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.

          Markimdb: 2.8
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryJapan, USA
          Duration01:30

          A young man, Kazuya Mishima, wakes up alone in an unfamiliar hotel room without any recollection of who he is or how he got there. He is tormented by flashes of his past and by the face of an ominous stranger. The next thing he knows, Kazuya is ambushed and kidnapped by an underground crime organization and, soon after, turned into a ruthless assassin. During a mission to assassinate a man named Brian Fury, Kazuya finds that his target harbors clues to his true identity. With the help of Fury and a female assassin, Kazuya follows the clues, leading him to the lab of his reoccurring flashbacks. Here, he will finally confront his past and the ominous man of his nightmares - Heihachi Mishima, face the ultimate betrayal, and Ieam the truth about who, and what, he really is. TEKKEN 2: KAZUYA’S REVENGE is non-stop action from the first scene to the last.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
          CountryChina
          Duration01:55

          A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:21

          Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Canada, Germany
          Duration01:33

          A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial life forms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien Facehuggers and a hybrid Alien/Predator are released and begin to terrorize the town.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrefantastic, action, adventure
          CountryUSA, Japan, Canada
          Duration02:28

          When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:46

          The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can stop him.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          Supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket and blue jeans.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrefantastic, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:21

          In this mind-bending 'Sci-Fi Noir' a daring physicist folds time to travel into the past, trying to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.

          Markimdb: 4.1
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
          CountryCanada
          Duration01:29

          A secret government research project tries reviving the World War II "Philadelphia Experiment," which was an attempt to create a cloaking device to render warships invisible. When the experiment succeeds, it brings back the original ship (the Eldridge) that disappeared during the first test in 1943 - which brings death and destruction to the 21st century. It's up to the sole survivor of the first experiment and his granddaughter to stop it.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller
          CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:05

          In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.

          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: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

          By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

          Markimdb: 4.2
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
          CountryCanada

          When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping their relationship.

          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: 4.9
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:35

          A courier for a local crime lord must deliver a mysterious package while being chased by a horde of unusual gangsters.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, China, USA
          Duration01:41

          An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, and winds up on the run from his employers across Munich's autobahns.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:06

          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.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, France
          Duration01:41

            After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

            Markimdb: 5.6
            Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:29

            The Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate the murders of prisoners and jailors. When in jail, Louis, using his outstandings martial arts skills, is able to save his life and make himself respected in that violent world. At least, helped by two another prisoners, he succeded in finding the truth about the dreadful crimes. In a violent and corrupt prison, decorated cop Louis Burke must infiltrate the jail to find answers to a number of inside murders. What he finds is a struggle of life and death tied in to his own past.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, Mexico
            Duration01:30

            The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.




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