20 best movies like The Butterfly Effect (2004)

List of the best movies like The Butterfly Effect (2004): Don't Let Go, Time Lapse, Looper, Arrival, Mr. Nobody, The Divide, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, S. Darko, Cloud Atlas, Project Almanac.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantastic, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

After a man's family dies in what appears to be a murder, he gets a phone call from one of the dead, his niece. He's not sure if she’s a ghost or if he's going mad - but as it turns out, he's not. Instead, her calls help him rewrite history.

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: 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: 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: 7.8
Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama
CountryBelgium, Germany, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA
Duration02:18

    Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

    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: 8.3
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

    Markimdb: 3.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha begins to have dreams that warn her of the end of the universe.

    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: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

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

      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: 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: 6.2
      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: 2.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      A scientist readies a boat after his warnings of an Earth-destroying flood are ignored. However, after the disasters reach a peak level of destruction those who maligned the scientist now turn to him in desperation, as he and other refugees look to save the world and stop the disaster using the two Supercolliders on opposite sides of the Atlantic.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountrySpain
      Duration01:47

      During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.

      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: 7.9
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:53

        Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, South Africa, Canada
        Duration01:37

          In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

          Markimdb: 8.8
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:28

            Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

            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: 5.2
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
            CountryUSA

            As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.

            Markimdb: 3.1
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:45

            A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:10

            Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.

            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: 7.1
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Germany
            Duration01:42

            A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

            Markimdb: 2.8
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:05

            A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

            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: 6.5
              Genrethriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:32

              Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

              Markimdb: 5
              Genrehorror, thriller, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:32

                When a group of college students take part in a clinical drug trial, an unexpected side effect of the experimental medicine gives them terrifying visions of their own deaths...which begin to come true. As they scramble to escape their fate, they discover that the killer is among them and shares their ability to see the future - only he seems to be one step ahead of their efforts to survive.

                Markimdb: 6.8
                Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                CountryFrance, USA
                Duration01:38

                Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

                Markimdb: 5.9
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA, Canada

                Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

                Markimdb: 5.5
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:30

                Scientific whiz-kid Paul moves to a new town to study artificial intelligence at the local university. One of Paul's high-tech inventions is a growly-voiced robot named BeeBee, and one of his new friends is the lovely girl next door, Samantha. When tragic events take both BeeBee and Samantha from him, the boy genius desperately sets out to restore the love he lost — and, like a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein, discovers too late that he has created a rampaging monster.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:55

                Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life.

                Markimdb: 5.7
                Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration01:48

                An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.

                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: 4.7
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
                  CountryUSA

                  A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone - or something - is hunting them.

                  Markimdb: 5.9
                  Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:36

                  A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.

                  Markimdb: 7.2
                  Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA, Canada
                  Duration01:43

                  Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

                  Markimdb: 6.1
                  Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
                  CountryUSA, Canada, Germany
                  Duration01:45

                  Set in a world with memory implants, Alan Hakman is a 'cutter'—someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories—but his latest assignment puts him in great danger.

                  Markimdb: 4.8
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy
                  CountryUSA

                  Seven female directors present seven short films.

                  Markimdb: 4.9
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
                  CountryAustralia
                  Duration01:40

                  A year after the boys crossed dimensions, discovered magic and battled the restoring demon, they are back home in Bremin and are struggling with everyday teenage life. Felix has high hopes for the four heroes. He wants them to push the limits of their magical ability, working as a team to become masters of the arcane. But although he's unwilling to admit it, the boys have grown apart. The boys, once in perfect magical and elemental alignment, are a tangle of rivalry and distrust. On the verge of separating, the Nowhere Boys are drawn together for one last spell when Felix discovers a magically sealed 'Book of Shadows'. Unwittingly this releases a powerful force of chaos, and the gang is reluctantly drawn into a showdown that threatens their world and all they love...

                  Markimdb: 5.1
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:33

                  Mysterious events surround the travels of two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets. This is the feature film version of the 2011 short film going by the same name.

                  Markimdb: 5.1
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryCanada, USA

                  A mysterious disappearance of a young woman leads her boyfriend on a journey for truth and perhaps his own unknown reality in this dark, hypnotic mystery that transcends the limitations of traditional narrative.

                  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: 4.7
                  Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, western
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:13

                    Gunslinger Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child. Megan Fox plays a prostitute as well as Jonah Hex's love interst in the film.

                    Markimdb: 6.9
                    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:17

                    Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

                    Markimdb: 6.6
                    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA, Greece
                    Duration01:50

                    A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

                    Markimdb: 6.1
                    Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA, Germany
                    Duration01:44

                    A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.

                    Markimdb: 6.6
                    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
                    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
                    Duration01:51

                    With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become increasingly obsessed with destroying her. The mortal traps, enemies, and moral choices that await Katniss will challenge her more than any arena she faced in The Hunger Games.

                    Markimdb: 6
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:34

                    Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.




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