20 best movies like Twelve Monkeys (1995)

List of the best movies like Twelve Monkeys (1995): Synchronicity, ARQ, The Discovery, Looper, Time Lapse, Parallels, Arrival, Mad Max: Fury Road, World of Tomorrow, Primer.

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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: 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: 6.2
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.

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
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: 6
Genrefantastic, action
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

An underground MMA fighter must confront his sister and his past in an adventure through parallel universes

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: 8.1
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryAustralia, South Africa
Duration02:30

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, cartoon, short
CountryUSA
Duration01:05

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

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: 6.9
Genrefantastic, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
Duration01:39

The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.

Duration01:37

    Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

      Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

        Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
        Duration01:36

        Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration00:55

        Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrefantastic, action, drama, detective
        CountryAustralia, USA
        Duration01:38

          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.

          Markimdb: 8.6
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:07

          Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrefantastic, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:37

          With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

          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: 6.9
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryChina
          Duration01:44

          The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xiaoyan. The meeting is not easy as feeble-looking Ren is point by point against him.

          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: 7.5
            Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:43

            A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genrefantastic, cartoon, detective, anime
            CountryJapan
            Duration01:30

            When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryCanada, Spain
            Duration01:28

            A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, short, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:42

            After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.

            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: 8.1
              Genrefantasy, drama
              CountrySweden
              Duration01:36

              When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, USA
              Duration01:37

              The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia...

              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: 5.7
              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: 6.5
                Genrethriller, fantasy, crime
                CountryFrance
                Duration01:42

                Inspector Richard Kemp never got around to putting the handcuffs around the Eardrum Slasher, a dangerous serial killer whose rampage began 20 years before. When Hélène, a psychologist, witnesses the Slasher’s latest crime and offers to testify, Kemp falls in love with her at first sight. In a mysterious turn of event, Kemp is suddenly transported back in time to the site of the Eardrum Slasher’s first murder, he realizes that this could provide a second chance to catch the killer...

                Markimdb: 3.8
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
                CountryUnited Kingdom
                Duration01:24

                Seven strangers wake up on the deserted streets of London with no knowledge of how they got there. Before long someone -or something - is picking them off, one by one....

                Markimdb: 5.7
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, adventure, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:17

                Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

                Markimdb: 7.1
                Genrefantastic, comedy
                CountryUnited Kingdom
                Duration01:23

                  Three men walk into a bar; two geeks and a cynic. They are three ordinary blokes who all have dreams and hopes for an exciting and better future

                  Markimdb: 8
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:43

                    A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

                    Markimdb: 5.3
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA

                    Sixteen year old Jude discovers each and every one of his fears is true.

                    Markimdb: 6.2
                    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                    Duration02:30

                    Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genredrama, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:41

                    Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself recognition. With the assistance of a psychiatrist and his girlfriend, Barrett convinces the doctors at the institution to commit him. Once inside, he begins his investigation -- and gradually loses his mind.

                    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: 7.9
                    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Japan
                    Duration01:44

                    In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

                    Markimdb: 3.5
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
                    CountryCanada
                    Duration01:22

                    In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home. The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away from civilization as possible, they take to the forest, soon to discover the danger posed by other survivors may be the least of their worries.

                    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: 7.9
                    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: 4.8
                      Genrehorror, drama, detective
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:41

                      A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.

                      Markimdb: 5.8
                      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
                      CountryAustria, United Kingdom, Germany, France

                      A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced - especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination? Thus starts a play between various truths,on which end stands the loss of the own identity.

                      Markimdb: 8.4
                      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:36

                      After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.




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