If You Liked Primer, Watch These Next
Finished Primer (2004) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Primer, most of them are science fiction, drama, thriller.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Paycheck(2003)
6.2ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious…
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2.Interstellar(2014)
8.5AdventureDramaScience FictionAlso drama and science fiction
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.
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4.Transcendence(2014)
6.1ThrillerScience FictionDramaAlso thriller and science fiction
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
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5.2073(2024)
6.7ThrillerScience FictionDramaAlso thriller and science fiction
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
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6.In Time(2011)
7.0ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
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 struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of…
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7.Max Winslow and The House of Secrets(2020)
5.9FamilyScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Five teenagers compete to win a mansion owned by entrepreneur and scientist Atticus Virtue. To win the teens must face-off against a super computer named HAVEN who controls the mansion.
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8.Geostorm(2017)
6.1ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race…
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11.Source Code(2011)
7.3ThrillerScience FictionMysteryAlso thriller and science fiction
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
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12.Frequency(2000)
7.3Science FictionCrimeThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering…
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13.I'll Follow You Down(2013)
6.0Science FictionDramaMysteryAlso science fiction and drama
After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later – one that may bring him home.
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14.RoboCop(2014)
5.9ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see…
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15.Déjà Vu(2006)
6.9ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
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.
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16.The End of Oak Street(2026)
7.1Science FictionMysteryThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.
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17.Super 8(2011)
6.8ThrillerScience FictionMysteryAlso thriller and science fiction
In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing sense of fear, as they uncover that something terrifying has been set loose.
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18.The Spanish Prisoner(1997)
6.8DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.
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19.Star Trek: First Contact(1996)
7.3Science FictionActionAdventureAlso science fiction and thriller
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.
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