If You Liked The Butterfly Effect, Watch These Next
Finished The Butterfly Effect (2004) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Butterfly Effect, most of them are science fiction, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
2.The Endless(2017)
6.3Science FictionHorrorThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.
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3.Freaks(2019)
6.7Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat—or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the…
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4.Extracted(2012)
6.2Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Thomas Jacobs invents a way to watch people's memories from the inside. Going against his morals, he accepts an offer to enter a heroin addict's memories to literally see if he committed a crime. However,a malfunction causes his consciousness to become trapped inside the criminal's mind. He remains a prisoner in the…
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5.57 Seconds(2023)
6.2ThrillerScience FictionActionAlso thriller and science fiction
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
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6.A Score to Settle(2019)
5.8ActionCrimeDramaAlso thriller
A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.
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7.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004)
8.1Science FictionDramaRomanceAlso science fiction
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.
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8.Flashback(2021)
5.9ThrillerMysteryAlso thriller
Frederick Fitzell is living his best life—until he starts having horrific visions of Cindy, a girl who vanished in high school. After reaching out to old friends with whom he used to take a mystery drug called Mercury, Fredrick realizes the only way to stop the visions lies deep within his own memories, so he embarks…
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9.Gerald's Game(2017)
6.4HorrorThrillerDramaAlso thriller
When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
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11.Redux Redux(2025)
6.6Science FictionThrillerHorrorAlso science fiction and thriller
In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer again and again. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity begins to slip away—until the cycle is disrupted when she rescues Mia, a sharp-witted teenager already marked by the killer.
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12.Raising Cain(1992)
6.0HorrorThrillerAlso thriller
Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings.…
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14.The Mandela Effect(2019)
6.3Science FictionThrillerDramaAlso science fiction and thriller
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.
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15.The Island(2005)
6.7ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about…
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18.The Dead Zone(1983)
7.0ThrillerHorrorScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
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…
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20.Twelve Monkeys(1995)
7.6Science FictionThrillerMysteryAlso science fiction and thriller
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up…
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