If You Liked Super 8, Watch These Next
Finished Super 8 (2011) 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 Super 8, most of them are thriller, science fiction, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.2073(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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2.The Core(2003)
5.8Science FictionAdventureThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the…
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4.Time Lapse(2014)
6.5ThrillerScience FictionMysteryAlso thriller and science fiction
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.
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5.Volcano(1997)
6.0Science FictionActionDramaAlso science fiction and thriller
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and…
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6.The Astronaut(2025)
6.1HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA’s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she fears that something extraterrestrial has followed her back to Earth
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7.The Andromeda Strain(1971)
7.1Science FictionThrillerDramaAlso science fiction and thriller
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form…
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8.High Anxiety(1977)
6.4ComedyMysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
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9.Alien Abduction(2014)
5.9HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
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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.War of the Worlds(2005)
6.6AdventureThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
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14.The End of Oak Street(2026)
7.1Science FictionMysteryThrillerAlso science fiction and mystery
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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15.Project Almanac(2015)
6.8Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
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16.Disclosure Day(2026)
7.5Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove there's life beyond our understanding.
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17.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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18.Breakheart Pass(1975)
6.6ThrillerWesternMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.
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20.The Car(1977)
6.4HorrorActionThrillerAlso thriller and mystery
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.
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