If You Liked The Matrix, Watch These Next
Finished The Matrix (1999) 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 Matrix, most of them are action, science fiction.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Terminator Genisys(2015)
6.0Science FictionActionThrillerAlso science fiction and action
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare…
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2.Avengers: Age of Ultron(2015)
7.3ActionAdventureScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances…
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3.The Electric State(2025)
6.5ActionAdventureScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
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4.Divergent(2014)
6.9ActionAdventureScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
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5.Geostorm(2017)
6.1ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso action and science fiction
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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6.The Thirteenth Floor(1999)
7.1ThrillerScience FictionMysteryAlso science fiction
In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.
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9.The Creator(2023)
7.0Science FictionActionAdventureAlso science fiction and action
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and…
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10.Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths(2010)
7.3AnimationScience FictionFantasyAlso science fiction
A heroic version of Lex Luthor from an alternate universe appears to recruit the Justice League to help save his Earth from the Crime Syndicate, an evil version of the League. What ensues is the ultimate battle of good versus evil in a war that threatens both planets and, through a devious plan launched by Batman's…
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11.The Dark Tower(2017)
5.8FantasyActionScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
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12.TRON: Legacy(2010)
6.6AdventureActionScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.
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13.Eternals(2021)
6.8Science FictionActionAdventureAlso science fiction and action
The Eternals are a team of ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. When an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows, they are forced to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, the Deviants.
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14.WarGames(1983)
7.1DramaScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius,…
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15.TRON: Ares(2025)
6.5Science FictionAdventureActionAlso science fiction and action
A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with A.I. beings.
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16.Chaos Walking(2021)
6.5FantasyScience FictionAdventureAlso science fiction
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
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17.Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three(2024)
7.1AnimationScience FictionActionAlso science fiction and action
Now fully revealed as the ultimate threat to existence, the Anti-Monitor wages an unrelenting attack on the surviving Earths that struggle for survival in a pocket universe. One by one, these worlds and all their inhabitants are vaporized! On the planets that remain, even time itself is shattered, and heroes from the…
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19.Paycheck(2003)
6.2ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso action and science fiction
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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20.The Time Machine(2002)
6.4Science FictionAdventureActionAlso science fiction and action
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
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