If You Liked War of the Worlds, Watch These Next
Finished War of the Worlds (2025) 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 War of the Worlds, most of them are science fiction, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
2.The Den(2013)
6.1HorrorThrillerMysteryAlso thriller
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
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3.The Fifth Estate(2013)
6.0DramaThrillerAlso thriller
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
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4.Enemy of the State(1998)
7.1ActionDramaThrillerAlso thriller
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, Dean attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.
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5.Assassination Nation(2018)
6.2ThrillerHorrorComedyAlso thriller
After an anonymous hacker begins leaking the private data of thousands living in a small American town, the townspeople spiral into madness, with four high school seniors at the center of the maelstrom.
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6.Hackers(1995)
6.4ActionCrimeThrillerAlso thriller
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius…
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7.Off the Grid(2025)
6.4ActionThrillerAlso thriller
After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their biggest mistake of all – they weaponize the man they are trying to catch.
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8.Canary Black(2024)
6.2ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
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9.Eye in the Sky(2015)
7.0DramaThrillerWarAlso thriller
A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an…
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10.The Operative(2019)
5.8DramaThrillerAlso thriller
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
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11.Live Free or Die Hard(2007)
6.6ActionThrillerAlso thriller
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.
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12.Kandahar(2023)
6.8ActionThrillerWarAlso thriller
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.
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13.The Good Neighbor(2016)
6.2DramaThrillerAlso thriller
Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.
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14.The Purge(2013)
6.2Science FictionHorrorThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
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15.Die Alone(2024)
6.4HorrorThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Mae, a hardened and eccentric survivor. Together, Ethan and Mae face threats both human…
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16.Warning Sign(1985)
6.0DramaScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
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17.Afraid(2024)
5.9HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Curtis Pike and his family are selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA observes the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can – and will – make sure nothing – and no one – gets in her family's way.
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18.The Insider(1999)
7.5DramaThrillerAlso thriller
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
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19.Outside the Wire(2021)
6.3ThrillerActionScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.
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20.57 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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