Movies like The Gateway (2018)
The best movies like The Gateway (2018) are Extracted (2012), Realive (2016) and Kill Switch (2017). If The Gateway hooked you with its science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedI Am Mother (2019)6.7/10 from 2,993 votes
- NewestCan I Get a Witness? (2025)Released 2025
Extracted (2012)
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 addict's memories for more than four years until he discovers the possibility of escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRealive (2016)
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKill Switch (2017)
A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnti Matter (2016)
Oxford PhD student Ana finds herself unable to build new memories, following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find out who—or what—is behind the rising horror in her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisCome True (2020)
Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisTau (2018)
Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Machine (2013)
Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground, far away from inquisitive eyes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Frame (2014)
Two strangers find their lives colliding in an impossible way. Alex is a methodical cargo thief working for a dangerous cartel. Sam is a determined paramedic trying to save the world while running from her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHover (2018)
In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying sentinel drones, a handful of locals discover a sinister connection between sick farmland inhabitants and the tech that’s meant to be protect them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
The Fare (2018)
Harris and Penny, a cab driver and his fare, engage in flirtatious banter during their brief ride on a desolate road…until Penny abruptly vanishes from the back seat, leaving Harris mystified.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Boy (2019)
The world at an end, a dying mother sends her young son on a quest to find the place that grants wishes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisIO (2019)
As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lazarus Effect (2015)
Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Capture (2017)
A group of scientists perform an unethical experiment bending both space and time –in the process they may have not only changed their lives but also the very fabric of the universe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Young Ones (2014)
In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to steal the land for himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Subjects (2015)
Eight strangers go into a locked room for clinical trials on a new drug that gives them superpowers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn the Earth (2021)
As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two bruised and shoeless. When they run into Zach, a man living off the grid, they gratefully accept his help. Zach’s intentions aren’t exactly what they seem, however, and a path out of the forest and into safety quickly fades as the line between myth and science blurs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like this2067 (2020)
A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal. He must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its greatest environmental crisis yet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Am Mother (2019)
A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wave (2019)
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Shift (2023)
Following a tense encounter with a mysterious stranger with otherworldly powers, a man finds himself banished to a parallel, tyrannical Earth, where he fights to get back to the woman he loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUncanny (2015)
For ten years, inventor David Kressen has lived in seclusion with his inventions, including Adam, a robot with incredible lifelike human qualities. When reporter Joy Andrews is given access to their unconventional facility, she is alternately repelled and attracted to the scientist and his creation. But as Adam exhibits emergent behavior of anger and jealousy towards her, she finds herself increasingly entangled in a web of deception where no one’s motives are easily decipherable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisJames vs. His Future Self (2019)
When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he won't go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself – literally.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
The Infinite Man (2014)
A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisCan I Get a Witness? (2025)
In the not-too-distant future, we have solved all the world’s problems, mitigated climate change, eradicated poverty, and achieved true trans-species equality. There’s just one catch… humans have to end life at 50, and teenage artists have to document it. It’s Kiah’s first day on the job.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Black Box (2020)
After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Shadow Effect (2017)
A young man's life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisAxcellerator (2019)
When a young car thief stumbles on the invention of the century (and the various government agencies that want to kill him), he and a sassy checkout clerk named Kate have the adventure of a lifetime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArrowhead (2017)
Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies that he doesn't believe in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last rescue mission only to become stranded when his ship crash lands. Kye soon realises that the deadliest creature on the desert moon is himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Gateway?
The closest matches to The Gateway are Extracted (2012), Realive (2016) and Kill Switch (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Gateway?
People who watched The Gateway most often go on to Extracted (2012), Realive (2016) and Kill Switch (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Gateway?
I Am Mother (2019), rated 6.7/10 by 2,993 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Gateway?
Can I Get a Witness? (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Gateway?
Yes: Extracted (2012), Kill Switch (2017) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018).
How are movies similar to The Gateway chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Gateway, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.