Movies like Zenith (2010)
The best movies like Zenith (2010) are 2081 (2009), Numb (2003) and The Reconstruction of William Zero (2015). If Zenith hooked you with its action and adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedEquilibrium (2002)7.1/10 from 5,312 votes
- NewestResurrected (2023)Released 2023
2081 (2009)
2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is "finally equal...." The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNumb (2003)
In a future where emotion and desire have been wiped away by an unshakable new narcotic, society exists simply to provide a constant source of the drug. Crumbling Yerba city stands empty, except for its drug-parlors, where the remnants of the population cluster, drifting towards oblivion. Only the android attendants are still capable of action, mindlessly maintaining and administering the 'drip'. Years after escaping to the wastelands outside the city, Claire, one of the few people left who is not an addict, returns looking for the one man who still matters to her. As she makes her way through the dazed world of the city's junkies, only one person seems able to provide any help: the obsessive and self-destructive Miles, the last of the city's security officers. Genetically engineered to be immune to the drug, Miles' strange charisma draws Claire to him, but when he brutally guns down a group of harmless dissidents...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & science fiction
The Reconstruction of William Zero (2015)
A geneticist wakes up from an accident with only fragments of his memory intact and is forced to relearn who he is via his twin brother. But as he digs deeper, he discovers he might not be who he thought at all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisConspiracy (2008)
A Gulf War veteran with PTSD heads to a small town to find his friend. When he arrives his friend and his family have vanished and the townsfolk afraid to answer questions about their disappearance. He soon discovers that the town is owned and controlled by one man, and he doesn't like people asking questions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlunt Force Trauma (2015)
Follows the journey of John and Colt, gunfighters and sometime lovers, on parallel but very different journeys through an underground dueling culture.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisReversion (2015)
The daughter of a billionaire tech mogul questions her own memories about her mothers death after being kidnapped by a stranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & science fiction
The Texture of Falling (2018)
The lives of a filmmaker, pianist, painter, and architect collide and intertwine in a multilayered tale of love, art, violence, and power dynamics that ultimately questions, what is real?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Repo Men (2010)
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the best agents in the business, but when he becomes the recipient of an artificial heart, he finds himself in the same dire straits as his many victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Kovak Box (2006)
David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisOne Point O (2004)
Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
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 drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTo the Moon (2021)
A weekend of healing for Dennis and Mia becomes a hallucinatory nightmare when Dennis' estranged brother arrives and begins to distort their sense of reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
The Jacket (2005)
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuperGrid (2018)
Set in a near future where mining conglomerates have turned Canada into a wasteland. Two brothers must travel the same road that claimed their sister's life in their quest to deliver mysterious cargo. En route they must contend with road pirates, rebel gangs, and each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisCode 46 (2003)
In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Alternate (2021)
Upon unlocking a portal to an alternate dimension where all his dreams have come true, struggling filmmaker Jake is forced to confront his idealized self.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Equilibrium (2002)
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisImpostor (2001)
A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe White King (2016)
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisWheels (2014)
Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisResurrected (2023)
In a dystopian future, the Vatican knows how to resurrect people. A priest discovers a conspiracy behind the resurrections and their possible link to a series of murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExtracted (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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisComing Apart (1969)
A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Transcendents (2018)
Roger, a Rasputin-like drifter, is in search of the ultimate indie-rock band, The Transcendents. What he finds is less than transcendent: a band who has all but abandoned society, a host of unpleasant memories, and more questions than answers in search of his own existential fulfillment. Set in the Wonderland of America's Do-it-Yourself music scene, The Transcendents is a dark comedic fairytale that straddles the line between the absurd and the all too real.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Retroactive (1997)
A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 6th Day (2000)
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStormageddon (2015)
What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human. When a master computer program, Echelon, takes over America's entire online system, our country is threatened to be brought to its knees. Hacking into DARPA, Echelon gains the ability to manipulate the weather, create earthquakes, and cause a level of destruction unlike anything the country could ever imagine. But how do you stop a computer program when it has control over any and every defense you have?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFutureworld (1976)
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Locksmith (2023)
A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an unexpected disappearance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Zenith?
The closest matches to Zenith are 2081 (2009), Numb (2003) and The Reconstruction of William Zero (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Zenith?
People who watched Zenith most often go on to 2081 (2009), Numb (2003) and The Reconstruction of William Zero (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like Zenith?
Equilibrium (2002), rated 7.1/10 by 5,312 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Zenith?
Resurrected (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Zenith?
Yes: 2081 (2009), Numb (2003) and The Reconstruction of William Zero (2015).
How are movies similar to Zenith chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Zenith, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.