Movies like Blackout (2022)
The best movies like Blackout (2022) are Inception (2010), Point Blank (2019) and Awake (2019). If Blackout 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 ratedInception (2010)8.4/10 from 40,690 votes
- NewestAffinity (2025)Released 2025
Inception (2010)
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPoint Blank (2019)
A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAwake (2019)
A man wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and learns that he's wanted by the police for a committing a series of murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTaken (2008)
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhite Elephant (2022)
An ex-marine enforcer must battle his conscience and code of honor when he is forced to do things for the mob.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisIndemnity (2022)
An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSafehouse (2023)
After Carla’s brother is murdered, she goes on the run and becomes trapped in a cat-and-mouse game with the CIA, the government, and the cartel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Mojave Diamonds (2023)
A former MMA fighter and his brothers must rescue their kidnapped family from a dangerous crime syndicate after $50M of illegal diamonds gets stolen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Minority Report (2002)
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAffinity (2025)
Chilean martial-arts star Marko Zaror is Bruno, an ex-SEAL struggling with PTSD. He lives a life in fear of his demons until one day when he discovers a beautiful woman with no past of her own. Together they begin to build a life, but when she disappears, Bruno must return to his violent past if he’s going to save her from a shocking conspiracy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Painter (2024)
An ex-CIA operative is thrown back into a dangerous world when a mysterious woman from his past resurfaces. Now exposed and targeted by a relentless killer and a rogue black ops program, he must rely on skills he thought he left behind in a high-stakes game of survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnknown (2011)
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJohn Wick (2014)
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Matrix Reloaded (2003)
The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOutside the Wire (2021)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMercy (2023)
An ex-military doctor finds herself in a deadly battle for survival when the Irish mafia seize control of the hospital at which she works. When her son is taken hostage, she is forced to rely upon her battle-hardened past and lethal skills after realizing there’s no one left to save the day but her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBushwick (2017)
When an unknown military force invades Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood, young student Lucy and war veteran Stupe must rely on each other to escape and survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisSource Code (2011)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBoss Level (2021)
A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEscape Plan (2013)
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLooper (2012)
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeviation (2012)
Told over one horrifying night, Deviation will take you on a white-knuckle journey into the mind of Frank Norton, a dangerous schizophrenic murderer as he escapes from Broadmoor Hospital and embarks on a murderous rampage across London. But when Frankie takes a hostage, the deadly game of cat-and-mouse truly begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Shadow Land (2024)
Haunted by relentless nightmares foretelling his untimely demise, former President Robert Wainwright summons his past psychiatrist to his upstate residence, who discovers the threat may be more real than imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Operator (2015)
When the daughter of veteran 911 call center operator Pamela, and her estranged husband Jeremy, a Senior Police Officer, is kidnapped and held hostage, they are left desperate, with no choice but to follow the kidnapper's rules: send messages through dispatch for all police and fire units to scatter to remote locations throughout the city where they are met with chaos. Not knowing who or why, they must race against the clock to make the choice of their lives: save the city — or save their daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSicario (2015)
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBest of the Best 4: Without Warning (1998)
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with conterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to give herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee. Despite working with the police as a martial arts instructor, Lee doesn't go to the cops with the disc, but instead goes on the run, giving the mafia time to kidnap his daughter and hold as a hostage in exchange for return of the disc. Will Tommy ever see his daughter again?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeized (2020)
Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero’s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to slaughter the members of three rival crime syndicates. If he fails, Taylor will die. Now, with bullets flying and bodies dropping as Nero completes his mission, he races to find Mzamo’s hideout and seek revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStolen Girl (2025)
In 1993, Maureen’s six-year-old daughter Amina is snuck out of the country by her ex-husband, Karim. After years of unsuccessful attempts to find her, Maureen intersects with a professional retriever of internationally abducted children who promises to help her find Amina in exchange for her collaboration.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 355 (2022)
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGold (2022)
In the not-too-distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty, with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools while the other remains with the gold. The man who remains must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders, while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Blackout?
The closest matches to Blackout are Inception (2010), Point Blank (2019) and Awake (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Blackout?
People who watched Blackout most often go on to Inception (2010), Point Blank (2019) and Awake (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like Blackout?
Inception (2010), rated 8.4/10 by 40,690 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Blackout?
Affinity (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Blackout?
Yes: Inception (2010), Point Blank (2019) and Awake (2019).
How are movies similar to Blackout chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Blackout, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.