Lifeforce

50 Movies Like Lifeforce (1985) You Need to Watch Next

1985·Tobe HooperiRank58
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A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.

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If you loved Lifeforce (1985) by Tobe Hooper, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Species, The Cloverfield Paradox, AVP: Alien vs. Predator. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.

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