50 Movies Like Lucy (2014) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View Lucy details →Luc Besson's 2014 action science-fiction film centers on a woman who is accidentally swept into a dark criminal deal, then turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior whose abilities evolve beyond ordinary human limits. Compact and propulsive, it fuses kinetic set pieces with heady, high-concept ideas about the reach of the human mind. It moves fast and prioritizes style and momentum over careful realism. It suits viewers who want a slick, brisk genre ride that mixes gunfire with big philosophical swings, and who don't mind the science taking a back seat to spectacle. Bold, quick and unapologetically stylized throughout.
If you loved Lucy (2014) by Luc Besson, 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 The Time Machine, Déjà Vu, Next. 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.
The Best Movies Similar to Lucy
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with Lucy in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
The Time Machine
2002 · Simon Wells
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Déjà Vu
2006 · Tony Scott
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that u
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Next
2007 · Lee Tamahori
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government
In common: Action · Science Fiction
57 Seconds
2023 · Rusty Cundieff
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.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
2013 · Jay Oliva
The Flash finds himself in a war-torn alternate timeline and teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to restore the timeline.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 · Don Taylor
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Star Trek
2009 · J.J. Abrams
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects
In common: Action · Science Fiction
The Wraith
1986 · Mike Marvin
Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicles. After Walsh beats the decent teenager Jamie Ha
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Atlas
2024 · Brad Peyton
A brilliant counterterrorism analyst with a deep distrust of AI discovers it might be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 · Michael Dougherty
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Tenet
2020 · Christopher Nolan
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in some
In common: Action · Science Fiction
The Tomorrow War
2021 · Chris McKay
The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. T
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Men in Black 3
2012 · Barry Sonnenfeld
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when
In common: Action · Science Fiction
The One
2001 · James Wong
A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Joe Russo
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in
In common: Action · Science Fiction
The Flash
2023 · Andy Muschietti
When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to sa
In common: Action · Science Fiction
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · Bryan Singer
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2003 · Jonathan Mostow
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic
In common: Action · Science Fiction
The Terminator
1984 · James Cameron
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgen
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Edge of Tomorrow
2014 · Doug Liman
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with hi
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Alienoid
2022 · Choi Dong-hoon
Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling
In common: Action
Planet of the Apes
1968 · Franklin J. Schaffner
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a
In common: Action
Alienoid: Return to the Future
2024 · Choi Dong-hoon
Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are locked up in the bod
In common: Action
Star Trek: First Contact
1996 · Jonathan Frakes
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue t
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Terminator Genisys
2015 · Alan Taylor
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Looper
2012 · Rian Johnson
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 g
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Planet of the Apes
2001 · Tim Burton
After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home,
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 · James Cameron
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Sky
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Terminator: Dark Fate
2019 · Tim Miller
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up w
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Time Trap
2017 · Mark Dennis
A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.
In common: Science Fiction
Predestination
2014 · Michael Spierig
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment
In common: Science Fiction
The Butterfly Effect
2004 · J. Mackye Gruber
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon find
In common: Science Fiction
Godzilla
2014 · Gareth Edwards
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating cris
In common: Action · Science Fiction
The Wandering Earth
2019 · Frant Gwo
When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Masters of the Universe
1987 · Gary Goddard
When the evil Skeletor finds a mysterious power called the Cosmic Key, he becomes nearly invincible, seizing Castle Grayskull and the surrounding city. The Sorceress is now Skeletor's prisoner and he
In common: Action
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
2012 · Brad Peyton
Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Waterworld
1995 · Kevin Reynolds
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her youn
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Infinite
2021 · Antoine Fuqua
Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to hi
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Power Rangers
2017 · Dean Israelite
Five ordinary teens must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destin
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Invasion
2020 · Fyodor Bondarchuk
Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Deep Impact
1998 · Mimi Leder
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Predator: Badlands
2025 · Dan Trachtenberg
Cast out from his clan, a young Predator finds an unlikely ally in a damaged android and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Jurassic World Rebirth
2025 · Gareth Edwards
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's t
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Avatar
2009 · James Cameron
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022 · James Cameron
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other sa
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015 · George Miller
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this worl
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
2024 · Adam Wingard
Following their explosive showdown, Godzilla and Kong must reunite against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
TRON: Ares
2025 · Joachim Rønning
A highly sophisticated Program called Ares is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind's first encounter with A.I. beings.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2024 · George Miller
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the
In common: Action · Science Fiction
2012
2009 · Roland Emmerich
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S.
In common: Action · Science Fiction
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