Project Almanac

50 Movies Like Project Almanac (2015) You Need to Watch Next

2015·Dean IsraeliteiRank54
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A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

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If you loved Project Almanac (2015) by Dean Israelite, 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 War of the Worlds, Predestination, The Butterfly Effect. 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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