50 Movies Like Sunshine (2007) You Need to Watch Next
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is
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If you loved Sunshine (2007) by Danny Boyle, 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 Happening, Brick, The Platform. 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.
50 Movies Similar to Sunshine
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The Platform
2019 · Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
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The Core
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The Circle
2017 · James Ponsoldt
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Replicas
2018 · Jeffrey Nachmanoff
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2018 · J. A. Bayona
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The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Roland Emmerich
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Contagion
2011 · Steven Soderbergh
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The Abyss
1989 · James Cameron
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Spectral
2016 · Nic Mathieu
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Left Behind
2014 · Vic Armstrong
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2011 · George Nolfi
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2021 · Edward Drake
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1998 · Vincenzo Natali
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1998 · Rob Bowman
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Limitless
2011 · Neil Burger
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War Machine
2026 · Patrick Hughes
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Godzilla
1998 · Roland Emmerich
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2021 · Mikael Håfström
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Boss Level
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The Butterfly Effect
2004 · J. Mackye Gruber
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28 Weeks Later
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Predestination
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