The One

50 Movies Like The One (2001) You Need to Watch Next

2001·James WongiRank40
ActionScience FictionThriller

A sheriff's deputy fights an alternate universe version of himself who grows stronger with each alternate self he kills.

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If you loved The One (2001) by James Wong, 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 Déjà Vu, Next, 57 Seconds. 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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Next

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The Terminator

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