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10 Best Movies Like 2036: Nexus Dawn

If you loved 2036: Nexus Dawn, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

Blade Runner: Black Out 2022

2017★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 2036: Nexus Dawn for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

This animated short revolves around the events causing an electrical systems failure on the west coast of the US. According to Blade Runner 2049’s official timeline, this failure l...

#2
2048: Nowhere to Run

2048: Nowhere to Run

2017★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 2036: Nexus Dawn for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

“2048: Nowhere to Run” takes place one year before the events of Blade Runner 2049. The short film focuses on Sapper, a man who is trying to make it through life day-by-day without...

#3
Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049

2017★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 2036: Nexus Dawn for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chao...

#4
Blade Runner

Blade Runner

1982★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 2036: Nexus Dawn for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their...

#5
Afterburn

Afterburn

2025★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 2036: Nexus Dawn for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. T...

#6
Doomsday

Doomsday

2008★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 2036: Nexus Dawn for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three dec...