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10 Best Movies Like Lockout

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

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#1
Limitless

Limitless

2011★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lockout for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilit...

#2
Dreamscape

Dreamscape

1984★ 6.1

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

In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams....

#3
Looper

Looper

2012★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lockout for fans of Action & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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...

#4
Into Pitch Black

Into Pitch Black

2000★ 6.1

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

After the events of Pitch Black, a contractor is hired to locate Riddick, dead or alive. He reviews available information on him and the events of Pitch Black. Terrified, he hires ...

#5
A Scanner Darkly

A Scanner Darkly

2006★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lockout for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result....

#6
Idiocracy

Idiocracy

2006★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Lockout for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year...

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