Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Next

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

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#1
Paycheck

Paycheck

2003★ 6.2

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

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapa...

#2
The Matrix

The Matrix

1999★ 8.2

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

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth...

#3
Omni Loop

Omni Loop

2024★ 5.9

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

Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve...

#4
The Time Machine

The Time Machine

2002★ 6.3

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

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races....

#5
Primer

Primer

2004★ 6.8

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

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention sta...

#6
In Time

In Time

2011★ 7.0

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

In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The ...

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