15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolan’s Inception

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If you liked the mind-bending twists and turns of Inception, it’s hard to find films of a similar caliber, but this list is a good place to start.

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15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Inception has been praised for pretty much every aspect of its making: direction, screenplay, visual effects, action sequences, cast, musical score, themes, and more. It became one of the highest-grossing films of 2010 and has since been considered one of the best films of its decade as well as one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever.

There are not that many films that are as mind-blowing as Inception but, there are some movies that come close or at least attempt to achieve what Inception has accomplished.

Updated on February 9th, 2021 by Mark Birrell: Though certainly one of the best, Inception was neither the first nor the last movie to use dreams, imagination, narrative structure, and technology as both subject matter and tools in their story. Fans of the movie’s inventive take on the tropes of the thriller genre and opportunities of science-fiction have a rich history to explore and, thus, we couldn’t limit our list to only 10 entries. We’ve added an extra 5 great examples of similar blockbusters and hidden gems that fans of the movie’s style and concepts are sure to love.

15 Tenet (2020)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Christopher Nolan has toyed around with the structure of storytelling in movies several times beyond Inception and the most recent example is the director’s 2020 movie, Tenet.

Incorporating the director’s love for all things time-distorted, the movie is a pulse-pounding spy thriller revolving around a technology that causes objects or people to travel backward through time. Its slick production design and carefully plotted narrative are very reminiscent of Inception and it clearly stems from many of the same creative influences, chiefly Nolan’s famous affinity for Bond movies.

14 Existenz (1999)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh lead this mind-bending thriller from body horror maestro David Cronenberg about players within an advanced virtual reality video game.

Never sure of what is real and what is not, or where the characters are, where they’re going, and what they’re trying to accomplish, Existenz dissects philosophical ideas in a similarly fun way to Inception and it shares its pervading sense of humor.

13 Strange Days (1995)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow and both co-written and co-produced by James Cameron, Strange Days was far from a hit when it was first released but has developed into a cult classic of the sci-fi genre since then.

Ralph Fiennes stars in the movie as a man who sells custom memories in a future where patrons can visually experience life through the eyes of others. Though much more a noir mystery movie that focuses on voyeurism and corruption, Strange Days shares Inception’s central conceit about the relationship between reality and technology.

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12 Transcendence (2014)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Christopher Nolan’s longtime cinematographer Wally Pfister, who shot Inception, broke into directing himself with this ambitious and handsomely-cast sci-fi thriller about a group of scientists who seek to save their terminally-ill mentor by transplanting his consciousness into a digital state as a superadvanced AI.

Familiar Nolan movie faces Morgan Freeman and Cillian Murphy star in the movie alongside stars Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, and Paul Bettany in the lead roles and the movie presents a unique take on technophobia and consciousness.

11 Dark City (1998)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

One of the biggest cult favorites of the 90s, Dark City is a hugely imaginative and innovative science-fiction mystery movie about a man who awakens with amnesia in a bizarre and stylized city of perpetual darkness, with his journey to discover who he is and where he is only becoming stranger and stranger at every turn.

Dark City most resembles one of Inception’s biggest influences, The Matrix, which was released the following year. All of the movies share a fixation on free will and imagination, using similar visual ideas to explore fantasies about how they can be used to shape the world around us.

10 The Fountain (2006)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

The Fountain is often remembered for the development challenges that its director, Darren Aronofsky, had when making the film. Starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz, it was a commercial failure and divided critics, but went on to gain cult status.

The film is often considered an epic romantic drama, but it actually combines elements of fantasy, history, sci-fi, and spirituality, to tell the story in three storylines that involve immortality, lost love, and a man’s pursuit to avoid a terrible fate.

9 Sunshine (2007)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

An often overlooked sci-fi psychological thriller, written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle, Sunshine stars Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michelle Yeoh, and Benedict Wong.

Set in 2057, the film tells the story of a group of astronauts who are on a mission to reignite the Sun. It explores themes of physics, science, and religion.

8 Predestination (2014)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Predestination stars Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, and others. It is based on the short story “—All You Zombies—” by Robert A. Heinlein, and is considered to be one of the most consistent time travel stories to explore the paradoxes created by it.

The movie follows a time travel agent who, as his final assignment, must confront the one criminal that keeps getting away from him throughout time.

7 Minority Report (2002)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Minority Report might not be the first film that comes to mind when movie fans think about Steven Spielberg, but it’s definitely a great sci-fi thriller, with Tom Cruise starring in the lead role.

The movie is set in a technologically-advanced future, where a special police division uses the so-called “precogs” to get predictions about crimes that are about to occur – and then prevent them. Chief of this division, John Anderton, gets a prediction saying that he will soon kill a man he doesn’t even know.

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6 The Butterfly Effect (2004)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Surprisingly, The Butterfly Effect has somewhat of a bad reputation, despite the fact that it’s still a well-remembered and much-discussed movie with many fans.

The whole story centers around the concept of the butterfly effect, which is a theory that one small event can lead to big changes and consequences. The main character discovers that he is able to travel back in time and decides to change his past, but every minor change he makes leads to a completely new version of his life.

5 The Game (1997)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

David Fincher’s third film The Game stars Michael Douglas and is somewhat forgotten, probably because it is sandwiched between such classics as Se7en (1995) and Fight Club (1999).

The story follows Nicholas van Orton, a wealthy investment banker who seems to have lost any sense of what it means to be a human being. On his birthday, he receives a mysterious gift from his brother: a card for participating in a strange game.

4 Edge Of Tomorrow (2014)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Edge of Tomorrow is a sci-fi action film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, with Bill Paxton and Brendan Gleeson. Based on the Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill, its plot and action sequences were particularly praised by critics.

Set in the future, the story takes place in Europe where an alien invasion occurs. Major William Cage is a public relations officer who has no fighting skills but has to join a landing operation against the aliens, which later becomes a time loop he gets stuck in.

3 Shutter Island (2010)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Shutter Island is a Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Williams. The movie’s plot twist is considered by some to be one of the best in history.

Two Deputy U.S. Marshals (played by DiCaprio and Ruffalo), arrive on Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of a patient from the local psychiatric facility. But the more they find out, the stranger the case becomes.

2 The Matrix (1999)

15 Movies To Watch If You Love Christopher Nolans Inception

Undoubtedly, The Matrix remains one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time, with its two sequels forming a nearly perfect trilogy. Starring Keanu Reeves as the main protagonist, it is the best work to date written and directed by the Wachowskis.

Set in a dystopian future, it follows a regular computer programmer Thomas Anderson, who is also a hacker known as “Neo.” One day, he uncovers the truth: the world has been overrun by machines using human bodies as power sources while keeping people’s minds in a simulation that is our world called The Matrix.

1 Interstellar (2014)

All of Christopher Nolan’s movies are worthy of a watch if you liked Inception, but Interstellar will definitely satisfy a fan’s search for more high-concept science-fiction from the director. It stars such big names as Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and others, while it explores such themes as love, isolation, sacrifice, sustainability, and more.

Set in a dystopian future, it shows a world where humanity struggles to survive as the planet is slowly dying. A group of astronauts is put together and sent on a mission to space to find a new home for humankind.

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