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10 Best Movies Like Upstream

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

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#1
The Good German

The Good German

2006★ 5.8

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

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion duri...

#2
Radioactive

Radioactive

2020★ 6.6

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

The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transfor...

#3
Rememory

Rememory

2017★ 6.1

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

The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory....

#4
Eleanor the Great

Eleanor the Great

2025★ 6.9

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

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades....

#5
The Island

The Island

2005★ 6.7

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

In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be c...

#6
Aporia

Aporia

2023★ 6.2

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

Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending ma...

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