10 Movies Like Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049 is three hours of weather and wonder: a mystery about souls told in rain, fog, and monumental silence. The matches share its patience and its question — what counts as a person?

The matches

• Blade Runner (1982) — The rain-soaked original; see where the soul question started. Try it if: somehow you haven't.
• Ex Machina (2014) — The Turing test with a knife's edge. Try it if: you want the question in one room.
• Her (2013) — Love with an operating system; warmth instead of rain. Try it if: you want the hopeful version of the same ache.
• Ghost in the Shell (1995) — The anime that asked it first, in cyberpunk glory. Try it if: you want the philosophical source code.
• Stalker (1979) — Tarkovsky's slow pilgrimage through the Zone. Try it if: you want the absolute apex of slow.
• Dune (2021) — Villeneuve's other cathedral of sound and scale. Try it if: you want the same director's desert.
• Under the Skin (2013) — Alien eyes on human streets; hypnotic and cold. Try it if: you want the perspective flipped.
• Akira→ Gattaca (1997) — Genetic destiny, polished and quietly tragic. Try it if: you want the soul question without the neon.

Where they differ: Her and Gattaca are warmer; Stalker and Under the Skin are stranger. Watch the original Blade Runner first if it's new to you — 2049 is a direct continuation and richer for it.