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Movies Like Nostalgia Now™

If you liked Nostalgia Now™, a drama and science fiction movie directed by Brooke Allen, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Giver

    The Giver (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and science fiction

    In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

  2. 2Swan Song

    Swan Song (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and science fiction

    In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking…

  3. 3The Zero Theorem

    The Zero Theorem (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and science fiction

    A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.

  4. 4The Congress

    The Congress (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and science fiction

    An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

  5. 5THX 1138

    THX 1138 (1971)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and drama

    People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As…

  6. 6Upstream Color

    Upstream Color (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fiction

    A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

  7. 7Looper

    Looper (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10Also science fiction

    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 a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is…

  8. 8The Island

    The Island (2005)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction

    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 chosen to go to The Island — reportedly…

  9. 9Man with No Past

    Man with No Past (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that…

  10. 10Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

  11. 11Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

    Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)

    ★ 8/10Also science fiction and drama

    The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.

  12. 12Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and drama

    After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking…

  13. 13Omni Loop

    Omni Loop (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and drama

    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 time travel in order to go back and…

  14. 14In the Blink of an Eye

    In the Blink of an Eye (2026)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and drama

    Three storylines, spanning thousands of years, intersect and reflect on hope, connection, and the circle of life.

  15. 15Parallel

    Parallel (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and drama

    Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe and realizes the multiverse gates hold the key to releasing her…

  16. 16Code 46

    Code 46 (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and science fiction

    In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria…

  17. 1757 Seconds

    57 Seconds (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.

  18. 182073

    2073 (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and…

  19. 19In Time

    In Time (2011)

    ★ 7/10Also science fiction

    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 rich can live forever, while the rest…

  20. 20Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

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