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Movies Like Moon Child

If you liked Moon Child (1989), a fantasy and drama movie directed by Agustí Villaronga, 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. 1Doctor Who: Last Christmas

    Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!

  2. 2Fire and Ice

    Fire and Ice (1983)

    ★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and science fiction

    The villainous Nekron and his mother, Queen Juliana, plot against the human race from their frigid fortress. Creating mass destruction with huge glaciers, mother and son incur the wrath of Larn, a warrior whose entire…

  3. 3The Dark Tower

    The Dark Tower (2017)

    ★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and science fiction

    A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.

  4. 4Jonathan

    Jonathan (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and science fiction

    Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.

  5. 5Chronicle

    Chronicle (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10Also science fiction and drama

    Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives…

  6. 6Northfork

    Northfork (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also fantasy and drama

    The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the…

  7. 7Justice League: Gods and Monsters

    Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)

    ★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and science fiction

    In an alternate universe, very different versions of DC's Trinity fight against the government after they are framed for an embassy bombing.

  8. 8Stormageddon

    Stormageddon (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and science fiction

    What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human…

  9. 9Primer

    Primer (2004)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    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 start to catch up with them.

  10. 10Contact

    Contact (1997)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and science fiction

    A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult…

  11. 11Light of My Life

    Light of My Life (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and drama

    Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.

  12. 12Arrival

    Arrival (2016)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and science fiction

    Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

  13. 13Planet of the Apes

    Planet of the Apes (1968)

    ★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent…

  14. 14A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and science fiction

    David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this…

  15. 15Chaos Walking

    Chaos Walking (2021)

    ★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and science fiction

    Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.

  16. 16THX 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…

  17. 17Ghost in the Shell

    Ghost in the Shell (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and drama

    In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

  18. 18The 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.

  19. 19Stowaway

    Stowaway (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and drama

    A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.

  20. 20WarGames

    WarGames (1983)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and science fiction

    High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and…

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