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Movies Like The Shrunken City

If you liked The Shrunken City (1998), a science fiction and family movie directed by Ted Nicolaou, 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. 1Max Winslow and The House of Secrets

    Max Winslow and The House of Secrets (2020)

    ★ 5.9/10Also family and science fiction

    Five teenagers compete to win a mansion owned by entrepreneur and scientist Atticus Virtue. To win the teens must face-off against a super computer named HAVEN who controls the mansion.

  2. 2Solo: A Star Wars Story

    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction

    Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

  3. 3Anastasia: Once Upon a Time

    Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)

    ★ 5.9/10Also family

    Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.

  4. 4Star 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.

  5. 5Crater

    Crater (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and family

    After the death of his father, a boy growing up on a lunar mining colony takes a trip to explore a legendary crater, along with his four best friends, prior to being permanently relocated to another planet.

  6. 6The 5th Wave

    The 5th Wave (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction

    16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.

  7. 7Mortal Engines

    Mortal Engines (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction

    Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom…

  8. 8Chaos Walking

    Chaos Walking (2021)

    ★ 6.5/10Also 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.

  9. 9Journey to the Center of the Earth

    Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and family

    On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.

  10. 10Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

    Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005)

    ★ 6.9/10Also science fiction

    The maniacal baby of the Griffin family, Stewie, meets his future self. In doing this he discovers that his future image is not what he has anticipated because of a near death experience.

  11. 11A-X-L

    A-X-L (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and family

    The life of a teenage boy is forever altered by a chance encounter with cutting edge military technology.

  12. 12Snow Queen

    Snow Queen (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10Also family and science fiction

    Since a bitter winter storm stole the life of Gerda's mother, she and her father have sadly continued to run the remote hotel they call home. Lonely and isolated, Gerda's only joy is Kai, the handsome bellboy. A…

  13. 13Halo: Nightfall

    Halo: Nightfall (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction

    Set between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians… Halo: Nightfall tells the dramatic story of legendary man hunter and Naval Intelligence Officer Jameson Locke and his team as they are caught in a horrific…

  14. 14The Adam Project

    The Adam Project (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also science fiction

    After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.

  15. 15I Am Number Four

    I Am Number Four (2011)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly…

  16. 16The Sleepover

    The Sleepover (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also family

    Two siblings who discover their seemingly normal mom is a former thief in witness protection. Mom is forced to pull one last job, and the kids team up to rescue her over the course of an action-packed night.

  17. 17Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

    Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also family

    In their quest to confront the ultimate evil, Percy and his friends battle swarms of mythical creatures to find the mythical Golden Fleece and to stop an ancient evil from rising.

  18. 18Allegiant

    Allegiant (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction

    Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

  19. 19Spymate

    Spymate (2006)

    ★ 6.2/10Also family

    Amelia, a young genius and daughter of a top secret agent, unknowingly invents a contraption that makes her the target of an evil scientist.

  20. 20Light of My Life

    Light of My Life (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction

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

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