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Movies Like District 21

If you liked District 21 (2025), a science fiction movie directed by Pedro Avellar, 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. 1Blade Runner

    Blade Runner (1982)

    ★ 7.9/10Also science fiction

    In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their…

  2. 2Blade Runner 2049

    Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

    ★ 7.6/10Also science fiction

    Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest…

  3. 3The Dark Tower

    The Dark Tower (2017)

    ★ 5.8/10Also 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. 4Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    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…

  5. 5Timescape

    Timescape (1992)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction

    Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the…

  6. 6Star 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.

  7. 7Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight

    Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction

    After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…

  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. 9Allegiant

    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.

  10. 102073

    2073 (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction

    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…

  11. 11Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

    ★ 7.1/10Also science fiction

    A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial…

  12. 12Automata

    Automata (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction

    Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

  13. 13Divergent

    Divergent (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10Also science fiction

    In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find…

  14. 14Afterburn

    Afterburn (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of…

  15. 15Cloud Atlas

    Cloud Atlas (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10Also science fiction

    A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the…

  16. 16Spectral

    Spectral (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction

    A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

  17. 17Slash/Back

    Slash/Back (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction

    In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.

  18. 18Frankenstein Unbound

    Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction

    The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in…

  19. 19Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride

    Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride (2006)

    ★ 7.8/10Also science fiction

    A young bride in the midst of her wedding finds herself mysteriously transported to the TARDIS. The Doctor must discover what her connection is with the Empress of the Racnoss's plan to destroy the world.

  20. 20Zygote

    Zygote (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also science fiction

    The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.

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