Movies Like Ships in the Day
If you liked Ships in the Day (2024), a science fiction and drama movie directed by Mark Bowsher, 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.
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Light of My Life (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and dramaYears 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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Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and dramaAfter 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…
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Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and dramaThe 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!
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Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionBefore 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…
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The Congress (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and science fictionAn aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
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Jonathan (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and science fictionJonathan 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.
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Omni Loop (2024)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and dramaDiagnosed 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…
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Tuesday (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
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2073 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and dramaInspired 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…
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These Final Hours (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and dramaWith the end of the world only hours away, self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing…
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The Last Mimzy (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fictionTwo siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more…
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Foe (2023)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and dramaHenrietta and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior's family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling…
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Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
★ 8/10Also science fiction and dramaThe 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.
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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fictionAfter 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…
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My Zoe (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and science fictionIsabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle…
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The Mandela Effect (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and dramaA man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to…
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The Assessment (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and dramaIn a climate change-ravaged world, a utopian society optimizes life, including parenthood assessments. A successful couple faces scrutiny by an evaluator over seven days to determine their fitness for childbearing.
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Rage of Stars (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionA story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and dramaThomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions…
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Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fictionA special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.