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Movies Like Norman's Awesome Experience

If you liked Norman's Awesome Experience (1989), a science fiction and comedy movie directed by Paul Donovan, 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. 1Relax, I'm from the Future

    Relax, I'm from the Future (2023)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and science fiction

    Casper is a time traveller who arrives in the 2020s in an attempt to prevent a major future catastrophe. He meets Holly, a queer black woman he befriends and draws into his plan by giving her his knowledge of the…

  2. 2Afterburn

    Afterburn (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and comedy

    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…

  3. 357 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.

  4. 4Timescape

    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…

  5. 5Code 8 Part II

    Code 8 Part II (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction

    In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.

  6. 6Monsters of Man

    Monsters of Man (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction

    A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing…

  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. 8Spectral

    Spectral (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction

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

  9. 9Bugonia

    Bugonia (2025)

    ★ 7.3/10Also science fiction and comedy

    Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

  10. 10Repo Man

    Repo Man (1984)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and science fiction

    A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

  11. 11Barbarella

    Barbarella (1968)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and comedy

    In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

  12. 12Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

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

    ★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and comedy

    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…

  13. 13Mickey 17

    Mickey 17 (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and comedy

    Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

  14. 14Boss Level

    Boss Level (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10Also science fiction

    A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.

  15. 15Idiocracy

    Idiocracy (2006)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and science fiction

    To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events…

  16. 16Amazon Women on the Moon

    Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and science fiction

    Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some…

  17. 17Axcellerator

    Axcellerator (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    When a young car thief stumbles on the invention of the century (and the various government agencies that want to kill him), he and a sassy checkout clerk named Kate have the adventure of a lifetime.

  18. 18The 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.

  19. 19The Bed Sitting Room

    The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and science fiction

    In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

  20. 20Terminator Salvation

    Terminator Salvation (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction

    All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as…

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