Movies Like Starwatch

If you liked Starwatch (1988), a science fiction and adventure movie directed by Charles Marriott, 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
Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and science fiction
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search…
2
Titan A.E. (2000)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and adventure
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.
3
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and tv movie
A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.
4
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction and tv movie
When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?
5
Invisible Sister (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and tv movie
Teenager Cleo's school science project goes quite awry, causing her popular older sister Molly to go invisible.
6
The Suite Life Movie (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and science fiction
Cody and Zack are approached to join the Gemini Project, a high-tech research center studying the dynamics between twins. Shockingly, they find themselves interconnected in a whole new way! When one twin experiences…
7
Ben 10: Race Against Time (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and tv movie
Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.
8
Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and adventure
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and…
9
Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie and science fiction
Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.
10
Earth to Echo (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and science fiction
After a construction project begins digging in their neighbourhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going…
11
Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and tv movie
The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and try to catch a bionic spy.
12
Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and tv movie
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of…
13
Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and tv movie
After a battle with Dr. Animo in a power plant, Ben notices something strange is happening with the Omnitrix but doesn't tell anyone. Tetrax arrives and tells them the Omnitrix is broadcasting a self-destruct signal…
14
A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and tv movie
Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to a place unlike any…
15
Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure
A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.
16
F.R.E.D.I. (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and adventure
An intelligent, lovable robot known as "F.R.E.D.I." is stolen from a secret research facility by the project's lead scientist. The robot is found by a 15 year old teenager, James. Soon the two begin to communicate and…
17
Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999)
★ 6.9/10Also science fiction and adventure
Allies of the Shadows seek revenge against humanity. This movie sets up the series, "Crusade," the sequel to "Babylon 5."
18
The Martian (2015)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and adventure
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only…
19
Zog (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and tv movie
Zog is a keen young dragon who wants to learn to fly, roar, and breathe fire, so he studies at the Dragon School. He is desperate to impress his teacher and win a golden star, but he is prone to accidents and he has to…
20
Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and adventure
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.