Movies Like Bright Lights

If you liked Bright Lights (2025), a science fiction and mystery movie directed by Annabelle Brown, 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
Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and thriller
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
2
Frequencies (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and mystery
The story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'.
3
The Time Shifters (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and thriller
Tom Merrick gets caught up in a time-traveling conspiracy and must set the timeline right before it is irrevocably altered.
4
Space/Time (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and thriller
After a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or annihilate it entirely.
5
Quicksand (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and mystery
A married couple on the brink of divorce becomes trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order…
6
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and thriller
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.
7
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and thriller
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
8
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction and mystery
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?
9
The Lady Vanishes (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and mystery
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
10
The Medusa Touch (1978)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and science fiction
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
11
The Time Machine (1960)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller and science fiction
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
12
Time Without Pity (1957)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and mystery
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a…
13
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and thriller
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent…
14
The Arrival (1996)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and thriller
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the…
15
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
16
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and thriller
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
17
Children of the Damned (1964)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and science fiction
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
18
Force of Nature: The Dry 2 (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and thriller
When five women take part in a corporate hiking retreat and only four come out on the other side, Federal Agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper head deep into the Victorian mountain ranges to investigate in the hopes of…
19
Dead of Night (1977)
★ 6/10Also thriller and science fiction
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she…
20
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
★ 7.4/10Also science fiction and thriller
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.