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Movies Like The Wonder Cabinet

If you liked The Wonder Cabinet (1999), a drama and science fiction movie directed by Ralph Hemecker, 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. 1Meltdown: Days of Destruction

    Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and science fiction

    Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to…

  2. 22073

    2073 (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    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…

  3. 3Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

    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?

  4. 4Dr. Strange

    Dr. Strange (1978)

    ★ 6/10Also tv movie and science fiction

    A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.

  5. 5Cheaters

    Cheaters (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

  6. 6The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

  7. 7Hello

    Hello (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    An emotionally unavailable flight attendant meets a potential love interest and later finds out that her "perfect guy" has ulterior motives. As the clock ticks down on New Year's Eve, she must fight to keep her…

  8. 8Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

    Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama 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…

  9. 9Doctor Who: Deep Breath

    Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also tv movie and science fiction

    The newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite with the Paternoster Gang to investigate a series of combustions that…

  10. 10Doctor Who: Last Christmas

    Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    The 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!

  11. 11TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  12. 12Jonathan

    Jonathan (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and science fiction

    Jonathan 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.

  13. 13Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

  14. 14A Wrinkle in Time

    A Wrinkle in Time (2003)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fiction

    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. 15Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

    Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young…

  16. 16Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

    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.

  17. 17...First Do No Harm

    ...First Do No Harm (1997)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    When Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she…

  18. 18Collision Earth

    Collision Earth (2011)

    ★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    A huge solar flare blasts Mercury out of it's orbit and provides it with an intense magnetic field and it's on collision course for Earth.

  19. 19Doctor Who: The Snowmen

    Doctor Who: The Snowmen (2012)

    ★ 7.7/10Also tv movie and science fiction

    The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel…

  20. 20Harrison Bergeron

    Harrison Bergeron (1995)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    "All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers…

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