Movies Like The Velvet Ants

If you liked The Velvet Ants (2026), a science fiction and romance movie directed by Isaiah Domingo, 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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Frequencies (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and science fiction
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'.
2
Attraction (2001)
★ 6.9/10Also romance
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
3
Zoe (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and romance
Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound.
4
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.
5
Wifelike (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the…
6
Gemini Man (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction
Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict…
7
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…
8
Prodigy (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he…
9
Looker (1981)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr…
10
Surrogates (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
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Simulant (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
Faye attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Faye does not feel the same love for SIM Evan as it does for her. SIM…
12
2036: Nexus Dawn (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
Niander Wallace introduces a new line of "perfected" replicants called the Nexus 9, seeking to get the prohibition on replicants repealed.
13
Aliens (1986)
★ 8/10Also science fiction
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she…
14
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.
15
Upgrade (2018)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now…
16
Time Toys (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
A group of middle school kids stumble upon a chest full of incredible toys from the future. The discovery takes them on an adventure using their newfound toys to save their neighborhood and ultimately the world from a…
17
Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
18
Fortress (1992)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside…
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Womb (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and science fiction
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.