Movies Like Pragmatopia

If you liked Pragmatopia (2020), a science fiction movie directed by Pixie Cram, 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
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he…
2
Testament (1983)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in…
3
On the Beach (1959)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and…
4
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
★ 5.9/10Also 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.
5
War of the Worlds (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm…
6
The Day After (1983)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the…
7
Threads (1984)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
8
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.
9
On the Beach (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has…
10
The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
11
Right at Your Door (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
12
Children of Men (2006)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the…
13
The Quiet Earth (1985)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
14
The Giver (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
15
Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
16
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled…
17
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…
18
Cold Storage (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
When a mutating, highly contagious fungus escapes a sealed facility, two employees – joined by a grizzled bioterror operative – must survive the wildest night shift ever to save humanity from extinction.
19
Soylent Green (1973)
★ 6.9/10Also science fiction
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
★ 7/10Also science fiction
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.