Movies Like The Cutting Room

If you liked The Cutting Room (2026), a thriller and science fiction movie directed by Max Rhineer, 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
Superintelligence (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to…
2
S1m0ne (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the…
3
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.
4
The Second Renaissance Part II (2003)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction
The battle for Earth turns against the humans, despite their infamous desperate act of blackening the skies.
5
Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…
6
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act (2026)
★ 8.8/10Also science fiction
With Caine gone and the circus dark, the cast are left with only the mistakes and traumas of their pasts to keep them company. As the prospect of eternity closes in around them, they discover the truth about the…
7
Children of the Damned (1964)
★ 6.1/10Also 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.
8
Jonathan (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also 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.
9
Brainstorm (1983)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and thriller
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
10
Earth to Echo (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also 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
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.
12
Race with the Devil (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
13
Pickup on South Street (1953)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified…
14
Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also 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.
15
Lapsis (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of…
16
Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride (2006)
★ 7.8/10Also science fiction
A young bride in the midst of her wedding finds herself mysteriously transported to the TARDIS. The Doctor must discover what her connection is with the Empress of the Racnoss's plan to destroy the world.
17
Metropia (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller
In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger hears voices, one in particular. Seeking a way to rid himself of the…
18
He Ran All the Way (1951)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl's apartment.
19
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the stakes are higher than ever for the now middle-aged Bill and Ted who set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save…
20
Poison (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.