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Movies Like The Reconstruction of William Zero

If you liked The Reconstruction of William Zero (2015), a science fiction and drama movie directed by Dan Bush, 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. 1Sleep, My Love

    Sleep, My Love (1948)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and drama

    A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

  2. 2The Philadelphia Experiment

    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.

  3. 3The Time Shifters

    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. 4Space/Time

    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. 5Marjorie Prime

    Marjorie Prime (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and science fiction

    A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.

  6. 6The Last Mimzy

    The Last Mimzy (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fiction

    Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more…

  7. 7Star Trek: Generations

    Star Trek: Generations (1994)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and thriller

    Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been…

  8. 8Jonathan

    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.

  9. 9Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven

    Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven (2014)

    ★ 8/10Also science fiction and drama

    In this epic two-part finale, the Doctor comes face to face with the mysterious Missy, and an impossible choice is looming. With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies, and the Doctor…

  10. 10Panic in Year Zero!

    Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and 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…

  11. 11Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

    Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)

    ★ 8/10Also science fiction and drama

    Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown…

  12. 12Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller and drama

    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. 13WarGames

    WarGames (1983)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and science fiction

    High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and…

  14. 14Lapsis

    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…

  15. 15After Yang

    After Yang (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and drama

    When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting…

  16. 16Each Dawn I Die

    Each Dawn I Die (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and thriller

    A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

  17. 17Ballistic

    Ballistic (2026)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller and drama

    When a soldier's mother discovers the bullet that killed her son in Afghanistan was made at the factory where she works, she sets out on a path of revenge against those responsible.

  18. 18The House on Telegraph Hill

    The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller and drama

    Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

  19. 19Detour

    Detour (1945)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and thriller

    The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

  20. 201984

    1984 (1956)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and drama

    In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

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