Movies Like Dawn

If you liked Dawn (2014), a science fiction and fantasy movie directed by Anders Elsrud Hultgreen, 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
Zygote (2017)
★ 7/10Also science fiction
The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.
2
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…
3
Slash/Back (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
4
Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and 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.
5
Backlight (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.
6
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…
7
Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and fantasy
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking…
8
Strawberry Mansion (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasy and science fiction
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote…
9
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.
10
Frequencies (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also 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'.
11
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.
12
The Return (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.
13
Monster Hunters (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a…
14
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
15
Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
16
Margaux (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a…
17
Cosmos (2019)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
Three astronomers accidentally intercept what they believe to be a signal from a distant alien civilization, but the truth is even more incredible than any of them could have imagined.
18
Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction
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!
19
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
★ 8/10Also science fiction
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…
20
The Dark Tower (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and science fiction
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.