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Movies Like Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

If you liked Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010), a science fiction and drama movie directed by Toby Haynes, 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. 1Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride

    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.

  2. 2Doctor 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…

  3. 3Jonathan

    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.

  4. 4A Wrinkle in Time

    A Wrinkle in Time (2003)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fiction

    Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe to a place unlike any…

  5. 5Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

    Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)

    ★ 7.6/10Also science fiction and drama

    When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?

  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. 7Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

    Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and science fiction

    An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search…

  8. 8Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark

    Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction

    This instalment of Babylon 5 is in two parts: the first is about an entity that has possessed a worker. Colonel Lochley prevents a priest from performing an exorcism. The host is returned to Earth. The second has Galen…

  9. 9The Time Shifters

    The Time Shifters (1999)

    ★ 5.8/10Also science fiction

    Tom Merrick gets caught up in a time-traveling conspiracy and must set the timeline right before it is irrevocably altered.

  10. 10Babylon 5: The River of Souls

    Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction

    A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.

  11. 11Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

    Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction

    The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and try to catch a bionic spy.

  12. 12The Truth About Emanuel

    The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

  13. 13Snowglobe

    Snowglobe (2007)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction

    A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dreamworld inside a magical snowglobe. Angela loves Christmas more than anything. However, her family does not share her love for the holiday at all. When she is about to…

  14. 14How Sarah Got Her Wings

    How Sarah Got Her Wings (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on…

  15. 15Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

    Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)

    ★ 7.5/10Also science fiction

    A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.

  16. 16Babylon 5: In the Beginning

    Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998)

    ★ 7.1/10Also science fiction

    Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and…

  17. 17Titan A.E.

    Titan A.E. (2000)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction

    A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.

  18. 181984

    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.

  19. 19F.R.E.D.I.

    F.R.E.D.I. (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction

    An intelligent, lovable robot known as "F.R.E.D.I." is stolen from a secret research facility by the project's lead scientist. The robot is found by a 15 year old teenager, James. Soon the two begin to communicate and…

  20. 20Space/Time

    Space/Time (2025)

    ★ 5.8/10Also science fiction

    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.

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