Movies Like The Nostalgist

If you liked The Nostalgist (2014), a action and adventure movie directed by Giacomo Cimini, 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
Cherry 2000 (1987)
★ 6/10Also action and adventure
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his…
2
Chappie (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also action and science fiction
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he…
3
The Zero Theorem (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and science fiction
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
4
Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also action and science fiction
Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.
5
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and adventure
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this…
6
Afterburn (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also action and science fiction
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of…
7
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
★ 8/10Also adventure and science fiction
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.
8
Fortress (1992)
★ 6.1/10Also action and science fiction
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside…
9
The Electric State (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also action and adventure
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
10
Ready Player One (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also adventure and action
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
11
eXistenZ (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also action and science fiction
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
12
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and action
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
13
Impostor (2001)
★ 6.1/10Also action and science fiction
A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
14
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also action and science fiction
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered…
15
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
★ 6.8/10Also action and science fiction
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
16
Surrogates (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and action
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
17
The Terminator (1984)
★ 7.7/10Also action and science fiction
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st…
18
57 Seconds (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and action
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
19
Halo: Landfall (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also action and science fiction
Director Neill Blomkamp explores the lives of Marines and ODSTs on a last, desperate mission in a post-invasion Earth – a mission that may secure the salvation, or usher the destruction of the entire galaxy. Edited…
20
Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and adventure
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…