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Movies Like The Founder

If you liked The Founder (2012), a comedy and science fiction movie directed by Eric Dean Hordes, 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. 1Relax, I'm from the Future

    Relax, I'm from the Future (2023)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and science fiction

    Casper is a time traveller who arrives in the 2020s in an attempt to prevent a major future catastrophe. He meets Holly, a queer black woman he befriends and draws into his plan by giving her his knowledge of the…

  2. 2Afterburn

    Afterburn (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and comedy

    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…

  3. 3The Bed Sitting Room

    The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and science fiction

    In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

  4. 4Code 8 Part II

    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.

  5. 5Barbarella

    Barbarella (1968)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and comedy

    In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.

  6. 6Amazon Women on the Moon

    Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and science fiction

    Centered on a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some…

  7. 7Prodigy

    Prodigy (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction

    Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he…

  8. 8Serenity

    Serenity (2005)

    ★ 7.4/10Also science fiction

    A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew…

  9. 9Spectral

    Spectral (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction

    A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

  10. 10Bugonia

    Bugonia (2025)

    ★ 7.3/10Also science fiction and comedy

    Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

  11. 11Rage of Stars

    Rage of Stars (2026)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction

    A story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.

  12. 12Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight

    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…

  13. 13Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

    ★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and comedy

    A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial…

  14. 14Babylon 5: The Road Home

    Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023)

    ★ 7.1/10Also science fiction

    Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home. Along the way he reunites with some…

  15. 15Long Distance

    Long Distance (2024)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and comedy

    After crash-landing on an alien planet, an asteroid miner must contend with the challenges of his new surroundings, while making his way across the harsh terrain to the only other survivor – a woman who is trapped in…

  16. 16Idiocracy

    Idiocracy (2006)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and science fiction

    To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events…

  17. 17Repo Man

    Repo Man (1984)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and science fiction

    A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.

  18. 18South Park: Joining the Panderverse

    South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)

    ★ 7.5/10Also comedy and science fiction

    Cartman's deeply disturbing dreams portend the end of the life he knows and loves. Meanwhile, the adults in South Park are wrestling with their own life decisions, as the advent of AI is turning their world upside down.

  19. 19Dr. Strange

    Dr. Strange (1978)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction

    A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.

  20. 20Mickey 17

    Mickey 17 (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and comedy

    Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

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