Movies Like Farewell to the Planet of the Apes
If you liked Farewell to the Planet of the Apes (1980), a tv movie and thriller movie directed by John Meredyth Lucas and Don McDougall, 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.
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and science fictionThe sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.
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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and science fictionAn 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…
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Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and tv movieA 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.
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Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and tv movieDespite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to…
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Megaboa (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and tv movieOn a trip to Colombia, a group of college students encounter a fifty-foot boa constrictor, hungry for blood.
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Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction and tv movieWhen 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?
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Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also tv movie and science fictionThe newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite with the Paternoster Gang to investigate a series of combustions that…
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Doctor Who: The Snowmen (2012)
★ 7.7/10Also tv movie and adventureThe Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel…
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Planet of the Apes (1968)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and adventureAstronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent…
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Behind the Planet of the Apes (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and tv movieRoddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to see the actual filming of the science fiction masterpiece. The most comprehensive history of Planet…
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Roswell (1994)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and tv movieBased on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of…
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Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and adventurePhineas and Ferb become the galaxy's unlikeliest last hope when they must return the Death Star plans to the Rebel Alliance.
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Project: ALF (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and tv movieSix years ago, the lovable intergalactic fugitive Gordon Shumway, best known as ALF, was on his way back to his new home when the Alien Task Force finally caught up with him. Now, he is being studied at a top-secret…
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Titan A.E. (2000)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and adventureA 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.
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Signal One (2026)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and tv movieA computer scientist is invited by a tech billionaire to join his private facility on a Caribbean island to investigate extraterrestrial matter on Earth. When they make contact beyond our world, chaos erupts as we’re…
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Dr. Strange (1978)
★ 6/10Also tv movie and adventureA psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
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Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and tv movieThe Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and try to catch a bionic spy.
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4 Horsemen: Apocalypse (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and tv movieA small team of scientists must race against time to stop what seems to be a cascade of global disasters signaling the possible apocalypse and end of days.
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Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventureA group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.
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Wifelike (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and thrillerA grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the…