Movies Like The Phoenix

If you liked The Phoenix (1981), a science fiction and fantasy movie directed by Douglas Hickox, 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
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and tv movie
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.
2
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction and tv movie
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?
3
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and tv movie
SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to…
4
Teen Spirit (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and tv movie
Amber, a mean popular girl who gets electrocuted and dies, is not allowed to enter into heaven unless she helps the least popular girl in school become Prom Queen within a week, but things do not go as planned.
5
Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and tv movie
What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of…
6
Snowglobe (2007)
★ 6/10Also tv movie and fantasy
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…
7
Invisible Sister (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and tv movie
Teenager Cleo's school science project goes quite awry, causing her popular older sister Molly to go invisible.
8
Basilisk: The Serpent King (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie and fantasy
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by…
9
A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and tv movie
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…
10
How Sarah Got Her Wings (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and tv movie
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…
11
Clash of the Thundermans (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movie and science fiction
When Chloe develops a destructive new superpower, the Hero League orders her to an elite boarding school for superheroes to learn control of her abilities. Faced with the prospect of sending Chloe away for years, the…
12
Ben 10: Race Against Time (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and tv movie
Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.
13
Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy and tv movie
Set in the storybook world of Enchancia, the music-filled movie follows Sofia, an average girl whose life suddenly changes when her mother marries the king and she is whisked off to live in a castle with her mom, new…
14
Ben 10: Secret of the Omnitrix (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and tv movie
After a battle with Dr. Animo in a power plant, Ben notices something strange is happening with the Omnitrix but doesn't tell anyone. Tetrax arrives and tells them the Omnitrix is broadcasting a self-destruct signal…
15
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (1996)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and science fiction
Clark Kent, the last survivor of the dead planet Krypton, uses his amazing powers to defend people of his adopted world, Earth, and become Superman.
16
Project: ALF (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and tv movie
Six 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…
17
Casper Meets Wendy (1998)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and tv movie
When a warlock threatens Wendy the Good Little Witch, she and her aunts hide out at a resort where Casper the Ghost is vacationing with his uncles. Although Casper and Wendy are told ghosts and witches don't get along…
18
Elena and the Secret of Avalor (2016)
★ 7.3/10Also fantasy and tv movie
In the Kingdom of Avalor, Elena takes Naomi up a mountain to show her favorite view of the kingdom. Elena laments to Naomi how she was trapped in the Amulet of Avalor for forty-one years, and then presents to her a…
19
Minutemen (2008)
★ 5.8/10Also tv movie and science fiction
When three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.
20
Ben 10: Destroy All Aliens (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and tv movie
Based on the original animated series Ben 10. Ben becomes targeted by an evil Mechamorph Warrior, named "Retaliator," who mistakenly blames Ben for something he did not do and attempts to destroy all aliens.