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Movies Like Doctor Who: Ghost Light

If you liked Doctor Who: Ghost Light (1989), a science fiction and drama movie directed by Alan Wareing, 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. 1Babylon 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 and adventure

    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…

  2. 2The 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…

  3. 3Doctor Who: Deep Breath

    Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and adventure

    The 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…

  4. 4Timescape

    Timescape (1992)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the…

  5. 5Omni Loop

    Omni Loop (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and drama

    Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and…

  6. 6Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and drama

    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…

  7. 7Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and science fiction

    The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

  8. 8Stargate: Continuum

    Stargate: Continuum (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also adventure and science fiction

    Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

  9. 9Doctor Who: Last Christmas

    Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and adventure

    The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!

  10. 10Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

    Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)

    ★ 8.2/10Also science fiction and adventure

    In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of…

  11. 11Stowaway

    Stowaway (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and drama

    A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.

  12. 12Halo: Nightfall

    Halo: Nightfall (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Set between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians… Halo: Nightfall tells the dramatic story of legendary man hunter and Naval Intelligence Officer Jameson Locke and his team as they are caught in a horrific…

  13. 13Solo: A Star Wars Story

    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

  14. 14F.R.E.D.I.

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

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and adventure

    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…

  15. 152073

    2073 (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and…

  16. 16Titan A.E.

    Titan A.E. (2000)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and adventure

    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.

  17. 17Push

    Push (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and adventure

    After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick…

  18. 18Oblivion

    Oblivion (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly…

  19. 19The Time Machine

    The Time Machine (2002)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.

  20. 20Doctor Who

    Doctor Who (1996)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and science fiction

    The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.

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