Movies Like Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
If you liked Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space (1968), a drama and action movie directed by Tristan de Vere Cole, 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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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also action and adventureAn 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: 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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Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
★ 6/10Also action and dramaDespite 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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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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Stargate: Continuum (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also action and adventureBa'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
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The Last Mimzy (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fictionTwo 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…
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and tv movieJamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. They’ve travelled forwards in time to seek help, believing they’re…
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12:01 (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and tv movieOffice employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including…
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Collision Earth (2011)
★ 5.8/10Also action and science fictionA huge solar flare blasts Mercury out of it's orbit and provides it with an intense magnetic field and it's on collision course for Earth.
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Dr. Strange (1978)
★ 6/10Also tv movie and actionA psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
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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: 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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Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and adventureThe 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!
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Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
★ 7/10Also action and adventureSG-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…
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A Wrinkle in Time (2003)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fictionMeg 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…
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Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and actionTravel 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…
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Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and dramaAfter 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…
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Omni Loop (2024)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and dramaDiagnosed 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…
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Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
★ 8/10Also science fiction and dramaAmy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown…
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Doctor Who (1996)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie and adventureThe Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.