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Movies Like The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes

If you liked The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes (1980), a tv movie and science fiction movie directed by Don McDougall and Bernard McEveety, 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. 1Doctor Who: Deep Breath

    Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also tv movie and science fiction

    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…

  2. 2Ben 10: Race Against Time

    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.

  3. 3Doctor Who: The Snowmen

    Doctor Who: The Snowmen (2012)

    ★ 7.7/10Also tv movie and adventure

    The 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…

  4. 4Harrison Bergeron

    Harrison Bergeron (1995)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    "All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers…

  5. 5Doctor Who

    Doctor Who (1996)

    ★ 6.2/10Also tv movie and adventure

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

  6. 6Roswell

    Roswell (1994)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    Based 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…

  7. 7Attack on Titan

    Attack on Titan (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    As viable water is depleted on Earth, a mission is sent to Saturn's moon Titan to retrieve sustainable H2O reserves from its alien inhabitants. But just as the humans acquire the precious resource, they are attacked by…

  8. 8Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

    Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)

    ★ 7.2/10Also adventure and science fiction

    An 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…

  9. 9Megaboa

    Megaboa (2021)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    On a trip to Colombia, a group of college students encounter a fifty-foot boa constrictor, hungry for blood.

  10. 10Timescape

    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…

  11. 11Babylon 5: The Gathering

    Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and adventure

    The feature-length pilot for this Emmy award-winning show. Babylon 5 is the latest in a series of space stations built by humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer…

  12. 12The Lost World

    The Lost World (2001)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and science fiction

    This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his…

  13. 13Babylon 5: The River of Souls

    Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure

    A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.

  14. 14Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven

    Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven (2009)

    ★ 6.4/10Also adventure and tv movie

    Jack Hunter pursues his arch nemesis Littman across ancient Europe, intent on thwarting his attempt to salvage a deadly artefact.

  15. 15Meltdown: Days of Destruction

    Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    Despite 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…

  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. 17Stargate: 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.

  18. 18Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

    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.

  19. 19Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and adventure

    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…

  20. 20Invisible Sister

    Invisible Sister (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10Also adventure and tv movie

    Teenager Cleo's school science project goes quite awry, causing her popular older sister Molly to go invisible.

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