Movies Like Calliope

If you liked Calliope (2017), a science fiction and crime movie directed by Jo Shaffer, 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
Code 8 Part II (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and crime
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
2
Strawberry Mansion (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote…
3
Spring (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
4
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
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…
5
Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
6
The Enforcer (2022)
★ 7/10Also crime
A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…
7
Margaux (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a…
8
Code 8 (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and crime
In Lincoln City, some inhabitants have extraordinary abilities. Most live below the poverty line, under the close surveillance of a heavily militarized police force. Connor, a construction worker with powers, involves…
9
The Congress (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
10
Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
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
Rage of Stars (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
A story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.
12
The Kovak Box (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction
David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?
13
Axcellerator (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
When a young car thief stumbles on the invention of the century (and the various government agencies that want to kill him), he and a sassy checkout clerk named Kate have the adventure of a lifetime.
14
Fortress (1992)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside…
15
Inception (2010)
★ 8.4/10Also science fiction and crime
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the…
16
The Last Mimzy (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also 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…
17
The Last Days of American Crime (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also crime
In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to crime and terrorism, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal that will make it impossible for anyone to knowingly break the law.
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2073 (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
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…
19
Light of My Life (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
20
The Signal (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.