Movies Like Citizen in the Temple

If you liked Citizen in the Temple (2015), a science fiction and horror movie directed by Jason Huls, 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
Zygote (2017)
★ 7/10Also horror and science fiction
The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.
2
Alien: Alone (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and horror
An abandoned crew member aboard a derelict chemical hauler is trying to keep her ship and herself alive. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.
3
Blood and Snow (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and horror
When researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?
4
Books of Blood (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
5
Osiris (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and horror
Special Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.
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Monster Hunters (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and horror
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a…
7
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…
8
The Return (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and science fiction
After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.
9
Daylight's End (2016)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and science fiction
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station…
10
Margaux (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and 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…
11
Prodigy (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he…
12
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…
13
Abduction (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and science fiction
A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by…
14
Year 10 (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
15
Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and science fiction
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
16
Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
17
Die Alone (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and science fiction
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he…
18
Screamers (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and science fiction
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one…
19
The Wave (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
20
Slash/Back (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and horror
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.