Movies Like Passing Days

If you liked Passing Days (2015), a movie directed by Yuho Ishibashi, 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
Rim of the World (2019)
★ 6/10
Stranded at a summer camp when aliens attack the planet, four teens with nothing in common embark on a perilous mission to save the world.
2
The Faculty (1998)
★ 6.6/10
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
3
They Live (1988)
★ 7.3/10
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
4
Assassination Classroom: Graduation (2016)
★ 7.1/10
A mysterious creature destroys part of the moon and then warns that if it is not destroyed before March of the following year, Earth will be next. It also demands to become the homeroom teacher of Class E, a third-year…
5
Inuyashiki (2018)
★ 7.7/10
A middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.
6
Recess: School's Out (2001)
★ 6.6/10
The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom quickly sets in when his friends leave for camp — until T.J. uncovers an evil plot to do away with summer vacation! A…
7
Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)
★ 7.7/10
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…
8
Swing Girls (2004)
★ 7.9/10
A group of delinquent high school girls form a band when they accidentally poison their school's brass band and have to replace them.
9
Scary Movie 3 (2003)
★ 6/10
News anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video tapes, and help the President stop an alien invasion in the process.
10
Explorers (1985)
★ 6.3/10
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about…
11
Ick (2025)
★ 6/10
Science teacher Hank’s life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects that a new student may be his daughter—all while facing an alien threat in their town.
12
Parasyte: Part 2 (2015)
★ 7/10
Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.
13
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 (2022)
★ 7.3/10
Zed and Addison are beginning their final year at Seabrook High in the town that’s become a safe haven for monsters and humans alike. Zed is anticipating an athletic scholarship that will make him the first Zombie to…
14
The Arrival (1996)
★ 6/10
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the…
15
Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
★ 6.9/10
The members of a sci-fi club accidentally spill Coke on the remote controller of an air-conditioner during summer and suddenly a time machine appears in their sweating bath-like clubroom.
16
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
★ 6/10
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
17
Cocoon (1985)
★ 6.6/10
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
18
Attack the Block (2011)
★ 6.5/10
A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
19
Absolutely Anything (2015)
★ 5.9/10
Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
20
The 5th Wave (2016)
★ 5.9/10
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.