Movies Like How to be Human
If you liked How to be Human (2017), a science fiction movie directed by Bruno Centofanti, 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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Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fictionA special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
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Zygote (2017)
★ 7/10Also science fictionThe two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.
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Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
★ 8/10Also science fictionThe Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.
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Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionAfter 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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The Resurrected (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionCharles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.
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Alien: Alone (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionAn 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.
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Gemini Man (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also science fictionHenry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict…
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Greenland 2: Migration (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionHaving found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family must now risk everything to embark on a perilous journey across the wasteland of Europe to find a new home.
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The Wave (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also science fictionA 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.
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Screamers (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also science fictionSIRIUS 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…
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Monsters of Man (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionA robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing…
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Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionThe ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in…
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Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionNeighbors 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?
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Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionLuc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When SETH, the supercomputer-controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can…
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Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionBenny and Claire, a down-on-their-luck couple, find a discarded Chitauri weapon referred to as 'Item 47'.
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Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also science fictionThe 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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Light of My Life (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also science fictionYears after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
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Frequencies (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also science fictionThe story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'.
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The Last Mimzy (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also 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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Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionBefore 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…