Movies Like The Desert Project

If you liked The Desert Project (2021), a comedy and thriller movie directed by Ilya Tank Shilov, 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
Relax, I'm from the Future (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and science fiction
Casper is a time traveller who arrives in the 2020s in an attempt to prevent a major future catastrophe. He meets Holly, a queer black woman he befriends and draws into his plan by giving her his knowledge of the…
2
57 Seconds (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and science fiction
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
3
Real Men (1987)
★ 6/10Also comedy and science fiction
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
4
Breathless (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and thriller
Lorna is a strong-willed Texas woman who’s had enough of her untrustworthy husband Dale’s criminal acts and lack of husbandry. Fed up, she enlists the help of her old friend, Tiny, to help her figure out what to do…
5
Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thriller
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
6
Afterburn (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and comedy
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of…
7
Wifelike (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and thriller
A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the…
8
Ca$h (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and comedy
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a…
9
Stretch (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and thriller
A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.
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Prodigy (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and 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…
11
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and comedy
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial…
12
The Signal (2014)
★ 6/10Also thriller and science fiction
On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness – only to find himself in a waking nightmare.
13
Rage of Stars (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and thriller
A story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.
14
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and thriller
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
15
Hard to Die (1990)
★ 6/10Also comedy and thriller
While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series…
16
Anon (2018)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and thriller
Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles…
17
Hollow Man (2000)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and thriller
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the…
18
Enter Nowhere (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and science fiction
Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm…
19
Universal Soldier (1992)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and science fiction
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all…
20
The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and science fiction
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.