Movies Like Irresistible

If you liked Irresistible (1982), a science fiction movie directed by Edwin Brown, 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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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.
2
Relax, I'm from the Future (2023)
★ 5.9/10Also 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…
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
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…
5
Omni Loop (2024)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and…
6
Time Freak (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction
Stillman, a heartbroken physics student, builds a time machine when his girlfriend breaks up with him. Going back in time, he attempts to save their relationship by fixing every mistake he made—while dragging his best…
7
57 Seconds (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also 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.
8
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
The 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…
9
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
10
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction
In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.
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Mr. Nobody (2009)
★ 7.8/10Also science fiction
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
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Superintelligence (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to…
13
Meet Cute (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction
A wildly inventive deconstruction of the romantic comedy built around the question: What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones’ past, heal their traumas, fix their problems, and change them into the…
14
Next (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical…
15
2073 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also 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…
16
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
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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…
18
The Time Machine (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
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The Adam Project (2022)
★ 7/10Also science fiction
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
20
Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride (2006)
★ 7.8/10Also science fiction
A young bride in the midst of her wedding finds herself mysteriously transported to the TARDIS. The Doctor must discover what her connection is with the Empress of the Racnoss's plan to destroy the world.