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Movies Like Making Sense

If you liked Making Sense (2021), a drama and science fiction movie directed by Gregory Bayne, 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. 1Jonathan

    Jonathan (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and science fiction

    Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.

  2. 2Special

    Special (2006)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fiction

    A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.

  3. 3Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and drama

    After 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…

  4. 42073

    2073 (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and drama

    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…

  5. 5The Mandela Effect

    The Mandela Effect (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and drama

    A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to…

  6. 6Omni Loop

    Omni Loop (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and drama

    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…

  7. 7Push

    Push (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction

    After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick…

  8. 8Doctor Who: Last Christmas

    Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    The 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!

  9. 9Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

    Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)

    ★ 8/10Also science fiction and drama

    Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown…

  10. 10The Congress

    The Congress (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and science fiction

    An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

  11. 11Light of My Life

    Light of My Life (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and drama

    Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.

  12. 12Code 8 Part II

    Code 8 Part II (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction

    In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.

  13. 13The Giver

    The Giver (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and science fiction

    In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

  14. 14Right at Your Door

    Right at Your Door (2006)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and science fiction

    A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.

  15. 15Prodigy

    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…

  16. 16The Zero Theorem

    The Zero Theorem (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and science fiction

    A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.

  17. 17Paycheck

    Paycheck (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the…

  18. 18Stormageddon

    Stormageddon (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and science fiction

    What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human…

  19. 19Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight

    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…

  20. 20Code 46

    Code 46 (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and science fiction

    In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria…

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