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Movies Like Before Dawn

If you liked Before Dawn (2023), a science fiction and thriller movie directed by William Blackwell Kinney, 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. 1Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery and thriller

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

  2. 2Time Without Pity

    Time Without Pity (1957)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller and mystery

    Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a…

  3. 3Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

    Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)

    ★ 7.6/10Also science fiction and mystery

    When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?

  4. 4Space/Time

    Space/Time (2025)

    ★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and thriller

    After a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or annihilate it entirely.

  5. 5Children of the Damned

    Children of the Damned (1964)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and science fiction

    Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.

  6. 6The Deadly Affair

    The Deadly Affair (1967)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and mystery

    Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have…

  7. 7Lapsis

    Lapsis (2021)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller

    In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of…

  8. 8Star Trek: The Motion Picture

    Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and mystery

    When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

  9. 9Sleep, My Love

    Sleep, My Love (1948)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and mystery

    A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

  10. 10Quicksand

    Quicksand (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and mystery

    A married couple on the brink of divorce becomes trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order…

  11. 11The Time Machine

    The Time Machine (1960)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller and science fiction

    A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

  12. 12Star Trek: Insurrection

    Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and thriller

    When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as…

  13. 13Panic in Year Zero!

    Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and thriller

    While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he…

  14. 14Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

    Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)

    ★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and thriller

    A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.

  15. 15Nancy

    Nancy (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10Also mystery and thriller

    Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.

  16. 16The Philadelphia Experiment

    The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller

    Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.

  17. 17Futureworld

    Futureworld (1976)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and thriller

    Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck…

  18. 18The Andromeda Strain

    The Andromeda Strain (1971)

    ★ 7/10Also science fiction and thriller

    When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent…

  19. 19Star Trek: Generations

    Star Trek: Generations (1994)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and thriller

    Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been…

  20. 20The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and thriller

    Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

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