Movies Like The Lottery
If you liked The Lottery (2017), a science fiction and mystery movie directed by Robert Mychal Butler, 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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Cosmos (2019)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and mysteryThree astronomers accidentally intercept what they believe to be a signal from a distant alien civilization, but the truth is even more incredible than any of them could have imagined.
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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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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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Alien: Containment (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also science fictionAboard a small escape pod, four survivors try to discover what caused the destruction of their spaceship.
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Slash/Back (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionIn a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
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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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Space/Time (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also science fictionAfter 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.
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Rage of Stars (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionA story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.
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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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Frequencies (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and mysteryThe 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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2073 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also science fictionInspired 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…
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also science fictionThrough 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.
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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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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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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 Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
★ 6.5/10Also science fictionThomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions…
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Margaux (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionAs a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a…
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Code 8 Part II (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionIn 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.
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Stowaway (2021)
★ 6/10Also science fictionA three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
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Superintelligence (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionWhen 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…