Movies Like The Mailbox
If you liked The Mailbox (2017), a science fiction movie directed by Louis Yin, 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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Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionBefore 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…
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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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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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Impostor (2001)
★ 6.1/10Also science fictionA top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
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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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Axcellerator (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionWhen 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.
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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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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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Gemini Man (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also science fictionHenry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict…
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Monster Hunters (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionWhen an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a…
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Afterburn (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionSet 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…
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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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Real Men (1987)
★ 6/10Also science fictionA 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.
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Gray Matter (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also science fictionAll her life, Aurora has been taught by her mother that the superhuman abilities they possess, the abilities that make them unique, also make them dangerous. Now, on one fateful and deadly night, Aurora will find out…
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Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride (2006)
★ 7.8/10Also science fictionA 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.
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Prodigy (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also science fictionJimmy 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…
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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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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fictionAfter 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…
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Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionAfter 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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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…