Movies Like The City of Lost Children

If you liked The City of Lost Children (1995), a fantasy and science fiction movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, 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
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and fantasy
Thomas 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…
2
In the Lost Lands (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and fantasy
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight both man and demon.
3
Daybreakers (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and science fiction
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of…
4
Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure
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
Infinite (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and adventure
Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to his rescue…
6
Mickey 17 (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and adventure
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
7
The Zero Theorem (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy 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.
8
Dune (1984)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and adventure
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in…
9
Total Recall (1990)
★ 7.3/10Also adventure and science fiction
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure…
10
Barbarella (1968)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and adventure
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
11
Zardoz (1974)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and science fiction
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
12
Deathstalker (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and adventure
A powerful swordsman known as Deathstalker recovers a cursed amulet from a corpse-strewn battlefield. Marked by dark magic and hunted by monstrous assassins, he must face the rising evil and break the curse.
13
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and adventure
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
14
Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and adventure
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…
15
Valhalla Rising (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and fantasy
Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are…
16
Serenity (2005)
★ 7.4/10Also science fiction and adventure
A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew…
17
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and adventure
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
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and fantasy
Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to…
19
The Night Before (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also adventure and fantasy
In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.
20
Parallel (2018)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and fantasy
A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse", but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous…