Movies Like Dot
If you liked Dot (1982), a science fiction and drama movie directed by Dan Carbone, 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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Jonathan (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and science fictionJonathan 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.
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Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and dramaAfter 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 fiction and dramaThomas 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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Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and dramaThe 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!
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Omni Loop (2024)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and dramaDiagnosed 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…
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2073 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and dramaInspired 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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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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Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
★ 8/10Also science fiction and dramaAmy 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…
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The Mandela Effect (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and dramaA 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…
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Light of My Life (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and dramaYears after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
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Stowaway (2021)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and dramaA 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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The Congress (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and science fictionAn aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and science fictionAn alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search…
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionThe surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
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Special (2006)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fictionA 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.
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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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Right at Your Door (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and science fictionA dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
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Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionA group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.
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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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Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and dramaThe newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite with the Paternoster Gang to investigate a series of combustions that…