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Movies Like Switch! Monitor! Drift!

If you liked Switch! Monitor! Drift! (1976), a movie directed by Steina Vasulka, 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. 1From Beyond

    From Beyond (1986)

    ★ 6.5/10

    The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she…

  2. 2The Voyeurs

    The Voyeurs (2021)

    ★ 6.5/10

    When Pippa and Thomas move into their dream apartment, they notice that their windows look directly into the apartment opposite – inviting them to witness the volatile relationship of the attractive couple across the…

  3. 3Don't Worry Darling

    Don't Worry Darling (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their…

  4. 4The Stanford Prison Experiment

    The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

    ★ 6.8/10

    In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true…

  5. 5The Experiment

    The Experiment (2010)

    ★ 6.4/10

    20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

  6. 6A Scanner Darkly

    A Scanner Darkly (2006)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

  7. 7Time Lapse

    Time Lapse (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

  8. 8The X-Files

    The X-Files (1998)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.

  9. 9Cosmic Ray

    Cosmic Ray (1962)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Experimental short uses Ray Charles' “What'd I Say” as accompaniment to constantly shifting collage of female nude, cartoons, and newsreels of atomic bomb explosions.

  10. 10What Happened to Monday

    What Happened to Monday (2017)

    ★ 7.1/10

    In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the…

  11. 11The Walk

    The Walk (2015)

    ★ 7/10

    The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

  12. 12Twelve Monkeys

    Twelve Monkeys (1995)

    ★ 7.6/10

    In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground…

  13. 13Hollow Man

    Hollow Man (2000)

    ★ 6/10

    Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the…

  14. 14Back to the Future

    Back to the Future (1985)

    ★ 8.3/10

    Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by…

  15. 15Project Almanac

    Project Almanac (2015)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

  16. 16The X-Files: I Want to Believe

    The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

  17. 17Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10

    The 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.

  18. 18Allegiant

    Allegiant (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

  19. 19Seconds

    Seconds (1966)

    ★ 7.4/10

    An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.

  20. 20Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

    Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after being presented with a time machine.

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