Movies Like Mr. X
If you liked Mr. X (1957), a science fiction and mystery movie directed by Nanabhai Bhatt, 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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The Signal (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fictionA horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
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Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horrorNeighbors 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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Slash/Back (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and thrillerIn 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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Southbound (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horrorThe film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister…
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Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also mystery and thrillerA fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…
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Books of Blood (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fictionA journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
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Abduction (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and science fictionA man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by…
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Die Alone (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thrillerLost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he…
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Prodigy (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and 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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Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thrillerA special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
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Hollow Man (2000)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and thrillerCocky 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…
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Double Blind (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fictionAfter an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
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Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and 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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Blood and Snow (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and horrorWhen researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?
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The Resurrected (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thrillerCharles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.
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Margaux (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and 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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The Return (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and science fictionAfter the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.
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Daylight's End (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fictionYears after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station…
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Gemini Man (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and 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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Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and horrorWhen a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.