Movies like The Mill (2023)
The best movies like The Mill (2023) are The Abandon (2024), Oxygen (2021) and The Platform 2 (2024). If The Mill hooked you with its science fiction and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Quiet Place (2018)7.4/10 from 15,928 votes
- NewestDrive Back (2024)Released 2024
The Abandon (2024)
Injured U.S. soldier Miles Willis awakens to discover he is trapped in a mysterious cube armed only with his combat gear. As Miles begins to question his sanity, he finds a lifeline – a voice on the other end of his satellite phone who claims to be a prisoner in a similar space. As the walls close in, these two strangers must put their heads together if they are to outwit their captors and unlock this deadly puzzle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOxygen (2021)
A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Platform 2 (2024)
After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious food distribution method.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCircle (2015)
In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Box (2021)
When astronaut Marcus is the lone survivor of an accident at a space station he finds himself in a damaged escape pod with little memory of what happened. As he gains contact with ground control Marcus must piece together what happened if he is to find a secure way of returning to Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Blood and Snow (2023)
When 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?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Platform (2019)
A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCube (1998)
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTau (2018)
Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInfinity Chamber (2016)
A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEscape Room (2019)
Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDouble Blind (2024)
After 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTriangle (2009)
When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCube (2021)
Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Quiet Place (2018)
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVivarium (2019)
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEvent Horizon (1997)
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMorgan (2016)
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like this10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDrive Back (2024)
A couple returning from their engagement party must escape from a seemingly endless forested backroad causing them to lose their grip on reality... and a killer hunting them from the surrounding woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Soul Mates (2023)
Two unsuspecting strangers, Jason and Allison, find themselves participants in a twisted new dating service. Led by the Matchmaker, it forces the two singles inside a nightmarish maze designed to help them find their soul mates, or die trying.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Silent Planet (2024)
An aging convict serving out a life sentence alone on a distant planet is forced to confront his past when a new prisoner shows up and pushes him to remember his life on earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Coherence (2014)
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEscape Room (2017)
Six friends test their intelligence when an escape room they participate in takes a dark and twisted turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlien³ (1992)
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYear 10 (2024)
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBooks of Blood (2020)
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEraserhead (1977)
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPossessor (2020)
Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Mill?
The closest matches to The Mill are The Abandon (2024), Oxygen (2021) and The Platform 2 (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Mill?
People who watched The Mill most often go on to The Abandon (2024), Oxygen (2021) and The Platform 2 (2024).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Mill?
A Quiet Place (2018), rated 7.4/10 by 15,928 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Mill?
Drive Back (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Mill?
Yes: The Abandon (2024), Circle (2015) and Black Box (2021).
How are movies similar to The Mill chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Mill, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.