Movies like Free Diving

Stowaway (2021)

A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

Jonathan (2018)

Jonathan 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.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & science fiction

Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)

The 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!

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)

Amy 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, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

2073 (2024)

Inspired 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 personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

Vesper (2022)

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 abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

Omni Loop (2024)

Diagnosed 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 be the person she always intended to be.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)

The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

Light of My Life (2019)

Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven (2014)

In this epic two-part finale, the Doctor comes face to face with the mysterious Missy, and an impossible choice is looming. With Cybermen on the streets of London, old friends unite against old enemies, and the Doctor takes to the air in a startling new role.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

The Dark Tower (2017)

A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Spectral (2016)

A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)

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 city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Code 8 Part II (2024)

In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Parallels (2015)

An underground MMA fighter must confront his sister and his past in an adventure through parallel universes

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Rage of Stars (2026)

A story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023)

Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home. Along the way he reunites with some familiar faces, while discovering cosmic new revelations about the history, purpose, and meaning of the Universe.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

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.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Blood Diamond (2006)

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Veronica Guerin (2003)

In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Daughter (2016)

Daughter explores the way women are viewed in society by following three female characters on a Friday night out in St Kilda, who's lives become entwined and affected by an act of violence this fateful night. The award winning short film and an awareness project was inspired by the tragic murder cases of Jill Meagher in Brunswick and St Kilda's own Tracy Connelly, whose occupation as a sex worker was highlighted in the media, leading to her murder and personal story being sadly overshadowed. The main themes explored in the film are violence against women and victim blaming, shown through the eyes of three female leads, lead by Katherine Langford (13 Reasons Why) as Scarlett, Aisha Tara (Heartbreak High) as Jemma and Carolyn Rey as Alethea.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Absence of Malice (1981)

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Ace in the Hole (1951)

An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

The Documents! (2025)

In March 2020, an ambitious tabloid reporter cooped up in quarantine must look into rumors of leaked UFO documents to keep her job, but she gets swept up in a conspiracy that could make or break her career.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

Before lightning strikes (1959)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

Stuck in a rut, reporter Kim Baker decides to shake things up by leaving her desk job in New York and taking a dangerous assignment in Afghanistan. Far from home and completely out of her comfort zone, a culture-shocked Kim befriends an adventurous reporter Tanya Vanderpoel, a stern Colonel, and a charming photojournalist to help her navigate this crazy new world.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Red Ink (2000)

Peru, early 2000s. Alfonso wants to be a writer, but he decides to work first as a journalist. He is assigned to the crime section of a newspaper, a job from which he can know the nasty guts of tabloid publications.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Truth (2015)

As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the biggest story of the 2004 election: revelations of a sitting U.S. President’s military service. But when allegations come pouring in, sources change their stories, document authenticity is questioned, and the casualties begin to mount.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama