Movies like Uroborus (2019)
The best movies like Uroborus (2019) are The Invisible (2007), Donovan's Echo (2011) and The Lady Vanishes (2013). If Uroborus hooked you with its fantasy and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAbout Time (2013)7.9/10 from 9,651 votes
- NewestChrysalis (2024)Released 2024
The Invisible (2007)
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDonovan's Echo (2011)
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lady Vanishes (2013)
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQuicksand (2023)
A married couple on the brink of divorce becomes trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order to escape.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse of Anubis: The Touchstone of Ra (2013)
The students of Anubis House are on the eve of their graduation when they encounter a new group of underclassmen and a mysterious stone that leads them on a quest to save the world from evil.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFairyTale: A True Story (1997)
In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the true story of the Cottingley Fairies.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Good Witch's Wonder (2014)
While planning her stepson's wedding, Cassie Nightingale also tries to uncover the truth behind missing auction items.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Glass Key (1942)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTime Without Pity (1957)
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mirror Crack'd (1980)
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dark Mirror (1946)
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSecret Agent (1936)
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Moon-Spinners (1964)
Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there is nice English lad Mark to make friends with, at least until Stratos and his pal take a shot at him one night. When Nikky helps him hide she finds the Greeks are after her too.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisScooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010)
Scooby-Doo and the gang are on the case when a mysterious lake monster starts scaring the guests at a summer resort in Erie Point, where Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy have taken on seasonal jobs to pay for a barn they accidentally burned down. But in addition to sneaking suspicions, there's some romance in the air.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisManiac (1963)
When 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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne & Two (2015)
In an isolated farmhouse, located in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by a mysterious wooden wall, Zac and Eva, two siblings gifted with extraordinary abilities, endure every day the wrath of their strict father while witnessing how a cruel sickness lurks their beloved mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSleep, My Love (1948)
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night Stalker (1972)
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Time Machine (1960)
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisForeign Correspondent (1940)
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSampar (TBA)
TOH, a young man in his twenties, searches for Mak, the woman who raised him and has suddenly disappeared. Accompanied by Ara, an observer newly arrived in his isolated settlement, he enters the forbidden forest, where time begins to fracture. As they move deeper, buried scenes begin to surface: a young man in clothes from another era sits beneath the roots of a tree; a colonial procession passes without seeing them. Toh encounters his own childhood and a younger Mak moving through the same landscape. As these fragments gather, he begins to understand that the only home he has known, was shaped by a long-running experiment in forgetting, while Ara is drawn toward a disappearance buried in her own past.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both mystery & fantasy
Chrysalis (2024)
Davi relives his most traumatic memory: his 9th birthday.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & mystery
Old (2021)
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bye-Bye Hotel (2023)
In a vibrant, welcoming hotel, guests check in - but they never check out. Drawn in by it's cheerful facade, the visitors seem to disappear without a trace, leaving only questions behind.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & mystery
Arrival (2016)
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAbout Time (2013)
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)
Urashima Tunnel – Once you enter that tunnel, you can get whatever you want, but at a price. Kaoru Tohno, who seems to have an elusive personality and traumatic past, and Anzu Hanashiro, who is struggling to reconcile her ideal image and true-to-heart attitude, team up to investigate the Urashima Tunnel and get what they want. This is an unforgettable summer story of nostalgia and sprinting in a remote countryside.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSpace-Time Perverted Virgin (2023)
Saneo is a virgin working as a cleaner at a seaside love hotel. He has a crush on the owner's only daughter, Saya, and spends his days obsessing over her every night in his favorite "time-stopping" porno...until a chance encounter leads him to a pocket watch that was used as a time-stopping item in the porno. When Saneo jokingly moves the watch, he finds Saya standing motionless in front of him, frozen in time! When his long-held fantasy becomes a reality, what is the once-in-a-lifetime decision that the loser virgin makes?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Space-Time Perverted Virgin 2 (2023)
Toshio, a virgin man with extreme agoraphobia, is given a mysterious pocket watch by a master of time manipulation pornography that rewinds time the more he turns its dragon head. He tries to succeed in his mad dash against Minami, the woman of his dreams, through endless trial and error using the watch's power, but Minami has a secret that she will never reveal to others....
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Old Clockman's Park (2016)
Animation by Maki Morimoto.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Uroborus?
The closest matches to Uroborus are The Invisible (2007), Donovan's Echo (2011) and The Lady Vanishes (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Uroborus?
Start with The Invisible (2007), the closest match to Uroborus.
What is the highest-rated movie like Uroborus?
About Time (2013), rated 7.9/10 by 9,651 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Uroborus?
Chrysalis (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Uroborus chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Uroborus, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.