Movies like Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008)
The best movies like Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008) are Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (2017) and Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015). If Doctor Who: The Next Doctor hooked you with its science fiction and tv movie, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedDoctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)8.2/10 from 794 votes
- NewestDoctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (2017)Released 2017
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDoctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (2017)
As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a familiar face to convince the Doctors the universe still needs them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDoctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015)
It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDoctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)
The newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite with the Paternoster Gang to investigate a series of combustions that have been occurring all around the city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor Who: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe (2011)
It's Christmas Eve, 1938, when Madge Arwell comes to the aid of an injured Spaceman Angel as she cycles home. He promises to repay her kindness - all she has to do is make a wish.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)
A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor Who: Shada (2017)
The Doctor visits his old Time Lord friend Chronotis in Cambridge, 1979. But the ruthless Skagra has also arrived to retrieve a book that will help unlock one of the Time Lords' greatest secrets: what is Shada? Filming for this story was never finished, and in this version the unfilmed material is completed via animation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
The Time Lords dispatch the Doctor to the past of the planet Skaro on his deadliest adventure yet — to prevent the creation of the Daleks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993)
All of the Doctor's incarnations are in crisis when The Rani creates a time-loop in the East-end of London in this 30th Anniversary Special.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Doctor Who: The Daleks (1964)
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Susan, Barbara, and Ian to the planet Skaro where they meet two indigenous races — the Daleks, malicious mutant creatures encased in armoured travel machines, and the Thals, beautiful humanoids with pacifist principles. They convince the Thals of the need to fight for their own survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Doctor Who: Time Crash (2007)
After Martha Jones parts company with the Doctor, his TARDIS collides with another, and he comes face to face with one of his previous incarnations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor Who: The Ark in Space (1975)
In the distant future, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find a space station preserving the future of mankind. But the insect Wirrn have got there first...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks (1966)
Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken for an official Earth Examiner, the Doctor discovers that a scientist called Lesterson is attempting to reactivate two inanimate, subservient Daleks found in a crashed space rocket. The colonists refuse to heed the Doctor's dire warnings that the Daleks are dangerous.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (2013)
Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe's deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them, the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDoctor 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: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDoctor Who: The Three Doctors (1973)
Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords and UNIT find themselves besieged by a mythic figure from the Time Lords' past hell-bent on destruction. The only way to defeat him is to break the First Law of Time and let the Doctor help himself — literally...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Doctor Who: Shada (1992)
Shada: a prison built by the Time Lords for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe. A scientist named Skagra needs the help of one of the prison's inmates. He finds nobody knows where Shada is anymore, except one aged Time Lord who has retired to Earth, where he is a professor at St Cedd's College. Luckily for the universe, Skagra's attempt to force the information out of Professor Chronotis coincides with a visit by the professor's old friend, The Doctor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Doctor Who (1996)
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSphere (1998)
A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo bay, things begin to fall apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStargate: Continuum (2008)
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTime After Time (1979)
Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor 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: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)
When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor Who: The Waters of Mars (2009)
In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & mystery
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDoctor Who: The Snowmen (2012)
The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel, involving the death of her predecessor in ice and the sinister Dr. Simeon, who controls monsters made of sentient snow. And there is another mystery afoot: Clara is the spitting image of Oswin Oswald, whom the Doctor saw die in the Dalek asylum...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor 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: Fans watch both · both science fiction & mystery
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDr. Strange (1978)
A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Goa'uld kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Goa'uld hosts.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Lathe of Heaven (1980)
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind --- with bizarre and frightening results.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death (1999)
Before the Doctor can settle down to married life, he must face one last confrontation with his deadly enemy of certain death - the Master.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Doctor Who: The Next Doctor?
The closest matches to Doctor Who: The Next Doctor are Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (2017) and Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Doctor Who: The Next Doctor?
People who watched Doctor Who: The Next Doctor most often go on to Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (2017) and Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like Doctor Who: The Next Doctor?
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013), rated 8.2/10 by 794 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Doctor Who: The Next Doctor?
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (2017) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Doctor Who: The Next Doctor?
Yes: Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time (2017) and Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song (2015).
How are movies similar to Doctor Who: The Next Doctor chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Doctor Who: The Next Doctor, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.