Movies like Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven (2014)
The best movies like Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven (2014) are Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007) and Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013). If Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven hooked you with its science fiction and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDoctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)8.2/10 from 794 votes
- NewestDoctor Who Children in Need Special 2023 (2023)Released 2023
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 drama & science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies 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 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 science fiction & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies 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 & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLast and First Men (2020)
As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor 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
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 science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Who: The Next Doctor (2008)
The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familiar silver giants from an alternate reality are amassing in numbers. The Cybermen are on the move again, and the only beings who can stop them are the Doctor and... another Doctor?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor Who Children in Need Special 2023 (2023)
The Doctor hurtles through space and time to a crucial point in the Daleks’ history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & mystery
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 & drama
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 & drama
Doctor 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 & drama
Contact (1997)
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
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 & drama
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 & drama
Melancholia (2011)
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor 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 & drama
Doctor Who: Earthshock (1982)
The Doctor and his companions must prevent the Cybermen from bombing the Earth in the 26th century. It is a battle not everyone will survive...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Doctor 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 drama & science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies 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: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor 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
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDoctor 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: 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
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAnother Earth (2011)
On the night a duplicate Earth is discovered in the solar system, the lives of a young woman and an accomplished composer become tragically connected after a fatal accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEmbers (2015)
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisArrival (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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoctor 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
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Last Mimzy (2007)
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & science fiction
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 drama & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJonathan (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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven?
The closest matches to Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven are Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007) and Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven?
People who watched Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven most often go on to Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007) and Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven?
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013), rated 8.2/10 by 794 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven?
Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023 (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven?
Yes: Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (2013), Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007) and Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013).
How are movies similar to Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.