Movies like Imitation Girl (2017)
The best movies like Imitation Girl (2017) are Arrowhead (2017), Space Babes from Outer Space (2017) and The Answer (2015). If Imitation Girl hooked you with its drama and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Room (2019)6.4/10 from 1,091 votes
- NewestStar People (2025)Released 2025
Arrowhead (2017)
Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies that he doesn't believe in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last rescue mission only to become stranded when his ship crash lands. Kye soon realises that the deadliest creature on the desert moon is himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisSpace Babes from Outer Space (2017)
Three beautiful Space Babes find themselves stranded on Earth when their spaceship runs out of energy after a dangerous encounter with their mortal enemies, the Scrotes. Once they discover human sexual arousal can recharge their ship, they accept the help of a lonely farm boy to harness energy at a local strip club and get back home — all while avoiding the nasty Scrotes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
The Answer (2015)
When mailman Bridd Takes his sexy date Charlotte home, they find their boss on the floor with a mail opener stuck in his chest. The assailants are also after Bridd and he has to use all his talents to foil an extra-terrestrial complot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Extraterrestrial (2014)
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they investigate, the friends stumble across an alien spacecraft, and its inhabitants have not arrived in peace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisCreative Control (2016)
Smooth advertising executive David is in a relationship with yoga teacher Juliette. Then his eye is caught by Sophie, the girlfriend of his best friend Wim, a fashion photographer. Things get completely out of hand during a campaign for augmented reality-glasses, for which David designs an avatar of the coveted Sophie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Zoe (2019)
Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking the help of a world-renowned fertility physician who Isabelle believes can help bring back her little girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Boy (2019)
The world at an end, a dying mother sends her young son on a quest to find the place that grants wishes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisJessica Forever (2019)
Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisEncounter (2018)
A group of friends uncover an otherworldly object in a rural field, which they soon discover holds greater secrets than they could imagine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisReplace (2017)
Kira's skin starts to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. But then she discovers that she can replace her own skin with somebody else's.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisLittle Joe (2019)
Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisHover (2018)
In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying sentinel drones, a handful of locals discover a sinister connection between sick farmland inhabitants and the tech that’s meant to be protect them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Astral (2018)
A detached university student faces the consequences of astral projection when he uses it to reconnect with his dead mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMad Genius (2017)
A young mad genius attempts to 'hack the human mind' in order to fix humanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
At First Light (2018)
High school senior Alex has an encounter with mysterious lights that appear over her small town. She soon develops dangerous, supernatural abilities, and turns to her childhood friend Sean. The authorities target them and a chase ensues as officials try to discover the truth behind Alex's transformation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisAfter We Leave (2019)
A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
I'll Take Your Dead (2018)
William has a simple job: he makes dead bodies disappear. His daughter Gloria has become used to rough-looking men dropping off corpses, and is even convinced that some of them are haunting their house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBokeh (2017)
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on Earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisH. (2014)
Two women, each named Helen, live out their mirrored lives in the town of Troy, NY. The first Helen is in her 60s, is married, and takes care of a small, extremely lifelike baby doll, which she treats as a living baby. The second Helen is in her 30s, has a successful art career and is four months pregnant. One night, something falls from the sky and explodes over the town. In the aftermath of this event, bizarre and unexplainable things begin to happen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Star People (2025)
A photographer receives a tip that could finally shed some light on her childhood UFO sighting. But a deadly heat wave and unexpected guests threaten to derail her obsessive search for answers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Midnight Special (2016)
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Room (2019)
Kate and Matt discover that a part of their house can grant wishes. In the wake of two miscarriages, what they want most is a child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEquals (2015)
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSound of My Voice (2011)
A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReversion (2015)
The daughter of a billionaire tech mogul questions her own memories about her mothers death after being kidnapped by a stranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Always Shine (2016)
On a trip to Big Sur, two friends, both actresses, try to reconnect with one another. Once alone, the women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments begin to rise, causing them to lose their grasp on not only the true nature of their relationship, but also their identities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like this1985 (2018)
Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisElizabeth Harvest (2018)
The newly married Elizabeth arrives with her new husband, the scientist Henry, at a magnificent house. He tells her that she can do there anything she pleases, except to enter a certain closed room.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSleight (2017)
A young street magician is left to take care of his little sister after his mother's passing and turns to drug dealing in the Los Angeles party scene to keep a roof over their heads. When he gets into trouble with his supplier, his sister is kidnapped and he is forced to rely on both his sleight of hand and brilliant mind to save her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisUncanny (2015)
For ten years, inventor David Kressen has lived in seclusion with his inventions, including Adam, a robot with incredible lifelike human qualities. When reporter Joy Andrews is given access to their unconventional facility, she is alternately repelled and attracted to the scientist and his creation. But as Adam exhibits emergent behavior of anger and jealousy towards her, she finds herself increasingly entangled in a web of deception where no one’s motives are easily decipherable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Imitation Girl?
The closest matches to Imitation Girl are Arrowhead (2017), Space Babes from Outer Space (2017) and The Answer (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Imitation Girl?
People who watched Imitation Girl most often go on to Arrowhead (2017), Space Babes from Outer Space (2017) and The Answer (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like Imitation Girl?
The Room (2019), rated 6.4/10 by 1,091 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Imitation Girl?
Star People (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Imitation Girl?
Yes: Arrowhead (2017), Space Babes from Outer Space (2017) and The Answer (2015).
How are movies similar to Imitation Girl chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Imitation Girl, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.