Movies like Tomorrow Never Knows (2017)
The best movies like Tomorrow Never Knows (2017) are The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025), The Discovery (2017) and Don't Move (2024). If Tomorrow Never Knows hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedIt's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)7.9/10 from 387 votes
- NewestThe Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)Released 2025
The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Discovery (2017)
In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Move (2024)
A grieving woman in a secluded forest encounters a killer who injects her with a paralytic drug. As her body shuts down, her fight for survival begins.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrimes of the Future (2022)
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSupernova (2020)
Sam and Tusker, partners of 20 years, are traveling across England in their old RV visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with early-onset dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have. As the trip progresses, however, their ideas for the future clash, secrets come out, and their love for each other is tested as never before. Ultimately, they must confront the question of what it means to love one another in the face of Tusker’s illness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhite Frog (2013)
When Nick, who has Asperger's syndrome, struggles to carry on after the death of his brother Chaz, Chaz's best friend Randy takes Nick under his wing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisYou Don't Know Jack (2010)
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSafe House (1998)
A psychological thriller; Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative and whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Holding the electronic key to secret information which implicates a Presidential front-runner, Mace struggles for his life while battling the debilitating effects of the disease.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Bury the Living (1958)
The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain map. When nobody believes him, he risks his sanity to play God once again and prove his point.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGirl, Interrupted (1999)
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Man on Earth (1964)
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoys Don't Cry (1999)
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJoe Versus the Volcano (1990)
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisBreakfast on Pluto (2005)
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIt's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSelf/less (2015)
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPort Authority (2019)
Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMemory (2022)
Alex, an assassin-for-hire, finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his every move. Alex must question his every action and whom he can ultimately trust.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZerophilia (2005)
Luke, a young man insecure about his masculinity, discovers he's a Zerophiliac, with the ability to change sex at will. Join Luke as he journeys into the extraordinary world of Zerophilia where so many crazy questions arise, only one question matters: "Whom do you love?"
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisAfter.Life (2009)
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Tomorrow Never Knows?
The closest matches to Tomorrow Never Knows are The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025), The Discovery (2017) and Don't Move (2024). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Tomorrow Never Knows?
Start with The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025), the closest match to Tomorrow Never Knows.
What is the highest-rated movie like Tomorrow Never Knows?
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012), rated 7.9/10 by 387 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Tomorrow Never Knows?
The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Tomorrow Never Knows?
Yes: The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025), The Discovery (2017) and Don't Move (2024).
How are movies similar to Tomorrow Never Knows chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Tomorrow Never Knows, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.