Movies like The Moment After 2: The Awakening (2006)

2073 (2024)

Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

I Am Mother (2019)

A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

Automata (2014)

Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

Insurgent (2015)

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

Gemini Man (2019)

Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, Brogan soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

Geostorm (2017)

After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

Terminator Genisys (2015)

The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

After surviving the Quarter Quell, Katniss finds herself in the hidden stronghold of District 13, where the rebellion against the Capitol is gaining momentum. Struggling with the weight of becoming the symbol of resistance, she must navigate fragile alliances while trying to protect those she loves. As propaganda battles rage and Panem moves closer to full-scale war, Katniss is forced to confront the true cost of revolution.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

Stormageddon (2015)

What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human. When a master computer program, Echelon, takes over America's entire online system, our country is threatened to be brought to its knees. Hacking into DARPA, Echelon gains the ability to manipulate the weather, create earthquakes, and cause a level of destruction unlike anything the country could ever imagine. But how do you stop a computer program when it has control over any and every defense you have?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

Looker (1981)

Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

The 355 (2022)

A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

2149: The Aftermath (2016)

In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

1984 (1956)

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Chaos Walking (2021)

Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Eradication (2022)

When an unknown disease wipes out most of the world’s population, a man with unique blood is isolated for study. Fearing for his wife’s safety, he breaks his quarantine – into a world overrun by monstrous Infected and a shadowy agency hunting them down.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)

After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Mortal Engines (2018)

Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Lunatique (2016)

Lunatique is a sci-fi short film about a lonely woman who fights daily for survival in a post apocalyptic world.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction & thriller

Doomsday (2008)

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & science fiction

2054 (2025)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & science fiction

Right at Your Door (2006)

A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & science fiction

Kaliyugam (2025)

Set in the dystopian future, 2064 AD, the apocalyptic world is stripped of food, water, and humanity. In a ruthless fight for survival, the few remaining must navigate chaos, danger, and the depths of human desperation.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & science fiction

Human Animals (1983)

After several nuclear explosions, two men and one woman wake up in the middle of a desert and begin a journey of survival and self-discovery.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

Children of Ether (2017)

Follow Rhonda, a woman with a dark past and a mysterious power, as she is pursued by an unknown assailant after the death of her father. Aided only by her wits and a pair of orphans, she journeys through a decaying, dystopian metropolis populated by raiders, gangs, and the supernatural. As she struggles to survive in this harsh urban tangle, she meets both friends and enemies, and searches for answers about this power, "The Ether", awakening within her.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

Angels & Demons (2009)

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller

Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)

Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield must battle a rogue warrior seeking revenge after unleashing the deadly G-Virus, whilst a mutated monster goes on a rampage.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction