Movies like Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (2018)
The best movies like Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (2018) are The Day of the Triffids (1963), Captain Clegg (1962) and Chinese Box (1997). If Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Lighthouse (2019)7.5/10 from 5,917 votes
- NewestKilling Faith (2025)Released 2025
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaptain Clegg (1962)
A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChinese Box (1997)
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisGangs of New York (2002)
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMountains of the Moon (1990)
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like this55 Days at Peking (1963)
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAnna and the King of Siam (1946)
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKilling Faith (2025)
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town's Faith Healer. The woman believes her daughter is possessed. The doctor believes she simply carries The Sickness. Either way the fact remains that every living thing the girl touches mysteriously dies.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQuatermass 2 (1957)
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTo Walk Invisible (2016)
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRed Dust (1932)
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMadame Curie (1943)
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Lighthouse (2019)
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Lady (2011)
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQuills (2000)
In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the authorities tighten control, a clash unfolds between the Marquis’ unyielding imagination, the reformist ideals of the Abbé in charge, and the repressive measures of a doctor sent to silence him. Desire, power, and censorship collide in a battle over freedom of expression.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Impossible (2012)
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEmily (2022)
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDragonwyck (1946)
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIsle of the Dead (1945)
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings?
The closest matches to Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings are The Day of the Triffids (1963), Captain Clegg (1962) and Chinese Box (1997). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings?
Start with The Day of the Triffids (1963), the closest match to Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings.
What is the highest-rated movie like Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings?
The Lighthouse (2019), rated 7.5/10 by 5,917 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings?
Killing Faith (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings?
Yes: The Day of the Triffids (1963), Captain Clegg (1962) and Chinese Box (1997).
How are movies similar to Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.