Movies like The Visitor from the Future (2022)
The best movies like The Visitor from the Future (2022) are Bigbug (2022), Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) and Time Travel Is Dangerous! (2025). If The Visitor from the Future hooked you with its science fiction and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBrazil (1985)7.7/10 from 3,891 votes
- NewestVertiginous (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchBigbug (2022)Also in French
Bigbug (2022)
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGood Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTime Travel Is Dangerous! (2025)
Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in North London. One day, their lives are forever turned upside down when an abandoned time machine appears outside their shop. Mixing reality with fantasy, we explore the strange and outlandish world of The Unreason, as the girls traverse space and time sourcing items to sell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & comedy
Cycle of Time (2025)
In 1950s France, Helene and Michel lead a simple life until a freak accident in 2025 leads to Helene becoming a bank executive and Michel struggling with unemployment and depression. Their children grow up in a technology-dominated world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlienoid: Return to the Future (2024)
Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are locked up in the bodies of humans. Meanwhile, Muruk, who helps Ean escape various predicaments, is unnerved when he begins sensing the presence of a strange being in his body. Traveling through the centuries, they are trying to prevent the explosion of the haava.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMickey 17 (2025)
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPalm Springs (2020)
When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Look Up (2021)
Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMark Antony (2023)
Set in 1995, Mark, a skilled mechanic and the son of a former gangster, stumbles upon a phone that has the ability to connect with the past, tries to save his estranged mother from a grim fate. While facing his own family's legacy, Mark must navigate through dangerous consequences of altering the past, as it causes unforeseen repercussions in the present.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & comedy
Vertiginous (2026)
Jacques goes to his friend Bruno's house to tell him some big news: the entire human race is living in a simulation...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSmoking Causes Coughing (2022)
After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion, where they share scary stories the film depicts. Their storytelling sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDistrict B13 (2004)
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIncredible But True (2022)
Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing Karel Bures, dies on the morning of the trip and his earnest twin brother Jan impersonates him, without knowing about the plot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPredestination (2014)
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrazil (1985)
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDelicatessen (1991)
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like this2067 (2020)
A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal. He must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its greatest environmental crisis yet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Tomorrow War (2021)
The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMicmacs (2009)
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a troupe of misfits who live in a giant mound of trash. There Bazil begins his quest for revenge against the people who produced the gun that shot him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZaï Zaï Zaï Zaï (2022)
Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to Adrien. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSteak (2007)
George is the scapegoat of his classmates. One day he cracks and shoots them. His best and only friend Blaise is accused in his place and sentenced to 7 years in a psychiatric hospital. At the day of his release, Blaise realizes he only has one family: his best friend George. But he does not want to hear about his childhood friend, as he tries to integrate with the “Chivers” a gang whose members wear red jackets and boots, drink milk, drive sport trucks and play an incomprehensible and violent game that mixes cricket and mental arithmetic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Visitors: Bastille Day (2016)
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution... specifically, The Terror, time of great dangers, during which the descendants of Godefroy and Jacquouille had their castle and all their property confiscated by arrogant aristocrats, fleeing and lifes hanging by a thread.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lion (2020)
A psychiatric hospital patient pretends to be crazy. In charge of caring for this patient, a caregiver will begin to doubt the mental state of his "protégé".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll Hands on Deck! (2021)
An unlikely oddball trio bond during an impromptu trip to the French countryside on a foolhardy romantic mission.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Animal Kingdom (2023)
In a world hit by a wave of mutations transforming humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, he and their son Émile embark on a quest that will change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlashback (2021)
A female lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisBarbarella (1968)
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow I Became a Superhero (2020)
Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfterburn (2025)
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Visitor from the Future?
The closest matches to The Visitor from the Future are Bigbug (2022), Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) and Time Travel Is Dangerous! (2025). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Visitor from the Future?
People who watched The Visitor from the Future most often go on to Bigbug (2022), Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026) and Time Travel Is Dangerous! (2025).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Visitor from the Future?
Brazil (1985), rated 7.7/10 by 3,891 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Visitor from the Future?
Vertiginous (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Visitor from the Future?
Yes: Bigbug (2022), Cycle of Time (2025) and Vertiginous (2026).
How are movies similar to The Visitor from the Future chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Visitor from the Future, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.