Movies like Doctor Who 1996
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Doctor Who (1996)
10K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, humorous, disturbing, stylized, tense, enigmatic, semi serious, captivating, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, doctor who, heroic mission, rescue, save the world, good versus evil, obsessive quest, alien encounter, race against time, androids and robots, space and aliens, escapades, distopia, metamorphosis, space, friends, dark hero, death of hero, regeneration, investigation, fight scenes, alien, immortal, hospital ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century, year 1999, year 2000, contemporary, 1990s
Place:
usa, san francisco, california, north america
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Most similar movies to Doctor Who
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspenseful, serious and futuristic films with plots about danger, escapades, heroes, save the world, space and aliens, time travel and imaginary mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like Doctor Who: Terra Nova (2011), Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965), Electroma (2006), Alien Apocalypse (2005), Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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229K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The Doctor looks and seems human. He's handsome, witty, and could be mistaken for just another man in the street. But he is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, humorous, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time machine, alien, save the day, journey, companion, sent to the future, space travel, space and aliens, good versus evil, self sacrifice, save the world ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A comedic thriller that follows the bizarre adventures of eccentric “holistic” detective Dirk Gently and his reluctant assistant Todd. An adaptation of Douglas Adams’ wildly successful comic novels.
Style:
ironic, psychological, intellectual, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
clue, time travel, private detective, murder investigation, partners, unstoppable, investigation, hallucination, strange person, detective agency, crime investigation, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, post apocalypse, survival, human existence, extinction, changing the past or future, characters in danger, experiment, dangerous animal, alternate universe, fate of humanity ...
Time:
prehistoric times, jurassic, prehistory, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Doctor Who, his two grand-daughters, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, stylized, futuristic ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, space travel, good versus evil, distopia, evil alien, teleportation, save the world, benign alien, androids and robots, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 60s
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Follows the history of two robots, the members of Daft Punk, on their quest to become human.
Style:
surreal, serious, atmospheric, stylized, visually appealing ...
Plot:
androids and robots, laboratory, desert, on the road, future dystopia, escapades, social misfits, fugitives, life is a bitch, small town, nihilism, body horror ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like The Martian
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, campy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
alien, space and aliens, suspense, save the world, chaos, heroic mission, alien encounter, apocalypse, rivalry, post apocalypse, space travel, future dystopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
"Ben 10: Race Against Time" has Ben back in his hometown of Bellwood. Even though he's back in school and leaving his hero adventures behind him, it seems that Ben will be facing his greatest challenge yet.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
superhero, race against time, alien, heroic mission, young heroes, save the world, androids and robots, rivalry, master villain, escapades, superhuman powers, rescue ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Doctor Who and his companions are hurled into the future and make a horrifying discovery: the Daleks have conquered Earth! The metal fiends have devastated entire continents and turned the survivors into Robomen.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
time travel, distopia, alien invasion, post apocalypse, evil alien, alien, apocalypse, good versus evil, spacecraft, time machine, girl, police ...
Time:
future, 60s, 22nd century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.
Style:
semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, epic
Plot:
superhero, spacecraft, space, plague, alien encounter, heroic mission, antidote, space travel, space wars, time travel, future dystopia, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
1930s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. This film is adapted from a television series that aired on ABC from ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, serious, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
space battle, androids and robots, military, space, survival, save the world, good versus evil, man versus machine, rescue, against the odds, apocalypse, space travel ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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TV series like Doctor Who
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The adventures of a Time Lord—a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor—who explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-travelling space ship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, futuristic, spooky ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
time travel, benign alien, doctor who, escapades, time machine, human alien, companion, space, reincarnation, space travel, time traveler, earth ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
england, europe, london, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won't be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000 years into the future, where they encounter aliens who are looking for a planet to colonize.
Style:
futuristic, campy, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, post apocalypse, dinosaur, time loop, apocalypse, time machine, disorder, experiment gone awry, space travel, heroic mission, alien encounter, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
future, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, spooky ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
space and aliens, moon, space travel, astronaut, moon base, space exploration, ufo, space, survival, man versus machine, save the world, heroic mission ...
Time:
future, year 1999, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter ...
Style:
psychotronic, futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space adventure, time travel, space opera, space, astronaut, distopia, women, superhero, space wars, technology gone awry, future dystopia, heroic mission ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Flash Gordon is an American science fiction television series that debuted on Sci Fi in the United States on August 10, 2007 and continued airing new episodes through February 8, 2008. It has also appeared on the United Kingdom Sci Fi Channel and ...
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, serious, exciting, epic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space opera, space, heroes, good versus evil, rivalry, save the world, partners, space travel, distant planet, escapades, state affairs, bounty hunter ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Movies like The Fifth Element
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A scientist working on an energy project discovers his family have undergone strange changes in their personalities, while a series of natural disasters are happening across the globe. He realises that his work has accidentally pushed the planet ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, save the world, experiment gone awry, chaos, space travel, forces of nature, escapades, time travel, suspense, distopia, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two hundred years ago a supernova exploded somewhere in the Lyra constellation. Now the lethal burst of radiation is headed straight for Earth, and time is swiftly running out. The only thing standing between humanity and complete devastation is ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, funny
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
save the world, disaster, heroic mission, save the planet, race against time, heroes, scientist, catastrophe, apocalypse, society, distopia, end of the world ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Yellowstone National Park scientist and a thrill-seeking ranger join forces to plug-up a volatile super volcano that threatens to wipe out the entire United States.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
disaster, time travel, volcano, rescue, escapades, rivalry, forces of nature, catastrophe, natural disaster, apocalypse, lava, ocean ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, touching, tense ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, space and aliens, space opera, good versus evil, astronaut, space travel, adventurer, save the world, a.i., fighting crime, survival, future dystopia ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the future, mankind's quest for answers will take them to the edge of the universe... but the knowledge they seek should never be known. In deep space, the military cruiser Venom is diverted from its mission to investigate a derelict ...
Style:
serious, exciting, stylized, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
race against time, space travel, survival, time travel, terrorism, heroes, space wars, chaos, changing the past or future, escapades, spacecraft, catastrophe ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Movies similar to Terra Nova
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
space travel, space, space opera, escapades, space and aliens, confined, heroes, egyptian mythology, nuclear, alien, human host, nuclear threat ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
INTER SCI climatologist Dr. David Kotzman has evidence that a shift in the Earth's polarity triggered the last Ice Age...in a single day. Now, it's happening again, and there's no time to escape. As the temperature plummets, Miami is ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, disturbing, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, earthquake, survival, forces of nature, save the day, save the world, rescue, race against time, husband wife relationship, natural disaster, winter ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, miami, florida, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, cult film ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time traveler, cave, cannibal, mutant, chaos, disorder, chaos and mayhem, future dystopia, escapades, heroes ...
Time:
future, 20th century, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In End of the World, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of two guys who run a video rental store and are “sci-fi obsessed” movie fans. And who better to save the world, than guys who have seen all the movies and all the “out there” ways ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, save the world, heroes, forces of nature, catastrophe, global warming, survival, rescue, end of the world, humanity in peril ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find ...
Style:
exciting, surreal, stylized, surprise ending, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, alien, space travel, space and aliens, robot, space, save the world, space exploration, spacecraft, heroes, escapades, terrorism ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Movies similar to Project Almanac
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
Style:
futuristic, humorous, stylized, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
space opera, good versus evil, space travel, alien, space adventure, space, death, vengeance, robot, mercenary, spacecraft, space battle ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's 2 A.M. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and an explosion shakes the city. A scientific team investigates, clashing with an intergalactic, voltage-devouring creature that vaporizes them.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, scientist, creature, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, survival, save the world, chaos, heroic mission, escapades, apocalypse, suspense ...
Time:
future
Place:
washington d.c., st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disaster, space travel, save the world, survival, technology gone awry, race against time, spouse in danger, chaos, space, escapades, heroes, sun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alien Siege is a 2005 Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie about an alien race that comes to Earth seeking a cure to a deadly virus, for which the antidote is human blood.
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, suspenseful, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
evil alien, heroic mission, save the world, rescue, deadly creature, space and aliens, race against time, supernatural, graphic violence, antidote, heroes, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
space travel, spacecraft, space battle, space, escapades, heroic mission, space and aliens, save the world, heroes, battles, siege, self sacrifice ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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