20 movies like The Handmaid's Tale, ordered by similarity : Only Lovers Left Alive(2013), Hell(2011), Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith(2005), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines(2003), The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957), The Hunger Games(2012), Level 16(2018), Melancholia(2011), Hardware(1990), Never Let Me Go(2010), Robinson Crusoe on Mars(1964), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004) ...
Sci-Fi
USA|Germany
1990
109 Minutes
Natasha Richardson Robert Duvall Faye Dunaway Aidan Quinn Elizabeth McGovern Victoria Tennant Blanche Baker Traci Lind David Dukes Zoey Wilson Elizabeth Doby
husband chauffeur wife slave friend bleak chilling dark melodramatic united states house garden bedroom post-apocalypse repression sex pregnancy dystopia unrequited love forbidden love
In a dystopian, polluted right wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama, Horror, Fantasy
UK|Germany|Greece|France
2013
122 Minutes
Tilda Swinton Tom Hiddleston Anton Yelchin Mia Wasikowska John Hurt Jeffrey Wright Slimane Dazi Carter Logan Yasmine Hamdan Aurélie Thépaut
vampire musician married woman married man author sister bleak emotional melodramatic creative intense dark united states tangiers, morocco detroit house vampires relationships love depression
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. Though their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Indonesia
2011
89 Minutes
Hannah Herzsprung Stipe Erceg Angela Winkler Lars Eidinger Lisa Vicari Lilo Baur Anne Sarah Hartung Christoph Gaugler
young woman boyfriend sister survivor captive woman bleak dark intense suspenseful frightening gripping germany wasteland barn apocalypse survival relationships fear post-apocalypse
Two people meet by chance in Busan, South Korea. Indah works at the Indonesian Embassy in Busan. Abi, a sailor who suffers heart attack and Indah was assigned as his guardian.
Sci-Fi, Action, Fantasy, Adventure
USA
2005
140 Minutes
Ewan McGregor Natalie Portman Hayden Christensen Ian McDiarmid Samuel L. Jackson Christopher Lee Jimmy Smits Peter Mayhew Ahmed Best Oliver Ford Davies Temuera Morrison
jedi knight sith lord droid wife clone dark melodramatic frenetic suspenseful thrilling coruscant space utapau mustafar betrayal murder love political coup adventure love
Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA|Germany|UK
2003
110 Minutes
Arnold Schwarzenegger Nick Stahl Claire Danes David Andrews Kristanna Loken Mark Famiglietti Earl Boen Chopper Bernet
man girlfriend general enemy cyborg rebel brash gripping thrilling suspenseful frightening united states military base upscale neighborhood veterinary hospital highway dystopia apocalypse man vs. machine freedom
A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.
Sci-Fi
USA
1957
81 Minutes
Grant Williams Randy Stuart April Kent Paul Langton William Schallert Billy Curtis Diana Darrin Helene Marshall
husband wife doctor dwarf spider cat fascinating emotional campy dark boat house doctor's office circus dollhouse basement science radiation marriage mutation
When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action
USA
2012
142 Minutes
Jennifer Lawrence Josh Hutcherson Liam Hemsworth Woody Harrelson Elizabeth Banks Lenny Kravitz Stanley Tucci Donald Sutherland Wes Bentley Toby Jones Alexander Ludwig
teen girl teen boy sister government official television executive competitor bleak dark emotional tense north america mining town wilderness dystopia panem dictatorship media survival fame death
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Canada
2018
102 Minutes
Katie Douglas Celina Martin Sara Canning Peter Outerbridge Amalia Williamson Kate Vickery Josette Halpert Yasmin Lau Kiana Madeira Sydney Meyer Sarah DaSilva
girl student orphan headmistress former friend teen girl disheartening bleak thrilling dark chilling frightening boarding school prison classroom dystopia on the run toronto dystopia boarding-school life
In a highly regimented boarding school, a pair of students discover that things are not as they seem.
Sci-Fi, Drama
Denmark|Sweden|France|Germany
2011
135 Minutes
Kirsten Dunst Charlotte Gainsbourg Alexander Skarsgård Brady Corbet Cameron Spurr Charlotte Rampling Jesper Christensen John Hurt Stellan Skarsgård Udo Kier Kiefer Sutherland
sister bride husband brother-in-law family member friend brooding emotional intense church mansion field forest laboratory cab extinction depression sister relationship stress wedding
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Sci-Fi, Horror
UK|USA
1990
92 Minutes
Dylan McDermott Stacey Travis John Lynch William Hootkins Iggy Pop Mark Northover
android ex-soldier girlfriend artist boyfriend junk dealer emotional offbeat frightening thrilling wasteland city apartment dystopia junkyard united states robots man vs. machine post-apocalypse survival
The head of a cyborg reactivates, rebuilds itself, and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.
Sci-Fi, Drama
UK
2010
104 Minutes
Carey Mulligan Andrew Garfield Keira Knightley Isobel Meikle-Small Ella Purnell Charlie Rowe Charlotte Rampling Sally Hawkins Nathalie Richard Andrea Riseborough Domhnall Gleeson
friend teen boy teen girl nurse classmate bleak dark intricate boarding school cottage england friendship cloning sexual awakening death organ donation fall metamorphosis love growing up
The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.
Sci-Fi
USA
1964
109 Minutes
astronaut space traveler alien slave monkey commander chilling creative dark engaging tense suspenseful mars mars stranded alien attack human-animal friendship survival space exploration quest
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
Sci-Fi, Romance
USA
2004
108 Minutes
Jim Carrey Kate Winslet Kirsten Dunst Mark Ruffalo Elijah Wood Tom Wilkinson Jane Adams David Cross Deirdre O'Connell Debbon Ayer Thomas Jay Ryan
boyfriend girlfriend employee secretary doctor profound creative new york state boston train office love breakup memory love metamorphosis 2000s
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Animation, Action, Fantasy
USA|Japan|Canada
2019
122 Minutes
Rosa Salazar Christoph Waltz Keean Johnson Mahershala Ali Jennifer Connelly Ed Skrein Jackie Earle Haley Lana Condor Idara Victor Eiza González Jeff Fahey
cyborg doctor love interest robot assassin assistant creative confident uplifting thrilling incredible emotional city junkyard doctor's office market workshop destroyed city artificial intelligence mysterious past
A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada
2018
105 Minutes
Emile Hirsch Zach Lipovsky Bruce Dern Lexy Kolker Amanda Crew Grace Park Matty Finochio Michelle Harrison Aleks Paunovic Dean Redman Ava Telek
young girl father stranger ice cream man agent mutant brooding dark bleak gripping house ice cream truck big city paranoia fear death threat truth danger growing up love
A bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father's protective and paranoid control.
Sci-Fi, Action, Fantasy
USA|Germany|Hungary
2008
120 Minutes
Ron Perlman Selma Blair Doug Jones Jeffrey Tambor John Hurt Luke Goss Anna Walton John Alexander James Dodd Brian Steele Andrew Hefler
demon prince princess monster girlfriend human thrilling quirky intense new york city underworld rebellion supernatural war love showdown revenge rescue love sacrifice
A prince of the mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, and Hellboy his team must fight to stop him from locating the all-powerful Golden Army.
Sci-Fi
USA
1997
112 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Uma Thurman Jude Law Gore Vidal Alan Arkin Loren Dean Jayne Brook Elias Koteas Chad Christ William Lee Scott Tony Shalhoub
investigator scientist director love interest disabled person chilling suspenseful eerie laboratory house research station genetics free will investigation space travel love death discovery transformation escape
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
France|UK|Germany|Poland|USA
2018
113 Minutes
Robert Pattinson Juliette Binoche André Benjamin Mia Goth Lars Eidinger Agata Buzek Ewan Mitchell Scarlett Lindsey Jessie Ross
convict daughter father astronaut scientist friend brash brutal dark disturbing gripping shocking space spacecraft room garden black hole experiments exploitation sex
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
Sci-Fi
Belgium|Spain|France
2016
108 Minutes
Tom Hughes Charlotte Le Bon Oona Chaplin Barry Ward Julio Perillán Bruno Sevilla Godeliv Van den Brandt Rafael Cebrián Daniel Horvath Nikol Kollars Maarten Swaan
man woman nurse brooding bleak chilling disheartening sad tense clinic cancer technology medical breakthrough cryogenics love death science fiction resurrection adventure discovery
Marc will die of cancer and chooses cryogenic freeze and hopes to be thawed, when there's a solution to his condition. He's the first human brought back 68 years later. Can he adapt mentally and physically?
Sci-Fi, Drama
UK|Germany|Sweden|Hungary
2016
89 Minutes
Jörg Tittel
young boy father guard mother colonel general tense chilling engaging intense gripping emotional fictional city dystopia dictatorship dystopia saving the day father/son relationship missing father search
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are ... See full summary »
Horror, Sci-Fi
USA
1958
94 Minutes
Al Hedison Patricia Owens Vincent Price Herbert Marshall Kathleen Freeman Betty Lou Gerson Charles Herbert Eugene Borden Torben Meyer Harry Carter Charles Tannen
scientist wife brother son mutant inspector dark shocking canada laboratory household factory teleportation experiments family death housefly quest metamorphosis sacrifice
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.