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10 Best Movies Like Signal

If you loved Signal, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

2015★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Signal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own....

#2
Awakenings

Awakenings

1990★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Signal for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversia...

#3
She Came to Me

She Came to Me

2023★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Signal for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Composer Steven Lauddem is plagued by a creative block which leaves him unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. When his former therapist-turned-wife Patricia sugges...

#4
Final Destination 2

Final Destination 2

2003★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Signal for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying an...

#5
Starman

Starman

1984★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Signal for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them....

#6
Just Like Heaven

Just Like Heaven

2005★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Signal for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- a...

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