If you are fond of science fiction movies, then you are reading the right article. Here is a list of movies to watch, like one of the most famous sci-fi films, interstellar, a huge hit, to continue your supply of entertainment.
1. Dune
- Writers: Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, Frank Herbert, Denis Villeneuve
- Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgård, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin
- IMDb Rating: 8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube (paid), Amazon Video, Google Play Movies & TV (paid), Apple iTunes, Amazon Prime Video.
Dune, also known as Dune: Part One, is produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is a 2021 American sci-fi movie directed by Denis Villeneuve. The movie shows how a noble family becomes involved in a war to take possession of the galaxy’s most valuable asset.
This movie is about the heir of the noble family, Paul Atreides. He is a talented young man, but he starts seeing visions of a dark future, and he becomes disturbed by it. And it is he who has to travel to one of the most dangerous planets in the universe to secure the future of his family and his people.
2. Star Trek: First Contact
- Director: Jonathan Frakes
- Writers: Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore.
- Starring: Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner.
- IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube (paid), Google Play Movies & TV (paid), JioCinema, Amazon Prime Video.
The first movie on the list, A classic science fiction space opera movie, follows a 24th-century space mission. A special enterprise crew is commanded to go 100 years back to stop the aliens when the aliens first came across humans on Earth and took over the planet. This movie is regarded as one of the best sci-fi movies to watch. Will the Earth be a forbidden planet?
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Writers: Arthur C. Clarke
- Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood.
- IMDb Rating: 8.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, Amazon Prime Video.
2001: A Space Odyssey is an adventurous sci-fi genre movie that follows the discovery of a unique monolith thing under the lunar surface by Dr. David Bowman and the events that happened when he went on board to get more knowledge about it.
The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey is a space science fiction movie that depicts space exploration with time travel, making it a must-watch. Do not miss out on the space odyssey.
4. Inception
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Writer: Christopher Nolan
- Starring: Ken Watanabe and Leonardo DiCaprio.
- IMDb rating: 8.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 87%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video, YouTube (paid), Google Play Movies & Play (paid).
Inspection is a thriller science fiction film that follows the story of a spy named Dominic Cobb. The film depicts how he used the technology that helps him see what’s going on in other people’s minds or dreams.
He got a job to plant something in someone’s mind through a method known as “Inception,” where he got to use his dream-watching technology. The film is similar to Interstellar and shows how this job changed his life, and fans would surely love it.
5. First Man
- Director: Damien Chazelle
- Writer: John Singer Starring: Claire Foy and Ryan Gosling.
- IMDb Rating: 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 87%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, YouTube (paid), Google Play Movies & TV (paid), Amazon Prime Video.
The sci-fi movie First Man is a biographical movie that follows the story of the first person to go on the moon, Neil Armstrong. The story depicts how he used the special opportunity he received and how a space mission made him a legendary person to go on the moon for the first time.
This movie is regarded as some of the best movies of all time, and fans who are fascinated by knowing space facts would definitely love it.
6. Ad Astra
- Director: James Gray
- Writers: James Gray, Ethan Gross.
- Starring: Brad Pitt and Ruth Negga.
- IMDb Rating: 6.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, HBO.
The story of this film follows a special mission given to Roy McBride (Brad Pitt), an astronaut, to observe and explore an unusual activity happening in space that is causing a threat to the entire solar system, as years ago, a spacecraft leading by Clifford McBride, Father of Roy McBride went to explore strange energy coming from Neptune. Still, suddenly they got vanished, and all contacts were lost.
7. Arrival
- Director: Denis Villeneuve
- Writers: Ted Chiang, Eric Heisserer.
- Starring: Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.
- IMDb Rating: 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 94%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, YouTube (paid), Google Play Movies & T(paid), Amazon Prime Video.
This science-fiction movie follows the story of a linguist girl and follows the space mission she got because of her skill of speaking with aliens. The mission was to seek all information about spacecraft that were found to have arrived on Earth, and she had to find out the reason for their arrival. This movie is fascinating and one of the best sci-fi movies, like interstellar.
8. The Matrix
- Directors: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski.
- Writers: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski.
- Starring: Laurence Fishburne and Keanu Reeves.
- IMDb Rating: 8.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Google Play Video & TV.
This movie, The Matrix, follows the story of an ordinary techie cum hacker, Thomas Anderson, who can create a lot of ideas for hacking and how his life got changed when he met a mysterious girl who introduced him to a world with dark secrets that can cause threats to the world. This movie is space science fiction with some action in the genre.
9. Gravity
- Director: Alfonso Cuaron
- Writers: Alfonso Cuaron, Jonas Cuaron, George Clooney.
- Starring: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
- IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 96%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV.
This one is about a medical engineer, Dr. Ryan Stone, who is going on her first mission on a space shuttle. But because of some asteroid strikes, she and her veteran commander got stuck somewhere in space where there was no link to Earth. The movie follows how they managed to find a way back home. It is classified in sci-fi movies like Interstellar with a high rating.
10. Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Director: Eric Brevig.
- Writers: Michael D. Weiss, Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett.
- Starring: Brendan Fraser, Anita Briem, Josh Hutcherson.
- IMDb Rating: 5.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 61%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video, MX Player.
The story follows how a man tried to find the mysterious vanishing of his brother with the help of his nephew and a book that refers to his brother’s last trip. Accidentally, they discovered a strange world at the center of the planet that solves all of their mysteries. This movie is really fascinating and is one of the best sci-fi movies to watch.
11. The Martian
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Writer: Andy Weir
- Starring: Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain.
- IMDb Rating: 8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 91%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV.
This movie shows a man who got stuck on Mars after a space event as his colleagues believed he was dead. This space movie depicts how he struggled with a number of events that happened when he tried to find a way to send signals for help. Matt Damon is the lead.
12. Apollo 13
- Director: Ron Howard
- Writers: Al Reinert, William Broyles Jr.
- Starring: Tom Hanks and Bill Paxton.
- IMDb Rating: 7.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 96%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, YouTube, Google Play Movies & Play.
This film is a documentary drama that follows the plot twist that happened to three astronauts who were supposed to be onboard Apollo 14 but got transferred to Apollo 13. The film shows how it got internally damaged, leaving the three astronauts stuck in space, where they struggled to find a way to seek help to get back to their home planet. After that, it became one of the biggest scandals in NASA.
13. Shutter Island
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Writers: Laeta Kalogridis
- Starring: Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo DiCaprio.
- IMDb Rating: 8.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 68%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, Netflix.
This film follows the story of a detective who gets a task to find a criminal who ran away from a mental asylum for criminals in Shutter Island. The film depicts the adventure and challenges he went through in finding that criminal with the help of many people, with the fact that something from his past is haunting him.
14. Oblivion
- Director: Joseph Kosinski
- Writers: Karl Gajdusek, Michael Arndt.
- Starring: Morgan Freeman and Tom Cruise.
- IMDb Rating: 7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 53%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video.
The film follows the life of a veteran who got a task to collect some resources from inside of the planet after many years of war between human and alien beings. While pursuing his mission, the film depicts how he finds the need for self-discovery in his life. In addition, the film shows the number of events he faced while being a part of this mission.
15. Moon
- Director: Duncan Jones
- Writers: Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker
- Starring: Sam Rockwell and Dominique McElligott.
- IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 90%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, DIRECTV, VUDU.
The story follows the life of an astronaut with his assistant, GERTY, who is actually a computer. The story shows how he managed to live in space while there was no source of communication for such a long distance. Shortly, his contract mission is going to be over, and just then, he realizes some waken truth about the world. What about the first moon landing?
16. The Black Hole
- Director: Gary Nelson
- Writers: Gerry Day, Jeb Rosebrook, Richard H. Landau.
- Starring: Anthony Perkins and Maximilian Schell.
- IMDb Rating: 6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 38%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video
The story follows a space mission where a missing spacecraft, USS Cygnus, was found years after it was lost, commanded by Dr. Reinhardt. While searching for the missing ship in space, the crew encountered one big, massive black hole. The film depicts how they used a number of strategies to solve the mind-bending mystery of that hole.
17. Sunshine
- Director: Danny Boyle
- Writer: Alex Garland
- Starring: Rose Byrne and Cillian Murphy.
- IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 77%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV.
This film follows a special goal given to an elite team of astronauts. The goal was to solve a problem that is occurring 50 years ahead in the future, that sun is losing its energy and soon going to die. So, they were sent to rekindle the dying sun so that there would be no threat to human life. This movie is full of adventures that space movies film fans would love.
18. The Dark Knight
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Writers: Jonathon Nolan, David S. Goyer.
- Starring: Michael Caine and Christian Bale.
- IMDb Rating: 9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV.
The story follows the life of Batman and how he managed to control crime in a city named Gotham City with the help of other personalities. The movie shows his smooth control of crime until plot holes arrive in the form of an aspiring criminal called “Joker,” who comes into the dark city with an essential modern entry.
The film shows how Batman used mind strategies with the help of other people to re-establish peace in the city.
19. Life
- Director: Daniel Espinosa.
- Writers: Paul Wernick, Rhett Reese.
- Starring: Rebecca Ferguson and Jake Gyllenhaal.
- IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 67%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV.
Life follows the story that new life forms have been observed on Mars, and a crew from our planet went to seek all the information about that life form, and they found out that all of them are super intelligent as compared to humankind and can cause life threats to humans. So, all the member’s crew tried to find a way to kill these species to protect humans. This is a film that space films fans would love watching.
20. The Wandering Earth
- Director: Frant Gwo
- Writers: Gong Geer and Frant Gwo
- Starring: Li Guangjie, Qu Chuxiao, Zhao Jinmai, Ng Man-tat, Qu Jingjing.
- IMDb Rating: 6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix.
It is a Chinese film in the science fiction genre. The story follows that after several years when the sun is about to die because of aging, humankind is practicing many ideas to save lives, and they try to create such engines that can help in sailing Earth. The story shows how they struggled to save human life. This movie is regarded as one of the best classics of all time.
21. Annihilation
- Director: Alex Garland
- Writer: Jeff Vander Meer
- Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh and Natalie Portman.
- IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video.
The story is about a girl whose husband disappeared suddenly while he was on a mission. The girl, Lena, is a biologist who becomes a part of and leads a space mission to find out about alien origin, but she finds out something that she was not expecting.
This movie is full of several mysteries related to each other, and the film is itself an adventure that will bound film fans to it, which is why this movie is included in the list of movies like interstellar.
22. Avatar
- Director: James Cameron
- Writer: James Cameron
- Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang.
- IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 8.1%
- Streaming Platform: Disney+
After his sibling is slain in a burglary, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully volunteers for an operation on the faraway planet of Pandora. There, he hears of greedy capitalist chieftain Parker Selfridge’s plans to expel the local humanoid “Na’vi” to harvest the valuable mineral spread across their lush woodland.
Jake acquires knowledge of an Indigenous Race and Culture again for partnering military unit led by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch in return for the back surgery that will heal his legs while concurrently seeking to join the Na’vi people using an “Avatar” identity.
23. The Theory of Everything
- Director: James Marsh
- Writer: Jane Hawking
- Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson.
- IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 80%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
The Theory of Everything is the story of Stephen Hawking, one of the most masterful and praised physicists of all time, as well as Jane Wilde, an art major he fell madly in love with during studying at Cambridge. Little was anticipated of Hawking, a brilliant and yet shiftless cosmology pupil, after he had been given 2 years to live, having followed a fatal illness diagnosis at the age of 21.
Nevertheless, his love for Jane Wilde electrified him, as he continued on to be known as the “Successor to Einstein” and also a father and husband to their 3 kids. Nonetheless, as Stephen’s physique crumbled and his intellectual renown skyrocketed during their marriage, fault lines were uncovered, testing their relationship’s resolve and significantly altering the path of either of their destinies.
24. Predestination
- Director: The Spierig Brothers
- Writer: The Spierig Brothers
- Starring: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor.
- IMDb Rating: 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 84%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon prime video
Predestination follows the life of the Temporal Agent, who is sent on a complex sequence of time-travel missions to ensure the longevity of his career in law enforcement. The Agent will track down the one culprit who has evaded him during his career on his final mission.
This time-traveling head-scratcher is twisty, turny, and mind-bending, and one viewing would not be enough. Two stories converge in this film: one follows Ethan Hawke’s time agent as he attempts to stop terrorists, and the other follows the lives of a bright orphan who is not really like everyone else.
25. Tenet
- Director: Christopher Nolan
- Writer: Christopher Nolan
- Starring: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki.
- IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 69%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon prime video
The film explores an unknown CIA employee known as the Protagonist hired by a mystery institution renowned Tenet to engage in a global organization that develops outside real-time in a twilight realm of international espionage. The goal: stop Andrei Sator, a renegade Russian oligarch possessing precognitive powers, from igniting World War III.
As a means of combating the impending menace, the Protagonist will eventually master the ability of “time inversion.” Notwithstanding its complexity, the movie is expertly timed; the performers exude a fluid assurance that informs the spectator that, should at the least, the actors comprehend “inversion,” and the photography and score support the moving narrative.
26. Looper
- Director: Rian Johnson
- Writer: Rian Johnson
- Starring: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt.
- IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 93%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Joe is indeed a “looper,” a career wherein his bosses utilize travel time to send a man from of the future also to be murdered in the past so that Joe can dump off the corpses correctly. Joe understands, though, that to tie up loose ends and eliminate proof of his becoming a looper, his younger self gets sent forward for someone like him to kill one day.
Looper is a future assassin action film with a novel perspective on the genre. When the time comes, Joe’s younger self is ready and flees, as well as the two men strive separately inside the past to avoid capture while pursuing their own personal goals. I’m not sure if I’m one of the few who noticed anything unusual about Joseph Gordon-visage Levitt’s all through the movie.
27. I, Robot
- Director: Alex Proyas
- Writer: Jeff Vintar
- Starring: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell.
- IMDb Rating:7.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube
Del Spooner, a technologically inept homicide detective with the Chicago Police Department, is in charge of investigating the accidental overdose of renowned robot scientist Dr. Alfred Lanning in 2035. Spooner’s inquiry into Lanning’s death, skeptical of the reason, uncovers a trail of mysteries and ambitions inside the USR (United States Robotics) firm, as well as suspicion of murders.
He has no idea how his research will lead to discovering a more significant threat to mankind. Will Smith performed an excellent job as the film’s lead, and he was absolutely badass for the entire hour who carried the powerful and striking drama.
28. Passengers
- Director: Morten Tyldum
- Writer: Jon Spaihts
- Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, and Andy García.
- IMDb Rating: 7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 30%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix, Amazon prime video.
The starship Starship Avalon, which carries 5,258 passengers on a 120-year journey to a faraway colonial world called as that of the “Homestead Colony,” has a failure in one of its sleeping compartments. Consequently, one of the sleep pods opens inadvertently, leaving Jim Preston alone on the starship, 90 years in the future from his goal.
This film’s set design is amazing, in my opinion. Lawrence, with a white swimsuit combating a swimming pool inside its anti-gravity state, was staggeringly beautiful, and it makes me overlook almost all of the show’s flaws.
29. Prometheus
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Writer: Jon Spaihts
- Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba.
- IMDb Rating: 7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 73%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon prime video
Doctor Elizabeth Shaw and her companion, Charlie Holloway, including a 17-man team, embark on an enormous profound scientific trip after tracing a weak trail of evidence. The team lays foot on the stony soil of the lonely exomoon, LV-223, in 2093, onboard the groundbreaking space-exploration spaceship USCSS Prometheus to explore the presence of the advanced otherworldly known species as the “Engineers.”
However, more mysteries lie under a strange, complex building of huge dark chambers and an elaborate underground labyrinth of tunnels. Now, a terrible revelation jeopardizes not only the routine mission that is successful but possibly humanity’s long-term survival.
30. Another Earth
- Director: Mike Cahill
- Writer: Mike Cahill, Brit Marling.
- Starring: Brit Marling, William Mapother, and Jordan Baker are the sci-fi film stars.
- IMDb Rating: 6.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 66%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube
Rhoda, a bright student, meets John in a terrible tragedy that also claims the lives of his wife and son. She is resolute in mending John’s troubled life after serving her jail sentence with sci-fi flicks. Will we see alien life? Well, you may, in the movies like interstellar.
31. In time
- Director: Andrew Niccol
- Writer: Andrew Niccol
- Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Justin Timberlake, Alex Pettyfer.
- IMDb Rating: 6.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 74%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
Live in a world in which time is the most valuable commodity. You cease aging at 25, and there’s a catch: unless you buy your way out, you’re genetically engineered to survive only one year anyway. The wealthy earn decades at quite a time, essentially immortalizing themselves, whereas the rest plead, take out loans, or thieve sufficient hours to get by.
When a guy from the wrong side of the street is wrongfully arrested for murder, he is forced to leave with a lovely hostage. The pair’s love has become a formidable tool in their struggle against by the system as they live minute by minute with emotional intensity and emotional adventure along with melodramatic elements.
32. The Tomorrow War
- Director: Chris McKay
- Writer: Zach Dean
- Starring: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J. K. Simmons.
- IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 52%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video
This movie is a science fiction film. After a team of future time travelers inform everyone about a war they’re battling with aliens, Dan determines to assist them in winning so that his daughter’s future can be secured. The film has awe-inspiring audiovisual feats.
33. Ender’s Game
- Director: Gavin Hood
- Writer: Gavin Hood
- Starring: Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, and Ben Kingsley are the leads of the all-star cast.
- IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 62%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
The International Military recruits Ender Wiggin, a talented young strategist, to guide this same power in trying to defend Earth from the genocidal alien race tilted on decimating humanity, adding to the mind-bending movies like interstellar, which had outlandish theoretical concepts and practical effects as in movies, like interstellar with the sci-fi genre.
34. War of the worlds
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Writer: Josh Friedman, David Koepp.
- Starring: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Tim Robbins.
- IMDb Rating: 6.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 75%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
In this science fantasy action picture loosely based on H.G. Wells’ classic tale, an average father must safeguard his kids from space aliens. Ray Ferrier is a dockworker in New Jersey who was divorced after his first wife, Mary Ann and separated from his two daughters, Rachel and Robbie, with who he shares weekend custody.
Solely on a single such occasion, Ray learns that a flotilla of death-ray robot spacecraft has arisen nearby, as of the initial wave of all extraterrestrial invasion of an Earth, after one succession of bizarre lighting storms struck his neighborhood.
Ray should have to become the defender and provider he has never been in marriage while taking his kids from New York to Boston to find refuge at Mary Ann’s parents’ place.
35. Alien Covenant
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Writer: Jack Paglen, Michael Green
- Starring: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride.
- IMDb Rating: 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 65%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube
The profound colonization ship, USCSS Covenant, is now on track for the lonely planet, Origae-6, with much more than 2,000 settlers in cryogenic slumber to construct a new planet in 2104, nearly 11 years just after a fatal voyage to the faraway planet, LV-223, in Prometheus (2012) falling into the divisive genre.
Instead, a renegade message lures the group to a neighboring habitable world that looks like Earth. Consequently, the Covenant’s startled members of the crew would have to deal with biological opponents that are beyond human understanding. What began as a pleasant exploration trip has now devolved into a daring rescue mission in unexplored space.
Scott has always done things the correct way when it comes to extraterrestrials. The predator couldn’t handle and smacked around the pansy tiny bugs from Aliens. The big guy is the route to go, and so this film did an excellent job of providing a wonderful background for my perfect creature.
36. Europa report
- Director: Sebastián Cordero
- Writer: Philip Gelatt
- Starring: Christian Camargo, Anamaria Marinca, and Michael Nyqvist give a stunning lead performance.
- IMDb Rating: 6.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 81%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube
Europa, Jupiter’s moon, is thought to be capable of supporting life. As a result, a mission is dispatched to Europa to seek evidence of life. The film depicts the crew’s hard decisions and sacrifices to send essential data to Earth for research.
Movies like interstellar, the cult classic, are one of a kind! Exceptionally well-made, this is an excellent film in its genre, visually stunning. The lead is a multi-talented actor who excels in this role.
37. Transcendence
- Director: Wally Pfister
- Writer: Jack Paglen
- Starring: Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara.
- IMDb Rating: 6.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 79%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon prime video
Dr. Will Caster is a leading Artificially Intelligent scientist striving to develop a conscious computer that blends the collective knowledge of all known intelligence with the complete gamut of human feelings.
The question for his wife and best friend, both researchers. They accidentally become the spark for Will’s success—to be a participant in his transcendence—in their attempt to destroy him. His very contentious studies have gotten him renowned, but they’ve also made him a target for anti-technology zealots who will go to any length to prevent him.
Their greatest fears come true as Will’s appetite for information turns into a ubiquitous pursuit for power, with no clear end in sight. Only one thing has become frighteningly clear: there seems to be no way to stop him.
38. The Cloverfield Paradox
- Director: Julius Onah
- Writer: Oren Uziel
- Starring: Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Aksel Hennie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
- IMDb Rating: 5.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 74%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
There will be an energy catastrophe on Earth in the not-too-distant future. The Cloverfield Station will operate the Shepard particle accelerator with an international crew in the hopes of generating energy for any country and solving the energy dilemma.
Unfortunately, the research goes wrong, causing damage to the station and opening a doorway to a mirror Earth in another realm. They also discover a lady entangled with cables inside a terminal bulkhead, where they learn she works in an alternate element’s Cloverfield Station.
The scientists must now figure out how to get back to their home dimension. To keep in mind this film has awe-inspiring audiovisual feats with a sci-fi theme.
39. Jupiter Ascending
- Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski.
- Writer: The Wachowskis
- Starring: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth.
- IMDb Rating: 5.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 28%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
Jupiter Jones was born in the middle of the nighttime amid signals indicating that she had been destined for greatness. He, now an adult, dreamt of the stars and awoke to a grim reality of such a cleaning job for people’s homes for a never-ending string of bad luck. Jupiter begins to see the destiny awaiting her all along because Caine Wise, a genetically altered ex-military assassin, comes on Earth to hunt her down.
Her genetic signature identifies them as another in line for just an astonishing gift that might disrupt the balance of the galaxy. The plot is easy to explain, and it captivates the reader’s interest right away. Mila Kunis is incredible, and the ending especially makes justice for the sci-fi genre!
40. Geostorm
- Director: Dean Devlin
- Writer: Dean Devlin, Paul Guyot.
- Starring: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish.
- IMDb Rating: 5.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 73%
- Streaming Platform: YouTube
When a severely changing climate threatens Earth’s future, governments worldwide band together to launch the Dutch Boy Program, a global network of satellites encircling the planet and equipped with geoengineering technology to avert natural calamities.
After 3 years of successfully protecting the Earth, anything is beginning to go wrong. Before such a global Geostorm can envelop the planet, two separated siblings are entrusted with resolving the program’s flaw.
41. Independence Day: Resurgence
- Director: Roland Emmerich
- Writer: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich.
- Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Liam Hemsworth, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe.
- IMDb Rating: 5.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 30%
- Streaming Platform: Disney+
A new threat comes two decades just after a bizarre extraterrestrial incursion that nearly ruined humanity. This Alien spaceship is much more than double the size of the previous one, and also, the world’s forces must once again come together to preserve the planet. Will they have sufficient firepower, or will aliens take control of the battle? Is the mission to save humanity done well? Or are we behind mad scientists?
42. Alien (1979)
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Writer: Dan O’Bannon
- Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto
- IMDb Rating: 8.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 98%
- Streaming Platform: Disney+, YouTube
The film which marked the beginning of the whole franchise. “Aliens” (1979) is an excellent and one-of-a-kind movie. It takes the audience into the very depths of space. As a crew aboard the spaceship Nostromo discovers a mysterious distress signal, they unknowingly bring a deadly extraterrestrial creature in the spaceship. Tension quickly ignites as the alien starts chaos and create havoc.
All leads to a fight of survival against the terrifying and ferocious unknown creature. Heart-stopping moments and extraordinary performance by Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley makes “Aliens” a genre-defining antique.
43. Stowaway
- Director: Joe Penna
- Writer: Joe Penna, Ryan Morrison
- Starring: Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson, Toni Collette
- IMDb Rating:5.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix
“Stowaway” takes viewers on an amazing space trip with Mission Commander Marina Barnett, biologist David Kim, and medical researcher Zoe Levenson. The plot is about their journey to Mars aboard MTS-42. Things take a drastic turn when they find out an accidental stowaway named Michael Adams have unintentionally ruptured the life-sustaining equipment.
The crew is now faced with a life-threatening crisis which made them panic with limited oxygen supplies and the harsh inevitable situation. They must find a way to survive the dangerous situation and make sure everyone on board is safe.
44. Primer
- Director: Shane Carruth
- Writer: Shane Carruth
- Starring: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan
- IMDb Rating: 6.8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 73%
- Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime
“Primer” (2004) is a captivating science fiction thriller, and suspense movie that makes you cross limits in your perception of time. The story unfolds as two engineers accidentally create a time machine in their garage while they were busy with a side project. The film takes you through the complexities of time travel and its consequences. Their lives become trapped and tangled in a web of paradoxes and parallel timelines. This low-budget charm dives deep into the intricacies of intriguing story of time travel and manipulation.
45. Coherence
- Director: James Ward Byrkit
- Writer: James Ward Byrkit
- Starring: Emily Foxler, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon
- IMDb Rating: 7.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88%
- Streaming Platform: NA
The mind-twisting movie “Coherence” (2013) is a sci-fi thriller that will definitely make you experience a roller-coaster of confusions. Things begin when simple a dinner party in between friends takes an uncanny twist when the natural order is disrupted by a passing comet. This disorder caused reality to fragment. With weird occurrences unfolding, tensions increase and relationships unravel. This movie creatively weaves a tale of psychological suspense.
The number mentioned above of movies is some of the best space movies, like Interstellar, as it has the same themes and feels like an adventure and violent thriller. So, if you are a fan of Interstellar, you will surely love the above-provided movies. Dark and violent thrillers are on this list as well. These space films are worth watching, just like the instant cult classic for interstellar fans.
