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, to continue your supply of entertainment.
1. 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.
A classic science fiction space opera movie, it follows a 24th-century space mission in which 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 take over the planet. This movie is regarded as one of the best sci-fi movies to watch.
2. 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. 2001 A Space Odyssey is a space science fiction movie that depicts space exploration with time travel which makes it a must-watch.
3. 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 to see what’s going on in other people’s minds or dreams. He got a job to plant something in someone’s mind by a method known as “Inception”, where he got to use his dream watching technology. The film is so much similar to Interstellar and shows how this job changed his life and surely fans would love it.
4. 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 biographic 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 has received and how a space mission he did, 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 fact would definitely love it.
5. 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, 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 but suddenly they got vanished and all contacts were lost.
6. 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 girl who is a linguist 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 has to find out the reason for their arrival. This movie is really fascinating and one of the best sci-fi movies which are like interstellar.
7. 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 genre.
8. Gravity
- Director: Alfonso Cuaron.
- Writers: Alfonso Cuaron, Jonas Cuaron, George Clooney.
- Starring: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney.
- IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 95%
- 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 is no link to Earth. The movie follows how they managed to find a way back home. It is classified in the category of sci-fi movies like Interstellar with a high rating.
9. 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.
10. 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 how a man who got stuck on Mars after a space event as his colleagues believed that he is dead. This space movie depicts how he struggled with a number of events that happened when he tries to find a way to send signals for help.
11. 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 on board Apollo 14 but got transferred to Apollo 13. The film shows how it got internally damage leaving the 3 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.
12. 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 got 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.
13. 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 a war between human and alien beings. The film depicts, while pursuing his mission, how he finds the need for self-discovery in his life. The film shows the number of events he faced while being a part of this mission.
14. Moon
- Director: Duncan Jones.
- Writers: Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker
- Starring: Sam Rockwell and Dominique McElligott.
- IMDb Rating: 7.9/10
- 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 is no source of communication for such a long distance. Shortly, his contract mission is going to over, just then he realizes some wakens truth about the world.
15. 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 lost which was 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 mystery of that hole.
16. 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 re-kindle the Sun so that there would be no threat to human life. This movie is full of adventures which space movies film fans would love.
17. The Dark Knight
- Director: Christopher Nolan.
- Writers: Christopher Nolan, 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 on crime until plot holes arrive in the form of an aspiring criminal who called himself “Joker” came in the city. The film shows how Batman used mind strategies with the help of other people to re-establish peace in the city.
18. 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. All the member’s crew tried to find a way to kill these species in order to protect humans. This is a film that space films fans would love watching.
19. 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: 70%
- Streaming Platform: Netflix.
It is a Chinese film with 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 tried 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.
20. Annihilation
- Director: Alex Garland.
- Writer: Jeff VanderMeer.
- 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 leading a space mission to find out about alien origin but she found out something that she was not expecting. This movie is full of a number of mysteries related to each other and the film is itself an adventure which will bound film fans to it.
The above-mentioned number of movies are some of the best space movies like Interstellar. So, if you are a fan of Interstellar, then you are surely going to love the above-provided movies. These space films worth watching.
