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Movies that feel likeAd Astra (2019)

The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

If you loved Ad Astra, the closest films we have are The Martian (2015), The Wall (2012) and Passengers (2016). All three share Ad Astra's cerebral and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Europa Report (2013).

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The Martian
2015 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 91%★ 8science fiction · drama · adventureRent or buy

Two things both keep coming back to: planet mars and astronaut

The difference: Trades the melancholy of Ad Astra for an angle of its own

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

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The Wall
2012 · dir. Julian Pölsler
🍅 76%★ 6.7science fiction · dramaPrime Video

Cerebral and contemplative in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less melancholy than Ad Astra does

A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature.

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Passengers
2016 · dir. Morten Tyldum
🍅 30%★ 7drama · romance · science fiction

Both land awe and loneliness at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

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The Wandering Earth
2019 · dir. Frant Gwo
🍅 70%★ 5.9science fiction · action · dramaRent or buy

Common ground: fathers and sons

The difference: Sits closer to action than Ad Astra does

When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the Solar System using gigantic engines, moving it to a new home located four light years away, an epic journey that will last thousands of years.

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Gattaca
1997 · dir. Andrew Niccol
🍅 82%★ 7.7science fiction · drama

Science fiction built on melancholy, twice over

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1990s show

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

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Aniara
2019 · dir. Hugo Lilja
🍅 70%★ 6.3science fiction · drama

Cerebral drama, and it commits to that

A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

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Europa Report
2013 · dir. Sebastián Cordero
🍅 81%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller · dramaNetflix

Science fiction with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Ad Astra does

A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to a tense and dangerous exploration.

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Space Sweepers
2021 · dir. Jo Sung-hee
🍅 70%★ 6.5drama · fantasy · science fictionNetflix

Both lean on awe more than on drama

When the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory discovers a humanoid robot named Dorothy that's known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal which puts their lives at stake.

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The Dog Stars
2026 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 40%★ 6.5science fiction · thriller · adventure

Melancholy science fiction in both cases

After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.

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Deep Impact
1998 · dir. Mimi Leder
🍅 45%★ 6.3action · drama · science fictionParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: astronaut

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

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Perfect Days
2023 · dir. Wim Wenders
🍅 96%★ 7.9dramaRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: solitude

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 21%★ 5.5drama · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

Drama built on ideas, twice over

A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.

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