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Movies that feel likeAlien: Covenant (2017)

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.

If you loved Alien: Covenant, the closest films we have are Sputnik (2020), Alien: Romulus (2024) and Life (2017). All three share Alien: Covenant's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Spring (2014).

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ridley Scottdreadunsettlingcerebralawe
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Prometheus (2012)

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Sputnik
2020 · dir. Egor Abramenko
🍅 88%★ 6.4science fiction · drama · horrorRent or buy

Something inhuman rides home inside a survivor nobody yet suspects

The difference: A Cold War psychological chamber piece, not a doomed colony-ship voyage

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

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Alien: Romulus
2024 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 80%★ 7.1horror · science fictionHulu

The same franchise's terror of scavenging somewhere that should stay sealed

The difference: Younger scavengers on a derelict station, not a colony ship's fated voyage

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

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Life
2017 · dir. Daniel Espinosa
🍅 67%★ 6.6horror · science fiction · mysteryHulu

A crew's discovery of alien life turns from wonder into a fight for survival

The difference: A claustrophobic space-station thriller, not a planet-side colonization horror

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

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Alien
1979 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 93%★ 8.5horror · science fictionNetflix

The same dread-soaked blueprint — a crew, a signal, a nightmare that gets out

The difference: The original's leaner slasher-in-space terror without the creation mythology

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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M3GAN
2022 · dir. Gerard Johnstone
🍅 93%★ 6.3science fiction · horrorNetflix

A creation built with good intentions turns dangerously against its makers

The difference: A domestic killer-doll thriller, not a cosmic creation-myth horror

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

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Spring
2014 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 85%★ 6.7horror · romance · science fiction

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less awestruck than Alien: Covenant does

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

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The Cloverfield Paradox
2018 · dir. Julius Onah
🍅 22%★ 5.5horror · mystery · science fictionNetflix

A scientific experiment in deep space opens the door to something monstrous

The difference: A parallel-universe mystery, not a xenomorph-birthing creation myth

Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

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AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 21%★ 5.7adventure · science fiction · action

An ancient, godlike design turns out to be a hunting ground for humans

The difference: A monster-mashup action spectacle, not a cosmic creation-and-ruin story

When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.

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Event Horizon
1997 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 36%★ 6.6horror · science fiction · mysteryParamount+Peacock

Both are built on the same subject: space travel

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.

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The New Mutants
2020 · dir. Josh Boone
🍅 36%★ 5.3science fiction · horrorDisney+

Horror with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

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Companion
2025 · dir. Drew Hancock
🍅 93%★ 6.9horror · science fiction · thrillerMax

Unsettling truths surface once artificial creations stop behaving as designed

The difference: A domestic-thriller twist on AI, not deep-space cosmic horror

During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

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Brightburn
2019 · dir. David Yarovesky
🍅 57%★ 6.1horror · science fiction · dramaPeacock

Dread-soaked science fiction in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Alien: Covenant does

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

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