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Movies that feel likeAlien: Romulus (2024)

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.

If you loved Alien: Romulus, the closest films we have are Sputnik (2020), Alien: Covenant (2017) and Life (2017). All three share Alien: Romulus' 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).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Fede Álvarezdreadunsettlingcerebralawe
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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

The same preoccupation in both: alien life-form

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

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: Covenant
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 65%★ 6.4horror · science fictionMax

Both are built on the same subject: alien life-form

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.

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

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Alien: Romulus does

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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Evil Dead
2013 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorNetflixPrime Video

Fede Álvarez directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Alien: Romulus

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

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

Both lean on ideas more than on 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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A Quiet Place: Day One
2024 · dir. Michael Sarnoski
🍅 86%★ 6.2horror · science fiction · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Two things both keep coming back to: spin off and alien monster

As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spaceship

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Awestruck science fiction in both cases

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show

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

Horror built on dread, twice over

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

Unsettling science fiction, and it commits to that

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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Don't Breathe
2016 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 88%★ 7.1horror · thrillerPrime Video

Both are Fede Álvarez's work, and they rhyme

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

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

Horror with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

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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