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Movies that feel like Europa Report (2013)

If you loved Europa Report, the closest films we have are The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Under the Skin (2014) and Contagion (2011). All three share Europa Report's cerebral and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads and HBO Max Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sebastián Corderocerebraltensecontemplativeawe

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Minority Report (2002)

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

Both built around spacecraft

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Under the Skin
2014 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 83%6.3thriller · science fiction · drama

Cerebral and tense in the same breath

The difference: None of the awe that defines Europa Report

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

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Contagion
2011 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 85%6.8drama · thriller · science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

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The Platform
2019 · dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
🍅 81%7drama · science fiction · thriller

Cerebral thriller in both cases

A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.

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Primer
2004 · dir. Shane Carruth
🍅 72%6.7science fiction · drama · thriller

Tense drama, and it commits to that

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

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Gravity
2013 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 96%7.7science fiction · thriller · drama

Science fiction built on awe, twice over

Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.

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Glass
2019 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 37%6.6thriller · drama · science fiction

Both trade on stillness more than on being thriller

In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

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Sunshine
2007 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 77%7.2science fiction · thriller

Space travel sits at the heart of each

Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.

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Elysium
2013 · dir. Neill Blomkamp
🍅 64%6.6science fiction · action · drama

Drama built on awe, twice over

The difference: Plays it as action more than Europa Report does

In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.

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The Circle
2017 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 16%5.4drama · thriller · science fiction

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.

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The Andromeda Strain
1971 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 68%7.2science fiction · thriller · drama

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: A 1970s film, from a different era of filmmaking

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

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I Am Legend
2007 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 68%7.2drama · science fiction · thriller

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

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