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Movies that feel likeLife (2017)

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.

If you loved Life, the closest films we have are Alien: Covenant (2017), Alien: Romulus (2024) and Sputnik (2020). All three share Life'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 Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018).

🍅 67% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Daniel Espinosadreadunsettlingcerebraltwistyawe
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Alien: Covenant
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 65%★ 6.4horror · science fictionMax

An alien life-form loose on a spacecraft never built to fight it

The difference: A found colony full of danger, not a sealed lab sample gone wrong

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

Explorers who wake a dormant threat in the dark of an abandoned station

The difference: A younger cast raiding a derelict, not scientists studying a live sample

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

A lone survivor carries something back from space that isn't done with them

The difference: A Cold War chamber drama, not a crew fighting a threat in real time

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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Vivarium
2019 · dir. Lorcan Finnegan
🍅 73%★ 5.8science fiction · mystery · horrorRent or buy

An ordinary setup curdles into a nightmare you can't reason your way out of

The difference: Suburban horror on Earth, no astronauts and no alien organism

A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.

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Color Out of Space
2020 · dir. Richard Stanley
🍅 86%★ 6.1horror · science fiction · mystery

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Easier on the awe than Life

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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The Thing
1982 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 85%★ 8.2horror · mystery · science fictionPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: alien life-form

The difference: 35 years apart, and the 1980s show

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

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

A space station crew whose own experiment turns openly hostile

The difference: A parallel-dimension mystery box, not a single creature stalking the crew

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

Cerebral and twisty in the same breath

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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A Cure for Wellness
2017 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 42%★ 6.4horror · mystery · science fictionPrime Video

A remote, sealed facility where the science starts to feel like a trap

The difference: Body horror at a spa, no alien and no vacuum of space

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

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Don't Worry Darling
2022 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 38%★ 6.3science fiction · mystery · horrorRent or buy

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Trades the awe of Life for an angle of its own

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · dir. Jung Bum-shik
🍅 92%★ 6.5horror · mysteryPrime Video

Mystery built on unease, twice over

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 86%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+

Twisty science fiction in both cases

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

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