
Movies that feel likeLife (2017)
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).
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If Life hit the spot, these will too

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

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

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

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

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath
The difference: Easier on the awe than Life

The same preoccupation in both: alien life-form
The difference: 35 years apart, and the 1980s show

A space station crew whose own experiment turns openly hostile
The difference: A parallel-dimension mystery box, not a single creature stalking the crew

Cerebral and twisty in the same breath
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that
The difference: Trades the awe of Life for an angle of its own

Mystery built on unease, twice over

Twisty science fiction in both cases
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