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Movies that feel likePassengers (2016)

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

If you loved Passengers, the closest films we have are The Martian (2015), God's Own Country (2017) and Ad Astra (2019). All three share Passengers' contemplative and lonely feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Wall (2012).

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The Martian
2015 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 91%★ 8science fiction · drama · adventureRent or buy

Stranded in deep space with only ingenuity between you and dying

The difference: No romance — it's a one-man survival problem played for wit

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

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God's Own Country
2017 · dir. Francis Lee
🍅 97%★ 7.6romance · drama

Crushing isolation thawed by one unexpected arrival

The difference: Muddy Yorkshire realism — no gloss, no spectacle, no starfield

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

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Ad Astra
2019 · dir. James Gray
🍅 83%★ 6.5science fiction · dramaNetflix

The ache of deep space — vast, beautiful and profoundly alone

The difference: Slow and inward — a father wound, not a love story

The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

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Her
2013 · dir. Spike Jonze
🍅 95%★ 8romance · science fiction · dramaApple TV+

Falling in love as the cure for a future that feels empty

The difference: The romance is with a voice — wistful satire over spectacle

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

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Bicentennial Man
1999 · dir. Chris Columbus
🍅 38%★ 6.9drama · romance · science fiction

A machine learning to love across a lifetime of devotion

The difference: Far more sentimental — a gentle fable stretched over two centuries

Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

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The Wall
2012 · dir. Julian Pölsler
🍅 76%★ 6.7science fiction · dramaPrime Video

Both land stillness and ideas at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature.

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Everything, Everything
2017 · dir. Stella Meghie
🍅 45%★ 6.3drama · romance

Love blooming inside a sealed-off life the outside world can't touch

The difference: Earthbound YA romance — the stakes are teenage, not cosmic

A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.

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The Space Between Us
2017 · dir. Peter Chelsom
🍅 17%★ 6.4romance · science fiction · dramaPrime VideoHulu

A love story stretched across the gulf between planets

The difference: Sappier and flimsier — the premise outclasses the execution

A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.

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My Blueberry Nights
2007 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 45%★ 6.6drama · romancePrime VideoStarz

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

The difference: Trades the ideas of Passengers for an angle of its own

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

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Ex Machina
2015 · dir. Alex Garland
🍅 92%★ 7.7drama · science fictionHulu

An isolated retreat where intimacy with a machine turns uneasy

The difference: Chillier and crueler — seduction as an experiment, not a romance

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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The Vow
2012 · dir. Michael Sucsy
🍅 30%★ 6.8drama · romanceStarz

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Takes it somewhere less awestruck than Passengers does

Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

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Julieta
2016 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 84%★ 7.1drama · romance

Loneliness as the quiet engine of a whole life's choices

The difference: No sci-fi at all — an intimate Spanish drama of memory and guilt

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

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