
Movies that feel likePassengers (2016)
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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If Passengers hit the spot, these will too

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

Crushing isolation thawed by one unexpected arrival
The difference: Muddy Yorkshire realism — no gloss, no spectacle, no starfield

The ache of deep space — vast, beautiful and profoundly alone
The difference: Slow and inward — a father wound, not a love story

Falling in love as the cure for a future that feels empty
The difference: The romance is with a voice — wistful satire over spectacle

A machine learning to love across a lifetime of devotion
The difference: Far more sentimental — a gentle fable stretched over two centuries

Both land stillness and ideas at once
The difference: Reviewed even better

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 love story stretched across the gulf between planets
The difference: Sappier and flimsier — the premise outclasses the execution

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness
The difference: Trades the ideas of Passengers for an angle of its own

An isolated retreat where intimacy with a machine turns uneasy
The difference: Chillier and crueler — seduction as an experiment, not a romance

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that
The difference: Takes it somewhere less awestruck than Passengers does

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
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