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Movies that feel like Sputnik (2020)

If you loved Sputnik, the closest films we have are Alien: Covenant (2017), Alien: Romulus (2024) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018). All three share Sputnik's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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…

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Egor Abramenkocerebralcontemplativedreadunsettlingawe
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Alien: Covenant
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 65%6.4horror · science fiction

The same two preoccupations: spacecraft, and alien life-form

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Sputnik

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 fiction

Both are built on the same subject: alien life-form

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Spring
2014 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 85%6.7horror · romance · science fiction

The same mix in both: ideas, then dread

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Sputnik does

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

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Brightburn
2019 · dir. David Yarovesky
🍅 57%6.1horror · science fiction · drama

Both land stillness and unease at once

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

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Prospect
2018 · dir. Zeek Earl
🍅 89%6.3science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of awe, in both cases

A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive.

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Europa Report
2013 · dir. Sebastián Cordero
🍅 81%6.4science fiction · thriller · drama

One thread runs through both: spacecraft

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.

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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
6.5action · horror · science fiction

Both lean on ideas more than on horror

Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.

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Superdeep
2020 · dir. Arseny Syukhin
4.9horror · science fiction · thriller

Dread-soaked drama, and it commits to that

In 1984, a Russian research team goes below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole is hiding. On their expedition, something unexpectedly gruesome awaits the researchers.

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The Wandering Earth
2019 · dir. Frant Gwo
🍅 70%5.9science fiction · action · drama

Contemplative science fiction in both cases

When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the Solar System using gigantic engines, moving it to a new home located four light years away, an epic journey that will last thousands of years.

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Aniara
2019 · dir. Pella Kågerman
🍅 70%6.3science fiction · drama

Drama built on awe, twice over

A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

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Phase IV
1974 · dir. Saul Bass
🍅 50%6.4horror · science fiction

Common ground: murder

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

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