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Movies that feel like The Space Between Us (2017)

If you loved The Space Between Us, the closest films we have are Space Sweepers (2021), Attraction (2017) and Prospect (2018). All three share The Space Between Us' cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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

🍅 17% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peter Chelsomromantictendercerebralcontemplativeawe
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Space Sweepers
2021 · dir. Jo Sung-hee
🍅 70%6.5drama · fantasy · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: space colony

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory discovers a humanoid robot named Dorothy that's known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal which puts their lives at stake.

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Attraction
2017 · dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
🍅 36%5.6drama · romance · science fiction

Romantic where it counts, tender underneath

The difference: Not nearly as awestruck as The Space Between Us

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

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

Both land ideas and awe at once

The difference: Missing the romance of The Space Between Us

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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Flipped
2010 · dir. Rob Reiner
🍅 54%7.7romance · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: teenage love

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

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Upside Down
2012 · dir. Juan Diego Solanas
🍅 29%6.3romance · science fiction · drama

Romance with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than The Space Between Us does

In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?

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

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Space Between Us does

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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I Want You
2012 · dir. Fernando González Molina
6.7drama · romance

Common ground: teenage love

After two years away, Hache returns to Barcelona seeking a fresh start. Falling for Gin while facing unresolved feelings for Babi, he must confront love, loss, and who he's becoming.

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The Souvenir
2019 · dir. Joanna Hogg
🍅 90%6.4drama · romance

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

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

Tender science fiction in both cases

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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Asako I & II
2018 · dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
🍅 77%7drama · romance

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets Ryohei. He looks just like Baku, but has a completely different personality.

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Love
2015 · dir. Gaspar Noé
🍅 42%6.1drama · romance

Tender romance, and it commits to that

Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.

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