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Movies that feel like The Spacewalker (2017)

If you loved The Spacewalker, the closest films we have are Salyut-7 (2017), Hidden Figures (2016) and Wolf Totem (2015). All three share The Spacewalker's epic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it’s up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown. They were supposed to do what no man has done before—and no man imagined what would happen next.

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Salyut-7
2017 · dir. Klim Shipenko
🍅 100%7.2action · drama · adventure

The same mix in both: scale, then stillness

The difference: Missing the tension of The Spacewalker

USSR, June 1985. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. Based on actual events.

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Hidden Figures
2016 · dir. Theodore Melfi
🍅 93%7.8drama · history

Two things both keep coming back to: space race and 1960s

The difference: None of the tension The Spacewalker is built on

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

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Wolf Totem
2015 · dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
🍅 67%6.6adventure · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 1960s

In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.

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

One thread runs through both: spacecraft

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than The Spacewalker 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 Coldest Game
2019 · dir. Łukasz Kośmicki
🍅 17%6.2drama · thriller

Tense drama, and it commits to that

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.

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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
2010 · dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
🍅 47%6.2drama · action · history

History built on scale, twice over

The Japanese forces occupy Shanghai and slowly start spreading terror in the city. Chen Zhen, who was presumed dead, returns to fight against the Japanese and put an end to their tyrannical rule.

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A Hijacking
2012 · dir. Tobias Lindholm
🍅 96%7.1thriller · drama

Thriller with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

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The Girl with the Needle
2024 · dir. Magnus von Horn
🍅 93%7.5drama · history

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.

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To Kill a Man
2014 · dir. Alejandro Fernández Almendras
6.3thriller · drama

Tense drama in both cases

Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. This event infuriates his son as much for Jorge’s meek acceptance as for the act itself. The son, looking for retribution, ends up getting himself shot. Kalule is sent to jail and when he gets out 18 months later, begins a campaign of terror against Jorge and his family. The authorities do nothing, so Jorge decides to take matters into his own hands.

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Labyrinth of Lies
2014 · dir. Giulio Ricciarelli
🍅 83%7.3drama · history

Contemplative history, and it commits to that

A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.

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Mira
2022 · dir. Dmitry Kiselyov
5.8science fiction · drama · adventure

The same hand behind both of them: Dmitry Kiselyov

Near future. Lera Arabova is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family in Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working at the orbiting space station "Mira" for many years and has long lost contact with his daughter, turning only into a voice on the phone. After a meteor shower hits the city, Lera has only one chance to save her loved ones and the city from a new disaster. Her father helps her in this - through satellite surveillance systems and the telephone, he uses every opportunity to send a message to his daughter, watching from above from the station her every step.

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The Hater
2020 · dir. Jan Komasa
🍅 87%7.1drama · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.

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