
Movies that feel likeValerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
If you loved Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the closest films we have are The Fifth Element (1997), The Marvels (2023) and The Wandering Earth II (2023). All three share Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets' epic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Star Trek Beyond (2016).
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If Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets hit the spot, these will too

Besson's own earlier vision of a wildly colorful, alien-packed future
The difference: A scrappier, funnier save-the-world plot with a much tighter budget feel

Cosmic-scale spectacle where mismatched heroes must learn to work as one team
The difference: A superhero-universe sequel, plot-lighter than Valerian's dense mythology

Vast, effects-driven spectacle built around saving humanity's future
The difference: A hard-sci-fi disaster epic, grounded rather than dreamlike and fantastical

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

Kinetic and awestruck in the same breath

Epic adventure, and it commits to that

A soldier thrown into a lavish alien civilization bursting with strange species
The difference: A Mars-set planetary romance, more classic pulp than dense sci-fi world-building

Dense, effects-heavy spectacle packed with alien technology and conflict
The difference: A robots-versus-humans war story, blunter than Valerian's world-building

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

A mysterious cosmic threat forcing a desperate race to save civilization
The difference: An Earth-bound disaster spectacle, not an alien metropolis adventure

Kinetic action in both cases

Adventure with a pulse of awe, in both cases
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