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Movies that feel likeGravity (2013)

Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.

If you loved Gravity, the closest films we have are Europa Report (2013), Sunshine (2007) and Elysium (2013). All three share Gravity's cerebral and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Spacewalker (2017).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfonso Cuaróncerebraltensecontemplativeawe
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Europa Report
2013 · dir. Sebastián Cordero
🍅 81%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller · dramaNetflixPeacock

Cold procedural realism about how space missions go wrong

The difference: Found-footage remove — you watch logs, not live terror

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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Sunshine
2007 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 77%★ 7.2science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

The overwhelming beauty and lethality of space in one frame

The difference: Crew-driven and mystical, chasing existential dread

Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.

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Elysium
2013 · dir. Neill Blomkamp
🍅 64%★ 6.6science fiction · action · dramaNetflix

Weightless orbital vistas set against a fight to simply survive

The difference: Angry and violent, trading wonder for class-war grit

In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 92%★ 7.7science fiction · thriller · drama

Cerebral and tense in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.

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The Wandering Earth
2019 · dir. Frant Gwo
🍅 70%★ 5.9science fiction · action · dramaRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: space station

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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Arrival
2016 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 94%★ 7.9drama · science fiction · mysteryParamount+Peacock

A woman carrying private loss into an encounter with the immense

The difference: Cerebral and slow-burning — the danger is never physical

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

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The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 21%★ 5.5drama · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

Humans dwarfed by something vast and indifferent to them

The difference: Talky message movie — no physical terror or breathlessness

A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.

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Deep Impact
1998 · dir. Mimi Leder
🍅 45%★ 6.3action · drama · science fictionParamount+

Disaster met with sorrow and sacrifice rather than swagger

The difference: Earthbound ensemble weepie — the space scenes are a slice

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

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

A crippled station, a repair mission and quiet cosmonaut heroism

The difference: Fact-based and steady — engineering suspense over spectacle

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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The Spacewalker
2017 · dir. Dmitry Kiselyov
★ 7.2adventure · drama · historyPrime Video

One thread runs through both: astronaut

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Gravity

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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Geostorm
2017 · dir. Dean Devlin
🍅 18%★ 5.4action · science fiction · thrillerRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: space

The difference: Trades the stillness of Gravity for an angle of its own

After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.

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Project Hail Mary
2026 · dir. Phil Lord
🍅 95%★ 8.2science fiction · adventurePrime Video

A lone scientist improvising survival in the emptiness of space

The difference: Bigger, warmer and jokier — a puzzle adventure, not an ordeal

Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.

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