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Movies that feel likeSputnik (2020)

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…

If you loved Sputnik, the closest films we have are Alien: Covenant (2017), Alien: Romulus (2024) and Spring (2014). All three share Sputnik's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Europa Report (2013).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Egor Abramenkocerebralcontemplativedreadunsettlingawe
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

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Alien: Covenant
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 65%★ 6.4horror · science fictionMax

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

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Sputnik does

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 fictionHulu

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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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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Life
2017 · dir. Daniel Espinosa
🍅 67%★ 6.6horror · science fiction · mysteryHulu

Unsettling where it counts, awestruck underneath

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

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

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

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Both lean on ideas more than on drama

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

Horror built on stillness, 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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The Host
2006 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 93%★ 7.1horror · drama · science fictionPrime VideoPeacock

Dread-soaked science fiction, and it commits to that

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

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Space Sweepers
2021 · dir. Jo Sung-hee
🍅 70%★ 6.5drama · fantasy · science fictionNetflix

Drama with a pulse of awe, in both cases

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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AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 21%★ 5.7adventure · science fiction · action

The same preoccupation in both: alien

When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.

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