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Movies that feel likeThe Spacewalker (2017)

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.

If you loved The Spacewalker, the closest films we have are Salyut-7 (2017), Europa Report (2013) and Trekkies (1997). All three share The Spacewalker's contemplative and awe feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Wandering Earth II (2023).

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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: Easier on the tension than 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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Europa Report
2013 · dir. Sebastián Cordero
🍅 81%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller · dramaNetflixPeacock

One thread runs through both: spacecraft

The difference: Trades the scale of The Spacewalker for an angle of its own

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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Trekkies
1997 · dir. Roger Nygard
🍅 88%★ 6.9documentaryPrime Video

Both lean on awe more than on adventure

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than The Spacewalker does

Denise Crosby takes a first look at the huge fans of "Star Trek" from around America and how the series has affected and shaped their lives.

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The Wandering Earth II
2023 · dir. Frant Gwo
🍅 83%★ 6.7science fiction · action · adventure

Epic drama in both cases

Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.

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

The same preoccupation in both: spacecraft

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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Jurassic World
2015 · dir. Colin Trevorrow
🍅 72%★ 6.9adventure · science fiction · thrillerApple TV+

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.

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

Contemplative history, and it commits to that

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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Gravity
2013 · dir. Alfonso Cuarón
🍅 96%★ 7.7science fiction · thriller · dramaParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: astronaut

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.

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First Man
2018 · dir. Damien Chazelle
🍅 87%★ 7.3history · drama

Drama built on awe, twice over

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

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

Adventure with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Serenity
2005 · dir. Joss Whedon
🍅 82%★ 7.8science fiction · action · adventure

Different title, same corner of the shelf

A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew find themselves being pursued by an Alliance agent who will stop at nothing to find them.

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

Both lean on tension more than on history

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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