
Films like Interstellar (2014)
Published: Feb 22, 2026Interstellar plot: Crop failure and relentless dust storms threaten Earth’s survival. Former NASA pilot Joseph Cooper sets off on a space journey with a team, hoping to find a habitable planet and save the people left on Earth—including his own family.
Keywords: Ensemble cast, Betrayal, Con job, Race against time, Outer space, Space exploration, Quest, Search, Legacy, Con artist
Style characteristics: Tension, Complexity, Pacing

1. Gravity
Science Fiction Thriller Drama2013 · 1h 31min
United States, United Kingdom
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
During a routine mission on a space station, debris from a destroyed satellite strikes, killing part of the crew and sending the rest drifting into open space. Alone, Ryan Stone and Matt Kowalski fight for their lives, hoping to find a way back to Earth.
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Closest characteristics: Pacing, Darkness, Tropes, Tone
Notable differences: Tension (+12%), Action (+15%), Complexity (-33%)
Shared keywords
Race against time, Outer space, Encroaching threat, Survival
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Astronaut Roy McBride sets out on a space journey to Mars to make contact with his father—a legendary astronaut whose expedition vanished without a trace 29 years ago during a mission to search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Closest characteristics: Bleakness, Tropes, Tone
Notable differences: Tension (-12%), Pacing (-18%), Complexity (-23%)
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Alien ships arrive at multiple locations around the world. The U.S. government sends a team of scientists, led by a linguist and a physicist, to one of the ships to try to understand the visitors’ true purpose—before supporters of a military solution provoke a war.
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Closest characteristics: Complexity, Tension, Tropes, Themes
Notable differences: Pacing (-25%)
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In the distant future, humanity faces global cold as the Sun gradually dims. A space mission called Icarus II sets out for the Sun with a nuclear bomb onboard to reignite the fading star.
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Closest characteristics: Tension, Bleakness, Pacing, Tone, Tropes
Notable differences: Darkness (+20%), Complexity (-18%)
Shared keywords
Race against time, Outer space, Quest, Encroaching threat, Survival
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Astronaut Mark Watney is stranded on Mars after his crew evacuates the planet, believing him dead. Now he has to rely only on his own ingenuity and wits to contact Earth and hold out for rescue.
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Closest characteristics: Pacing, Tension, Tropes, Tone
Notable differences: Complexity (-23%)
Shared keywords
Race against time, Outer space, Space exploration, Survival
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After years of searching, a radio astronomer finds convincing proof of extraterrestrial intelligence when she receives a signal from an alien civilization. Embedded in the message are instructions for building a machine that could enable true contact with humanity.
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Closest characteristics: Complexity, Tropes, Tone
Notable differences: Tension (-13%), Pacing (-15%)
Shared keywords
Quest, Search
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Style
Two weeks before the end of his three-year contract on a lunar station, astronaut Sam is involved in an accident. As events unfold, he begins to suspect that something is wrong with the mission and the company controlling it.
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Closest characteristics: Tension, Tone, Tropes
Notable differences: Bleakness (+17%), Darkness (+18%), Pacing (-24%), Complexity (-12%)
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The film tells the story of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission to the Moon, meant to be the third crewed lunar landing, but instead the crew is forced to fight for their survival and a safe return home.
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Closest characteristics: Pacing, Tension, Tone, Tropes
Notable differences: Complexity (-13%)
Shared keywords
Race against time, Outer space, Survival
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Style

9. Tenet
Action Thriller Science Fiction2020 · 2h 30min
United States, United Kingdom
Director: Christopher Nolan
A secret service agent learns to use time inversion to save the world from criminals from the future who are trying to destroy the planet.
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Closest characteristics: Tension, Pacing, Complexity, Tropes, Tone
Notable differences: Darkness (+15%), Action (+30%)
Shared keywords
Race against time, Encroaching threat
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10. Coherence
Thriller Science Fiction2014 · 1h 29min
United States, United Kingdom
Director: James Ward Byrkit
During a dinner with friends, at the moment a comet passes overhead, the power goes out across the city. Trying to make sense of what’s happening, they run into unknown strangers who look exactly like them.
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Closest characteristics: Complexity, Tension, Bleakness, Tropes, Tone
Notable differences: Darkness (+20%), Pacing (-12%)
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11. Mickey 17
Science Fiction Comedy Adventure2025 · 2h 17min
United States, United Kingdom
Director: Bong Joon Ho
In the near future, Mickey Barnes takes on dangerous assignments for space colonization. Each time he dies, the people in charge create a new clone and upload his memories into a new body—until a malfunction leads to multiple versions of Mickey…
Similarity
Closest characteristics: Pacing, Tropes, Setting
Notable differences: Tension (-13%), Complexity (-13%)
Shared keywords
Outer space, Survival, Survival game
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12. Cloud Atlas
Drama Science Fiction2012 · 2h 52min
United States, Germany
Director: Lilly Wachowski
Several stories unfolding across different eras—from the 19th century to the distant future—follow people whose actions and their consequences travel through time and echo into what comes next.
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Closest characteristics: Pacing, Action, Complexity, Tone, Themes
Notable differences: Darkness (+15%)
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Tom Hanks
Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry

Halle Berry
Native Woman / Jocasta Ayrs / Luisa Rey / Indian Party Guest / Ovid / Meronym

Jim Broadbent
Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2

Hugo Weaving
Haskell Moore / Tadeusz Kesselring / Bill Smoke / Nurse Noakes / Boardman Mephi / Old Georgie

Jim Sturgess
Adam Ewing / Poor Hotel Guest / Megan's Dad / Highlander / Hae-Joo Chang / Adam / Zachry Brother-in-Law

Bae Doona
Tilda / Megan's Mom / Mexican Woman / Sonmi-451 / Sonmi-351 / Sonmi Prostitute
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13. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Drama Science Fiction Adventure2001 · 2h 26min
United States, United Kingdom
Director: Steven Spielberg
In a world where an ecological catastrophe and Earth’s overpopulation have led to strict limits on childbirth, a series of humanlike androids appears—capable of thoughts and emotions, yet tightly restricted in their rights.
Similarity
Closest characteristics: Tone, Themes
Notable differences: Bleakness (+23%), Darkness (+22%), Tension (-12%), Pacing (-12%), Complexity (-16%)
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14. Oblivion
Action Science Fiction Adventure Mystery2013 · 2h 4min
United States
Director: Joseph Kosinski
After a war with alien invaders, Earth is no longer habitable, and what’s left of humanity has moved to the orbital station Tet. Jack Harper carries out technical missions on the devastated planet and coordinates resource-harvesting drones, but a chance discovery makes him question everything he believed about the war and his own assignment.
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Closest characteristics: Pacing, Tension, Darkness, Tropes, Tone
Notable differences: Complexity (-16%)
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In the distant future, young Paul Atreides and his family find themselves at the heart of a struggle for the dangerous desert planet Arrakis. A conflict between powerful houses over control of the planet’s resources pulls the native people—the Fremen—into war.
Similarity
Closest characteristics: Tension, Action, Complexity, Tone, Themes
Notable differences: Darkness (+20%), Pacing (-12%)
Shared keywords
Betrayal, Survival
Top Cast
Style
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