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Plot Summary:
After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, disturbing, apocalyptic, captivating, futuristic, crying
Best tv shows and movies like Another Life (2019):
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The Ark (2023)
Plot Summary:
100 years in the future, planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags:
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Race to Mars (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2030, the race to be the first to reach the Red Planet is on. Six extraordinary individuals from around the world are selected for this gruelling two-year mission, where they must rise above their fears and sacrifice their lives.in the face of overwhelming danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, educational
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Continuum (2012)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman awakens aboard an adrift space ship with no memory of who she is or how she got there and at the mercy of the ship's mysterious computer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
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Assassinaut (2019)
Plot Summary:
Assassinaut is a science-fiction adventure film about a young girl who braves the alien wilderness of a faraway planet to save the President of Earth from a murderous astronaut.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Missions (2017)
Plot Summary:
The first manned mission to Mars is now approaching the red planet. The crew includes top-flight scientists and a young female psychiatrist, responsible for their mental health. But just as they are about to land, something goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022)
Plot Summary:
Follow Christopher Pike, Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy. This show is a prequel to the original series and Star Trek: Discovery.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, futuristic
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Stowaway (2021)
Plot Summary:
A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, minimal cast, exciting, tense, captivating
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Nightflyers (2018)
Plot Summary:
A crew of space explorers embark on an mission to find a mysterious alien ship.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, space horror, tense, atmospheric, bleak, captivating, suspense
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Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
Plot Summary:
Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, funny, epic, political, saga, futuristic, fun
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Andromeda (2000)
Plot Summary:
Andromeda is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt. The series premiered on October 2, 2000 and ended on May 13, 2005. Andromeda was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and produced by Tribune Entertainment and Fireworks Entertainment. It was distributed by Global TV in Canada and syndicated in the United States on WGN and other channels. It was picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. halfway through season four. Andromeda is one of two TV series based upon concepts Roddenberry had created as early as the 1960s and 1970s. The name Dylan Hunt had also been used for the hero of two TV movie pilots Roddenberry had produced in the mid-1970s, Genesis II and Planet Earth, which had a similar premise. The other series posthumously created from Roddenberry's notes is Earth: Final Conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, apocalyptic, funny, retro, uplifting, serious, telenovela
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Babylon 5 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, it's goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, saga, suspense, philosophical, retro, uplifting, apocalyptic, futuristic, offbeat, bleak
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Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sixty days on and Rygel is retrieving pieces of John and Aeryn from the sea bed. The Diagnosan re-crystalises them and they start getting to know the local species. Meanwhile, Scorpius and Sikozu are aboard a Peacekeeper Command Carrier on a recon mission. They attack a Scarren ship, which provokes the Scarrens into declaring war on The Peacekeepers.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, witty, talky, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, intense, epic
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Defying Gravity (2009)
Plot Summary:
Defying Gravity is a multi-nationally produced space travel television science fiction drama series which first aired on August 2, 2009 on ABC and CTV and was canceled in the autumn of 2009. Set in the year 2052, the series follows eight astronauts from four countries on a six-year space mission through the Solar System, during which they are monitored from Earth via a real-time communication system. The series was pitched to networks as "Grey's Anatomy in space". Thirteen episodes of the series were produced before it was cancelled, only eight of which were shown on ABC, though the full run was shown in other countries or online.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, stylized, philosophical, sentimental, mind bending, futuristic, multicultural
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The Silent Sea (2021)
Plot Summary:
During a perilous 24-hour mission on the moon, space explorers try to retrieve samples from an abandoned research facility steeped in classified secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, mysterious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, feel good, silent
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The Astronauts (2020)
Plot Summary:
Five kids accidentally launch aboard a spacecraft meant to intercept a mysterious asteroid in space. With no proper training and a malfunctioning onboard AI, the kids must work together to find their way back home.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, absurd, serious, weird
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Space: Above and Beyond (1995)
Plot Summary:
Space: Above and Beyond is a short-lived mid-1990s American science fiction television show on the FOX Network, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. Originally planned for five seasons, it ran only for the single 1995–1996 season. It was nominated for two Emmy Awards and one Saturn Award. It was ranked "50" in IGN's top 50 Sci-Fi TV Shows, described as "yet another sci-fi show that went before its time". Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet fighters.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, cliffhanger, atmospheric, thrilling, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Debris (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, exciting, sad
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Farscape (1999)
Plot Summary:
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, exciting, bleak, cliffhanger, funny, retro, uplifting, mysterious, apocalyptic
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Killjoys (2015)
Plot Summary:
An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, semi serious, tense, dark, cynical, futuristic, humorous, witty
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Mission to Mars (2000)
Plot Summary:
When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, suspense, sentimental, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, anamorphic, psychological, psychological thriller
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Firefly (2002)
Plot Summary:
Firefly is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 278000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 616 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, witty, futuristic, neo western, clever, epic, apocalyptic, cult classic, cliffhanger
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Stargate Atlantis (2004)
Plot Summary:
With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to contact Earth, but their explorations unexpectedly reawaken the Ancients' deadly enemies, The Wraith, who hunger for this new prey. Now with the help of newfound local allies like Teyla Emmagan, the Atlantis Team sets about to uncover their new home's secrets even as their war of survival against the Wraith begins.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, epic, action adventure, funny, saga, thrilling, serious, suspenseful
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The Mandalorian (2019)
Plot Summary:
Plot under wraps.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 570000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, action adventure, suspenseful, enigmatic, retro, atmospheric, epic, serious, saga
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Gravity (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 853000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, scenic, suspense, minimal cast, intense, breathtaking, visually stunning, visual, serious
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Ad Astra (2019)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 256000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, touching, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, psychotronic, philosophical, fairy tale
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The Expanse (2015)
Plot Summary:
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 168000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense, erotic, spiritual, political, satirical, detective
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Lost in Space (2018)
Plot Summary:
After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fights against all odds to survive and escape. But they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 104000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, sincere, futuristic, sitcom, children's program
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Europa Report (2013)
Plot Summary:
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, cerebral, suspense, suspenseful, lovecraft, space horror, philosophical, futuristic, realistic
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Lost (2004)
Plot Summary:
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 584000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, mind bending, emotional, thought provoking, suspense, captivating, suspenseful
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The 100 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 270000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized, intellectual, humorous, sitcom, juvenile, action packed