If You Liked District 9, Watch These Next
Finished District 9 (2009) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like District 9, most of them are science fiction.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Chappie(2015)
6.8CrimeActionScience FictionAlso science fiction
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one…
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2.Twelve Monkeys(1995)
7.6Science FictionThrillerMysteryAlso science fiction
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up…
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3.Resident Evil(2002)
6.7HorrorActionScience FictionAlso science fiction
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
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4.Alien: Covenant(2017)
6.2HorrorScience FictionAlso science fiction
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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5.RoboCop(1987)
7.4ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso science fiction
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to…
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7.Enemy Mine(1985)
7.0DramaScience FictionAlso science fiction
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.
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9.THX 1138(1971)
6.4Science FictionDramaAlso science fiction
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret…
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10.Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City(2021)
5.9ActionHorrorScience FictionAlso science fiction
Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together…
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12.Terminator Salvation(2009)
6.1ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend…
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13.The Island(2005)
6.7ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso science fiction
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about…
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14.The X-Files(1998)
6.9MysteryScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
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15.Phoenix Forgotten(2017)
6.3HorrorMysteryScience FictionAlso science fiction
Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
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16.The Hidden(1987)
6.9ActionScience FictionHorrorAlso science fiction
When average, law-abiding citizens suddenly turn to a life of hedonistic behavior and violent crime, Detective Tom Beck is tasked with helping young FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher determine the cause.
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17.Swan Song(2021)
7.1DramaScience FictionAlso science fiction
In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking exploration of love, loss, and sacrifice.
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18.Crimes of the Future(2022)
6.0Science FictionHorrorThrillerAlso science fiction
With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's…
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19.Extinction(2015)
6.3HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
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20.Body Snatchers(1993)
6.2HorrorScience FictionAlso science fiction
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the…
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