If You Liked The Abyss, Watch These Next
Finished The Abyss (1989) 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 The Abyss, most of them are adventure, thriller, science fiction.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Leviathan(1989)
6.0AdventureHorrorThrillerAlso adventure and thriller
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.
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2.Sphere(1998)
6.1Science FictionMysteryThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo…
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3.Rage of Stars(2026)
6.6ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
A story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.
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4.The X-Files(1998)
6.9MysteryScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
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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5.Alligator(1980)
6.0HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
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6.Die Alone(2024)
6.4HorrorThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Mae, a hardened and eccentric survivor. Together, Ethan and Mae face threats both human…
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7.Predator 2(1990)
6.3Science FictionActionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
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9.The X-Files: I Want to Believe(2008)
5.9MysteryScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
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10.Extinction(2018)
6.1ActionDramaScience FictionAlso science fiction and thriller
A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.
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11.Project Ithaca(2019)
5.9Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Five strangers awaken to find themselves trapped aboard an alien spaceship that seems to be harnessing their terror to power the ship. They begin to understand that these species have been abducting humans for decades and possibly centuries.
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12.Warning Sign(1985)
6.0DramaScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
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13.10 Cloverfield Lane(2016)
7.0ThrillerScience FictionDramaAlso thriller and science fiction
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
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14.Sunshine(2007)
7.0Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
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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16.Pitch Black(2000)
6.9ThrillerScience FictionActionAlso thriller and science fiction
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body…
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17.Serenity(2005)
7.4Science FictionActionAdventureAlso science fiction and adventure
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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19.Elevation(2024)
6.4ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Post-apocalyptic survivors find refuge in the Rocky Mountains to hide from giant, insect-like creatures that can't live above 8,000 feet. However, when one of them needs life-saving supplies, they risk it all to venture into the danger zone.
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20.V/H/S/Beyond(2024)
6.6HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.
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