If You Liked Arrival, Watch These Next
Finished Arrival (2016) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Arrival, most of them are drama, science fiction, mystery.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
3.Moon(2009)
7.6Science FictionDramaAlso science fiction and drama
With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.
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6.Interstellar(2014)
8.5AdventureDramaScience FictionAlso drama and science fiction
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
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7.A.I. Artificial Intelligence(2001)
7.1DramaScience FictionAdventureAlso drama and science fiction
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.
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9.Signal One(2026)
6.0MysteryScience FictionAlso mystery and science fiction
A computer scientist is invited by a tech billionaire to join his private facility on a Caribbean island to investigate extraterrestrial matter on Earth. When they make contact beyond our world, chaos erupts as we’re left to wonder: do they come in peace?
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10.Oblivion(2013)
6.7ActionScience FictionAdventureAlso science fiction and mystery
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed…
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11.Planet of the Apes(1968)
7.7Science FictionAdventureDramaAlso science fiction and drama
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
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12.Code 46(2003)
6.2DramaScience FictionThrillerAlso drama and science fiction
In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home,…
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13.Ad Astra(2019)
6.1Science FictionDramaAlso science fiction and drama
The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that…
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15.The Andromeda Strain(1971)
7.1Science FictionThrillerDramaAlso science fiction and drama
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form…
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16.Last and First Men(2020)
6.3DramaScience FictionAlso drama and science fiction
As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope.
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18.The Vast of Night(2019)
6.6DramaMysteryScience FictionAlso drama and mystery
At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
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