If You Liked 51, Watch These Next
Finished 51 (2011) 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 51, most of them are science fiction, horror.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.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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3.Die Alone(2024)
6.4HorrorThrillerScience FictionAlso horror 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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4.Rage of Stars(2026)
6.6ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
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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6.Phoenix Forgotten(2017)
6.3HorrorMysteryScience FictionAlso horror and 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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7.Books of Blood(2020)
6.3HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
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9.Alien Nation(1988)
6.1Science FictionCrimeThrillerAlso science fiction
A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine.
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10.Margaux(2022)
5.9HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux's plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time…
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12.Occupation: Rainfall(2020)
6.2Science FictionActionAlso science fiction
Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. With the Alien invaders hell-bent on making earth their new…
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13.Monsters of Man(2020)
6.4Science FictionActionAlso science fiction
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six…
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14.Blood and Snow(2023)
6.2Science FictionHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
When researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?
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15.Prometheus(2012)
6.6Science FictionMysteryHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
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17.Serenity(2005)
7.4Science FictionActionAdventureAlso science fiction
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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18.Frankenstein Unbound(1990)
5.9HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Mary Shelley and others.
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19.Alien: Romulus(2024)
7.2HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
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20.The X-Files: I Want to Believe(2008)
5.9MysteryScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
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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