If You Liked Cosmos, Watch These Next
Finished Cosmos (2019) 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 Cosmos, most of them are science fiction, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Contact(1997)
7.5DramaScience FictionMysteryAlso science fiction and mystery
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
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2.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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5.I Am Mother(2019)
6.7Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
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6.2073(2024)
6.7ThrillerScience FictionDramaAlso science fiction
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
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9.The Creator(2023)
7.0Science FictionActionAdventureAlso science fiction
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and…
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10.The Return of Doctor X(1939)
6.0Science FictionHorrorMysteryAlso science fiction and mystery
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well,…
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11.Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker(2019)
6.2AdventureActionScience FictionAlso science fiction
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
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12.Max Winslow and The House of Secrets(2020)
5.9FamilyScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
Five teenagers compete to win a mansion owned by entrepreneur and scientist Atticus Virtue. To win the teens must face-off against a super computer named HAVEN who controls the mansion.
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14.Omni Loop(2024)
6.0Science FictionDramaAlso science fiction
Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be.
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16.Chaos Walking(2021)
6.5FantasyScience FictionAdventureAlso science fiction
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
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17.The Thing from Another World(1951)
6.7DramaHorrorScience FictionAlso science fiction
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
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18.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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19.The Asphyx(1972)
6.0FantasyHorrorScience FictionAlso science fiction
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
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20.Babylon 5: Thirdspace(1998)
6.6ActionScience FictionAdventureAlso science fiction
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
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