If You Liked Elysium, Watch These Next
Finished Elysium (2013) 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 Elysium, most of them are science fiction, action, drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Soldier(1998)
6.4Science FictionActionDramaAlso science fiction and action
Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors who lead out a peaceful existence. The peace is broken as the new…
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2.Terminator: Dark Fate(2019)
6.4Science FictionActionAdventureAlso science fiction and action
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
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3.Equilibrium(2002)
7.1ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso action and science fiction
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
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4.Demolition Man(1993)
6.8CrimeActionScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.
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5.Serenity(2005)
7.4Science FictionActionAdventureAlso science fiction and action
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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6.Foxtrot Six(2019)
6.2ActionDramaScience FictionAlso action and drama
Escalating climate change is turning the world economy upside down. With crops dying and food price spiking, FOOD has replaced oil as the world's most valuable commodity. Among the very few lands still left fertile, Indonesia is quickly rising as the next economic superpower, when its government is suddenly and…
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7.Terminator Salvation(2009)
6.1ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso action and 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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9.Riddick(2013)
6.3Science FictionActionThrillerAlso science fiction and action
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his…
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10.THX 1138(1971)
6.4Science FictionDramaAlso science fiction and drama
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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11.Rollerball(1975)
6.3Science FictionDramaAlso science fiction and drama
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
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12.Monsters of Man(2020)
6.4Science FictionActionAlso science fiction and action
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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13.Batman: The Dark Knight Returns(2013)
8.1AnimationActionMysteryAlso action and science fiction
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl, but does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?
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14.Code 8 Part II(2024)
6.4Science FictionActionCrimeAlso science fiction and action
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
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15.Fortress(1992)
6.1ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
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16.Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight(2002)
6.0Science FictionAdventureActionAlso science fiction and action
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.
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17.Warning Sign(1985)
6.0DramaScience FictionThrillerAlso drama and science fiction
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
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18.Chappie(2015)
6.8CrimeActionScience FictionAlso action and 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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19.The Running Man(1987)
6.5ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by…
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20.The Terminator(1984)
7.7ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to…
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