If You Liked They Live, Watch These Next
Finished They Live (1988) 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 They Live, most of them are science fiction, action, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
2.Extinction(2018)
6.1ActionDramaScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
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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3.Predator 2(1990)
6.3Science FictionActionThrillerAlso science fiction and action
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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4.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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5.Long Distance(2024)
6.6Science FictionComedyActionAlso science fiction and action
After crash-landing on an alien planet, an asteroid miner must contend with the challenges of his new surroundings, while making his way across the harsh terrain to the only other survivor – a woman who is trapped in her escape pod.
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6.The 5th Wave(2016)
5.9Science FictionAdventureActionAlso science fiction and action
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
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7.Afterburn(2025)
6.2ActionScience FictionComedyAlso action and science fiction
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels…
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10.Attack the Block(2011)
6.5ActionComedyScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
A South London teen gang must team up with the other residents of their housing estate to protect the neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.
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11.The Purge(2013)
6.2Science FictionHorrorThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
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12.Alien Nation(1988)
6.1Science FictionCrimeThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
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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13.Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die(2026)
7.1Science FictionActionComedyAlso science fiction and action
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
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14.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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16.Elysium(2013)
6.5Science FictionActionDramaAlso science fiction and action
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious…
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18.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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19.Dark Skies(2013)
6.4Science FictionThrillerHorrorAlso science fiction and thriller
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly…
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20.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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