Movies Like The Burden

If you liked The Burden (2023), a science fiction movie directed by Tish Arana, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Alien: Containment (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
Aboard a small escape pod, four survivors try to discover what caused the destruction of their spaceship.
2
Halo: Landfall (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
Director Neill Blomkamp explores the lives of Marines and ODSTs on a last, desperate mission in a post-invasion Earth – a mission that may secure the salvation, or usher the destruction of the entire galaxy. Edited…
3
Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor (2013)
★ 8/10Also science fiction
The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.
4
Afterburn (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also 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…
5
The Giver (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
6
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also 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.
7
Stowaway (2021)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
8
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions…
9
Superintelligence (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to…
10
Mickey 17 (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
11
Sleeper (1973)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
12
2036: Nexus Dawn (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
Niander Wallace introduces a new line of "perfected" replicants called the Nexus 9, seeking to get the prohibition on replicants repealed.
13
Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also 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.
14
Alien: Specimen (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.
15
Bugonia (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also science fiction
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
16
Dark Star (1974)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to…
17
2073 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also 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…
18
The Dark Tower (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
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Zygote (2017)
★ 7/10Also science fiction
The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.
20
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also 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…