Movies Like Star People
If you liked Star People (2025), a science fiction and thriller movie directed by Adam Finberg, 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.
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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and thrillerWhen an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as…
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Space/Time (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and thrillerAfter a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or annihilate it entirely.
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Silent Running (1972)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and dramaAfter the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor…
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
★ 7.3/10Also science fiction and dramaAfter an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
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2010 (1984)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and science fictionWhile planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known…
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Jonathan (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and science fictionJonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
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The Last Mimzy (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fictionTwo siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more…
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Star Trek: Generations (1994)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and thrillerCaptain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been…
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The Martian (2015)
★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and dramaDuring a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only…
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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and thrillerWhen virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent…
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The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thrillerBased on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
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3:10 to Yuma (1957)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and thrillerDan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and thrillerAfter years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may…
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Lapsis (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thrillerIn a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of…
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
★ 7.4/10Also science fiction and thrillerAn alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
★ 8/10Also science fiction and dramaAmy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown…
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Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)
★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and thrillerA meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.
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Xeno (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and science fictionA teenage girl develops an otherworldly bond with an alien after it crash-lands in the desert. As government agents close in, she must protect her new friend, while uncovering a secret that could change the fate of…
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Countdown (1967)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and thrillerDesperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.
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The Arrival (1996)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and thrillerZane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the…