Movies Like Lunar Dark
If you liked Lunar Dark (2025), a science fiction and thriller movie directed by Jimmy Martin, 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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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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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
★ 8/10Also science fictionHumanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
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Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003)
★ 7.8/10Also science fictionFour talented alien musicians are kidnapped by a record producer who disguises them as humans. Shep, a space pilot in love with bass player Stella, follows them to Earth. Reprogrammed to forget their real identities…
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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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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thrillerA surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.
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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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Titan A.E. (2000)
★ 6.6/10Also science fictionA young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
★ 6.5/10Also science fictionWhen an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.
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Mission to Mars (2000)
★ 6/10Also science fictionWhen the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.
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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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Earth to Echo (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionAfter a construction project begins digging in their neighbourhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going…
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Arrival (2016)
★ 7.6/10Also science fictionTaking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
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Explorers (1985)
★ 6.3/10Also science fictionMiddle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about…
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionThe world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
★ 6.7/10Also science fictionMere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the…
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Signal One (2026)
★ 6/10Also science fictionA 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…
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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
★ 7.2/10Also science fictionAn alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search…
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Last and First Men (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionAs the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution…
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Planet 51 (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionWhen Earth astronaut Capt. Chuck Baker arrives on Planet 51 -- a world reminiscent of American suburbia circa 1950 -- he tries to avoid capture, recover his spaceship and make it home safely, all with the help of an…
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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.