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Movies Like After Impact

If you liked After Impact (2026), a science fiction and drama movie directed by Michiel Rensen and Liam Carter, 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. 1Star Trek: Generations

    Star Trek: Generations (1994)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and thriller

    Captain 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…

  2. 2Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

    Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thriller

    A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.

  3. 3Upstream Color

    Upstream Color (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fiction

    A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

  4. 4The Martian

    The Martian (2015)

    ★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    During 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…

  5. 5After Yang

    After Yang (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and drama

    When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting…

  6. 6The Poseidon Adventure

    The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and thriller

    When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

  7. 7Mission to Mars

    Mission to Mars (2000)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and drama

    When 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.

  8. 8The Philadelphia Experiment

    The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller

    Based 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.

  9. 9The Andromeda Strain

    The Andromeda Strain (1971)

    ★ 7/10Also science fiction and thriller

    When 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…

  10. 10Xeno

    Xeno (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and science fiction

    A 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…

  11. 11Abandoned

    Abandoned (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller

    In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.

  12. 12The Last Mimzy

    The Last Mimzy (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fiction

    Two 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…

  13. 13Star Trek: Insurrection

    Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and thriller

    When 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…

  14. 14When Worlds Collide

    When Worlds Collide (1951)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and drama

    When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about…

  15. 15Lapsis

    Lapsis (2021)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller

    In 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…

  16. 169

    9 (2009)

    ★ 7/10Also science fiction and thriller

    When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that…

  17. 17Silent Running

    Silent Running (1972)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and drama

    After 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…

  18. 18Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

    Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

    ★ 7/10Also science fiction and thriller

    After 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…

  19. 19Jonathan

    Jonathan (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and science fiction

    Jonathan 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.

  20. 20The Iron Giant

    The Iron Giant (1999)

    ★ 8/10Also drama and science fiction

    In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

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