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Movies Like The Aquanauts

If you liked The Aquanauts (1980), a adventure and science fiction movie directed by Igor Voznesensky, 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. 1Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight

    Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and adventure

    After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…

  2. 2Timescape

    Timescape (1992)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the…

  3. 3Mira

    Mira (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Near future. Lera Arabova is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family in Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working at the orbiting space station "Mira" for many years and has long lost contact with his daughter…

  4. 4Amphibian Man

    Amphibian Man (1962)

    ★ 6.8/10Also adventure and science fiction

    People living at a seashore town are frightened by reports of an unknown creature called "the sea devil". Nobody knows what it is, but it's really the son of doctor Salvator. The doctor performed surgery on his son and…

  5. 5Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

    Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and science fiction

    Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

  6. 6Cosmoball

    Cosmoball (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Cosmoball is a mesmerizing intergalactic game of future played between humans and aliens at the giant extraterrestrial ship hovering in the sky over Earth. A young man with enormous power of an unknown nature joins the…

  7. 7Babylon 5: The River of Souls

    Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure

    A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.

  8. 8Aliens

    Aliens (1986)

    ★ 8/10Also science fiction

    Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she…

  9. 9Guardians of the Galaxy

    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.

  10. 10Stowaway

    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.

  11. 11Chaos Walking

    Chaos Walking (2021)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and adventure

    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.

  12. 12The Creator

    The Creator (2023)

    ★ 7/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive…

  13. 13Afterburn

    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…

  14. 14The Black Hole

    The Black Hole (1979)

    ★ 5.8/10Also adventure and science fiction

    The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship…

  15. 152001: A Space Odyssey

    2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

    ★ 8/10Also science fiction and adventure

    Humanity 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.

  16. 16River Wild

    River Wild (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also adventure

    Follows a pair of siblings who love but distrust each other as they embark on a white-water rafting trip with a small group. One of their friends from childhood turns out to be more dangerous than he appears.

  17. 17Underwater

    Underwater (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and adventure

    After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

  18. 18Star Trek Beyond

    Star Trek Beyond (2016)

    ★ 6.8/10Also adventure and science fiction

    The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.

  19. 19Earth to Echo

    Earth to Echo (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure and science fiction

    After 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…

  20. 20The Adam Project

    The Adam Project (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also adventure and science fiction

    After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.

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