Movies Like The Third Planet

If you liked The Third Planet (1991), a science fiction and drama movie directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin, 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
Solaris (1972)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and science fiction
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a…
2
The Ugly Swans (2006)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and drama
In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate the goings-on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. His tween daughter…
3
Dead Man's Letters (1986)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and science fiction
In a desolate world following the nuclear apocalypse, a scholar helps a small group of adults and children survive in the basement of a former museum of history. In his mind, he writes letters to his only son that will…
4
Serenity (2005)
★ 7.4/10Also science fiction
A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew…
5
The Abyss (1989)
★ 7.4/10Also science fiction
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where…
6
The Blackout (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is…
7
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and drama
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…
8
Rage of Stars (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction
A story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.
9
Warning Sign (1985)
★ 6/10Also drama and science fiction
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
10
Stalker (1979)
★ 8.1/10Also science fiction and drama
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an…
11
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground…
12
Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fiction
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he…
13
Spaceman (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and drama
Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.
14
Invasion (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also science fiction and drama
Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an…
15
RoboCop 2 (1990)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by…
16
On the Beach (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and science fiction
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has…
17
The Signal (2014)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness – only to find himself in a waking nightmare.
18
Dark City (1998)
★ 7.3/10Also science fiction
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
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Awake (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and science fiction
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in…
20
Monsters (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and science fiction
Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear…