Movies Like New Earth on the Barrens
If you liked New Earth on the Barrens (2015), a science fiction movie directed by Kyle Haskett, 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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Year 10 (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionAfter the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
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Afterburn (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionSet 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…
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Die Alone (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also science fictionLost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he…
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These Final Hours (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionWith the end of the world only hours away, self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing…
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Daylight's End (2016)
★ 5.8/10Also science fictionYears after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station…
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Arctic Apocalypse (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also science fictionA massive influx of glacial melting triggers a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere, forcing a family to make their way across the ice-covered landscape before they are frozen out for good.
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Warm Bodies (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also science fictionAfter a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
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Right at Your Door (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also science fictionA dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
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The Last Survivors (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also science fictionIn the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also science fictionThomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled…
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Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionAnd suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
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Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionBefore 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…
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Turbo Kid (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also science fictionIn a post-apocalyptic wasteland, an orphaned teen must battle a ruthless warlord to save the girl of his dreams.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionThe surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
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4 Horsemen: Apocalypse (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionA small team of scientists must race against time to stop what seems to be a cascade of global disasters signaling the possible apocalypse and end of days.
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
★ 7/10Also science fictionAfter a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
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Hostile (2018)
★ 6/10Also science fictionJuliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only come out at nighttime.
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Alien: Alone (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionAn abandoned crew member aboard a derelict chemical hauler is trying to keep her ship and herself alive. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.
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2073 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also science fictionInspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and…
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Awake (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionAfter 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…