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Movies Like Earthy Encounters

If you liked Earthy Encounters (2018), a science fiction and action movie directed by Sam Johnson, 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. 2Code 8 Part II

    Code 8 Part II (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and action

    In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.

  3. 3Halo: Nightfall

    Halo: Nightfall (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and action

    Set between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians… Halo: Nightfall tells the dramatic story of legendary man hunter and Naval Intelligence Officer Jameson Locke and his team as they are caught in a horrific…

  4. 4Monsters of Man

    Monsters of Man (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and action

    A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing…

  5. 5Timescape

    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…

  6. 6The 5th Wave

    The 5th Wave (2016)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and adventure

    16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.

  7. 7The Avengers

    The Avengers (2012)

    ★ 8.1/10Also science fiction and action

    When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from…

  8. 8Marvel One-Shot: Item 47

    Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 (2012)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and action

    Benny and Claire, a down-on-their-luck couple, find a discarded Chitauri weapon referred to as 'Item 47'.

  9. 9Chaos 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.

  10. 10Babylon 5: The River of Souls

    Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action and science fiction

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

  11. 11Guardians of the Galaxy

    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    ★ 7.9/10Also action and science fiction

    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.

  12. 12Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter

    Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013)

    ★ 7.2/10Also adventure and action

    Agent Peggy Carter is relegated to a desk job and frustrated at her male boss and comrades' sexist dismissal of her place in the SSR. Ordered to work late one night, Carter gets an alert that the villain Zodiac has…

  13. 13Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and adventure

    After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking…

  14. 14Babylon 5: The Gathering

    Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and action

    The feature-length pilot for this Emmy award-winning show. Babylon 5 is the latest in a series of space stations built by humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer…

  15. 15I Am Number Four

    I Am Number Four (2011)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and science fiction

    A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly…

  16. 16Real Men

    Real Men (1987)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and action

    A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.

  17. 17Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also adventure and action

    The 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.

  18. 18Superman Returns

    Superman Returns (2006)

    ★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and action

    Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed…

  19. 19Strawberry Mansion

    Strawberry Mansion (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and adventure

    In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote…

  20. 20Seized

    Seized (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also action and adventure

    Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero’s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to…

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