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Movies Like Possibility of an Island

If you liked Possibility of an Island (2008), a science fiction and action movie directed by Michel Houellebecq, 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 action

    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. 3Monsters 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…

  4. 4Timescape

    Timescape (1992)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction

    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…

  5. 5Monster Hunters

    Monster Hunters (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and action

    When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a…

  6. 6Slash/Back

    Slash/Back (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and action

    In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.

  7. 7Babylon 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.

  8. 8Afterburn

    Afterburn (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and 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…

  9. 9Real 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.

  10. 102073

    2073 (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction

    Inspired 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…

  11. 11Babylon 5: A Call to Arms

    Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999)

    ★ 6.9/10Also action and science fiction

    Allies of the Shadows seek revenge against humanity. This movie sets up the series, "Crusade," the sequel to "Babylon 5."

  12. 12Halo: 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…

  13. 13Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    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. 14Daylight's End

    Daylight's End (2016)

    ★ 5.8/10Also action and science fiction

    Years 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…

  15. 15Osiris

    Osiris (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and action

    Special Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.

  16. 16Hounds of War

    Hounds of War (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10Also action

    After a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.

  17. 17Solo: A Star Wars Story

    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and action

    Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

  18. 18F.R.E.D.I.

    F.R.E.D.I. (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction

    An intelligent, lovable robot known as "F.R.E.D.I." is stolen from a secret research facility by the project's lead scientist. The robot is found by a 15 year old teenager, James. Soon the two begin to communicate and…

  19. 19Survive

    Survive (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and action

    A couple celebrates their son’s birthday in the middle of the ocean on their boat. A violent storm hits and it brings up hungry creatures from the depths and they fight for their survival.

  20. 20Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also action and science fiction

    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.

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