Movies Like Making Contact

If you liked Making Contact (1985), a science fiction and fantasy movie directed by Roland Emmerich, 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
The Asphyx (1972)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and horror
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is…
2
Push (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and adventure
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick…
3
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also science fiction and adventure
When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots must team up with a powerful faction known as the Maximals. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, humans…
4
Transformers (2007)
★ 6.9/10Also adventure and science fiction
Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power…
5
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and science fiction
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human…
6
Dark Phoenix (2019)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and adventure
The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious…
7
The Medusa Touch (1978)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and science fiction
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
8
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and adventure
As humanity picks up the pieces after the battle of Chicago, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history…while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With…
9
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…
10
A-X-L (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and adventure
The life of a teenage boy is forever altered by a chance encounter with cutting edge military technology.
11
Fire and Ice (1983)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and science fiction
The villainous Nekron and his mother, Queen Juliana, plot against the human race from their frigid fortress. Creating mass destruction with huge glaciers, mother and son incur the wrath of Larn, a warrior whose entire…
12
Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also adventure and fantasy
When an Iraq War veteran receives a calling from a higher power, he embarks on a mission to stop a fallen angel from raising an army of the dead to take over the world.
13
Knights of the Zodiac (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and science fiction
When a headstrong street orphan, Seiya, in search of his abducted sister unwittingly taps into hidden powers, he discovers he might be the only person alive who can protect a reincarnated goddess, sent to watch over…
14
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction and adventure
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless…
15
Wizards (1977)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasy and science fiction
After the death of his mother, evil mutant wizard Blackwolf discovers long-lost military technologies. Full of ego and ambition, Blackwolf claims his mother's throne, assembles an army, and sets out to brainwash and…
16
Justice League: Gods and Monsters (2015)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and adventure
In an alternate universe, very different versions of DC's Trinity fight against the government after they are framed for an embassy bombing.
17
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also science fiction and adventure
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul…
18
Suicide Squad (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and fantasy
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted…
19
Cherry 2000 (1987)
★ 6/10Also adventure and science fiction
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his…
20
Willow (1988)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and adventure
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with…