Movies Like Interstellar

Interstellar (2014) is an adventure and drama film directed by Christopher Nolan. Its recurring themes include spacecraft, race against time, artificial intelligence (a.i.), nasa. The 20 films below were selected because they overlap with it on measurable signals — shared genres, shared themes, overlapping cast or crew, and the audiences TMDB records as watching both. Interstellar stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine; where a recommendation shares one of those performers it is noted on the card.

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20 movies similar to Interstellar

The Martian (2015) poster

The Martian

2015Science Fiction, Drama7.7

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alo…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Drama • Adventure • spacecraft • nasa • space • Also stars Jessica Chastain

Star Trek (2009) poster

Star Trek

2009Science Fiction, Action7.4

The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Adventure • spacecraft • time travel • black hole

Stowaway (2021) poster

Stowaway

2021Science Fiction, Drama6.0

A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Drama • space travel • space • astronaut

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The Creator

2023Science Fiction, Action7.0

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…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Adventure • artificial intelligence (a.i.) • dystopia • space station

Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008) poster

Stargate: The Ark of Truth

2008Action, Adventure7.1

SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky…

Why it’s similar: Adventure • Science Fiction • spacecraft • space travel • wormhole

The Last Mimzy (2007) poster

The Last Mimzy

2007Drama, Science Fiction6.3

Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find…

Why it’s similar: Drama • Science Fiction • Adventure • time travel

Dune (2021) poster

Dune

2021Science Fiction, Adventure7.8

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Adventure • dystopia • space

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) poster

Blade Runner 2049

2017Science Fiction, Drama7.6

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chao…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Drama • artificial intelligence (a.i.) • dystopia

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) poster

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001Drama, Science Fiction7.1

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series o…

Why it’s similar: Drama • Science Fiction • Adventure • artificial intelligence (a.i.) • dystopia

Back to the Future (1985) poster

Back to the Future

1985Adventure, Comedy8.3

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu…

Why it’s similar: Adventure • Science Fiction • race against time • time travel

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) poster

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1979Science Fiction, Adventure6.5

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Adventure • spacecraft • artificial intelligence (a.i.)

After Yang (2022) poster

After Yang

2022Science Fiction, Drama6.4

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been pas…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Drama • father daughter relationship

Omni Loop (2024) poster

Omni Loop

2024Science Fiction, Drama6.0

Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Drama

Avengers: Endgame (2019) poster

Avengers: Endgame

2019Adventure, Science Fiction8.2

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must a…

Why it’s similar: Adventure • Science Fiction

Project Hail Mary (2026) poster

Project Hail Mary

2026Science Fiction, Adventure8.6

Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mi…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Adventure

WALL·E (2008) poster

WALL·E

2008Animation, Family8.1

After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EV…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction

Solaris (2002) poster

Solaris

2002Drama, Science Fiction5.9

A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

Why it’s similar: Drama • Science Fiction

The Philadelphia Experiment (1984) poster

The Philadelphia Experiment

1984Science Fiction, Adventure6.1

Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the futur…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Adventure

Primer (2004) poster

Primer

2004Science Fiction, Drama6.7

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention sta…

Why it’s similar: Science Fiction • Drama

Fight Club (1999) poster

Fight Club

1999Drama, Thriller8.4

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clu…

Why it’s similar: Drama

How this list was built

Candidates come from the recommendation and similar-title data TMDB publishes for Interstellar, merged and deduplicated. Each candidate is then re-ranked on genre overlap, shared TMDB keywords, shared director or cast members, and audience-rating confidence. Titles without a poster, a synopsis or enough votes to be a meaningful signal are dropped rather than padded in — which is why some pages show ten results and others twenty.

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