Movies like Arrival (2016)

10 films to watch after Arrival, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

  1. Moon poster

    Moon (2009)

    #1 Fit: 72%

    With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.

  2. The Vast of Night poster

    The Vast of Night (2019)

    #2 Fit: 72%

    At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

  3. Solaris poster

    Solaris (2002)

    #3 Fit: 69%

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

  4. K-PAX poster

    K-PAX (2001)

    #4 Fit: 68%

    Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

  5. The Andromeda Strain poster

    The Andromeda Strain (1971)

    #5 Fit: 64%

    When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

  6. Ad Astra poster

    Ad Astra (2019)

    #6 Fit: 60%

    The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

  7. Signal One poster

    Signal One (2026)

    #7 Fit: 53%

    A computer scientist is invited by a tech billionaire to join his private facility on a Caribbean island to investigate extraterrestrial matter on Earth. When they make contact beyond our world, chaos erupts as we’re left to wonder: do they come in peace?

  8. Primer poster

    Primer (2004)

    #8 Fit: 50%

    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 start to catch up with them.

  9. Cosmos poster

    Cosmos (2019)

    #9 Fit: 49%

    Three astronomers accidentally intercept what they believe to be a signal from a distant alien civilization, but the truth is even more incredible than any of them could have imagined.

  10. A.I. Artificial Intelligence poster

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

    #10 Fit: 47%

    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 of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.