Movies like Contact (2025)
The best movies like Contact (2025) are Impostor (2001), Alien: Romulus (2024) and Ick (2025). If Contact hooked you with its science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Thing (1982)8.1/10 from 8,434 votes
- Newest0187 UFO (2026)Released 2026
- In SpanishThe Girl, The Hunter, & The Firefly (2024)Also in Spanish
Impostor (2001)
A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlien: Romulus (2024)
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIck (2025)
Science teacher Hank’s life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects that a new student may be his daughter—all while facing an alien threat in their town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Faculty (1998)
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 5th Wave (2016)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlade Runner (1982)
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAlien: Covenant (2017)
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSpaceman (2024)
Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Brother from Another Planet (1984)
A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrometheus (2012)
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBody Snatchers (1993)
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis Island Earth (1955)
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Thirteenth Floor (1999)
In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLandscape with Invisible Hand (2023)
Years into a benevolent alien occupation, mankind is still adjusting to its new overlords. Their technology initially held promise for global prosperity, but rendered most human jobs – and steady income – obsolete. When two teenagers discover the aliens are fascinated with human love and will pay for access to it, they decide to livestream their romance to make extra cash for their families.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Thing (2011)
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Thing from Another World (1951)
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTimescape (1992)
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 future who visit the past to witness history's greatest catastrophes—and his small town is their next stop.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBen 10: Alien Swarm (2009)
Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Thing (1982)
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTomorrow is a Long Time (2021)
Inside a block of flats, a young woman decides to act about something concerning her for a long time.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Moon Maidens (2023)
Take them to your leader. When sexy Moon Maidens invade the bodies of three earth women, they learn the meaning of human sexuality.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
moirAI (TBA)
Joana needs to deliver a script, but is out of ideas. When she uses an Artificial Intelligence tool to write for her, what the AI creates starts to become real, putting her and her friend in danger.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
The Girl, The Hunter, & The Firefly (2024)
The six months of darkness finally arrived in Bogotá and the rest of the world, and with them the promises of anarchy and terror of the so called "Hunters". As a 12-year-old girl, Ana escapes the city with her parents to protect them from danger. Locked in a bunker, Ana, Mateo, and Angela await underground in the hope that they will avoid the horrors of the surface. In the meantime, John, a 35-year-old man, and his wife, Laura, have to run for their lives without the benefit of a refuge.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
The Son of the Stars (1988)
In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board their ship while they go searching for the missing astronaut — but fate intervenes, crash-landing the ship on a jungle-like planet populated by bulbous, telekinetic aliens and eerie stone gardens of frozen space creatures.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Prometheus: Génesis Mala'kak - Primera Parte (TBA)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus (2021)
In a post-apocalyptic world brought on by the Coronavirus, communism runs rampant, meetings are forbidden and Christianity is illegal. A band of young believers launch an underground revolution to reunite Christians and regain freedom from their oppressive superiors.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisNot All Movies Are the Same: Dual (2025)
After losing everything to a personal mistake, a young man stumbles into a parallel world where a family is trapped by zombies. Driven to save them, he must navigate this deadly reality and fight for survival-and redemption
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
0187 UFO (2026)
There is a city in Italy on the coast surrounded by the mountains called La Spezia with an area code of 0187, which has been the scene of numerous UFO sightings. The peak of sightings dates back to the 70s: the reports include strange lights in the sky, disappearances and unknown presences in the woods. In the present day, four young people arrive looking for answers, they venture into the places that were the scene of these disturbing events.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
The Time Machine (I Found at a Yardsale) (2011)
How many times has this happened to you? Your mother goes out of town for a few weeks and you agree to take in her mail. You ride your bike over to her house and on the way you stop at a yardsale where an old man sells you a strange-looking gold box for seventeen dollars. Of course! It's happened to all of us how many times? It seems like every other movie begins the same way. But wait! Just as the movie seems to be mired in the mundane, it goes totally nuts!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Contact?
The closest matches to Contact are Impostor (2001), Alien: Romulus (2024) and Ick (2025). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Contact?
Start with Impostor (2001), the closest match to Contact.
What is the highest-rated movie like Contact?
The Thing (1982), rated 8.1/10 by 8,434 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Contact?
0187 UFO (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Contact?
Yes: The Girl, The Hunter, & The Firefly (2024) and Prometheus: Génesis Mala'kak - Primera Parte.
How are movies similar to Contact chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Contact, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.