Skip to content

Movies like Celestia

The best movies like Celestia are Contagion of Fear (2023), Redux Redux (2025) and War of the Worlds (2005). If Celestia hooked you with its science fiction and thriller, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

Quick picks

  1. Contagion of Fear (2023)

    A catastrophic train derailment sends the city spiraling into chaos. But the derailment is just the beginning. A biological gas attack sees crash survivors collapsing and dying within minutes. And the sickness is rapidly spreading.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  2. Redux Redux (2025)

    In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer again and again. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity begins to slip away—until the cycle is disrupted when she rescues Mia, a sharp-witted teenager already marked by the killer.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  3. War of the Worlds (2005)

    Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  4. Voyagers (2021)

    With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women -- bred for intelligence and obedience -- embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. When they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they soon become consumed by fear, lust and an insatiable hunger for power.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  5. A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

    Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

    Worth the HypeMovies like this
  6. Prodigy (2017)

    Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he begins to understand the extent of her capabilities and the fate that has been planned for her, he struggles to overcome her defenses before it is too late for them both.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  7. The Mandela Effect (2019)

    A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  8. Parallel (2024)

    Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe and realizes the multiverse gates hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  9. 2073 (2024)

    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 personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  10. Stowaway (2021)

    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 matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & thriller

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  11. Timescape (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 this
  12. Monster Hunters (2020)

    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 secret branch of the government specializing in alien weaponry. But with the team untested in actual combat, the battle for Earth will be brutal.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  13. 65 (2023)

    65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

  14. Alien: Alone (2019)

    An abandoned crew member aboard a derelict chemical hauler is trying to keep her ship and herself alive. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  15. Light of My Life (2019)

    Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  16. Long Distance (2024)

    After crash-landing on an alien planet, an asteroid miner must contend with the challenges of his new surroundings, while making his way across the harsh terrain to the only other survivor – a woman who is trapped in her escape pod.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  17. Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)

    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 city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  18. Cosmos (2019)

    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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  19. Chief of Station (2024)

    After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  20. Blood and Snow (2023)

    When researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

Like Celestia and something else?

Blend two favourites and we’ll find the films in between.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Celestia?

The closest matches to Celestia are Contagion of Fear (2023), Redux Redux (2025) and War of the Worlds (2005). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Celestia?

Start with Contagion of Fear (2023), the closest match to Celestia.

What is the highest-rated movie like Celestia?

A Quiet Place Part II (2021), rated 7.4/10 by 7,772 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Celestia?

Redux Redux (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Celestia?

Yes: Contagion of Fear (2023), Redux Redux (2025) and War of the Worlds (2005).

How are movies similar to Celestia chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Celestia, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

↑ ↓ to move · Enter to open · Full search page