Movies like Love (2011)
The best movies like Love (2011) are Gravity (2013), The Moon (2023) and Solaris (2002). If Love hooked you with its drama and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedProject Hail Mary (2026)8.6/10 from 8,781 votes
- NewestProject Hail Mary (2026)Released 2026
Gravity (2013)
Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Moon (2023)
In 2029, Korea's lunar probe Woori embarks on a historic journey to the moon, capturing global attention.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSolaris (2002)
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStowaway (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: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAstronaut (2019)
A lonely widower battles his family, ill health and time to win a competition for a golden ticket to space.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Moon (2009)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAd Astra (2019)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife (2017)
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Martian (2015)
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 alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPassengers (2016)
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like this2010 (1984)
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisApproaching the Unknown (2016)
Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisCapsule (2016)
1959: Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space, suffering Hypoxia, with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some unorthodox communication with Tyuratam deep in Soviet Russia. Can he get home? Who will help him? Will he make the right choice?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisAniara (2019)
A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI.S.S. (2024)
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. U.S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMagellan (2017)
After NASA picks up a trio of mysterious signals from within our own solar system, astronaut Roger Nelson is dispatched on a multi-year solo mission aboard the Magellan spacecraft to investigate the sources.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisProject Hail Mary (2026)
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 mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies 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: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVirtuality (2009)
Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. But as the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them to question if someone onboard might be a killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHigh Life (2018)
Monte and his daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew—death-row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives—has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSlingshot (2024)
An elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon, Titan, gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot manoeuvre that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStar People (2025)
A photographer receives a tip that could finally shed some light on her childhood UFO sighting. But a deadly heat wave and unexpected guests threaten to derail her obsessive search for answers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Proxima (2019)
Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven year old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. Her love is overpowering, unsettling. When Sarah is chosen to join the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Midnight Sky (2020)
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisScience Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child (2016)
Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonization, an unlikely pair race against an impending global crisis and are confronted by the monsters that live inside us all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisLost in Starlight (2025)
When an astronaut leaves Earth for Mars, the vast infinite space divides star-crossed lovers in this animated romance that crosses the cosmos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSalyut-7 (2017)
USSR, June 1985. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. Based on actual events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLucy in the Sky (2019)
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space – and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTeleios (2017)
A deep space mining vessel has been adrift for two years. It is suspected the crew brutally killed each other, but the reason for the bloodbath is unknown. A rescue crew is sent to find if there are any survivors, what happened and why.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like this3022 (2019)
A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space struggle to cope after Earth suffers an extinction-level event.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Love?
The closest matches to Love are Gravity (2013), The Moon (2023) and Solaris (2002). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Love?
People who watched Love most often go on to Gravity (2013), The Moon (2023) and Solaris (2002).
What is the highest-rated movie like Love?
Project Hail Mary (2026), rated 8.6/10 by 8,781 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Love?
Project Hail Mary (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Love?
Yes: Gravity (2013), Solaris (2002) and Stowaway (2021).
How are movies similar to Love chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Love, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.