Movies like Slingshot (2024)
The best movies like Slingshot (2024) are If You Were the Last (2024), Lucy in the Sky (2019) and Gravity (2013). If Slingshot hooked you with its science fiction and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Martian (2015)7.7/10 from 22,103 votes
- NewestThe Astronaut (2025)Released 2025
If You Were the Last (2024)
Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisGravity (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 & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCargo (2019)
Aboard a spaceship where souls of the deceased are readied for reincarnation, a lone crew member's rigid existence is disrupted by a spry new assistant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
The Astronaut (2025)
After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA’s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening around the property, she fears that something extraterrestrial has followed her back to Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
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 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisApollo 18 (2011)
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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
Europa Report (2013)
A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to a tense and dangerous exploration.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove (2011)
After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies 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 science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVoyagers (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: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisProxima (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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSunshine (2007)
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like this2036 Origin Unknown (2018)
After the first manned mission to Mars ends in a deadly crash, mission controller Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson assists an artificial intelligence system, A.R.T.I. Their investigation uncovers a mysterious object under the surface of Mars that could change the future of our planet as we know it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisFree Fall (2025)
Cut off from his crew by a devastating proton storm, repairman Max drifts alone through open space and must trust Delta dispatcher Anna to bring him home alive. But survival has never felt so uncertain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLast Sentinel (2023)
Set in the future on a war-ravaged Earth, four exhausted soldiers man Sentinel - a remote military base in a vast ocean that separates two warring continents. While their tour of duty ended three months ago, the relief crew still hasn't arrived and as the empty weeks turn to months, paranoia descends, testing relationships to breaking point...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thriller & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies 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 science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDeus (2022)
A mysterious black sphere is discovered in the orbit of Mars. The Achilles is sent to investigate. After the bedraggled six-person crew wake from eight months hibernation, the Sphere is transmitting a single word in every Earth language ever known - Deus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Silent Planet (2024)
An aging convict serving out a life sentence alone on a distant planet is forced to confront his past when a new prisoner shows up and pushes him to remember his life on earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
The Beyond (2018)
Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered wormhole known as the Void. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency races to discover what the astronauts encountered on their first of its kind interstellar space journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisPitch Black (2000)
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like this
Like Slingshot and something else?
Blend two favourites and we’ll find the films in between.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Slingshot?
The closest matches to Slingshot are If You Were the Last (2024), Lucy in the Sky (2019) and Gravity (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Slingshot?
People who watched Slingshot most often go on to If You Were the Last (2024), Lucy in the Sky (2019) and Gravity (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Slingshot?
The Martian (2015), rated 7.7/10 by 22,103 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Slingshot?
The Astronaut (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Slingshot?
Yes: If You Were the Last (2024), Lucy in the Sky (2019) and Gravity (2013).
How are movies similar to Slingshot chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Slingshot, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.