E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) is a sci-fi movie directed by Steven Spielberg. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

★ 7.0 · 992 votes · Family, Sci-Fi, Adventure
12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.
Movies like Flight of the Navigator →
★ 7.3 · 842 votes · Comedy, Drama, Family
A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.
Movies like CJ7 →
★ 7.2 · 15,310 votes · Action, Adventure, Comedy
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent K and new recruit Agent J find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

★ 6.8 · 8,894 votes · Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
Movies like Armageddon →
★ 7.4 · 4,880 votes · Sci-Fi, Drama
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind →
★ 6.4 · 966 votes · Comedy, Sci-Fi
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Movies like The Cabbage Soup →
★ 6.6 · 1,599 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.
Movies like Star Trek III: The Search for Spock →
★ 7.5 · 5,235 votes · Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Movies like Contact →
★ 6.8 · 5,257 votes · Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
Movies like Nope →
★ 7.6 · 20,021 votes · Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Movies like Arrival →
★ 6.9 · 10,811 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
Movies like Independence Day →
★ 8.2 · 16,976 votes · Horror, Sci-Fi
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Movies like Alien →
★ 7.3 · 1,109 votes · Sci-Fi, Adventure
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
Movies like Forbidden Planet →
★ 8.1 · 8,350 votes · Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Movies like The Thing →
★ 7.6 · 14,771 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Movies like Avatar: The Way of Water →
★ 8.5 · 41,495 votes · Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Movies like Interstellar →
★ 7.2 · 2,324 votes · Family, Sci-Fi, Comedy
The wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.
Movies like Lilo & Stitch →
★ 6.3 · 531 votes · Sci-Fi, Adventure, Family
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.
Movies like Explorers →
★ 6.6 · 306 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
After the death of his father, a boy growing up on a lunar mining colony takes a trip to explore a legendary crater, along with his four best friends, prior to being permanently relocated to another planet.
Movies like Crater →
★ 8.6 · 8,309 votes · Sci-Fi, Adventure
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.
Movies like Project Hail Mary →