Movies like Elysium
Elysium (2013) is a sci-fi movie directed by Neill Blomkamp. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Interstellar (2014)
★ 8.5 · 41,492 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.
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2. Logan (2017)
★ 7.8 · 20,951 votes · Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
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3. Ready Player One (2018)
★ 7.6 · 17,477 votes · Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
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4. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
★ 7.6 · 15,845 votes · Sci-Fi, Drama
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
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5. Dune (2021)
★ 7.8 · 15,715 votes · Sci-Fi, Adventure
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
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6. They Live (1988)
★ 7.3 · 3,692 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
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7. Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
★ 6.4 · 5,913 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.
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8. Soldier (1998)
★ 6.4 · 1,010 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Drama
Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors who lead out a peaceful existence. The peace is broken as the new soldiers land on the planet to eliminate the colony, which Sergeant Todd must defend.
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9. Equilibrium (2002)
★ 7.1 · 5,269 votes · Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
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10. Demolition Man (1993)
★ 6.8 · 4,306 votes · Crime, Action, Sci-Fi
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.
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11. Serenity (2005)
★ 7.4 · 4,031 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew find themselves being pursued by an Alliance agent who will stop at nothing to find them.
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12. Riddick (2013)
★ 6.3 · 4,558 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
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13. Rollerball (1975)
★ 6.3 · 653 votes · Sci-Fi, Drama
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
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14. Code 8 Part II (2024)
★ 6.4 · 761 votes · Sci-Fi, Action, Crime
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
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15. Monsters of Man (2020)
★ 6.4 · 459 votes · Sci-Fi, Action
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six doctors on a humanitarian mission witness the brutal slaughter and become prime targets.
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