Movies and TV shows like Firefly

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Firefly (2002)
 8.9
 299K
Firefly (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Firefly is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.
Style: exciting, witty, captivating, futuristic, clever, epic, apocalyptic, saga, cult classic, cliffhanger ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, spacecraft, space adventure, danger, escapades, survival, captain, space and aliens, friendship, smuggling, preacher, space wars, spaceship, space, mysterious past, space exploration, mercenary, female warrior, wit, space shuttle, outlaw, psychic, fugitive ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: space western

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Most similar movies to Firefly

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, futuristic, serious and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about outer space, space opera, space, spaceship, space program, space travel and danger mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Drama genres. Some movies like Firefly: Serenity (2005), Dark Matter (2015), The Expanse (2015), Defiance (2013), Killjoys (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 7.8
 314K
Serenity (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl ...
Style: futuristic, action packed, visually stunning, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: space travel, dystopia, space opera, escapades, spaceship, space adventure, outer space, spacecraft, space and aliens, psychic, super soldier, distopia ...
Time: future, year 2005, 2000s, distant future
Place: space western
Similarity:
96%
 7.5
 48K
Dark Matter (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, mind blowing, action adventure ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: space travel, outer space, space opera, memory loss, amnesia, distant planet, space and aliens, time travel, androids, space wars, friendship, survival ...
Time: future
Place: space western
Similarity:
88%
 8.5
 190K
The Expanse (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Style: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, human in outer space, spaceship, space station, conspiracy, spacecraft, space colony, space exploration, investigation, society ...
Time: future, 24th century, near future, 23rd century
Place: space western, hawaii
Similarity:
88%
 7.0
 47K
Defiance (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Defiance is an American science fiction television show that takes place in the future on a radically transformed Earth containing new species arriving from space. In the show, Joshua Nolan works as the lawman for the town of Defiance, a community ...
Style: exciting, stylized, serious, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: interspecies romance, alien, alien invasion, post apocalypse, escapades, lesbian, danger, enemy, ex military, law enforcement, survival, mayor ...
Time: future, 2040s, 21st century
Place: usa
Similarity:
100%
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 7.2
 25K
Killjoys (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.
Style: semi serious, exciting, tense, cynical, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space and aliens, outer space, imaginary, escapades, danger, space travel, space opera, bounty hunter, space mission, spacecraft, space, distant planet ...
Time: future
Similarity:
85%
Stargate Universe (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to ...
Style: futuristic, saga, exciting, tense, thrilling ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, human existence, human in outer space, spacecraft, space and aliens, space opera, outer space, technology, stargate, military, alien planet, space adventure ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s
Similarity:
88%
Stargate Atlantis (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, saga, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, fate of humanity, space opera, space adventure, good versus evil, danger, alien planet, technology, spacecraft, ancient mystery, parallel world ...
Time: 2000s, future
Place: space western
Similarity:
86%
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction TV series and a prequel to the original Star Trek set 100 years before. The series premiered September 26, 2001 on the UPN television network with the final episode airing on May 13, 2005. The series takes ...
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, erotic, saga ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: outer space, space travel, space and aliens, time travel, alien invasion, spacecraft, space exploration, space opera, alien life-form, good versus evil, escapades, adventurer ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: space western
Similarity:
88%
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 7.3
 112K
Lost in Space (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fights against all odds to survive and escape. But they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
Style: sincere, tense, exciting, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, teens, pre-teens, kids
Plot: outer space, space exploration, alien planet, spacecraft, robot, survival, alien creature, hopes, danger, space, youth, space adventure ...
Time: future, near future, 2040s, 21st century
Similarity:
81%
 6.6
 16K
Andromeda (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Andromeda is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: space travel, alien, space battle, outer space, spacecraft, artificial intelligence, space wars, spaceship, space opera, intergalactic, space, androids and robots ...
Time: future, distant future
Similarity:
73%
 8.3
 43K
Farscape (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
Style: futuristic, serious, exciting, bleak, funny ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, alien, space adventure, outer space, space wars, escapades, female alien, space, female warrior, astronaut, space opera ...
Time: future, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: memphis
Similarity:
78%
 7.6
 124K
Foundation (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follow a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire.
Style: futuristic, tense, captivating, realistic, novela ...
Plot: prophecy, human clone, star wars, space travel, female nudity, empire, genetic engineering, supernatural ability, strong female lead, a vision, civilization, spacecraft ...
Time: distant future, future
Similarity:
100%
 5.3
 40K
Another Life (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.
Style: tense, touching, disturbing, futuristic, captivating ...
Plot: outer space, space mission, space travel, astronaut, alien, space shuttle, space exploration, spacecraft, heroic mission, danger, space station, teamwork ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: space western
Similarity:
100%
 8.1
 5K
Blake's 7 (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
Style: cult classic, futuristic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, spaceship, spacecraft, dystopia, artificial intelligence, future war, star wars, robot, bad guy, bad guys win, magic, space battle ...
Time: future
Place: britain, space western
Similarity:
83%
 8.6
 647K
The Mandalorian (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Plot under wraps
Style: futuristic, exciting, saga, action adventure, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: star wars, outer space, space travel, space opera, bounty hunter, warrior, loner, space and aliens, one man army, alien civilization, tough guy, space adventure ...
Time: 90s, future
Place: space western
Similarity:
71%
 8.0
 108K
The Orville (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 300 years in the future.
Style: futuristic, feel good, exciting, parody, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: outer space, space travel, space battle, space exploration, space adventure, human in outer space, spaceship, robot, alien, danger, friendship, culture clash ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: space western
Similarity:
67%
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
Style: futuristic, sexy, exciting, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space opera, outer space, space and aliens, space wars, space battle, artificial intelligence, human in outer space, heroes, androids and robots, military, cyborgs ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: space western
Similarity:
67%
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise there was Discovery. Star Trek, one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns 50 years after it first premiered featuring a new ship, new characters and new missions, ...
Style: exciting, captivating, breathtaking, tense, epic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: star trek, outer space, alien, lgbt, space travel, homosexual, spacecraft, space adventure, time travel, danger, artificial intelligence, dystopia ...
Time: future, 24th century, 23rd century, 2020s, 2010s
Place: space western, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
64%
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 8.7
 2.5M
Interstellar (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Interstellar chronicles 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.
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, clever, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: space travel, time travel, outer space, nasa, astronaut, father daughter relationship, space, dystopian future, survival, end of the world, robot, space exploration ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, colorado
Similarity:
78%
 6.6
 6K
Outcasts (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Outcasts is a 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial, starring Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters. It originally aired on BBC One, and BBC HD. It was broadcast in the ...
Style: contemplative, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Plot: space colony, mysterious planet, survival, distant planet, society, human nature, expedition, isolation, chaos, danger, hopes, epidemic ...
Time: future, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
 6.7
 89K
Terra Nova (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, epic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama
Plot: time travel, dinosaur, survival, human existence, post apocalypse, danger, changing the past or future, extinction, research, dangerous animal, fate of humanity, sent to the past ...
Time: prehistoric times, near future, jurassic, prehistory, 22nd century
Similarity:
75%
 7.4
 16K
Mars (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The maiden crew of the Daedalus spacecraft must push itself to the brink of human capability in order to successfully establish the first sustainable colony on Mars. Set both in the future and in the present day, this series blends scripted elements ...
Style: exciting, serious, clever, captivating, semi documentary ...
Plot: mars, space colony, problem solving, space, friendship, catastrophe, journey, space exploration, adaptation, storytelling, twists and turns, life philosophy ...
Time: near future, year 2016, future, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
 7.3
 109K
Halo (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Depicting an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, the series weaves deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.
Style: futuristic, tense, anime, suspense, epic ...
Plot: alien invasion, outer space, evil alien, space and aliens, war, extraterrestrial, alien, future war, space travel, alien encounter, danger, space ...
Time: distant future, future
Place: usa
Similarity:
100%
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Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. The show is set in the nearby regions of the Milky Way galaxy, approximately during the 2360s and ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, epic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: space travel, star trek, space opera, space exploration, outer space, alien planet, spacecraft, space battle, captain, alien encounter, benign alien, alien contact ...
Time: future, 24th century
Place: space western
Similarity:
60%
Frank Herbert's Dune (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration: 265 min.
TV show
Story: A three part mini-series based on Frank Herbert's classic Science Fiction novel entailing politics, betrayal, lust, greed and the coming of a Messiah.
Style: atmospheric, epic, futuristic, stylized, light ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, rebel, dune, prophecy, desert, distopia, chosen one, technology, brutality, space travel, vengeance, alien planet ...
Time: future, year 2000
Similarity:
100%
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, in the years 2369 - 2375. Unlike the other Star Trek TV shows, it takes place on a space station instead of a ...
Style: funny, political, cult classic, intelligent, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: star trek, intergalactic, space opera, space, spacecraft, space wars, space travel, honor, space station, time travel, spaceship, atheism ...
Time: 24th century, future, 90s
Place: space western
Similarity:
100%
 7.9
 201K
Altered Carbon (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
Style: futuristic, tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, consciousness, artificial intelligence, investigation, resistance fighter, twists and turns, virtual reality, murder, body swapping, doppelganger, female nudity, multiple storylines ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: san francisco
Similarity:
75%
 8.4
 100K
Star Trek (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the ...
Style: exciting, intellectual, futuristic, retro, saga ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: star trek, space travel, outer space, friendship, space and aliens, heroic mission, benign alien, spacecraft, alien species, alien planet, space exploration, scientist ...
Time: 23rd century, future, 20th century
Place: space western, arizona
Similarity:
57%
 8.9
 166K
Cowboy Bebop (1998)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: In 2071, roughly fifty years after an accident with a hyperspace gateway made the Earth almost uninhabitable, humanity has colonized most of the rocky planets and moons of the Solar System. Amid a rising crime rate, the Inter Solar System Police ...
Style: anime, futuristic, serious, exciting, neo noir ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: bounty hunter, friendship, jazz, fighting crime, unlikely partners, chases and races, space travel, spaceship, escapades, outer space, buddies, machismo ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: space western
Similarity:
80%
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
TV show
Story: Sixty days on and Rygel is retrieving pieces of John and Aeryn from the sea bed. The Diagnosan re-crystalises them and they start getting to know the local species. Meanwhile, Scorpius and Sikozu are aboard a Peacekeeper Command Carrier on a recon ...
Style: atmospheric, talky, emotional, witty, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, space wars, human in outer space, space travel, space and aliens, couple relations, outer space, twists and turns, escapades, betrayal, on the run, rescue ...
Time: future
Similarity:
50%