Movies and TV shows like The Expanse

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The Expanse (2015)
 8.5
 170K
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, erotic, spiritual, political, satirical, detective ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, human in outer space, spacecraft, spaceship, space station, investigation, space colony, alien life-form, space wars, conspiracy, space exploration, society, space and aliens, rivalry, galaxy, space, space battle, survival, transformation, danger, solar system, uncover truth, planet ...
Time: future, near future, 24th century, 23rd century
Place: space western, hawaii
Keyword: partners, sport

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out futuristic, exciting, serious and suspenseful films and TV series with plots about space, space opera, outer space, space travel, spaceship, danger and dystopia mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Expanse: Battlestar Galactica (2004), Dark Matter (2015), Firefly (2002), Solaris (1972), Battlestar Galactica (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 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, exciting, stylized, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, space opera, space and aliens, space wars, cyborgs, space battle, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, extinction, human in outer space, military ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.5
 45K
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, action adventure, mind blowing ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: space travel, outer space, memory loss, space opera, space and aliens, space wars, time travel, androids, distant planet, survival, friendship, danger ...
Time: future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 9.0
 280K
Firefly (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 616 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, captivating, witty, futuristic, neo western ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, spacecraft, danger, escapades, survival, captain, space and aliens, smuggling, friendship, preacher ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 8.0
 98K
Solaris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, scientist, space travel, space and aliens, dream, metaphysics, space station, space, astronaut, loneliness, insanity, science ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, future, distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story: After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
Style: futuristic, cerebral, bleak, tense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space wars, outer space, imaginary, space battle, cyborgs, space and aliens, androids and robots, space, space opera, good versus evil, obsessive quest ...
Time: future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 8.7
 2.1M
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, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: space travel, time travel, outer space, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, space, survival, end of the world, distopia, natural disaster, apocalypse ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 7.9
 187K
Altered Carbon (2018)
Genre: Action, 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, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, consciousness, artificial intelligence, investigation, virtual reality, murder, resistance fighter, twists and turns, body swapping, female nudity, doppelganger, multiple storylines ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Defying Gravity (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Defying Gravity is a multi-nationally produced space travel television science fiction drama series which first aired on August 2, 2009 on ABC and CTV and was canceled in the autumn of 2009. Set in the year 2052, the series follows eight astronauts ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, stylized, philosophical, mind bending ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, spacecraft, space and aliens, space, space exploration, space mission, survival, friends, couple relations, danger, space opera ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2008)
Genre: Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 3 min.
TV show
Story: The 10 webisodes, entitled "The Face of the Enemy," tell a story that takes place between seasons 4.0 and 4.5 of Battlestar and follow Lt. Gaeta when he is sent off in a Raptor with a handful of strangers and one of them mysteriously dies. ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, space opera, battlestar galactica, space and aliens, imaginary, isolation, confined, spacecraft, danger, survival, cyborgs, galaxy ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 94K
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, novela, apocalyptic ...
Plot: prophecy, space travel, human clone, star wars, outer space, empire, supernatural ability, a vision, space, human existence, supernatural power, strong female lead ...
Time: distant future, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.6
 469K
Elysium (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, space station, apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, dark future, ecological disaster, post apocalypse, utopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
For All Mankind (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
Style: realistic, exciting, disturbing, suspense, stylized ...
Plot: space program, astronaut, space race, nasa, space travel, lesbian, mining, moon, u.s. president, moon landing, space, lgbt ...
Time: year 1969, future, 70s, 60s, 80s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.4
 34K
Babylon 5 (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, it's goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be ...
Style: serious, saga, suspense, philosophical, retro ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, outer space, space travel, space station, benign alien, time travel, good versus evil, danger, space and aliens, space, culture clash, friendship ...
Time: future, 23rd century, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Raised by Wolves (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, apocalyptic, intelligent, visually appealing ...
Plot: space colony, androids, distant planet, robot human relationship, survival, atheism, war, post apocalypse, alien creature, vestiges of humanity, religious cult, parents and children ...
Time: future, distant future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 105K
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: exciting, tense, sincere, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: outer space, spacecraft, robot, survival, alien planet, space exploration, danger, space, youth, alien creature, twists and turns, space adventure ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 8.3
 40K
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, mysterious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, outer space, space adventure, space wars, alien, space, astronaut, female warrior, escapades, space opera, heroes ...
Time: future, 20th century, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.8
 305K
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, semi serious, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: space travel, space opera, dystopia, outer space, spaceship, space and aliens, spacecraft, alien, space wars, future war, friendship, mechanic ...
Time: future, year 2005, 2000s, distant future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.2
 23K
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: exciting, captivating, semi serious, tense, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: outer space, imaginary, space and aliens, space travel, danger, space opera, bounty hunter, space, space mission, distant planet, spaceship, escapades ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, epic, breathtaking ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: star trek, space travel, space, spacecraft, spaceship, alien, exploration, outer space, human in outer space, friendship, space opera, space exploration ...
Time: future, 24th century, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.6
 274K
The 100 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, danger, fate of humanity, human existence, leadership, youth, nuclear holocaust, space station, outer space, rivalry, society ...
Time: future, near future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 8.5
 530K
Westworld (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story: A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be ...
Style: psychological thriller, stylized, serious, thought provoking, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, consciousness, moral dilemma, murder, technology gone awry, man versus machine, scientist, escapades, wild west, human android relationship ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, outer space, space battle, self sacrifice, escapades, heroic mission, space and aliens, danger, save the world, heroes, siege ...
Time: future, 2010s, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, serious, exciting, epic, saga ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: space travel, outer space, time travel, space and aliens, space opera, spacecraft, space exploration, star trek, alien life-form, alien invasion, intergalactic, space ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, tense, breathtaking, epic
Audience: teens
Plot: star trek, outer space, alien, space travel, spacecraft, space, lgbt, spaceship, homosexual, friendship, time travel, alien species ...
Time: future, 23rd century, 2020s, 2010s, 24th century
Place: space western, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 8.1
 50K
Resident Alien (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, feel good, light, funny ...
Plot: extraterrestrial, alien race, alien, alien disguised as human, alien contact, alien space craft, fish out of water, ufo, human alien, alien on earth, body horror, moral dilemma ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, action adventure, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, outer space, fate of humanity, space opera, spacecraft, danger, alien planet, space adventure, ancient mystery, good versus evil, parallel world, space wars ...
Time: 2000s, future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
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, intelligent, cult classic, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: intergalactic, star trek, space, space opera, space travel, space wars, space station, time travel, spaceship, deep space, star wars, outer space ...
Time: 24th century, future, 90s
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.6
 79K
The Peripheral (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks ...
Style: futuristic, thrilling, exciting, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, alternate reality, gamer, technology, female protagonist, society, robot, supernatural, social problems, advanced technology, changing lives ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 38K
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, disturbing, touching, apocalyptic, futuristic ...
Plot: outer space, space mission, space travel, space, shemale, alien, astronaut, space shuttle, space exploration, spacecraft, survival, danger ...
Time: future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
 5K
Crusade (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, ...
Style: apocalyptic, thrilling, futuristic, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, spacecraft, space and aliens, space, post apocalypse, space adventure, military, dystopia, intergalactic, deep space ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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