10 Movies Like Interstellar: Time, Big Ideas & Emotional Stakes

Language, memory and grief drive a first-contact story that becomes more moving the more you understand it.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: First contact · Emotional.

A scientist searching for extraterrestrial intelligence confronts belief, politics and the limits of evidence.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Scientific · Hopeful.

A controlled, introspective journey across the solar system built around a damaged father-son relationship.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Slow burn · Father and son.

A crew carries humanity's last hope towards the dying Sun in a visually overwhelming pressure-cooker mission.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Mission · Intense.

The essential cosmic mystery: patient, astonishing and more interested in human evolution than easy answers.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Classic · Philosophical.

More playful but equally committed to problem-solving, survival and the international effort to bring one person home.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Survival · Optimistic.

A lonely lunar worker begins to question his assignment and identity near the end of a three-year contract.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Isolation · Mystery.

A lean survival thriller that turns the hostility of space into an immediate physical experience.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Survival · Visceral.

Love, mortality and time intertwine across three stories in a bold, dreamlike companion piece.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Romantic · Abstract.