Movies like Project Hail Mary

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   The Adam Project

   Strong story similarity

   2022 · 106 min · Adventure · Comedy · Science Fiction

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   After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Tomorrow War

   Strong story similarity

   2021 · 138 min · Action · Adventure · Science Fiction

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   The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.

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   Spaceman

   Strong story similarity

   2024 · 108 min · Adventure · Drama · Science Fiction

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   Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: alien and astronaut
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Disclosure Day

   Strong story similarity

   2026 · 146 min · Science Fiction · Thriller

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   A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove there's life beyond our understanding.

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   • a closely matched era
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   Chaos Walking

   Strong story similarity

   2021 · 109 min · Adventure · Fantasy · Science Fiction

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   Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.

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   • strong story and style similarity
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   Jules

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 87 min · Comedy · Drama · Science Fiction

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   A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.

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   Interstellar

   Strong story similarity

   2014 · 169 min · Adventure · Drama · Science Fiction

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   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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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: astronaut and scientist
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Gravity

   Strong story similarity

   2013 · 91 min · Drama · Science Fiction · Thriller

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   Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: astronaut and space

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   Moonfall

   Strong story similarity

   2022 · 131 min · Action · Adventure · Science Fiction

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   A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: astronaut and space travel

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    65

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 92 min · Action · Adventure · Science Fiction

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    65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era

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