Movies Like The Stranger

Ranked by shared directors, cast, themes, genre, and era — not just generic recommendations.

Ordeal

1973·1h 30m·★ 6.3·Lee H. Katzin

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Solaris

1972·2h 47m·★ 7.9·Andrei Tarkovsky

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Frankenstein

1973·3h·★ 6.1·Glenn Jordan

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The Astronaut's Wife

1999·1h 49m·★ 5.4·Rand Ravich

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Eolomea

1972·1h 22m·★ 5.6·Herrmann Zschoche

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Doctor Who: The Snowmen

2012·1h·★ 8.3·Saul Metzstein

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Terror Out of the Sky

1978·1h 37m·★ 4.6·Lee H. Katzin

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1968·2h 29m·★ 8.3·Stanley Kubrick

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2015·44m·★ 8.8·Brad Rau

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2001·1h 54m·★ 8.0·Richard Kelly

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Apollo 13

1995·2h 20m·★ 7.7·Ron Howard

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Gravity

2013·1h 31m·★ 7.7·Alfonso Cuarón

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Blackadder: Back & Forth

1999·33m·★ 7.6·Paul Weiland

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Armageddon

1998·2h 31m·★ 6.7·Michael Bay

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Harrison Bergeron

1995·1h 39m·★ 7.2·Bruce Pittman

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The Six Million Dollar Man

1973·1h 14m·★ 6.9·Richard Irving

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The Man Who Fell to Earth

1976·2h 19m·★ 6.6·Nicolas Roeg

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Zathura: A Space Adventure

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Moonraker

1979·2h 6m·★ 6.3·Lewis Gilbert

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