Movies like Returner: 20 to watch next
If you loved Returner (2002) — a action, adventure and science fiction film directed by Takashi Yamazaki — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Returner most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like time travel and alien life-form. 7 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Parasyte: Part 2 2015★ 7.0
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mass Effect: Paragon Lost 2012★ 6.2
Shares: Action, Science Fiction
An untold chapter in the Mass Effect saga, following the early career of Alliance Marine, James Vega, as he leads a squad of elite special forces into battle against a mysterious alien threat known as The Collectors. Stationed at a colony in a remote star system, Vega and his troops must protect the inhabitants from an invasion of the deadly insectoid warriors determined to collect the population for unknown purposes. Soon after the attack, Vega's commanding officer falls in battle, forcing the young officer to embrace the responsibility of leadership for the colony's survival. Having idolized Earth's greatest hero and warrior, Commander Shepard (the central character in the Mass Effect video games), the young and idealistic Vega must now make life and the death decisions that will effect not only the lives of his squad, but the lives of every person in the colony - all of whom he has sworn to protect...
Stream in India on Crunchyroll, Sony Liv, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
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Monster Hunters 2020★ 6.2
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a secret branch of the government specializing in alien weaponry. But with the team untested in actual combat, the battle for Earth will be brutal.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Barbarella 1968★ 6.0
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Primevals 2023★ 6.2
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
Deep in the Himalayas, a group of sherpas kills a gigantic humanoid creature. Convinced that it is the legendary Yeti, Dr. Claire Collier organizes an expedition with her former student Matt Connor and hunter Rondo Montana, among others, to search for more specimens. But what awaits them is something that none of them could have imagined. A colorful fusion of real image and stop-motion that is reminiscent of fantastic films from the 1980s.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight 2002★ 6.0
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Timescape 1992★ 6.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the future who visit the past to witness history's greatest catastrophes—and his small town is their next stop.
Stream in India on Bloodstream
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Space Battleship Yamato 2010★ 6.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
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 capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Code 8 Part II 2024★ 6.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Extinction 2018★ 6.1
Shares: Action, Science Fiction
A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Occupation: Rainfall 2020★ 6.2
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. With the Alien invaders hell-bent on making earth their new home, the race is on to save mankind.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Ick 2025★ 6.0
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
Science teacher Hank’s life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects that a new student may be his daughter—all while facing an alien threat in their town.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Slash/Back 2022★ 6.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Terra Formars 2016★ 6.1
Shares: Action, Science Fiction
With the space program attempting to travel to Mars, 21st century scientists were tasked with warming up the planet so that humans could survive on its surface. They came up with an efficient and cost effective plan of sending cockroaches and mold to the surface so that the mold would absorb the sunlight and the insect corpses would serve as a food source for the mold. It is now the year 2577 and the first manned ship to Mars has landed on the planet and the six crew members are ready for their mission. But what they find are giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength. The crew members are easily wiped out, but not before sending a transmission back to Earth. Now, humanity will send elite warriors to exterminate the mutated bugs and claim back Mars.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Real Men 1987★ 6.0
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Spectral 2016★ 6.6
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Osiris 2025★ 6.1
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
Special Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, JioHotstar
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Predators 2010★ 6.3
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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Daylight's End 2016★ 5.8
Shares: Action, Science Fiction
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Monsters of Man 2020★ 6.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Action
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six doctors on a humanitarian mission witness the brutal slaughter and become prime targets.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now