Movies like Star Trek: First Contact: 20 to watch next
If you loved Star Trek: First Contact (1996) — a science fiction, action and adventure film directed by Jonathan Frakes — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Star Trek: First Contact most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like spacecraft, teleportation and inventor. 10 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Star Trek: Nemesis 2002★ 6.3
Shares: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Star Trek: Insurrection 1998★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller
When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the very ideals upon which the Federation itself was founded.
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Star Trek 2009★ 7.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991★ 7.0
Shares: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller
After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may be their deadliest encounter.
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12:01 1993★ 6.2
Shares: Science Fiction, Thriller
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the life of beautiful research assistant Lisa Fredericks.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.
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Star Trek: Generations 1994★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Thriller
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
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Stowaway 2021★ 6.0
Shares: Science Fiction, Thriller
A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Star Trek Beyond 2016★ 6.8
Shares: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles 2006★ 6.7
Shares: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
In the year 2044 AD, the human race has amped-up its space exploration and reached out to the stars through the miracle of ROBOTECHNOLOGY, but not without bringing intergalactic war upon the Earth itself. Heroes will die and allegiances will shift. But in the midst of combat, perhaps peace will spring up through the charred remains of battered history. One of the greatest science fiction sagas of all time continues...
Stream in India on Crunchyroll, Sony Liv, Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 2019★ 6.2
Shares: Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Space/Time 2025★ 5.8
Shares: Science Fiction, Action, Thriller
After a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or annihilate it entirely.
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Star Trek Into Darkness 2013★ 7.3
Shares: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The Adam Project 2022★ 7.0
Shares: Adventure, Science Fiction
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.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Stargate: Continuum 2008★ 7.1
Shares: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
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Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters - Predacons Rising 2013★ 8.0
Shares: Action, Science Fiction
Autobots, Decepticons, Predaking and Predacons form an unlikely alliance to battle a resurrected Unicron.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story 2018★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century 1979★ 6.2
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate.
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Guardians of the Galaxy 2014★ 7.9
Shares: Action, Science Fiction, Adventure
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Paycheck 2003★ 6.2
Shares: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.
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