Movies like Xeno: 20 to watch next
If you loved Xeno (2025) — a adventure, drama and mystery film directed by Matthew Loren Oates — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Xeno most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like alien, alien invasion and desert. 7 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The 5th Wave 2016★ 5.9
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Stream in India on Sony Liv, Sonyliv Amazon Channel
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Vesper 2022★ 6.2
Shares: Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Man Who Fell to Earth 1976★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Drama
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou, a quiet hotel clerk, and begins to fall in love with her. Just as he is ready to leave Earth, Thomas is intercepted by the U.S. government, and his entire plan is threatened.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Extinction 2018★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, 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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Justice League: Warworld 2023★ 6.7
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
Until now, the Justice League has been a loose association of superpowered individuals. But when they are swept away to Warworld, a place of unending brutal gladiatorial combat, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the others must somehow unite to form an unbeatable resistance able to lead an entire planet to freedom.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Enemy Mine 1985★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Science Fiction
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Tomorrow War 2021★ 7.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
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.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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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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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods 2009★ 7.2
Shares: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Goa'uld kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Goa'uld hosts.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Spaceman 2024★ 6.7
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama
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.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Serenity 2005★ 7.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew find themselves being pursued by an Alliance agent who will stop at nothing to find them.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Strawberry Mansion 2021★ 6.7
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of Arabella “Bella” Isadora, an eccentric, aging artist. Entering Bella’s vast VHS archive, which contains a lifetime of dreams, Preble stumbles upon a secret that offers him a chance at love—and hope for escape.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Kin 2018★ 6.1
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
A young boy finds a powerful otherworldly weapon, which he uses to save his older adoptive brother from a crew of thugs. Before long, the two of them are also pursued by federal agents and mysterious mercenaries aiming to reclaim their asset.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Return 1980★ 5.9
Shares: Mystery, Science Fiction
Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become worse when the cattle mutilations are joined by human murders and mutilations.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Heavy Metal 2000 2000★ 6.0
Shares: Adventure, Science Fiction
Upon discovery of a shard of what could be the Loc-Nar, a miner named Tyler becomes possessed with an insatiable hunger for power and a thirst for immortality. On his way to the planet of youth, Tyler wipes out most of a space colony and kidnaps a beautiful young woman. His only mistake is that he doesn't kill her sister, Julie, who then sets out on a mission of rescue and revenge.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Starship Troopers 1997★ 7.1
Shares: Adventure, Science Fiction
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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River Wild 2023★ 6.4
Shares: Mystery, Adventure
Follows a pair of siblings who love but distrust each other as they embark on a white-water rafting trip with a small group. One of their friends from childhood turns out to be more dangerous than he appears.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Infinite 2021★ 6.5
Shares: Science Fiction, Adventure
Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to his rescue, revealing that his memories are real.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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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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Archive 2020★ 6.4
Shares: Science Fiction, Drama
2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv