Movies Like The Cosmonaut (2013)

The Cosmonaut is a 2013 drama, science fiction film from Nicolás Alcalá with a MovieMagicScore of 4.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with A.I. Rising and Salyut-7.

Drama Science Fiction

A.I. Rising

2018

On a lonely mission to Alpha Centauri, Milutin is teamed up with Nimani 1345, a female cyborg designed to fulfill his every need. At first thrilled to be able to control her, Sebastian grows tired of having his desires fulfilled so easily. Longing for human intimacy, Sebastian alters Nimani's programmed responses, but in doing so he risks the mission's security — and his own life.

5.0

MagicScore

Salyut-7

2017

USSR, June 1985. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life. Based on actual events.

7.1

MagicScore

Vanilla Sky

2001

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.

6.8

MagicScore

Sillunu Oru Kaadhal

2006

Gowtham and Kundhavi married then she finds a diary from his time at college, five years earlier. She thinks he would rather be married to Aishwarya, his college sweetheart, so she makes arrangements for them to meet again.

6.8

MagicScore

Wings of Life

2011

A beautiful love story in danger. Our future depends on an amazing love story between the flowers and fauna consisting of bees, butterflies, birds and bats, which allow these species to reproduce. Delicate and graceful, the flowers are not content to be the ultimate symbol of beauty. On the contrary, their vibrant colors and their exotic flavors are so many wonders that attract pollinators and drunk with desire. All these animals are involved in a complex dance of seduction on which one third of our crops, a dance without which we could survive ... Pollen presents the unsung heroes of the global food chain. Their fantastic worlds are full of stories, drama and beauty. While a fragile and threatened, essential for the balance of the planet, it should now actively protect ...

7.1

MagicScore

Sputnik

2020

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

6.5

MagicScore

Dersu Uzala

1975

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

7.9

MagicScore

Ballad of a Soldier

1959

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.

7.9

MagicScore

Fiddler on the Roof

1971

In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.

7.7

MagicScore

#10

They Fought for Their Motherland

1975

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

6.9

MagicScore

#11

Prisoner of the Mountains

1996

Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.

6.7

MagicScore

#12

Arsenal

1929

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal factory in Kyiv by the Central Council troops.

6.7

MagicScore

#13

The Charge of the Light Brigade

1968

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.

6.0

MagicScore

#14

We Can't Live Without Cosmos

2014

Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do their best in their everyday training life to make their common dream a reality. But this story is not only about the dream.

6.9

MagicScore

#15

Far Side of the Moon

2003

After the death of his mother, a man tries to discover a meaning to his life, to the universe and to rebuild a relationship with the only family he has left: his gay brother.

6.4

MagicScore

#16

Sergio and Sergei

2018

In 1991, the USSR is falling apart and Cuba enters its hardest economic crisis. Sergio, a professor of Marxism who can't provide for his family, and Sergei, a Soviet cosmonaut stranded in the Mir space station, share a common passion: amateur radio. Through this hobby, both men will be able to help each other in facing the dramatic changes of their countries.

5.9

MagicScore

#17

Planet of Storms

1962

Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.

5.5

MagicScore

#18

Harbinger Down

2015

A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of human companionship.

4.5

MagicScore

#19

The Muppet Christmas Carol

1992

A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

7.4

MagicScore

#20

A Cruel Romance

1984

In the town of Bryakhimov, noble but poor widow Harita Ignatyevna Ogudalova seeks to arrange marriages for her three daughters. She maintains an “open house”, hoping to attract gentlemen well-off enough to marry a dowry-less girl for love.

7.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Cosmonaut?

The top films similar to The Cosmonaut by MovieMagicScore are A.I. Rising (5.0), Salyut-7 (7.1), Vanilla Sky (6.8). Each shares drama/science fiction themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Cosmonaut worth watching?

The Cosmonaut holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.5/10 from 21 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Cosmonaut?

The Cosmonaut (2013) is a drama, science fiction film directed by Nicolás Alcalá, starring Leon Ockenden, Max Wrottesley, Katrine De Candole.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Cosmonaut?

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About movies like The Cosmonaut

This ranked list pairs The Cosmonaut (2013), a drama and science fiction film from Nicolás Alcalá, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Leon Ockenden take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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