10 Otherworldly Movies & TV Series Like James Cameron's Avatar
James Cameron’s Avatar is renowned for its stunning visual effects, themes of colonialism and environmentalism, and its revolutionary use of technology. The wait for more Avatar movies has been long, but these similar titles are a welcome addition while we wait. Read on for a list of movies and TV series like Avatar, and details on where to stream them in the UK!
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is set in a future where people escape a bleak reality with the virtual world of OASIS. Like Avatar, the movie explores the concept of immersive worlds where characters take on different avatars, and the tension between corporate greed and the search for freedom.
Set during the Cold War, X-Men: First Class is about the struggle of mutant superheroes to coexist with humanity. It shares similar themes of characters being penalised for being different, and a world on the brink of war.
Earth is facing an alien invasion, and the existence of humanity is under threat in Independence Day. Humanity must unite against a common enemy, like the Na’vi must fight to protect their home. Will technology win over the will of a people to survive?
A Civil War veteran is transported to Mars and thrown into a conflict between its inhabitants. Can a human outsider integrate into alien culture? John Carter is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel.
A group of humans travel back in time to the prehistoric ages to start a new civilisation. Emphasising the importance of living in harmony with nature, both Terra Nova and Avatar centre around the struggle between those wanting to protect them and those wishing to exploit natural resources.
A Studio Ghibli classic, Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke explores the conflict between the natural world and industralisation when a young prince called Ashitaka struggles between the spirits and gods of the forest, and the humans to use their resources without consideration.
A programmer is transported inside a computer system and has to fight his way out of the digital world. Tron is about alternate realities and the blending of human consciousness with digital avatars, similar to Na’vi bodies used as avatars for human consciousness in Avatar.
A human and an alien crash-land on a hostile planet in Enemy Mine. In order to survive, they have to put aside their differences. Starring Dennis Quaid, the movie was the first Western science-fiction movie screened at cinemas in the Soviet Union.
Adapted from Frank Herbert’s iconic sci-fi novel, Dune and Dune: Part Two follow the epic struggle for the desert planet, Arrakis. Powerful forces fight for control of the most precious substance in the Universe, like the exploitation of natural resources in Avatar.
A lieutenant assigned to a remote Civil War outpost starts questioning his purpose after making contact with a neighboring Sioux settlement.
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