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10 Best Movies Like Race to Space

If you loved Race to Space, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Project X

Project X

1987★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Race to Space for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious 'Project X'. Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to susp...

#2
Love Don't Co$t a Thing

Love Don't Co$t a Thing

2003★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Race to Space for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool....

#3
Flicka

Flicka

2006★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Race to Space for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. ...

#4
Arlo the Alligator Boy

Arlo the Alligator Boy

2021★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Race to Space for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Upon learning that he is from New York City, a wide-eyed boy, who is half human and half alligator, decides to leave his sheltered life in the swamp and search for his long lost fa...

#5
Planet 51

Planet 51

2009★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Race to Space for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When Earth astronaut Capt. Chuck Baker arrives on Planet 51 -- a world reminiscent of American suburbia circa 1950 -- he tries to avoid capture, recover his spaceship and make it h...

#6
Departure

Departure

2016★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Race to Space for fans of Drama & Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexua...

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