Passengers is in the science fiction genre and the space travel subgenre.
Passengers is a 2016 American science fiction film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts . Science fiction ( often shortened to SF , sci-fi or scifi ) is a genre of speculative fiction , typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology , space travel , time travel , faster than light travel , parallel universes , and extraterrestrial life .