
Movies that feel likeA Boy and His Dog (1975)
If you loved A Boy and His Dog, the closest films we have are The Bed Sitting Room (1969), Sexmission (1984) and Slaughterhouse-Five (1972). All three share A Boy and His Dog's cerebral and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Testament (1983).
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If A Boy and His Dog hit the spot, these will too

Both are working the same pair: dystopia, life after the end
The difference: Trades the stillness of A Boy and His Dog for an angle of its own

Common ground: dystopia
The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than A Boy and His Dog does

Both land stillness and ideas at once
The difference: Sits closer to war than A Boy and His Dog does

Bleak drama, and it commits to that

Both lean on stillness more than on science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: life after the end
The difference: Leans harder into thriller than A Boy and His Dog does

Comedy built on ideas, twice over
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Bleak drama in both cases
The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Science fiction with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Cerebral comedy, and it commits to that

Witty and playful in the same breath

Both lean on bleakness more than on drama
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