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Movies that feel likeA Boy and His Dog (1975)

Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.

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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The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · dir. Richard Lester
🍅 64%★ 6.1comedy · science fictionPrime Video

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

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

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Sexmission
1984 · dir. Juliusz Machulski
★ 7.5science fiction · adventure · comedy

Common ground: dystopia

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

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 · dir. George Roy Hill
🍅 82%★ 6.8drama · science fiction · warPrime Video

Both land stillness and ideas at once

The difference: Sits closer to war than A Boy and His Dog does

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

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THX 1138
1971 · dir. George Lucas
🍅 72%★ 6.6science fiction · drama

Bleak drama, and it commits to that

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

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Fahrenheit 451
1966 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 82%★ 7.2drama · science fiction

Both lean on stillness more than on science fiction

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

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The Quiet Earth
1985 · dir. Geoff Murphy
🍅 75%★ 6.7drama · science fiction · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: life after the end

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than A Boy and His Dog does

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

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Rollerball
1975 · dir. Norman Jewison
🍅 55%★ 6.5science fiction · drama

Comedy built on ideas, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

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Advantageous
2015 · dir. Jennifer Phang
🍅 87%★ 6science fiction · drama

Bleak drama in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

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Testament
1983 · dir. Lynne Littman
🍅 90%★ 6.9drama · science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.

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The Omega Man
1971 · dir. Boris Sagal
🍅 65%★ 6.4science fiction · action · drama

Cerebral comedy, and it commits to that

Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.

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Kin-dza-dza!
1986 · dir. Georgiy Daneliya
★ 7.8comedy · science fiction · adventure

Witty and playful in the same breath

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

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Code 46
2003 · dir. Michael Winterbottom
🍅 52%★ 6.1drama · science fiction · thriller

Both lean on bleakness more than on drama

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.

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