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Movies that feel likeA.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

If you loved A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the closest films we have are War of the Worlds (2005), War Horse (2011) and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). All three share A.I. Artificial Intelligence's bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Tin Drum (1979).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Steven Spielbergcontemplativecerebralepicmelancholybleak
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War of the Worlds
2005 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 76%★ 6.6adventure · thriller · science fictionMaxApple TV+

Same director's bleak dystopia puts a parent-child bond to the test

The difference: Alien-invasion survival thriller, no android boy chasing belonging

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

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War Horse
2011 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 74%★ 7.2war · history · drama

Same director's aching, epic odyssey toward someone who might not be waiting

The difference: A horse's WWI journey, not an artificial child's search for love

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.

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War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 94%★ 7.4drama · science fiction · warMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia

The difference: Less epic, more its own thing

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

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The Patriot
2000 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 61%★ 7.2drama · history · warParamount+

An epic, melancholy war drama built around loss and reluctant duty

The difference: Revolutionary War battlefield, no robots, no fairy-tale longing

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their new nation, America, against the British, Benjamin reluctantly returns to his old life to protect his son.

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Saving Private Ryan
1998 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 94%★ 8.6war · drama · historyParamount+Peacock

Same director's solemn, epic tour through duty and irreversible loss

The difference: A WWII rescue mission, no dystopia and no artificial child

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

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Finch
2021 · dir. Miguel Sapochnik
🍅 74%★ 6.9science fiction · drama · adventureApple TV+

Contemplative and cerebral in the same breath

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2020s show

On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.

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Braveheart
1995 · dir. Mel Gibson
🍅 74%★ 8.3drama · history · warParamount+

Grief curdles into an epic, sweeping quest that consumes everything

The difference: Medieval war epic soaked in rebellion, nothing like A.I.'s quiet fable

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

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Cloud Atlas
2012 · dir. Lilly Wachowski
🍅 65%★ 7.3drama · science fiction

A cerebral, dystopian meditation stretched across centuries of consequence

The difference: Six interlocking lives, not one android's singular, aching quest

A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

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Gattaca
1997 · dir. Andrew Niccol
🍅 82%★ 7.7science fiction · drama

Common ground: dystopia

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

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Schindler's List
1993 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 98%★ 9drama · history · war

Both are Steven Spielberg's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Leans further into history

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

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Jurassic Park
1993 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 91%★ 8.2adventure · science fictionHuluStarz

Steven Spielberg directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

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The Tin Drum
1979 · dir. Volker Schlöndorff
🍅 84%★ 7.4drama · history · warMax

Both land scale and melancholy at once

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

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