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Movies that feel like Advantageous (2015)

If you loved Advantageous, the closest films we have are Cloud Atlas (2012), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) and THX 1138 (1971). All three share Advantageous's cerebral and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on YouTube TV, HBO Max Amazon Channel and Cinemax Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 87% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jennifer Phangcerebralcontemplativebleak

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Cloud Atlas
2012 Β· dir. Lana Wachowski
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.3drama Β· science fiction

Both keep circling back to dystopia

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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War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 Β· dir. Matt Reeves
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.4drama Β· science fiction Β· war

Dystopia is the engine of both

The difference: Leans war where Advantageous does not

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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THX 1138
1971 Β· dir. George Lucas
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.6science fiction Β· drama

The same mix in both: ideas, then stillness

The difference: A 1970s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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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Aniara
2019 Β· dir. Pella KΓ₯german
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· drama

Science fiction built on bleakness, twice over

A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

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The Giver
2014 Β· dir. Phillip Noyce
πŸ… 34%β˜… 6.4drama Β· science fiction

Drama with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

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Blade Runner 2049
2017 Β· dir. Denis Villeneuve
πŸ… 88%β˜… 8science fiction Β· drama

Both trade on stillness more than on being science fiction

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

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Gattaca
1997 Β· dir. Andrew Niccol
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.7science fiction Β· drama

Bleak drama, and it commits to that

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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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 Β· dir. George Roy Hill
πŸ… 82%β˜… 6.8drama Β· science fiction Β· war

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

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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Ghost in the Shell
2017 Β· dir. Rupert Sanders
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· drama Β· action

Contemplative drama in both cases

In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

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Another Earth
2011 Β· dir. Mike Cahill
πŸ… 66%β˜… 6.9drama Β· science fiction

Cut from the same science fiction cloth

The difference: None of the bleakness that defines Advantageous

On the night a duplicate Earth is discovered in the solar system, the lives of a young woman and an accomplished composer become tragically connected after a fatal accident.

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Snowpiercer
2013 Β· dir. Bong Joon Ho
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.1action Β· science fiction Β· drama

A streak of bleakness through both

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

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Logan
2017 Β· dir. James Mangold
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8.1action Β· drama Β· science fiction

The same drama instincts

In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.

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