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Movies that feel like Alphaville (1965)

If you loved Alphaville, the closest films we have are Solaris (1972), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and THX 1138 (1971). All three share Alphaville's contemplative and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-Luc Godardcontemplativecerebraltwistybleakdreamlikeatmospheric

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If Alphaville hit the spot, these will too

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Solaris
1972 · dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
🍅 92%7.9drama · science fiction · mystery

Contemplative where it counts, cerebral underneath

The difference: Not nearly as bleak as Alphaville

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

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Blade Runner 2049
2017 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 88%8science fiction · drama

Both built around dystopia

The difference: Missing the twists of Alphaville

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

Dystopia sits at the heart of each

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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Marjorie Prime
2017 · dir. Michael Almereyda
🍅 89%6.3drama · mystery · science fiction

Drama built on twists, twice over

The difference: A 2010s film, from a different era of filmmaking

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.

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Contact
1997 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 69%7.5drama · science fiction · mystery

Contemplative science fiction, and it commits to that

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

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

The same preoccupation in both: distant planet

The difference: Plays it as war more than Alphaville 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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Videodrome
1983 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 83%7.2horror · science fiction · mystery

Both keep circling back to surrealism

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

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The Prestige
2006 · dir. Christopher Nolan
🍅 77%8.5drama · mystery · science fiction

Mystery with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975 · dir. Peter Weir
🍅 93%7.4drama · mystery

Both trade on atmosphere more than on being drama

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.

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Citizen Kane
1941 · dir. Orson Welles
🍅 99%8.2mystery · drama

Dreamlike mystery in both cases

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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Arrival
2016 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 94%7.9drama · science fiction · mystery

Both trade on twists more than on being science fiction

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

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

Drama built on bleakness, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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