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Movies that feel like Aniara (2019)

If you loved Aniara, the closest films we have are Gattaca (1997), Advantageous (2015) and Cloud Atlas (2012). All three share Aniara'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 Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel, YouTube TV and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Pella Kågermancerebralcontemplativebleakawe

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

Both circle dystopia and space travel

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1990s show

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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Advantageous
2015 · dir. Jennifer Phang
🍅 87%6.1science fiction · drama

Dystopia sits at the heart of each

The difference: Missing the awe of Aniara

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

Cerebral and contemplative in the same breath

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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Interstellar
2014 · dir. Christopher Nolan
🍅 73%8.7adventure · drama · science fiction

Space travel is the engine of both

The difference: Leans adventure where Aniara does not

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

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The Giver
2014 · dir. Phillip Noyce
🍅 34%6.4drama · science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of bleakness, 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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Moon
2009 · dir. Duncan Jones
🍅 90%7.8science fiction · drama

Both trade on awe more than on being drama

With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.

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

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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

Bleak science fiction, and it commits to that

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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Silent Running
1972 · dir. Douglas Trumbull
🍅 71%6.6adventure · science fiction · drama

Awestruck drama, and it commits to that

After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds with everyone but his mechanical companions.

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Ghost in the Shell
2017 · dir. Rupert Sanders
🍅 42%6.3science fiction · drama · action

Both work the same ideas

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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Elysium
2013 · dir. Neill Blomkamp
🍅 64%6.6science fiction · action · drama

Stillness is the shared currency

In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.

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