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Movies that feel likeAnother Earth (2011)

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.

If you loved Another Earth, the closest films we have are I Origins (2014), LFO (2013) and Prospect (2018). All three share Another Earth's cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Born in Flames (1983).

🍅 66% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mike Cahillcontemplativecerebral
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I Origins
2014 · dir. Mike Cahill
🍅 51%★ 7.3science fiction · drama

Mike Cahill directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

A molecular biologist's study of the human eye has far-reaching implications about humanity's scientific and spiritual beliefs.

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LFO
2013 · dir. Antonio Tublén
🍅 100%★ 6.6drama · science fiction

Contemplative where it counts, cerebral underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

LFO is a dark comedy/drama/Sci-Fi about a man who realizes that he can hypnotise with sound. He starts experimenting on his neighbors, where the abuse of power takes over and, eventually, severe consequences for mankind are at stake.

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Prospect
2018 · dir. Zeek Earl
🍅 89%★ 6.3science fictionHulu

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Another Earth

A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive.

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Little Joe
2019 · dir. Jessica Hausner
🍅 66%★ 5.8drama · science fiction

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.

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The Man from Earth
2007 · dir. Richard Schenkman
🍅 100%★ 7.8science fiction · dramaPrime Video

Contemplative drama in both cases

A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief.

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Still Alice
2014 · dir. Richard Glatzer
🍅 85%★ 7.5dramaNetflix

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

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Born in Flames
1983 · dir. Lizzie Borden
🍅 89%★ 6.6drama · science fiction

Drama of the same temperament

The difference: 28 years apart, and the 1980s show

In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

Return
2008 · dir. Anna Błaszczyk
★ 6.7animation · science fiction

The science fiction is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Another Earth does

Polish animator Anna Błaszczyk’s humorous short—a collage of drawing, cut-out, and computer animation—was inspired by Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Return from the Stars, a time-paradox tale of an astronaut who returns to Earth after many years away.

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The Father
2020 · dir. Florian Zeller
🍅 98%★ 8.2dramaRent or buy

Drama approached the same way

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

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Summer Wars
2009 · dir. Mamoru Hosoda
🍅 81%★ 7.4animation · science fictionMax

Both play science fiction straight

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.

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The Congress
2013 · dir. Ari Folman
🍅 71%★ 6.4drama · science fiction · animationRent or buy

Both working the same drama territory

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

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Stalker
1979 · dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
🍅 100%★ 8science fiction · dramaMax

Science fiction in the same key

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

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