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Movies that feel like Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

If you loved Fahrenheit 451, the closest films we have are THX 1138 (1971), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) and A Boy and His Dog (1975). All three share Fahrenheit 451's contemplative and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel and Kino Film Collection and others, checked against today's data.

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. François Truffautcontemplativecerebralbleak

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

Both are working the same pair: dystopia, totalitarian regime

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

One thread runs through both: husband wife relationship

The difference: Sits closer to war than Fahrenheit 451 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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A Boy and His Dog
1975 · dir. L.Q. Jones
🍅 80%6.4drama · science fiction · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia

Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.

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The Omega Man
1971 · dir. Boris Sagal
🍅 65%6.4science fiction · action · drama

Contemplative where it counts, cerebral underneath

Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.

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Advantageous
2015 · dir. Jennifer Phang
🍅 87%6science fiction · drama

Bleak drama in both cases

The difference: 49 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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Testament
1983 · dir. Lynne Littman
🍅 90%6.9drama · science fiction

Science fiction built on stillness, twice over

It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.

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Logan's Run
1976 · dir. Michael Anderson
🍅 58%6.8action · science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Missing the stillness of Fahrenheit 451

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

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Rollerball
1975 · dir. Norman Jewison
🍅 55%6.5science fiction · action

Bleak drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

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The Quiet Earth
1985 · dir. Geoff Murphy
🍅 75%6.7drama · science fiction · thriller

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

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Metropolis
1927 · dir. Fritz Lang
🍅 97%8.2drama · science fiction

Different title, same corner of the shelf

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

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The Face of Another
1966 · dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
🍅 86%7.9drama · science fiction

Both play drama straight

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.

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Code 46
2003 · dir. Michael Winterbottom
🍅 52%6.1drama · science fiction · thriller

Both run bleak where it counts

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.

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