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Movies that feel likeFantastic Planet (1973)

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

If you loved Fantastic Planet, the closest films we have are Ikarie XB 1 (1963), Silent Running (1972) and Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). All three share Fantastic Planet's cerebral and awe feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Fahrenheit 451 (1966).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. René Lalouxcerebralbleakawedreamlike
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Ikarie XB 1
1963 · dir. Jindřich Polák
🍅 100%★ 6.9science fiction

Two things both keep coming back to: space travel and surrealism

The difference: Takes it somewhere less bleak than Fantastic Planet does

The year is 2163. Starship Ikaria XB-1 embarks on a mission deep into space in search of alien life. During their perilous journey the crew confront the effects of a malignant dark star, the destructive legacy of the 20th century and, ultimately, the limits of their own sanity.

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

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Fantastic Planet for an angle of its own

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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Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 · dir. Don Taylor
🍅 75%★ 6.3action · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia

The difference: Sits closer to action than Fantastic Planet does

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.

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Aniara
2019 · dir. Pella Kågerman
🍅 70%★ 6.3science fiction · drama

One thread runs through both: space travel

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Fantastic Planet does

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

The same mix in both: ideas, then awe

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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Total Recall
1990 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 80%★ 7.5action · adventure · science fictionParamount+

Bleak science fiction, and it commits to that

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.

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Zardoz
1974 · dir. John Boorman
🍅 49%★ 5.8fantasy · action · thrillerPrime Video

Animation with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

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Fahrenheit 451
1966 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 82%★ 7.2drama · science fiction

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

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…

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The Chronicles of Riddick
2004 · dir. David Twohy
🍅 29%★ 6.6action · science fiction

Both lean on bleakness more than on animation

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 2000s show

After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.

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

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

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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Space Sweepers
2021 · dir. Jo Sung-hee
🍅 70%★ 6.5drama · fantasy · science fictionNetflix

Awestruck animation, and it commits to that

When the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory discovers a humanoid robot named Dorothy that's known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal which puts their lives at stake.

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

Both run bleak where it counts

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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