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Movies that feel like LFO (2013)

If you loved LFO, the closest films we have are Another Earth (2011), Little Joe (2019) and The Man from Earth (2007). All three share LFO's contemplative and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads and Philo and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Antonio Tubléncontemplativecerebral

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Another Earth
2011 · dir. Mike Cahill
🍅 66%6.9drama · science fiction

Both land stillness and ideas at once

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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.

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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 · drama

Both trade on ideas more than on being science fiction

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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Born in Flames
1983 · dir. Lizzie Borden
🍅 89%6.5drama · science fiction

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: A 1980s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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.

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

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

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

Drama approached the same way

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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The Wall
2012 · dir. Julian Pölsler
🍅 76%6.7science fiction · drama

The same science fiction instincts

A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature.

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

Cut from the same drama cloth

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

Both are science fiction through and through

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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The Trip to Bountiful
1985 · dir. Peter Masterson
🍅 100%7.4drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

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Paris, Texas
1984 · dir. Wim Wenders
🍅 95%8.1drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

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Sheep in the Box
2026 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
6drama · science fiction

Science fiction approached the same way

In the near future, architect Otone Komoto is married to Kensuke, who runs a construction company. The married couple decide to welcome a humanoid robot into their home as their son.

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