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Movies that feel likeLittle Joe (2019)

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.

If you loved Little Joe, the closest films we have are LFO (2013), Prospect (2018) and Born in Flames (1983). All three share Little Joe's cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Advantageous (2015).

🍅 66% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jessica Hausnercontemplativecerebral
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Hulu · Criterion Channel

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

Contemplative and cerebral in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

The difference: Trades the stillness of Little Joe for an angle of its own

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

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

Drama built on stillness, twice over

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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Vesper
2022 · dir. Kristina Buožytė
🍅 91%★ 6science fiction · drama · adventureRent or buy

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than Little Joe does

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

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

Both are drama through and through

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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Warriors of Future
2022 · dir. Ng Yuen-Fai
🍅 88%★ 5.6drama · action · science fictionNetflix

Both play science fiction straight

The difference: Sits closer to action than Little Joe does

When a meteor carrying a destructive plant strikes the world, a suicide squad is given hours to save their post-apocalyptic city from total collapse.

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The Face of Another
1966 · dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama · science fiction

Drama in the same key

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

Both working the same science fiction 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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I Origins
2014 · dir. Mike Cahill
🍅 51%★ 7.3science fiction · drama

Both know what they want from drama

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

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

The science fiction is handled with the same confidence

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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Marjorie Prime
2017 · dir. Michael Almereyda
🍅 89%★ 6.3drama · mystery · science fiction

Drama approached the same way

A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.

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