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Movies that feel likeMarjorie Prime (2017)

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.

If you loved Marjorie Prime, the closest films we have are Innocence (2005), Sound of My Voice (2011) and Contact (1997). All three share Marjorie Prime's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is LFO (2013).

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Almereydacontemplativetwistycerebral
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Innocence
2005 · dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović
🍅 71%★ 6.8drama · mystery

The same mix in both: stillness, then twists

The difference: Takes it somewhere less cerebral than Marjorie Prime does

At a peculiar all-girls academy, new arrivals, including Iris, are delivered in coffins. Guided by enigmatic teachers, the students dance through enchanted woods by day, while the night unveils sinister lessons that blur innocence and awakening.

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Sound of My Voice
2011 · dir. Zal Batmanglij
🍅 76%★ 6.6science fiction · drama · mystery

Drama with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Marjorie Prime does

A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

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Contact
1997 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 69%★ 7.5drama · science fiction · mystery

Both lean on stillness more than on mystery

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1990s show

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

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The Call
2020 · dir. Lee Chung-hyun
🍅 46%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · science fictionNetflix

Twisty science fiction in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.

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Rojo
2018 · dir. Benjamín Naishtat
🍅 96%★ 6.3drama · mystery · thriller

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Marjorie Prime does

A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.

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The End of Oak Street
2026 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 86%★ 6.5science fiction · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Cerebral mystery, and it commits to that

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

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The Third Murder
2017 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 87%★ 6.7drama · mystery · crime

Science fiction built on twists, twice over

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

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The Return
2003 · dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
★ 7.9drama · mystery

Both play drama straight

Two young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old photograph after his sudden return from a long absence. With their mother’s reluctant consent, they set out on a remote trip that quickly becomes an uneasy test of authority, trust, and masculinity. As the journey moves deeper into the wilderness, the fragile bonds between father and sons are pushed to their limits.

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K-PAX
2001 · dir. Iain Softley
🍅 41%★ 7.4science fiction · drama · mystery

A 2000s answer to the same itch

Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

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

Science fiction approached the same way

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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Winter's Bone
2010 · dir. Debra Granik
🍅 94%★ 7.1drama · mysteryPrime Video

Both working the same drama territory

After discovering her father put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared, 17-year-old Ree Dolly must confront the local criminal underworld and the harsh Ozark wilderness in order to to track down her father and save her family.

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

The science fiction is handled with the same confidence

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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