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Movies that feel likeProspect (2018)

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.

If you loved Prospect, the closest films we have are Little Joe (2019), LFO (2013) and Summer Wars (2009). All three share Prospect's cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Born in Flames (1983).

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Zeek Earlcerebral
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Little Joe
2019 · dir. Jessica Hausner
🍅 66%★ 5.8drama · science fiction

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Prospect does

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

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

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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Summer Wars
2009 · dir. Mamoru Hosoda
🍅 81%★ 7.4animation · science fictionMax

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.

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

Both working the same science fiction territory

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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Paradise
2023 · dir. Boris Kunz
🍅 100%★ 6.3science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Science fiction of the same temperament

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

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Krrish
2006 · dir. Rakesh Roshan
🍅 88%★ 6.5action · science fiction

Science fiction in the same key

In Singapore, Krishna is forced by circumstances to use his superpowers and become a masked superhero named Krrish, before getting drawn towards his lost legacy.

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

The same science fiction instincts

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

Both know what they want from science fiction

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

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The Man from Earth
2007 · dir. Richard Schenkman
🍅 100%★ 7.8science fiction · dramaPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: survival

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%★ 6.6drama · science fiction

The science fiction is handled with the same confidence

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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The Blackout
2019 · dir. Egor Baranov
🍅 57%★ 6thriller · science fiction · actionPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: survival

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

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

Both play science fiction straight

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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