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Movies that feel like Sexmission (1984)

If you loved Sexmission, the closest films we have are The Bed Sitting Room (1969), Kin-dza-dza! (1986) and A Boy and His Dog (1975). All three share Sexmission's cerebral and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, ARROW and OVID and others, checked against today's data.

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Juliusz Machulskicerebralepicwittyplayfulbleak

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The Bed Sitting Room
1969 · dir. Richard Lester
🍅 64%6.1comedy · science fiction

Both are working the same pair: dystopia, life after the end

The difference: Not nearly as epic as Sexmission

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

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Kin-dza-dza!
1986 · dir. Georgiy Daneliya
7.8comedy · science fiction · adventure

Common ground: life after the end

Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

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A Boy and His Dog
1975 · dir. L.Q. Jones
🍅 80%6.4drama · science fiction · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: dystopia

The difference: None of the scale Sexmission is built on

Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.

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

One thread runs through both: the future

The difference: Missing the scale of Sexmission

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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Code 46
2003 · dir. Michael Winterbottom
🍅 52%6.1drama · science fiction · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: the future

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Sexmission does

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.

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Delicatessen
1991 · dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
🍅 90%7.5comedy · science fiction · fantasy

The same mix in both: ideas, then wit

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
1985 · dir. George Miller
🍅 80%6.2action · adventure · science fiction

Epic and bleak in the same breath

Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.

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Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession
1973 · dir. Leonid Gaidai
8.2comedy · science fiction

Both lean on play more than on science fiction

A scientist builds a time machine and accidentally sends his apartment complex manager and a petty burglar to 16th century Moscow, while Tsar Ivan the Terrible travels to 1973.

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Testament
1983 · dir. Lynne Littman
🍅 90%6.9drama · science fiction

Adventure with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

It's just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.

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Zardoz
1974 · dir. John Boorman
🍅 49%5.8fantasy · action · thriller

Bleak comedy in both cases

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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Logan's Run
1976 · dir. Michael Anderson
🍅 58%6.8action · science fiction

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

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Roger & Me
1989 · dir. Michael Moore
🍅 100%7.5documentary · history · comedy

Epic comedy, and it commits to that

A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

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