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Sheep in the Box (2026)

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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Ad Astra
2019 · dir. James Gray
🍅 83%6.5science fiction · drama

both about near future · shares that contemplative feel

The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.

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

both about artificial intelligence (a.i.) · shares that cerebral feel

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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Arrival
2016 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 94%7.9drama · science fiction · mystery

shares that melancholy feel

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

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The Danish Girl
2015 · dir. Tom Hooper
🍅 66%7.1drama

same contemplative energy

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

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Manchester by the Sea
2016 · dir. Kenneth Lonergan
🍅 96%7.8drama

both about grief · same melancholy energy

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

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The Giver
2014 · dir. Phillip Noyce
🍅 34%6.4drama · science fiction

same cerebral energy

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

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Ex Machina
2015 · dir. Alex Garland
🍅 92%7.7drama · science fiction

both about artificial intelligence (a.i.) · just as contemplative

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

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Blade Runner 2049
2017 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 88%8science fiction · drama

just as cerebral

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

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Godzilla
2014 · dir. Gareth Edwards
🍅 76%6.4action · drama · science fiction

kindred drama spirit

Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when an ancient alpha predator arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.

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The Platform
2019 · dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
🍅 81%7drama · science fiction · thriller

kindred science fiction spirit

A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.

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Melancholia
2011 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 80%7.1drama · science fiction

kindred drama spirit

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.

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Under the Skin
2014 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 83%6.3thriller · science fiction · drama

kindred science fiction spirit

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

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