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Movies that feel likeSlaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

If you loved Slaughterhouse-Five, the closest films we have are Fahrenheit 451 (1966), THX 1138 (1971) and Advantageous (2015). All three share Slaughterhouse-Five's contemplative and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George Roy Hillcontemplativecerebralbleak
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Fahrenheit 451
1966 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 82%★ 7.2drama · science fiction

The same mix in both: stillness, then ideas

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

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THX 1138
1971 · dir. George Lucas
🍅 72%★ 6.6science fiction · drama

Drama with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

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

Contemplative science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: 43 years apart, and the 2010s show

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

Both lean on ideas more than on war

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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Shame
1968 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 67%★ 8war · drama

Bleak drama in both cases

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Slaughterhouse-Five

In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

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The Quiet Earth
1985 · dir. Geoff Murphy
🍅 75%★ 6.7drama · science fiction · thriller

Science fiction built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Slaughterhouse-Five does

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

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

War with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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The Omega Man
1971 · dir. Boris Sagal
🍅 65%★ 6.4science fiction · action · drama

Both lean on bleakness more than on drama

The difference: Leans harder into action than Slaughterhouse-Five does

Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.

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Paisan
1946 · dir. Roberto Rossellini
🍅 100%★ 7.6drama · warMax

The same preoccupation in both: world war ii

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.

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

Science fiction in the same key

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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Beanpole
2019 · dir. Kantemir Balagov
🍅 93%★ 7.2drama · warRent or buy

The same war instincts

1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

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

Both are science fiction through and through

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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