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Movies that feel like Stalker (1979)

If you loved Stalker, the closest films we have are The Man from Earth (2007), Another Earth (2011) and Paris, Texas (1984). All three share Stalker's cerebral and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Philo and Fandor and others, checked against today's data.

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

πŸ… 100% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Andrei Tarkovskycerebralcontemplative

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If Stalker hit the spot, these will too

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The Man from Earth
2007 Β· dir. Richard Schenkman
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8science fiction Β· drama

Both land ideas and stillness at once

The difference: 28 years apart, and the 2000s show

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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Another Earth
2011 Β· dir. Mike Cahill
πŸ… 66%β˜… 6.9drama Β· science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Paris, Texas
1984 Β· dir. Wim Wenders
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8.1drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

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The Trip to Bountiful
1985 Β· dir. Peter Masterson
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.4drama

Both trade on ideas more than on being drama

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 Β· dir. Steven Spielberg
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.6science fiction Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: alien

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

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THX 1138
1971 Β· dir. George Lucas
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.6science fiction Β· drama

Science fiction built on stillness, twice over

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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Cloud Atlas
2012 Β· dir. Lana Wachowski
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.3drama Β· science fiction

Science fiction approached the same way

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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The Andromeda Strain
1971 Β· dir. Robert Wise
πŸ… 68%β˜… 7.2science fiction Β· thriller Β· drama

Both are drama through and through

The difference: Plays it as thriller more than Stalker does

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 Β· dir. George Roy Hill
πŸ… 82%β˜… 6.8drama Β· science fiction Β· war

The same science fiction instincts

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.

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Solaris
1972 Β· dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.9drama Β· science fiction Β· mystery

Andrei Tarkovsky directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

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Advantageous
2015 Β· dir. Jennifer Phang
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.1science fiction Β· drama

Cut from the same drama cloth

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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Gattaca
1997 Β· dir. Andrew Niccol
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.7science fiction Β· drama

The same science fiction instincts

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

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