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Movies that feel like Testament (1983)

If you loved Testament, the closest films we have are THX 1138 (1971), Cloud Atlas (2012) and Advantageous (2015). All three share Testament's contemplative and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on YouTube TV, Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lynne Littmancontemplativecerebralbleakcozy

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

Dystopia sits at the heart of each

The difference: Missing the comfort of Testament

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

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Advantageous
2015 · dir. Jennifer Phang
🍅 87%6.1science fiction · drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then ideas

The difference: 32 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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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 · dir. George Roy Hill
🍅 82%6.8drama · science fiction · war

Bleak drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans war where Testament does not

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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Gattaca
1997 · dir. Andrew Niccol
🍅 82%7.7science fiction · drama

Science fiction with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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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Aniara
2019 · dir. Pella Kågerman
🍅 70%6.3science fiction · drama

Both trade on ideas more than on being drama

A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

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Born in Flames
1983 · dir. Lizzie Borden
🍅 89%6.5drama · science fiction

Contemplative science fiction in both cases

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

Drama built on bleakness, twice over

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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War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 94%7.4drama · science fiction · war

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

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

Both run bleak where it counts

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

Both keep circling back to disaster

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

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Blade Runner
1982 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 89%8.1science fiction · drama · thriller

Both are drama through and through

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

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