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Movies that feel likeThe Congress (2013)

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

If you loved The Congress, the closest films we have are LFO (2013), Little Joe (2019) and Summer Wars (2009). All three share The Congress' cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ari Folmancontemplativecerebral
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LFO
2013 · dir. Antonio Tublén
🍅 100%★ 6.6drama · science fiction

Both land stillness and ideas at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

LFO is a dark comedy/drama/Sci-Fi about a man who realizes that he can hypnotise with sound. He starts experimenting on his neighbors, where the abuse of power takes over and, eventually, severe consequences for mankind are at stake.

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Little Joe
2019 · dir. Jessica Hausner
🍅 66%★ 5.8drama · science fiction

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.

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Summer Wars
2009 · dir. Mamoru Hosoda
🍅 81%★ 7.4animation · science fictionMax

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Congress

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.

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Prospect
2018 · dir. Zeek Earl
🍅 89%★ 6.3science fictionHulu

Cerebral animation in both cases

A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive.

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Another Earth
2011 · dir. Mike Cahill
🍅 66%★ 6.9drama · science fiction

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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Born in Flames
1983 · dir. Lizzie Borden
🍅 89%★ 6.6drama · science fiction

The same science fiction instincts

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 1980s show

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.

Return
2008 · dir. Anna Błaszczyk
★ 6.7animation · science fiction

Cut from the same animation cloth

Polish animator Anna Błaszczyk’s humorous short—a collage of drawing, cut-out, and computer animation—was inspired by Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel Return from the Stars, a time-paradox tale of an astronaut who returns to Earth after many years away.

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I Origins
2014 · dir. Mike Cahill
🍅 51%★ 7.3science fiction · drama

Both are drama through and through

A molecular biologist's study of the human eye has far-reaching implications about humanity's scientific and spiritual beliefs.

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The Man from Earth
2007 · dir. Richard Schenkman
🍅 100%★ 7.8science fiction · dramaPrime Video

Science fiction approached the same way

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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Still Alice
2014 · dir. Richard Glatzer
🍅 85%★ 7.5dramaNetflix

Both play drama straight

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

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The Face of Another
1966 · dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama · science fiction

Both working the same science fiction territory

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.

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Warriors of Future
2022 · dir. Ng Yuen-Fai
🍅 88%★ 5.6drama · action · science fictionNetflix

Drama in the same key

The difference: Sits closer to action than The Congress does

When a meteor carrying a destructive plant strikes the world, a suicide squad is given hours to save their post-apocalyptic city from total collapse.

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