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Movies that feel likeThe Face of Another (1966)

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.

If you loved The Face of Another, the closest films we have are Born in Flames (1983), LFO (2013) and Stalker (1979). All three share The Face of Another'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 The Element of Crime (1984).

🍅 86% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Hiroshi Teshigaharacontemplativecerebral
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Born in Flames
1983 · dir. Lizzie Borden
🍅 89%★ 6.6drama · science fiction

Contemplative and cerebral in the same breath

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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LFO
2013 · dir. Antonio Tublén
🍅 100%★ 6.6drama · science fiction

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

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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Stalker
1979 · dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
🍅 100%★ 8science fiction · dramaMax

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

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.

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

Contemplative drama 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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Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970 · dir. Joseph Sargent
🍅 90%★ 7.1science fiction · thriller

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: Trades the stillness of The Face of Another for an angle of its own

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

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The Andromeda Strain
1971 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 68%★ 7.2science fiction · thriller · drama

Drama in the same key

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Face of Another 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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Fantastic Voyage
1966 · dir. Richard Fleischer
🍅 91%★ 6.8science fiction · adventure

The science fiction is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than The Face of Another does

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

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Paris, Texas
1984 · dir. Wim Wenders
🍅 95%★ 8.1dramaMax

Cut from the same drama cloth

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 Element of Crime
1984 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 83%★ 6.7crime · drama · science fiction

Science fiction approached the same way

Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.

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Slaughterhouse-Five
1972 · dir. George Roy Hill
🍅 82%★ 6.8drama · science fiction · warPrime Video

Both know what they want from drama

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

Both working the same science fiction territory

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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Until the End of the World
1991 · dir. Wim Wenders
🍅 89%★ 6.8drama · science fiction · adventure

Both play drama straight

In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way, she runs into another fugitive from the law — an American doctor on the run from the CIA. They want to confiscate his father's invention – a device which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions.

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