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Movies that feel like The Face of Another (1966)

If you loved The Face of Another, the closest films we have are Stalker (1979), Born in Flames (1983) and The Man from Earth (2007). All three share The Face of Another's contemplative and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 86% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Hiroshi Teshigaharacontemplativecerebral

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If The Face of Another hit the spot, these will too

Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: One Battle After Another (2025)

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Stalker
1979 Β· dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8science fiction Β· drama

Both land stillness and ideas at once

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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Born in Flames
1983 Β· dir. Lizzie Borden
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.5drama Β· science fiction

Contemplative drama in both cases

In near-future New York, ten years after the β€œsocial-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

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

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

The difference: A 2000s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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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LFO
2013 Β· dir. Antonio TublΓ©n
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.6drama Β· science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

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 Β· dir. Jessica Hausner
πŸ… 66%β˜… 5.8drama Β· science fiction

Cut from the same drama cloth

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

Drama approached the same way

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 are drama through and through

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 science fiction instincts

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

The same science fiction instincts

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

Both are science fiction through and through

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

Cut from the same drama cloth

The difference: Leans thriller where The Face of Another does not

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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