
Movies that feel likeThe Giver (2014)
If you loved The Giver, the closest films we have are Advantageous (2015), Never Let Me Go (2010) and Cloud Atlas (2012). All three share The Giver'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 Fahrenheit 451 (1966).
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If The Giver hit the spot, these will too

Both are built on the same subject: dystopia
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dystopia
The difference: Sits closer to romance than The Giver does

Contemplative and cerebral in the same breath
The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than The Giver does

Bleak drama in both cases
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Science fiction built on stillness, twice over

Both lean on ideas more than on drama
The difference: Leans harder into adventure than The Giver does

Romantic science fiction, and it commits to that

Drama with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

Contemplative science fiction in both cases

Both sit in the same cerebral register

A streak of bleakness through both

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