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Movies that feel like The Great Flood (2025)

If you loved The Great Flood, the closest films we have are Vesper (2022), Until the End of the World (1991) and Little Joe (2019). All three share The Great Flood's cerebral and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

When a raging flood traps a researcher and her young son, a call to a crucial mission puts their escape — and the future of humanity — on the line.

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Vesper
2022 · dir. Kristina Buožytė
🍅 91%6science fiction · drama · adventure

The same mix in both: ideas, then scale

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than The Great Flood does

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

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

Science fiction built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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

Cerebral drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Missing the scale of The Great Flood

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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JUNG_E
2023 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 52%5.5science fiction · action · adventure

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to action than The Great Flood does

On an uninhabitable 22nd-century Earth, the outcome of a civil war hinges on cloning the brain of an elite soldier to create a robot mercenary.

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

Both lean on stillness more than on science fiction

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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Coma
2020 · dir. Nikita Argunov
6.3science fiction · adventure · action

Cerebral adventure in both cases

A young and talented architect comes to his senses after a horrific accident only to find himself in the odd dystopian world. A world that is filled with the memories of all current coma patients. Just like a human memory this world is fragmental, chaotic and unstable. This is COMA: icecaps, rivers and cities can all exist in a space of a single room and laws of physics are no longer laws as they can be bent.

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The Congress
2013 · dir. Ari Folman
🍅 71%6.4drama · science fiction · animation

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

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Mira
2022 · dir. Dmitry Kiselyov
5.8science fiction · drama · adventure

Science fiction built on scale, twice over

Near future. Lera Arabova is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her family in Vladivostok. Lera's father has been working at the orbiting space station "Mira" for many years and has long lost contact with his daughter, turning only into a voice on the phone. After a meteor shower hits the city, Lera has only one chance to save her loved ones and the city from a new disaster. Her father helps her in this - through satellite surveillance systems and the telephone, he uses every opportunity to send a message to his daughter, watching from above from the station her every step.

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Parallel Mothers
2021 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 96%7.1drama

The drama is handled with the same confidence

Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

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Attraction
2017 · dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
🍅 36%5.6drama · romance · science fiction

Adventure of the same temperament

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

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Ra.One
2011 · dir. Anubhav Sinha
🍅 59%4.8adventure · action · science fiction

Both working the same science fiction territory

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

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Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall
2026 · dir. Jeff Wamester
8.1animation · action · adventure

Both play adventure straight

Arkham Asylum has been destroyed, and all its inmates have been unleashed upon Gotham City. As Batman races to round up some of his greatest enemies, he is pushed to his physical and mental limits and into a final confrontation with a new threat: the man called Bane!

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