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Movies that feel likeZardoz (1974)

In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

If you loved Zardoz, the closest films we have are The Omega Man (1971), Logan's Run (1976) and Escape from New York (1981). All three share Zardoz's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Time Machine (1960).

🍅 49% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Boormandreamlikekinetictensecerebralbleak
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The Omega Man
1971 · dir. Boris Sagal
🍅 65%★ 6.4science fiction · action · drama

Both are built on the same subject: dystopia

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than Zardoz does

Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.

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Logan's Run
1976 · dir. Michael Anderson
🍅 58%★ 6.8action · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Zardoz for an angle of its own

In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.

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Escape from New York
1981 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 70%★ 7.1action · thriller · science fiction

Both land momentum and tension at once

In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.

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The Time Machine
1960 · dir. George Pal
🍅 77%★ 7.5thriller · adventure · fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the future

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

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Mad Max
1979 · dir. George Miller
🍅 89%★ 6.8action · thriller · science fiction

Cerebral and bleak in the same breath

In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.

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eXistenZ
1999 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 77%★ 6.8action · thriller · science fiction

Action built on momentum, twice over

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 1990s show

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

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Æon Flux
2005 · dir. Karyn Kusama
🍅 9%★ 5.4science fiction · action · thrillerParamount+

Dreamlike thriller, and it commits to that

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

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Surrogates
2009 · dir. Jonathan Mostow
🍅 37%★ 6.3science fiction · action · thrillerPrime Video

Common ground: murder

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

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Code 46
2003 · dir. Michael Winterbottom
🍅 52%★ 6.1drama · science fiction · thriller

One thread runs through both: the future

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Zardoz does

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.

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The 6th Day
2000 · dir. Roger Spottiswoode
🍅 40%★ 6action · science fiction · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.

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The Running Man
1987 · dir. Paul Michael Glaser
🍅 59%★ 6.6action · thriller · science fictionParamount+Starz

Both lean on tension more than on science fiction

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

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Rollerball
1975 · dir. Norman Jewison
🍅 55%★ 6.5science fiction · drama

Fantasy with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.

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