Movies like Silent Running

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Silent Running (1972)
 6.6
 31K
Silent Running (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for commercial purposes, most of the crew of the Valley Forge rejoice at the prospect of going home. Not so for botanist Freeman Lowell who loves the forest and its creatures, so decides to take matters into his own hands to protect what he loves.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, philosophical, cult classic, visually stunning, minimal cast, thought provoking, light, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: space travel, robot, dystopia, distopia, environmental, space opera, loneliness, spaceship, post apocalypse, space and aliens, artificial intelligence, androids, dystopian future, isolation, apocalypse, alien, imagination, environment, post apocalyptic, spacecraft, space exploration, destiny, space station, loner, space ...
Time: future, year 1972
Keyword: american, flat

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Most similar movies to Silent Running

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out futuristic, serious, suspenseful and weird films with plots about dystopia, distopia, dystopian future, space, post apocalypse, outer space and death mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Silent Running: Solaris (1972), THX 1138 (1971), Children of Men (2006), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Quintet (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 8.0
 98K
Solaris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, scientist, space travel, space and aliens, dream, metaphysics, space station, space, astronaut, loneliness, insanity, science ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, future, distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 54K
THX 1138 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: bleak, mindfuck, philosophical, futuristic, thought provoking ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, brainwashing, androids and robots, utopia, fighting the system, robot, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 1971, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 527K
Children of Men (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, bleak, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, end of the world, chaos, redemption, heroic mission, pandemic, post apocalyptic, fertility, dying ...
Time: future, year 2006, distant future, near future, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, europe, washington state, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, psychedelic, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: space travel, astronaut, outer space, space, artificial intelligence, moon, scientist, computer, trippy, space opera, human versus computer, space station ...
Time: future, year 2001, 20th century, stone age, year 1968 ...
Place: persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.0
 4K
Quintet (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
Style: apocalyptic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot: ice age, dystopian future, apocalypse, climate change, rivalry, danger, isolation, life is a bitch, society, survival, obsession, chaos ...
Time: year 1979, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 36K
IO (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
Style: suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot: post apocalypse, extinction, survival, scientist, escape, save the world, distant planet, dystopia, end of the world, disaster, apocalypse, space ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 86K
Solaris (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Style: philosophical, confusing, futuristic, thought provoking, cerebral ...
Plot: space travel, space station, space and aliens, afterlife, mysterious planet, outer space, planet, astronaut, trapped in space, space exploration, alien contact, space ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 375K
Moon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, suspense, futuristic, cerebral ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, moon, outer space, loneliness, space travel, astronaut, solitude, cloning, space and aliens, robot, dystopic future, space ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place: hawaii, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final ...
Style: thought provoking, philosophical, sentimental, fairy tale, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, androids and robots, adoption, androids, robot, distopia, imagination, boy, dystopian future, outer space, destiny ...
Time: future, year 2001, distant future, 2000s, near future ...
Place: new york, persia, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.2
 266K
Sunshine (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, end of the world, sun, earth, self sacrifice, spaceship, expedition, astronaut, heroic mission, space, danger ...
Time: future, year 2007, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.6
 824
Puzzlehead (2005)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter ...
Style: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, man versus machine, love triangle, chaos, androids and robots, obsession, society, dystopian future, cyberpunk, technology gone awry, betrayal, post apocalypse ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, futuristic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: space travel, space, space exploration, outer space, parallel universe, planet, spaceship, european, space opera, giant monster, dystopia, unhappy ending ...
Time: year 1969, future, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.2
 27K
Dark Star (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and ...
Style: parody, futuristic, grindhouse, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot: space travel, alien, deep space, space, space opera, artificial intelligence, satire, philosophy, space exploration, alien invasion, imagination, moon ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.7
 582K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style: psychological, futuristic, philosophical, twist ending, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, existentialism, technology, cyberpunk, isolation, cyborgs, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, psychology ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 2016 ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.6
 469K
Elysium (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, space station, apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, dark future, ecological disaster, post apocalypse, utopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.1
 20K
Cargo (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, philosophical, tense ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, spacecraft, isolation, space and aliens, dystopia, post apocalypse, distopia, uncover truth, danger, teleportation, alien ...
Time: future, 23rd century, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.0
 3K
Omega Doom (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of ...
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, cyber, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, androids and robots, cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, androids, wasteland, dystopia, dystopian future, distopia, terminator ...
Time: near future, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.9
 28K
The Black Hole (1979)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The explorer craft U.S.S. Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the magnificent U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, mad scientist, space, robot, space opera, black hole, alien, astronaut, spacecraft, artificial intelligence, danger ...
Time: future, year 1979, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from ...
Style: futuristic, epic, saga, exciting, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, time travel, cyborgs, star trek, space, alien, first contact, sent to the past, robot, apocalypse, androids, intergalactic ...
Time: future, year 1996, 24th century, 21st century
Place: montana, space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.4
 9K
Love (2011)
Genre: Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a ...
Style: futuristic, psychological, thought provoking, mind bending, surreal ...
Plot: isolation, space travel, trapped in space, space, astronaut, space and aliens, loneliness, survival, human nature, stranded, solitude, losing-it hero ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2030s, 2040s, 1860s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 8.1
 817K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopia, artificial intelligence, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, melancholy, fugitives, police detective, fugitive ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
 3K
Android (1982)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Eccentric scientist Dr .Daniel and his shy assistant Max lead a quiet life on their space station, carrying out illegal research on androids, until they receive an unwelcome visit from three fugitives one of whom is female. Both Dr. Daniel and Max ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: androids, dystopia, robot, cyberpunk, space, androids and robots, alien, cyborgs, mad scientist, space travel, spacecraft, distopia ...
Time: future, year 1982
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.8
 51K
Enemy Mine (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds ...
Style: futuristic, cult classic, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: alien, stranded, evil alien, space exploration, space and aliens, survival, space wars, friendship, space travel, space opera, desert, space ...
Time: future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 6.4
 34K
The Omega Man (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling ...
Style: futuristic, bleak, apocalyptic, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: plague, post apocalypse, survival, vampire, isolation, infection, post apocalyptic, virus, pandemic, dystopia, apocalypse, transformation ...
Time: future, 70s, year 1971, near future, year 1975 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, soviet union, china, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.7
 321K
Gattaca (1997)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is ...
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, intellectual, neo noir, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, genetics, fighting the system, discrimination, philosophy, society, eugenics, paraplegic, twists and turns, science, utopia, dystopia ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1997, 1900s, distant future ...
Place: riviera, detroit, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.4
 75K
Europa Report (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Style: cerebral, suspense, suspenseful, lovecraft, space horror ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: space travel, found footage, outer space, space exploration, spacecraft, astronaut, space, distant planet, alien, moon, spacewalk, survival ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 1972, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.2
 45K
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, dystopia, book, resistance, fighting the system, rebellion, oppression, social decay, justice, dystopic future ...
Time: future, year 1966, distant future, near future, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.3
 12K
Aniara (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Denmark, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A ship carrying settlers to a new home in Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.
Style: tragic ending, philosophical, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: trapped in space, tragedy, orgy, space, depression, existentialism, female protagonist, distopia, society, introspection, life philosophy, european ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
 1K
Genesis II (1973)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, epidemic, loner, end of the world, post apocalyptic, wasteland, distopia, suspended animation, cave, rebellion ...
Time: near future, future, 70s, 22nd century
Place: arizona, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.0
 18K
The Day After (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious ...
Plot: cold war, nuclear war, disaster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear holocaust, radiation, end of the world, dystopia, nuclear threat, nuclear ...
Time: 80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas, soviet union, missouri, ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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