Movies like Solaris 2002

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Solaris (2002)
 6.2
 89K
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, futuristic, confusing, cerebral, thought provoking, enigmatic, absurd, non-linear, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: space, space and aliens, space station, space travel, mysterious planet, planet, afterlife, trapped in space, outer space, existentialism, alien contact, space exploration, astronaut, technology, love story, clone, obsession, hallucination, memory, suicide, mission, resurrection, psychology, philosophy, humanity ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, future

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Most similar movies to Solaris

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out thought provoking, cerebral, psychological and intellectual films with plots about storytelling, existentialism, science, dialogue, philosophy, life & death and first contact mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Solaris: Ad Astra (2019), Cargo (2009), I Origins (2014), Europa Report (2013), Moon (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 6.5
 278K
Ad Astra (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, touching, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: space exploration, astronaut, outer space, moon, solar system, obsession, father son relationship, space pirate, spacecraft, zero gravity, secret mission, trapped in space ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future, near future
Place: space western
Similarity:
100%
 6.1
 21K
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, philosophical, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, isolation, spacecraft, space and aliens, dystopia, twists and turns, post apocalypse, uncover truth, danger, dystopian future, parallel world ...
Time: future, 23rd century, near future
Similarity:
100%
 7.9
 104K
Solaris (1972)
Genre: Adventure, 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, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, scientist, metaphysics, space travel, space and aliens, space station, dream, trapped in space, astronaut, loneliness, science, philosophy ...
Time: distant future, 70s, future, year 1972
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia, tokyo
Similarity:
80%
 7.3
 140K
I Origins (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab ...
Style: thought provoking, mind bending, spiritual, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot: reincarnation, eye, metaphysics, genetics, buddhism, religion, atheism, death, spirituality, love story, sex scene, elevator ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 90s, year 1998, year 2005 ...
Place: india, usa, new york, asia, delhi ...
Similarity:
100%
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 6.4
 79K
Europa Report (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Style: cerebral, suspense, suspenseful, philosophical, lovecraft ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: space travel, found footage, astronaut, space exploration, outer space, space, spacecraft, distant planet, alien, survival, spacewalk, moon ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 1972, 1950s, 50s ...
Similarity:
75%
 7.8
 392K
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, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, moon, loneliness, space travel, outer space, astronaut, space, twists and turns, solitude, space and aliens, human clone, cloning ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place: hawaii, mexico
Similarity:
57%
 7.0
 491K
Passengers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style: futuristic, romantic, scenic, thought provoking, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, trapped in space, love, loneliness, space station, malfunction, spaceship ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: america, los angeles, space western
Similarity:
70%
 7.1
 257K
The Fountain (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Style: surreal, melancholic, atmospheric, philosophical, artsy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: afterlife, surrealism, metaphysics, buddhism, cancer, spirituality, immortality, multiple storylines, death, love, alternate reality, obsession ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2006, 16th century, 21st century
Place: spain, tibet, latin america, europe, guatemala ...
Similarity:
63%
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 7.0
 692K
Prometheus (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Style: futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, space horror ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: space travel, androids, survival, alien, outer space, space and aliens, distant planet, robot, alien encounter, expedition, creature, alien life-form ...
Time: future, year 2000, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland, seattle
Similarity:
80%
 8.7
 2.5M
Interstellar (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, clever, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: space travel, time travel, outer space, nasa, astronaut, father daughter relationship, space, dystopian future, survival, end of the world, robot, space exploration ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, colorado
Similarity:
57%
2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This is a sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey. It is now 2010 and both the Americans and the Russians are racing to get to Jupiter to investigate the black monolith (similar to the one found in Lunar Crater Clavius) which was found by the U.S.S. ...
Style: futuristic, philosophical, intellectual, stylized, spiritual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: astronaut, space travel, nasa, artificial intelligence, space exploration, paranoia, space opera, contact, space, deep space, spaceship, science ...
Time: future, year 2010, distant future, year 1984, near future ...
Place: tower bridge london, ussr, soviet union, paris france, london ...
Similarity:
100%
 7.7
 256K
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: time, destiny, philosophy, choice, alternate reality, depression, twists and turns, butterfly effect, surrealism, utopia, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 1975, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place: canada
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, mind bending, cerebral, psychedelic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, adult
Plot: space travel, artificial intelligence, astronaut, outer space, space, moon, computer, scientist, human versus computer, extraterrestrial, deception, spacewalk ...
Time: future, year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, stone age ...
Place: persia
Similarity:
100%
 6.2
 40K
The Discovery (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among ...
Style: psychological, intellectual, dark, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot: suicide, afterlife, macabre, plot twist, alternate reality, life after death, science, self discovery, life philosophy, religion, dream, philosophy ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2017
Similarity:
100%
 6.6
 33K
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 ...
Style: philosophical, visually stunning, futuristic, apocalyptic, thought provoking ...
Plot: robot, dystopia, space travel, space opera, distopia, space and aliens, spaceship, post apocalypse, spacecraft, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, isolation ...
Time: future, year 1972
Similarity:
100%
 7.9
 852K
Arrival (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style: psychological, philosophical, intellectual, reflective, twist ending ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: first contact, alien, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, extraterrestrial, alien contact, time, alien invasion, creature, science, alien race ...
Time: year 2016, future, 2010s
Place: montana, china, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
Similarity:
20%
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Style: philosophical, sexy, cerebral, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot: post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, alone, apocalypse, male nudity, end of the world, vestiges of humanity, survival, dystopia, love triangle, disaster, parallel world ...
Time: future, year 1985
Place: new zealand
Similarity:
50%
 7.4
 202K
K-PAX (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Style: psychological, touching, sentimental, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: patient, mental institution, extraterrestrial, alien, mysterious character, psychiatry, hypnosis, psychiatrist, planet, space and aliens, investigation, delusion ...
Time: future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, persia, new york, newfoundland, greenland ...
Similarity:
50%
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style: surreal, psychological, melancholic, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: memory, amnesia, relationships, surrealism, loneliness, existentialism, melancholy, love, love story, dream, memory loss, couples ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place: persia, america, usa, north america, new york
Similarity:
32%
 8.0
 905K
Donnie Darko (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, imaginary friend, schizophrenia, psychology, time travel, insanity, parallel universe, suburbs, surrealism, time loop, trippy, schizophrenic ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, america, usa, virginia, harvard university
Similarity:
30%
 7.1
 124K
The Jacket (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, enigmatic, tricky ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time travel, psychology, mental institution, time loop, amnesia, supernatural, hallucination, destiny, memory loss, disorder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place: vermont, iraq
Similarity:
29%
 7.2
 284K
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, psychological, cerebral, tense ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, sun, end of the world, isolation, spaceship, self sacrifice, earth, heroic mission, expedition, space, danger ...
Time: future, year 2007, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
28%
 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, thought provoking, psychological, mind bending, surreal ...
Plot: isolation, trapped in space, astronaut, space travel, stranded, space, space and aliens, space station, losing-it hero, loneliness, journal, survival ...
Time: future, 2030s, 2040s, 2010s, 1860s
Similarity:
28%
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 6.5
 36K
Upstream Color (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Style: surreal, psychological, mind bending, experimental, art house ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: love affair, brainwashing, parasite, existentialism, drugged, tragic love, memory loss, haunted by the past, identity crisis, trippy, parallel universe, revenge ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa
Similarity:
50%
 8.5
 1.6M
The Prestige (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, clever, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot: twists and turns, obsession, plot twist, secret, magic, magician, rivalry, illusionist, stage magic, uninhibited rivalry, deception, secrets ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, future, edwardian era, turn of the century ...
Place: london, peru, colorado, los angeles, britain ...
Similarity:
28%
 7.3
 192K
Pi (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, mind bending, cerebral, cult classic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mathematics, insanity, obsession, paranoia, computer, conspiracy, surrealism, alienation, psychology, eye, cyberpunk, mental illness ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place: new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
28%
 6.7
 121K
Primer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style: philosophical, independent film, mind bending, confusing, surreal ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, time loop, science, changing the future, parallel universe, changing the past or future, inventor, invention, time, time traveler, experiment gone awry ...
Time: future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas
Similarity:
28%
 7.7
 344K
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, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, genetics, fighting the system, discrimination, dystopia, philosophy, society, paraplegic, eugenics, hopes, dystopian future, twists and turns ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 1900s ...
Place: detroit, riviera, french riviera
Similarity:
27%
 7.4
 65K
2046 (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Style: sexy, emotional, atmospheric, visually stunning, philosophical ...
Plot: writers, love, writer's life, destiny, road not taken, androids, sensuality, haunted by the past, old friend, coincidence, memory, introspection ...
Time: future, year 2004, 2040s, 2000s, y2k ...
Place: hong kong, china, singapore, east asia, asia
Similarity:
27%
 6.1
 118K
Sphere (1998)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, ...
Style: scary, breathtaking, mind bending, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: ocean, underwater, alien, first contact, twists and turns, ufo, time travel, paranoia, psychology, survival, space and aliens, ghost ship ...
Time: future, jurassic, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Similarity:
27%