Movies like Solaris
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Solaris (1972)
98K
Original name: Солярис
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 repressed memories and obsessions.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, psychedelic, intellectual, futuristic, surreal, mind bending, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
outer space, scientist, space travel, space and aliens, dream, metaphysics, space station, space, loneliness, astronaut, insanity, science, philosophy, existentialism, investigation, space opera, love, art, surrealism, trapped in space, hallucination, space exploration, mysterious planet, psychology, imagination ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, future, distant future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, tokyo
Keyword:
russian, dreams, reboot, avant-garde, german, reading, challenge, change, eye candy
Most similar movies to Solaris
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out philosophical, weird, thought provoking and serious films with plots about metaphysics, dystopia, trippy, death, philosophy, existentialism and time travel mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like Solaris: Stalker (1979), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Moon (2009), The Fountain (2006), Gravity (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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144K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
stalker, distopia, human nature, post apocalypse, trippy, dystopian future, surrealism, wish come true, dog, society, post apocalyptic, dystopia ...
Time:
future, year 1979, distant future, near future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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93%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
future, year 2001, 20th century, stone age, year 1968 ...
Place:
persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
375K
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:
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Place:
hawaii, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
248K
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, artsy, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
metaphysics, spirituality, afterlife, cancer, buddhism, immortality, surrealism, multiple storylines, obsession, loneliness, love, death ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2006, 16th century, 21st century
Place:
spain, tibet, latin america, europe, central america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
86K
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 ⇓
75%
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860K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, scenic, suspense, minimal cast ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
isolation, survival, space travel, space, astronaut, outer space, space station, loneliness, disaster, sole survivor, catastrophe, survivor ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, persia, seattle, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
170K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
outer space, space travel, space opera, human in outer space, spacecraft, spaceship, space station, investigation, space colony, alien life-form, space wars, conspiracy ...
Time:
future, near future, 24th century, 23rd century
Place:
space western, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
futuristic, apocalyptic, philosophical, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Plot:
space travel, robot, dystopia, distopia, environmental, space opera, loneliness, spaceship, post apocalypse, space and aliens, androids, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
759K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
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, intellectual, philosophical, reflective, futuristic ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
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, cerebral, sentimental, surprise ending ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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582K
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 ⇓
71%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, offbeat, humorous, enigmatic ...
Plot:
desert, surrealism, alien, totalitarianism, satire, distopia, absurdism, time travel, society, post apocalyptic, racism, capitalism ...
Time:
future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, mind bending, mindfuck, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
exciting, suspense, futuristic, touching, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
space exploration, outer space, astronaut, moon, solar system, obsession, father son relationship, space pirate, space travel, spacecraft, trapped in space, space station ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, independent film ...
Audience:
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Plot:
mental illness, time travel, psychology, imaginary friend, insanity, schizophrenia, parallel universe, surrealism, suburbs, time loop, social misfits, youth ...
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year 2001, 80s, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
space travel, time travel, outer space, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, space, survival, end of the world, distopia, natural disaster, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, surreal, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
insanity, mental illness, alien, mental institution, transformation, ufo, hospital, mental disorder, psychiatrist, waking up, illness, invasion ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style:
psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, cerebral, black and white, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
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Plot:
mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, obsession, computer, surrealism, paranoia, alienation, cyberpunk, psychology, schizophrenia, philosophy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Plot:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Style:
surreal, artsy, psychological, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot:
parallel universe, parallel world, tragedy, guilt, grief, outer space, nasa, mysterious planet, space travel, solar system, cosmology, existentialism ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style:
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Time:
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
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suspenseful, breathtaking, captivating, cerebral, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, adult, teen drama
Plot:
ufo, alien, alien abduction, first contact, space and aliens, contact, alien contact, space, benign alien, technology, chase, airplane ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience:
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Plot:
alien, femme fatale, extraterrestrial, human prey, nudity, disguise, female nudity, desire, nightclub, seduction, deformity, male nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Romania, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Style:
surreal, thought provoking, philosophical, psychedelic, cerebral ...
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Time:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style:
psychological, depressing, surreal, independent film, confusing ...
Plot:
depression, existentialism, death, theater, magic realism, schizophrenic, obsession, writers, twists and turns, philosophy, writer's life, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 90s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, berlin germany, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, anthology, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
surrealism, dream, artist, tunnel, art, magic realism, nuclear disaster, environmentalism, beautiful scenery, philosophy, fantasy world, painting ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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