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Movies that feel likeBeneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.

If you loved Beneath the Planet of the Apes, the closest films we have are Silent Running (1972), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Solaris (1972). All three share Beneath the Planet of the Apes' cerebral and awe feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Total Recall (1990).

🍅 37% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ted Postepiccerebraltwistybleakawe
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Planet of the Apes (1968) · Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

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Silent Running
1972 · dir. Douglas Trumbull
🍅 71%★ 6.6science fiction · adventure · drama

Both are built on the same subject: dystopia

The difference: Reviewed even better

After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds with everyone but his mechanical companions.

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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · dir. Stanley Kubrick
🍅 90%★ 8.3science fiction · mystery · adventureMax

Common ground: astronaut

The difference: Lighter on bleakness

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.

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Solaris
1972 · dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
🍅 92%★ 7.9drama · science fiction · mysteryMax

The same preoccupation in both: astronaut

The difference: Less epic, more its own thing

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.

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Total Recall
1990 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 80%★ 7.5action · adventure · science fictionParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mutant

The difference: Played as action first

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.

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Aniara
2019 · dir. Pella Kågerman
🍅 70%★ 6.3science fiction · drama

One thread runs through both: dystopia

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

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Oblivion
2013 · dir. Joseph Kosinski
🍅 53%★ 7action · science fiction · adventurePrime VideoStarz

Epic where it counts, cerebral underneath

Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
1979 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 51%★ 6.4science fiction · adventure · mysteryParamount+

The same mix in both: twists, then awe

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

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

Science fiction with a pulse of bleakness, 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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The Creator
2023 · dir. Gareth Edwards
🍅 67%★ 6.7science fiction · action · adventureHulu

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.

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Planet of the Apes
2001 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 42%★ 5.7thriller · science fiction · actionHulu

Cerebral mystery, and it commits to that

After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by Ruthless General Thade.

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Soylent Green
1973 · dir. Richard Fleischer
🍅 73%★ 7science fiction · crime · mystery

Twisty science fiction in both cases

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

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Moonraker
1979 · dir. Lewis Gilbert
🍅 59%★ 6.3action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

Adventure built on awe, twice over

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.

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