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Movies that feel likeI Origins (2014)

A molecular biologist's study of the human eye has far-reaching implications about humanity's scientific and spiritual beliefs.

If you loved I Origins, the closest films we have are Another Earth (2011), LFO (2013) and The Man from Earth (2007). All three share I Origins' cerebral and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Born in Flames (1983).

🍅 51% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mike Cahillcerebralcontemplative
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Another Earth
2011 · dir. Mike Cahill
🍅 66%★ 6.9drama · science fiction

Mike Cahill directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

On the night a duplicate Earth is discovered in the solar system, the lives of a young woman and an accomplished composer become tragically connected after a fatal accident.

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LFO
2013 · dir. Antonio Tublén
🍅 100%★ 6.6drama · science fiction

Both land ideas and stillness at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

LFO is a dark comedy/drama/Sci-Fi about a man who realizes that he can hypnotise with sound. He starts experimenting on his neighbors, where the abuse of power takes over and, eventually, severe consequences for mankind are at stake.

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The Man from Earth
2007 · dir. Richard Schenkman
🍅 100%★ 7.8science fiction · dramaPrime Video

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief.

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Prospect
2018 · dir. Zeek Earl
🍅 89%★ 6.3science fictionHulu

Drama with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Trades the stillness of I Origins for an angle of its own

A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive.

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Still Alice
2014 · dir. Richard Glatzer
🍅 85%★ 7.5dramaNetflix

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

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Little Joe
2019 · dir. Jessica Hausner
🍅 66%★ 5.8drama · science fiction

Both lean on stillness more than on science fiction

Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.

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The Father
2020 · dir. Florian Zeller
🍅 98%★ 8.2dramaRent or buy

Both play drama straight

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

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Born in Flames
1983 · dir. Lizzie Borden
🍅 89%★ 6.6drama · science fiction

Both working the same science fiction territory

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 1980s show

In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

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Stalker
1979 · dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
🍅 100%★ 8science fiction · dramaMax

Cut from the same science fiction cloth

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-seated desires are granted.

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They Call Me Jeeg
2016 · dir. Gabriele Mainetti
🍅 82%★ 7science fiction · action · dramaPrime Video

Both know what they want from drama

The difference: Sits closer to action than I Origins does

Exposed to radioactive waste, small-time crook Enzo gains super-strength. A misanthropic, introverted brute, he uses his powers for personal gain until he meets Alessia, a mentally ill girl who believes Enzo is the hero from her favorite anime, Steel Jeeg.

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The Face of Another
1966 · dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
🍅 86%★ 7.8drama · science fiction

Science fiction in the same key

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.

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Summer Wars
2009 · dir. Mamoru Hosoda
🍅 81%★ 7.4animation · science fictionMax

Science fiction approached the same way

The difference: Leans harder into animation than I Origins does

Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90th birthday of their matriarch. His job: pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé. Meanwhile, his attempt to solve a mathematical equation causes a parallel world's collision with Earth.

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