
Movies that feel likeStar Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
If you loved Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the closest films we have are 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Solaris (1972). All three share Star Trek: The Motion Picture's cerebral and awe feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Ikarie XB 1 (1963).
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If Star Trek: The Motion Picture hit the spot, these will too

The same two preoccupations: man vs machine, and artificial intelligence
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The same hand behind both of them: Robert Wise
The difference: Less epic, more its own thing

Cerebral where it counts, twisty underneath
The difference: Lighter on scale

Both land scale and awe at once
The difference: Leans further into drama

Two things both keep coming back to: teleportation and space opera
The difference: Played as action first

Common ground: spacecraft

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Awestruck mystery, and it commits to that
The difference: 44 years apart, and the 2020s show

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spacecraft

Both are built on the same subject: space opera

Cerebral science fiction in both cases
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