10 Movies Like Interstellar: Big Ideas, Deep Space and Real Emotion
Interstellar is not memorable simply because it goes to space. It connects enormous scientific ideas to a painfully human promise between a parent and child. These recommendations balance wonder, danger and emotion rather than offering ten generic spaceship films.
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Arrival
2016View movie detailsWHY IT FITSLanguage, memory and grief drive a first-contact story that becomes more moving the more you understand it.
THE VIEWING BRIEFThis belongs on your list when the brief is: First contact · Emotional.
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Contact
1997WHY IT FITSA scientist searching for extraterrestrial intelligence confronts belief, politics and the limits of evidence.
