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Movies Like Interstellar

Strip away the wormhole math and Interstellar is a ghost story about a father who becomes the ghost. Cooper leaves a ten-year-old in a farmhouse, burns twenty-three years on a wave-swept planet, and comes home to video messages from a grown woman who has already grieved him. Nolan built the docking sequence and the black hole for the trailer, but he built the film for that scene. So its real relatives are not always the movies with the biggest ships. They are the ones where clocks run at different speeds for people who love each other, where a recording stands in for a face you can no longer touch. A few of them never leave the ground, and they may understand the farmhouse scenes best of all.

Loved it? Read more about Interstellar (2014), including cast, trivia, and its TML Score.

12 Films Worth Your Next Movie Night

1
Inception2010TML 82
One dream level runs twenty times slower than the last, so a job that takes a night costs Cobb years away from his children.
2
2001: A Space Odyssey1968TML 83
The wormhole trip, the docking waltz, the tesseract bedroom: all of it traces back to Kubrick's stargate. Nolan even screened this for his Interstellar crew before cameras rolled.
3
Gravity2013TML 85
Ryan Stone lost her daughter before she ever left the ground, and Cuarón strands her in orbital wreckage until survival becomes a choice instead of a reflex.
4
Solaris1972TML 89
A sentient ocean reads the cosmonauts' grief and mails it back in human form. Kelvin's dead wife is his tesseract.
5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977TML 82
Where Interstellar's hero fights to get home, Roy Neary builds a mountain in his living room and walks away from his family toward the light.
6
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004TML 85
Joel races backward through his own erased memories to hide one woman inside them before the technicians catch up, which is the tesseract sequence turned inward.
7
Aftersun2022TML 88
A daughter replays camcorder footage of her dad, decades later, still searching. It hurts exactly where the video messages from the Endurance hurt.
8
Her2013TML 84
Samantha lives thousands of subjective hours between Theodore's sentences, and their love dies of time dilation.
9
Stalker1979TML 87
Three men bicker about faith on the road to a Room that grants your deepest wish. The zone bends physics around longing just as Gargantua does.
10
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya2013TML 88
Foster parents raise a girl who ages years in a season, then the Moon calls her home. There is no spaceship anywhere, yet it plays as pure time-dilation tragedy.
11
The Prestige2006TML 77
Two magicians feed everything they love into one impossible trick. Nolan was already tallying the price of obsession eight years before he sent a farmer through a wormhole.
12
Take Shelter2011TML 82
Curtis builds a storm shelter his family cannot afford because the sky keeps warning him. Watch it as Interstellar's dust-choked first act with no NASA hiding down the road.

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Movies Like Interstellar

Loved it? Read more about Interstellar (2014), including cast, trivia, and its TML Score.

12 Films Worth Your Next Movie Night

1
Inception2010TML 82
One dream level runs twenty times slower than the last, so a job that takes a night costs Cobb years away from his children.
2
2001: A Space Odyssey1968TML 83
The wormhole trip, the docking waltz, the tesseract bedroom: all of it traces back to Kubrick's stargate. Nolan even screened this for his Interstellar crew before cameras rolled.
3
Gravity2013TML 85
Ryan Stone lost her daughter before she ever left the ground, and Cuarón strands her in orbital wreckage until survival becomes a choice instead of a reflex.
4
Solaris1972TML 89
A sentient ocean reads the cosmonauts' grief and mails it back in human form. Kelvin's dead wife is his tesseract.
5
Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977TML 82
Where Interstellar's hero fights to get home, Roy Neary builds a mountain in his living room and walks away from his family toward the light.
6
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004TML 85
Joel races backward through his own erased memories to hide one woman inside them before the technicians catch up, which is the tesseract sequence turned inward.
7
Aftersun2022TML 88
A daughter replays camcorder footage of her dad, decades later, still searching. It hurts exactly where the video messages from the Endurance hurt.
8
Her2013TML 84
Samantha lives thousands of subjective hours between Theodore's sentences, and their love dies of time dilation.
9
Stalker1979TML 87
Three men bicker about faith on the road to a Room that grants your deepest wish. The zone bends physics around longing just as Gargantua does.
10
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya2013TML 88
Foster parents raise a girl who ages years in a season, then the Moon calls her home. There is no spaceship anywhere, yet it plays as pure time-dilation tragedy.
11
The Prestige2006TML 77
Two magicians feed everything they love into one impossible trick. Nolan was already tallying the price of obsession eight years before he sent a farmer through a wormhole.
12
Take Shelter2011TML 82
Curtis builds a storm shelter his family cannot afford because the sky keeps warning him. Watch it as Interstellar's dust-choked first act with no NASA hiding down the road.

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