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Movies Like WANTS: We Are Not the Same

If you liked WANTS: We Are Not the Same, a science fiction movie directed by Silvio Nacucchi, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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    1984 (1956)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction

    In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

  2. 2Stormageddon

    Stormageddon (2015)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction

    What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human…

  3. 3The Giver

    The Giver (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction

    In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

  4. 4Demolition Man

    Demolition Man (1993)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction

    In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak…

  5. 5Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

    Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction

    In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an…

  6. 6Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.

  7. 7Afterburn

    Afterburn (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of…

  8. 8Equilibrium

    Equilibrium (2002)

    ★ 7.1/10Also science fiction

    In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

  9. 9Space/Time

    Space/Time (2025)

    ★ 5.8/10Also science fiction

    After a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or annihilate it entirely.

  10. 10The Running Man

    The Running Man (1987)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction

    By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which…

  11. 11Land of the Dead

    Land of the Dead (2005)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction

    The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.

  12. 12Elysium

    Elysium (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction

    In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line…

  13. 13The Bed Sitting Room

    The Bed Sitting Room (1969)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction

    In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

  14. 14Universal Soldier: The Return

    Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction

    Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When SETH, the supercomputer-controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can…

  15. 15Divergent

    Divergent (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10Also science fiction

    In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find…

  16. 16The Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games (2012)

    ★ 7.2/10Also science fiction

    In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of…

  17. 17THX 1138

    THX 1138 (1971)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction

    People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As…

  18. 18Surrogates

    Surrogates (2009)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

  19. 19Insurgent

    Insurgent (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction

    Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.

  20. 20The Running Man

    The Running Man (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction

    Desperate to save his sick daughter, working-class Ben Richards is convinced by The Running Man's charming but ruthless producer to enter the deadly competition game as a last resort. But Ben's defiance, instincts, and…

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