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10 Best Movies Like Silent Running

If you loved Silent Running, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
After School

After School

2008★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Silent Running for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A middle school teacher, Jinno, is friends with a young couple that is about to have a baby. But on the eve of the birth, the father, Kimura, disappears. Then, a hired private dete...

#2
Scalene

Scalene

2011★ 4.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Silent Running for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A perceptual thriller told from three points-of-view revolving around the rape of a female college student by a mentally handicapped man and his mother's subsequent revenge after h...

#3
Legend of the Lost

Legend of the Lost

1957★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Silent Running for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure....

#4
Port of Call

Port of Call

1948★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Silent Running for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past....

#5
The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain

1971★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Silent Running for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an...

#6
The Closet

The Closet

2001★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Silent Running for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work....