Contact
1997 · Science fiction · Robert Zemeckis · 2h 24m
A radio astronomer picks up a signal from Vega carrying instructions, and the argument over who should go turns political and religious. Long, talky, and serious about the science.
- Clearly epic
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2006 · Adventure
A stuntman laid up in a 1920s Los Angeles hospital tells a wandering adventure story to a little girl with a broken arm, partly to get something from her. The story is shot in real places all over the world.
- Strongly epic
- Clearly fantastic
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Life of Pi
90% alike
2012 · Adventure
A boy from a zoo-owning family in India ends up adrift in a lifeboat in the Pacific with a Bengal tiger, telling the story years later to a writer. Long stretches of just the boat, the boy and the animal.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Frankenstein
89% alike
2025 · Horror
A surgeon builds a man out of the dead and abandons him the moment he opens his eyes, and the creature gets to tell his own half of it. Lavish, sad and unhurried.
- Clearly fantastic
- Clearly heavy
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