Movies Like Soylent Green (1973)

Soylent Green is a 1973 crime, mystery, science fiction, thriller film from Richard Fleischer with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Colony and Dark City.

Crime Mystery Science Fiction Thriller

The Colony

2013

Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.

5.4

MagicScore

Dark City

1998

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

7.3

MagicScore

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet

2021

David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.

7.4

MagicScore

The Day After Tomorrow

2004

After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.

6.5

MagicScore

The Arrival

1996

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.

6.0

MagicScore

Never Let Me Go

2010

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.

6.9

MagicScore

The 11th Hour

2007

A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolse

6.7

MagicScore

Worldbreaker

2025

Five years ago, a tear in the fabric of reality brought creatures to our world from an alternate dimension bent on our destruction. A father hides his daughter on an island to keep her safe while he prepares her for survival and the battles to come. But when the world is about to break, no place is safe.

6.1

MagicScore

Memory of Water

2022

Centuries in the future, world's freshwater supplies are running out. Wars are waged over water, and China rules over Europe, including the Scandinavian Union. Far in the north, young woman, Noria, is learning to become a Tea Master, like her father. Tea Masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that Noria’s father tends, which once provided water for her whole village. After her father dies, the military moves in to watch over the village -- and Noria. Refusing to give in her freshwater spring, Noria digs in deeper into her family’s secret. Within the Tea Masters’ books, she finds information that the government’s power is based on lies, that there still might be fresh water left for everyone. She risks her own life and sets out on a dangerous journey to find out if this is true.

5.3

MagicScore

#10

An Inconvenient Truth

2006

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.

7.0

MagicScore

#11

The Great Global Warming Swindle

2007

This film tries to blow the whistle on what it calls the biggest swindle in modern history: 'Man Made Global Warming'. Watch this film and make up your own mind.

6.4

MagicScore

#12

The Residence

2025

In the near future, during a health crisis, novelist Clarissa Katsef visits the Ludovico Foundation housing complex in search of inspiration. With the help of her AI assistant Dalloway, she finds fresh inspiration as she immerses herself in her writing.

6.4

MagicScore

#13

Dune

2021

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

7.8

MagicScore

#14

The Host

2013

A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free humans.

6.3

MagicScore

#15

What Happened to Monday

2017

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

7.2

MagicScore

#16

Humane

2024

In the wake of an environmental collapse that has forced humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.

5.4

MagicScore

#17

Z.P.G.

1972

In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.

6.0

MagicScore

#18

The Trial

1962

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

7.4

MagicScore

#19

Fortress 2

2000

7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run. Finally, they give in, and surrender, only to find themselves imprisoned in a new, more sophisticated fortress prison in outer space. But Brennick's not a man to give in easily, and with a 10 year old son waiting for him back on earth, he's going to pack some serious assault on the evil corporation.

5.1

MagicScore

#20

Sleep Dealer

2008

Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.

5.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Soylent Green?

The top films similar to Soylent Green by MovieMagicScore are The Colony (5.4), Dark City (7.3), Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (7.4). Each shares crime/mystery/science fiction/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Soylent Green worth watching?

Soylent Green holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 1,350 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Soylent Green?

Soylent Green (1973) is a crime, mystery, science fiction, thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors.

Where can I find more recommendations like Soylent Green?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more crime recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Soylent Green

This ranked list pairs Soylent Green (1973), a crime and mystery and science fiction and thriller film from Richard Fleischer, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Charlton Heston take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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