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Movies like Dune

Villeneuve treated scale as texture: sand, sound and silence doing the work that exposition usually does. If you want world-building you can feel before you understand it, this is the shelf.

What connects them

Slow, enormous science fiction and epics where the world is the main character.

If you loved Dune, start here

  1. 01Blade Runner 20492017
  2. 02Lawrence of Arabia1962
  3. 03Arrival2016
  4. 04Star Wars1977
  5. 05Annihilation2018
  6. 06The Lord of the Rings2001
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