Where can I stream Solaris?

You can stream Solaris on: The Criterion Channel, Apple TV Store, Tubi and Pluto TV

What movies are similar to Solaris?

Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Solaris include The Disappearance of Flight 412 , All the President's Men , Manila in the Claws of Light , The Conversation , The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane , The Magus .

Solaris Movie (1972): Where to watch and stream online

Solaris

Drama Sci-Fi Mystery

1972, Movie, 2h 47min

Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With SOLARIS, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.

Based on a book by Stanisław Lem

Country: Russia

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Cast:

Reviews

Patrik Bohman

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One of the best!

4 years ago

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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...a mysterious and powerful movie, much like the strange planet at the far reaches of the universe for which it is named.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Kasper Løvborg

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Major pacing issues aside, this is superior sci-fi. What makes it amazing are the ideas from Lem's fantastic novel. Tarkovsky's artsiness I can take or leave here. Basically: struggle through the impossibly slow beginning and suffer the ...

5 years ago

Critic David Hughes

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...a measured piece in a classic filmmaking style. The content of every shot is carefully constructed, while every cut is timed to the exact milli-second.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Peter Bradshaw

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...a very impressive achievement, reawakening my heretical doubts as to whether the Russian original needed to be every bit as opaque and lugubrious and slow.

Read full review at The Guardian

Karsten Korgaard

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Et af de helt store syretrip.

3 years ago

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A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a mysterious planet, Solaris, to investigate strange occurrences. He discovers that the planet has the power to manifest repressed memories and obsessions, and soon finds himself confronting his own past. As he delves deeper into the mysteries of Solaris, he realizes that the line between reality and illusion is becoming increasingly blurred. The film explores themes of identity, consciousness, and the power of the human mind, and raises questions about the nature of reality and the limits of human understanding.