Any suggestions for other movies or TV show episodes (Twilight Zone, Outer Limits etc.) that are similar to 400 Days?
Are there any other movies about a similar space travel simulation like this?
Terminal Voyage is incredibly similar--but it's difficult to find on DVD or anywhere. It was memorable only because of a cameo by a porn star, and a clever double-twist ending. Spoiler: Earth is dying from global warming. Small crew is sent to a distant planet in hibernation. When they wake up, the leader is dead. A message says everyone on Earth died in nuclear war, some crew commit suicide. One person gets out alive just to find out the ship was an underground simulator. However, the message about nuclear war was real.
There are a lot of great movies about the psychological effects of being in space. Moon, Sunshine, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris, just to name a few.
The Cube. Bonus points for much better ambiguous ending!
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Actually there was an old Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits episode, where I think 4 different persons were locked individually in 4 different places on earth, underground as Earth was being attacked by some insect-like aliens. Humans placed those 4 in the event that they lost the war to aliens, they placed nuclear bombs hidden to detonate and destroy the aliens. Those bombs were set to auto-detonate at each 24 hours unless I think 2 of the 4 people hidden underground pushed a button at a precise time to cancel the auto-detonate for another 24 hours. If humans would have won the war, they would have pulled the 4 people out when all of this was over. But in fact the aliens won and they were hunting the 4 hidden places to find a way to deactivate the nuclear bombs. Aliens killed every human and they kept the leaders in some sort of control, to tell the 4 people underground to keep delaying the nuclear bombs to detonate, until they find the last shelter. As with pretty much each episode in Twilight Zone, this one also ends badly.
shareOuter Limits - Dead Man's Switch. :)
One of the better episodes.
Moon
The Signal
The Cube series
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Europa Report feels very similar although more successful, imo.
If you're also interested in psychological *beep* scifi, Coherence is also a must-watch.
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Pandorum (2009) - not really a simulation, but they think they've missed the designated target when they're already there for centuries. Also: People injected with an agent to speed up evolution (to adapt to the new planet) adapted to the environment on the space ship. And some crazy dude with space sickness aka. Pandorum.
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