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1) Yo
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Winner of Best Film at the Morelia International Film Festival, "Yo" is based on a short story by Nobel laureate J.M.G. Le Clezio. "My name is Yo, I'm 15 years old, or that's what they tell me," explains the protagonist (Raul Silva) early on. A strong young man with limited mental skills, he says he is fifteen years old, although he seems to be older. He lives and works in his mother's restaurant by a busy freeway. Yo loves his mother but hates her...
2) Men in black
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer. The mission is to locate and exterminate the bug before it destroys the planet.
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Spanning nine decades and branded by the most trusted authority on film, TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES: MUST-SEE SCI-FI showcases 50 of the most shocking, weird, wonderful, and mind-bending movies ever made. From A Trip to the Moon (1902) to Arrival (2016), science fiction cinema has produced a body of classics with a broader range of styles, stories, and subject matter than perhaps any other film genre. They are movies that embed themselves in the depths...
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Francisca, a young Portuguese woman who's living in Brazil, welcomes Teresa, an old acquaintance she'd lost contact with, into her home. While Teresa is discovering the place where she means to settle, Francisca craves for her life back in Lisbon. The film follows each woman's adventures in the city and the deep bond of friendship that grows between them, forcing them to deal with conflicting desires: a will to leave for an unknown country and a relentless...
6) Solaris
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
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...
8) The Present
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
When a brilliant boy discovers he can manipulate time using an enchanted family heirloom, he and his siblings team up to go back to the eve of their parents’ separation in hopes of changing the outcome. As their schemes become more elaborate, the siblings will learn about family bonds and what they can and can’t control.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Set in a near-future California, this sci-fi thriller follows high school student Aisha (Helena Howard) as she begins to suspect that she isn’t entirely human. When strange glitches disrupt her daily life, Aisha uncovers shocking truths about her origins and the powerful forces monitoring her every move. As her world unravels, she must decide whom to trust and confront what it truly means to be human.
11) Z For Zachariah
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Chris Pine, Margot Robbie and Chiwetel Ejiofor are the last three people on earth, struggling to survive secrets, suspicions and threats in this intense thriller based on the award winning book.
12) Dune
Pub. Date
1998, c1984
Description
MacLachlan is Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, who struggles with the native inhabitants of the dry planet Arrakis (Dune) to overthrow the terrible Baron Barkonnen and his family and control the special product of the planet, a mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms.
16) Subject
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Compiling suppressed footage, SUBJECT follows a man on his way to prison who gets intercepted by a top-secret government agency. In order to serve out this sentence, he's sent to an isolated facility to observe a terrifying creature up close.
17) Biosphere
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.
18) Interstellar
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Description
From director Christopher Nolan comes the story of a team of pioneers undertaking the most important mission in human history. Academy Award-winner Matthew McConaughey stars as ex-pilot-turned-farmer Cooper, who must leave his family and a floundering Earth behind to lead an expedition traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
19) The Terminator
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
20) Independence Day
Pub. Date
1996
Description
A jet jockey, a science nerd, the U.S. president, and other diverse survivors of a massive attack on earth join forces to defeat the aliens before they can achieve total victory.