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Arrival
Linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is brought in with her team to interpret the language of extraterrestrials who have arrived in their spaceships across Earth.
A stunning visualization of a short story from Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others (2002).
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Children of Men (Movie)Set in 2027, scientists are at a loss to explain why humans can no longer procreate, but the discovery of a lone pregnant woman leads to a desperate journey to protect her and save the future of mankind.
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Close encounters of the third kind Roy Neary witnesses the arrival of flying saucers from an alien world which begins a series of events culminating in the ultimate encounter when human and aliens make peaceful contact.
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District 9 Twenty years after the arrival of an alien ship over Johannesburg, South Africa,, the creatures have been segregated from humanity and when one human discovers the secret behind their technology he is hunted down inside the alien district.
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Dune
Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto, along with the native inhabitants of the planet Arrakis, struggle to overthrow the terrible Baron Harkonnen and his family to control the mind-altering spice produced by giant sand worms of Arrakis.
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Edge Of Tomorrow
When Earth falls under attack from invincible aliens, no military unit in the world is able to beat them. Maj.Cage (Cruise), an officer who has never seen combat, is assigned to a suicide mission. Cage's fighting skills improve with each encore, bringing him closer to defeating the aliens.
Based on Hiroshi Sakarazaka's 2004 light novel, All You Need Is Kill.
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Elysium
A man sets out on a quest to bring equality to a polarized Earth in the year 2154.
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Galaxy Quest
The alumni cast of a cult space TV show have to live out their roles when an alien race needs their help.
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Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident kills one of their crew and leaves them adrift in space.
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Hidden figures Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Interstellar
A group of space travelers journey through a wormhole in search of a new habitable planet.
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Invasion of the body snatchers When two people discover that mysterious pods are cloning people and destroying their bodies, they turn to scientists to figure out how to destroy the alien creatures.
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The Iron Giant
A young boy meets a fifty-foot-tall, steel-eating giant who he tries to keep secret from everyone, including a nosy government agent. Based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes (published in North America as The Iron Giant).
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Life
When a team of scientists on the International Space Station discover a life form that caused extinction on Mars, they discover that it is growing rapidly and must be stopped before it can affect Earth.
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The MartianAfter being presumed dead on a mission to Mars, an astronaut (Damon) is left behind by his crew and must find a way to survive and signal to Earth that he is still alive.
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Minority ReportIn 2054 a special police unit known as Precrime catches criminals before they act, but when the head of the unit becomes its next suspect, he suddenly finds himself on the run.
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PassengersWhen a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet has a malfunction in its sleep chambers, two passengers are awakened almost ninety years early. A 2016 sci-fi romance film written by Jon Spaihts, partially based on the 1950s EC Comics story 50 Girls 50.
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Planet of the ApesCharlton Heston is George Taylor, one of several astronauts on a space mission whose spaceship crash-lands on a planet seemingly devoid of intelligent life. This planet is ruled by a race of talking and thinking apes who hold court over a multilayered civilization.
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Ready Player OneWhen the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find an Easter egg, which will give the finder his fortune.
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Sphere
When a spaceship is found deep feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a team of scientists is sent to investigate and they discover a sphere inside the ship that appears to give them strong mental powers.
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Star Trek: Picard
Follows Picard fourteen years after his retirement from Starfleet as he investigates a mystery from his past.
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Total Recall
In 2084, Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger) discovers he is a secret agent, and travels to Mars to find out his true identity and why he had his memory erased.
Inspired by the Philip K. Dick story, We Can Remember it For You Wholesale.
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