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Science Fiction 101 (75 titles)
The science fiction films everyone should watch in order to truly understand the infinite possibilities of the future......
50.4% from 46 members
2001 - A Space Odyssey
Some would say it is slow moving but in reality it is probably the most likely realisation of the future in that it maintains a mystery that gives across the idea of the infinity of space and our beginning as part of it...
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2001 - A Space Odyssey
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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A four-million-year-old black monolith is discovered on the moon, and the government sends a team of scientists on a fact-finding mission while hiding the truth from the public. Later, another team is sent to Jupiter in a ship controlled by the perfect HAL 9000 computer to further investigate the ..read more »
68%
from 28,643 members
2010 : The Year We Make Contact
It finishes off the odyssey well and makes a point about bigger things that we should all focus on
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2010 : The Year We Make Contact
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Bob Balaban
Director: Peter Hyams
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A team of American and Soviet astronauts travel in search of the lost ship "Discovery" as Cold War strife boils over back on Earth. A breathtaking if far less allegorical sequel to the sci-fi classic 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY. Academy Award Nominations: 5.
62%
from 6,186 members
Silent Running
A film that demonstrates the boredom and weirdness of what long term space travel would be like
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Silent Running
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Jesse Vint
Director: Douglas Trumbull
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In a grim future, Earth is so overdeveloped plants can no longer survive. Giant greenhouses in orbit carry samples of Earth's dying forests. When the government decides they are too expensive to maintain, one committed crew member will stop at nothing to save them. Screenplay by Steven Bochco and ..read more »
66%
from 4,518 members
Apollo 13
A great drama showing how far we have to go in our pursuit of exploring space
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Apollo 13
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton
Director: Ron Howard
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A vividly rendered dramatisation of Apollo 13's true-life brush with disaster on the way to the Moon in 1971. This mesmerising film combines computer graphics, archive footage and seamless special effects to recreate the adrenalised odyssey of Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert who ..read more »
71%
from 18,050 members
Sunshine
A realistic look at the psychology of people required to make sacrifices and to be human and make mistakes on the backdrop of an event horizon type horror film and what it is to play god
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Sunshine
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans
Director: Danny Boyle
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It is the year 2057, the Sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth’s last hope lies with the Icarus II, a spacecraft with a crew of eight men and women led by Captain Kaneda. Their mission: to deliver a nuclear device designed to reignite our fading sun. Deep into their voyage, out of radio ..read more »
59%
from 47,948 members
Event Horizon
An original horror which took hell raiser into space with terrifying results
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Event Horizon
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, Kathleen Quinlan
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Certificate:
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In this eerie science-fiction ghost story, an astrophysicist (Sam Neill), haunted by the memory of his wife's suicide, joins a rescue mission to salvage his life's work: the Event Horizon, a prototype spacecraft capable of faster-than-light travel that has been missing for seven years. Their ..read more »
65%
from 13,740 members
Alien
Cat and mouse with a 10 foot alien on a space ship great acting and atmosphere the ultimate horro/sci-fi
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Alien
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, ..read more »
77%
from 48,992 members
Aliens
I remember how scared I was when I first saw this film its pace, energy and atmosphere makes it one of the best films ever
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Aliens
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn
Director: James Cameron
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Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor from the original ALIEN, is awakened after 57 years of drifting through space, her stories disbelieved by Company executives who tell her that the alien's planet is now inhabited and colonized. When contact is suddenly lost with the colonists, Ripley ..read more »
78%
from 39,953 members
Alien - Director's Cut
Some good extra segments from the original and a true example of James Camerons skill as a director
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Alien - Director's Cut
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright
Director: Ridley Scott
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For this digitally remastered special edition of what many have called the "scariest movie ever made," Ridley Scott has incorporated new footage never before seen in movie houses. Working closely with Twentieth Century Fox, Scott oversaw a restoration of the original film's negative, as well as ..read more »
78%
from 30,686 members
Alien 3
Interesing move onto a prison planet and that in the future there are still monsters both alien and human
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Alien 3
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance
Director: David Fincher
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Ripley finds herself the sole survivor of another alien attack. This time she finds herself on Fiorina 161, a penal colony... It is not long before Ripley realises that her doomed escape pod was contaminated with the alien. Now she is imprisoned on a planet where weapons are unavailable....
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from 20,888 members
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