7 Films · Collection

Sci-Fi That Thinks

Big ideas over big explosions. Seven films that use the future to ask what makes us human.

2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 Stanley Kubrick

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A bone tossed in the air becomes a spaceship, and a ship's computer decides the crew is the problem.

Stalker

1979 Andrei Tarkovsky

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A guide leads two men into the Zone, toward a room said to grant your deepest wish - if you dare enter it.

Blade Runner

1982 Ridley Scott

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If a replicant can fear death and grieve its own memories, what exactly makes it less human than the man hunting it?

Gattaca

1997 Andrew Niccol

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In a world that reads your fate off your DNA, a man borrows another's blood and urine to reach space.

Children of Men

2006 Alfonso Cuarón

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Humanity has been infertile for eighteen years - then one woman is pregnant, and the escape unfolds in unbroken takes.

Ex Machina

2015 Alex Garland

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A coder is invited to test whether a robot named Ava can pass for human, and to wonder who is really being tested.

Annihilation

2018 Alex Garland

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A team of scientists walks into the Shimmer, a zone where the natural laws of life refract and rewrite everything inside.