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2020s
Mercy
Byte-Sized Overview: In Los Angeles in 2029, criminal justice has finally achieved maximum efficiency by removing lawyers, juries, lengthy trials and apparently…
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2020s
Project Hail Mary
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes aboard a spacecraft with two dead crewmates, no memory and absolutely no recollection of…
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2020s
The Tomorrow War
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When time travelers from 2051 interrupt the World Cup (rude) to announce that humanity is about to be wiped…
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2000s
Jumper
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: David Rice discovers he can teleport — and naturally does what any teenage loner would: abandon school, rob a…
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2010s
Riddick
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: After being betrayed and stranded on a sun-scorched hellhole of a planet, Riddick goes full survival mode. He fights…
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2000s
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When Joel discovers his ex-girlfriend Clementine has had all memories of their relationship erased, he impulsively decides to do…
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2010s
Chronicle
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When three high schoolers discover a glowing alien thing in a hole (as one does), they gain telekinetic powers.…
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2020s
Moonfall
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: The Moon has left the chat. It’s not orbiting — it’s plunging straight toward Earth. Cue rogue astronauts, unlikely…
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1990s
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: This time, the Terminator isn’t here to kill Sarah Connor — he’s here to babysit her son, John. Meanwhile,…
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2010s
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Katniss and Peeta return home after winning the Hunger Games, but their victory has made them a symbol of…
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2010s
Allegiant
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: After toppling the faction system, Tris and Four discover that freedom isn’t quite what they hoped. A mysterious message…
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2010s
Insurgent
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Tris and Four are on the run after the fall of Abnegation, branded fugitives by the power-hungry Jeanine. But…
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1970s
Logan’s Run
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a gleaming domed city of the future, humanity lives in luxury… with one catch: nobody lives past the…
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1970s
Westworld
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: At Delos, a high-tech adult theme park, guests pay top dollar to live out their wildest fantasies in one…
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2000s
The Island
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Lincoln Six Echo lives in a sterile utopia where survivors of Earth’s contamination await transfer to “The Island” —…
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2020s
Alien: Romulus
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A ragtag group of young colonists escape their oppressive mining colony and dock with a derelict space station called…
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2000s
Minority Report
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In 2054, murder has been eliminated… thanks to a predictive justice system that arrests people before they commit the…
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2020s
Elevation
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When alien predators wipe out most of humanity, survivors cling to high-altitude safety zones. But when a sick child…
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1990s
Starship Troopers
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a future where citizenship is earned through military service, a handsome idiot and his high school friends sign…
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2010s
Divergent
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Society is divided into five personality-based factions to keep the peace. But when a teenage girl doesn’t fit into…
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2010s
The Hunger Games
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a future where the government entertains the masses with televised teen death matches, a girl from a poor…
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2000s
I, Robot
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a near-future Chicago where humanoid robots are everyday helpers, a detective with serious trust issues investigates the death…
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2010s
Cowboys & Aliens
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A mysterious stranger with a hi-tech wrist weapon wanders into a dusty frontier town with no memory and one…
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1980s
The Abyss
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: When a nuclear sub sinks near the Cayman Trough, a civilian diving crew teams up with the military to…
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