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1980s
RoboCop
Byte-Sized Overview Detroit police officer Alex Murphy is transferred to one of the city’s most dangerous precincts as the corporation controlling the…
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2010s
Alien: Covenant
Byte-Sized Overview The colony ship Covenant is carrying thousands of sleeping passengers towards Origae-6, where its crew intends to establish a new…
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1990s
Alien: Resurrection
Byte-Sized Overview Two hundred years after Ellen Ripley sacrificed herself to destroy the alien queen she carried, military scientists decide that death…
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1980s
Aliens
Byte-Sized Overview Fifty-seven years after escaping the destruction of the Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is recovered from hypersleep and returned to a society…
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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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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
Insurgent
Byte-Sized Overview Following the collapse of the attack against Abnegation, Tris Prior and Four are fugitives hiding among the peaceful members of…
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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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2020s
Alien: Romulus
Byte-Sized Overview Set between Alien and Aliens, Alien: Romulus follows a group of young workers desperate to escape a corporate mining colony…
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2000s
Minority Report
Byte-Sized Overview In Washington, D.C. in 2054, murder has almost been eliminated. The PreCrime division uses the visions of three psychic “Precogs”…
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1960s
2001: A Space Odyssey
Byte-Sized Overview From humanity’s prehistoric beginnings to a voyage towards Jupiter, 2001: A Space Odyssey follows the mysterious influence of an extraterrestrial…
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1970s
Alien
Byte-Sized Overview The commercial towing vessel Nostromo is returning to Earth with seven crew members in hypersleep and a refinery carrying millions…
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1980s
The Terminator
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A killer cyborg from the future is sent back to 1984 to assassinate a woman whose unborn child will…
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2020s
Archive
Byte-Sized Overview In 2038, robotics engineer George Almore is approaching a breakthrough. Working alone inside a remote research facility, he has developed…
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2010s
Alita: Battle Angel
Byte-Sized Overview Three centuries after a devastating interplanetary war known as the Fall, cybernetic doctor Dyson Ido discovers the remains of a…
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2010s
Oblivion
Byte-Sized Overview In 2077, Earth has been devastated by war against an alien force known as the Scavengers. Humanity won, but the…
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2000s
Moon
Byte-Sized Overview Sam Bell is nearing the end of a three-year contract at the Sarang lunar base, where he oversees automated harvesters…
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2010s
Ex Machina
Byte-Sized Overview Caleb Smith, a young programmer working for the world’s largest search-engine company, wins a competition to spend a week at…
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Pre-1950
Metropolis
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a futuristic city ruled by elites, a mad scientist creates a robotic double to manipulate the masses. Class…
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1950s
Forbidden Planet
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A starship crew lands on a remote planet to investigate a vanished colony, only to discover ancient alien tech,…
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1970s
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Byte-Sized Overview A vast energy cloud enters Federation space, destroying everything it encounters as it travels directly towards Earth. Admiral James T.…
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1980s
Blade Runner
Byte-Sized Overview Los Angeles, 2019. The city has become a rain-soaked industrial sprawl of overcrowded streets, corporate pyramids and illuminated advertisements. Artificial…
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1990s
The Matrix
Byte-Sized Overview Computer programmer Thomas Anderson leads a double life as the hacker Neo, searching the internet for an answer to a…
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