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2010s
10 Cloverfield Lane
Byte-Sized Overview After leaving her fiancé and driving away from New Orleans, Michelle is involved in a violent car accident. She awakens…
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2020s
A Quiet Place: Day One
Byte-Sized Overview A Quiet Place: Day One returns to the beginning of the alien invasion, leaving the rural survivalism of the Abbott…
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2020s
A Quiet Place Part II
Byte-Sized Overview A Quiet Place Part II begins by briefly returning to the day the world changed, showing how an ordinary small-town…
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2010s
A Quiet Place
Byte-Sized Overview A fallen world is frightening enough when its survivors do not understand what destroyed it. In A Quiet Place, the…
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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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2020s
Elevation
Byte-Sized Overview Three years after creatures known as Reapers emerged from beneath the Earth and wiped out most of humanity, the remaining…
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1990s
Starship Troopers
Byte-Sized Overview Johnny Rico joins the Mobile Infantry to remain close to his ambitious girlfriend, Carmen Ibanez, despite having little understanding of…
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2010s
Cowboys & Aliens
Byte-Sized Overview In 1873, a wounded stranger wakes in the New Mexico desert with no memory of his identity and a strange…
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1980s
The Abyss
Byte-Sized Overview When the nuclear submarine USS Montana sinks after encountering an unidentified object deep in the Caribbean, the crew of an…
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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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2010s
Paul
Byte-Sized Overview British science-fiction enthusiasts Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings travel to the United States for Comic-Con before hiring a motorhome and…
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1950s
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Byte-Sized Overview A silver spacecraft descends over Washington, D.C., bringing everyday life to a halt as it lands in a public park.…
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1970s
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Byte-Sized Overview Electrical lineman Roy Neary is investigating a widespread power failure in Indiana when an unidentified flying object passes directly above…
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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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2010s
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
Byte-Sized Overview An alien species known as the Mimics has conquered most of continental Europe. Major William Cage, a military public-relations officer…
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2010s
Arrival
Byte-Sized Overview Twelve enormous spacecraft appear without warning at twelve locations around the world. The visitors neither attack nor explain themselves, leaving…
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1990s
Contact
Byte-Sized Overview Dr Ellie Arroway has spent her career listening for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence. Working with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence…
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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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