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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
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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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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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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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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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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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
Divergent
Byte-Sized Overview In a future Chicago sealed away from the outside world, every citizen belongs to one of five factions based upon…
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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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1990s
12 Monkeys
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a plague-ravaged future, a convict is sent back in time to stop the virus that wiped out humanity…
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1990s
Deep Impact
Byte-Sized Overview A newly discovered comet is on a collision course with Earth, leaving humanity with less than a year to prevent…
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1970s
Soylent Green
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In an overpopulated, climate-wrecked future, a cop investigates a corporate murder — only to uncover the horrifying truth behind…
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1970s
Silent Running
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Earth’s last forests are floating in space, cared for by a botanist who loves nature more than people. When…
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Pre-1950
Things to Come
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A century-long war devastates the world, followed by a plague and then a techno-utopia where humanity aims for the…
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2020s
Mickey 17
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Meet Mickey. He dies. A lot. But each time, a new clone wakes up with most of his memories…
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1990s
Demolition Man
Byte-Sized Overview In the crime-ridden Los Angeles of 1996, uncompromising police officer John Spartan finally captures psychotic criminal Simon Phoenix, but the…
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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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2000s
Sunshine
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A spaceship crew heads toward a dying sun with a nuclear bomb the size of Manhattan — hoping to…
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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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2000s
Children of Men
Byte-Sized Overview In 2027, humanity has been infertile for eighteen years. No children have been born, governments have collapsed and Britain survives…
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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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1960s
Planet of the Apes
Byte-Sized Overview Astronaut George Taylor and his crew awaken from deep-space hibernation after travelling for centuries at near-light speed. Their spacecraft crashes…
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2020s
Dune
Byte-Sized Overview House Atreides is ordered to leave its oceanic homeworld of Caladan and assume control of Arrakis, the desert planet that…
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