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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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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
Interstellar
Byte-Sized Overview A crop blight is slowly making Earth uninhabitable, forcing humanity to concentrate upon food production while abandoning much of its…
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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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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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2000s
Primer
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Two engineers stumble upon time travel while tinkering in their garage. What begins as a clever side hustle soon…
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1970s
The Andromeda Strain
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A satellite crashes back to Earth carrying a mysterious organism that wipes out a small town. A group of…
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2010s
Under the Skin
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: An alien disguised as a woman drives around Scotland seducing lonely men into her weird black goop room. It’s…
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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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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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2020s
The Creator
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A soldier hunting a deadly AI weapon discovers it’s actually a small, adorable childbot. Suddenly, blowing it up gets…
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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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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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2010s
Gravity
Byte-Sized Overview Medical engineer Dr Ryan Stone is completing her first space mission aboard the shuttle Explorer, working alongside veteran astronaut Matt…
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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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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
The Martian
Byte-Sized Overview When a violent dust storm forces the Ares III crew to abandon its mission on Mars, astronaut Mark Watney is…
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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
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
Passengers
Byte-Sized Overview The starship Avalon is transporting more than five thousand sleeping passengers and crew members to a distant colony when a…
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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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