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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: Earth’s choking on dust and bad crop yields, so a retired pilot blasts off through a wormhole to find…
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1960s
2001: A Space Odyssey
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: From prehistoric apes discovering tools to astronauts confronting a malfunctioning AI en route to Jupiter, this cerebral space epic…
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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: A spaceship crew investigates a distress signal, finds a weird alien egg, and ends up with more than just…
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2020s
Archive
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A lonely scientist in a remote research facility is building a robot copy of his dead wife — one…
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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: An alien lands in Washington D.C. with a robot and a message for mankind: stop your warlike nonsense or…
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2010s
Gravity
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A routine spacewalk turns into orbital mayhem when debris wrecks a shuttle, leaving a medical engineer stranded in space.…
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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 Strange lights in the sky. Missing people. A dad obsessed with mashed potatoes. Spielberg’s UFO epic turns alien contact…
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2010s
The Martian
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Stranded on Mars, an astronaut survives by growing potatoes in poop and using science, sarcasm, and space ingenuity to…
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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: A drone repairman on a post-apocalyptic Earth starts questioning everything he knows — including his mission, his memories, and…
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2010s
Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A PR officer with zero combat skills gets stuck in a time loop, reliving Earth’s final battle against an…
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2010s
Passengers
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A man wakes up 90 years too early on a colony ship and, in a moment of devastating loneliness,…
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2000s
Moon
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A lonely astronaut nearing the end of his lunar contract discovers he may not be as alone — or…
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2010s
Ex Machina
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A young coder wins a trip to test an AI, only to discover he’s the one being tested. Seductive…
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