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2020s
Everything Everywhere All at Once
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A struggling laundromat owner discovers she’s the key to saving the multiverse — by jumping between realities, learning absurd…
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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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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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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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1990s
The Fifth Element
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A cab driver, a perfect being, a space priest, and a radio host walk into a galactic apocalypse —…
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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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