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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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1950s
War of the Worlds
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Martians land on Earth with terrifying war machines and start incinerating cities like it’s a sport. Humanity’s weapons are…
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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 teenage astronomer discovers a comet on a collision course with Earth. As the world prepares for possible extinction,…
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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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2020s
The Electric State
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A runaway teen travels across a decaying retro-futuristic America in search of her brother, accompanied by a friendly robot…
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1970s
Star Wars: Episode IV (A New Hope)
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A farm boy, a space princess, a smuggler, and two snarky droids take on a planet-destroying space station run…
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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
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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1980s
Back to the Future
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Teenager Marty McFly accidentally travels from 1985 to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean and must ensure his parents fall…
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2010s
Paul
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Two British nerds road-tripping through America meet a sarcastic alien escapee named Paul. Together, they outrun secret agents, dodge…
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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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Pre-1950
The Man in Half Moon Street
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A suave, ageless scientist tries to extend his already suspiciously long life using questionable experiments and a steady supply…
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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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1980s
The Terminator
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A killer cyborg from the future is sent back to 1984 to assassinate a woman whose unborn child will…
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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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1980s
Scanners
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: A telepathic drifter is recruited to fight a rogue scanner who can explode people’s heads with his mind. It’s…
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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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1960s
Barbarella
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: Interstellar agent Barbarella is sent to stop a mad scientist with a weapon of mass destruction. Along the way,…
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Pre-1950
Just Imagine
⚡ Byte-Sized Overview: In a futuristic 1980 where babies are numbered and marriage is assigned by court order, a resurrected man from…
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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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