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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 Marty McFly is a teenager with musical ambitions, an unreliable family and an eccentric scientist for a best friend. When…
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2010s
Paul
Byte-Sized Overview British science-fiction enthusiasts Graeme Willy and Clive Gollings travel to the United States for Comic-Con before hiring a motorhome and…
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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 The commercial towing vessel Nostromo is returning to Earth with seven crew members in hypersleep and a refinery carrying millions…
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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 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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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 In the 41st century, humanity has supposedly moved beyond war, jealousy and conventional sexual relationships. When scientist Durand Durand disappears…
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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 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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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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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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