Genre "Psychological Sci-Fi" Movies
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| 1. 2010 (year: 1984) |
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This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-S ...
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| 2. 2046 (year: 2004) |
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Hong Kong-based filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai moves back and forth in time as he reexamines and amplifies the themes from his film In the Mood for Love in th ...
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| 3. A Clockwork Orange (year: 1971) |
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Stanley Kubrick dissects the nature of violence in this darkly ironic, near-future satire, adapted from Anthony Burgess' novel, complete with "Na ...
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| 4. A Scanner Darkly (year: 2006) |
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The war on drugs has been lost, and when a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on those he is closest to, the toll that the mission takes on hi ...
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| 5. Altered States (year: 1980) |
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In this 1980 sci-fi horror film, William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind's true role in the universe. To this e ...
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| 6. Automatons (year: 2006) |
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Machines fight for control of a world destroyed by man in this ultra-low-budget sci-fi saga from filmmaker James Felix McKenney. A global war has left ...
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| 7. Children of Men (year: 2006) |
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Y Tu Mamá También and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón returns to the helm to tell this futuristic tale in which socie ...
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| 8. Code 46 (year: 2003) |
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In the not-so-distant future, a married man investigates a counterfeiter and ends up the perpetrator of an ethical crime in Code 46, the latest film f ...
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| 9. Contact (year: 1997) |
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The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientis ...
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| 10. Crimes of the Future (year: 1969) |
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Fans of innovative Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg will recognize the emergence of a his unique voice in this 1970 project, the director's second ...
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| 11. Cube (year: 1997) |
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This low-budget science-fiction drama, winner of a 1997 Toronto Film Festival prize for "Best Canadian First Feature," depicts the plight of ...
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| 12. Equilibrium (year: 2002) |
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A man who dares to feel finds his life in danger in this cautionary science fiction drama. In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much o ...
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| 13. Fahrenheit 451 (year: 1966) |
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In the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers known as &quo ...
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| 14. Gattaca (year: 1997) |
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New Zealand screenwriter Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show) made his feature directorial debut with this science fiction drama, set in a future when one' ...
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| 15. K-PAX (year: 2001) |
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The 1995 novel by Dr. Gene Brewer becomes this drama from director Iain Softley. After a mugging incident at New York's Grand Central Station, Prot (K ...
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| 16. Red Planet (year: 2000) |
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An effort to circumvent global catastrophe becomes a disaster in its own right in this science fiction thriller. In the year 2050, Earth is on the ver ...
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| 17. Solaris (year: 2002) |
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A therapist travels to a distant space station to treat a group of astronauts traumatized by mysterious entities — and ends up having to dea ...
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| 18. Stereo (year: 1969) |
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The first film by director David Cronenberg, the black and white, hour-long feature Stereo is more self-consciously avant-garde, and less visceral, th ...
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| 19. Sunshine (year: 2007) |
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As the sun begins to dim along with mankind's hope for the future, it's up to a desperate crew of eight astronauts to reach the dying star and re-igni ...
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| 20. The Abyss (year: 1989) |
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The crew of an experimental, high-tech submersible is called into action to investigate a mysterious nuclear submarine crash. A series of strange enco ...
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| 21. The Andromeda Strain (year: 2008) |
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Adapted from the best-selling novel by author Michael Crichton, director Mikael Salomon's made for television mini-series follows a group of specializ ...
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| 22. The Butterfly Effect (year: 2004) |
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Final Destination 2 screenwriters Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber make their directorial debut with the sci-fi thriller The Butterfly Effect. Evan Tre ...
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| 23. The City of Lost Children (year: 1995) |
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This visually inventive French sci-fi/fantasy tale began winning a cult following practically from the moment it was released. Krank (Daniel Emilfork) ...
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| 25. The Fountain (year: 2006) |
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Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky switches gears from drug-induced urban malaise to abstract science fiction with this time-tripping symbo ...
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| 27. The Invasion (year: 2007) |
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A mysterious, mind-altering epidemic has infected mankind, and when a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist discovers that the outbreak seems to be extraterre ...
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| 28. The Island (year: 2005) |
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Blockbuster action director Michael Bay delivers a striking look at a strange world of the future in this sci-fi action drama. Midway through the 21st ...
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| 29. The Man From Earth (year: 2007) |
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In the tradition of such psychologically-charged sci-fi outings as The Next One (1982) and K-PAX (2001) comes the cerebral science fiction opus The Ma ...
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| 30. The Man Who Fell to Earth (year: 1976) |
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Based on a novel by Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth achieved cult film status for David Bowie's performance as Thomas Jerome Newton, aka " ...
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| 31. The Philadelphia Experiment (year: 1984) |
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This science fiction thriller was inspired by a mythical real-life event, the WWII era disappearance of an entire naval vessel during a radar-cloaking ...
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| 32. The Stepford Wives (year: 1975) |
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| 33. Vanilla Sky (year: 2001) |
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A remake of the Spanish film Open Your Eyes (1997), this thriller from director Cameron Crowe bears one of several discarded titles for his previous, ...
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