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46 films tagged science
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2025 · Science fiction
Dinosaurs now survive only near the equator, and a drug company hires an ex-operative and a paleontologist to take samples from the three biggest species. They head for the island where the failed experiments were left.
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2018 · Science fiction
A biologist joins an all-woman expedition into a stretch of coastline sealed off behind a shimmering wall, where the plants and animals have gone strange. It moves slowly and gets stranger the further in they walk.
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2025 · Documentary
Three virus scientists who traced SARS to a bat cave in 2003, and warned that a worse one was coming, find themselves blamed for COVID when it arrives. Interviews, fieldwork and a lot of news footage.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary about a tech millionaire trying to reverse his own ageing, with a daily regimen of food, drugs and measurement, and plasma passed between his father, himself and his son. It also looks at what it costs his family.
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1968 · Science fiction
A strange black slab turns up at three points in human history, and a ship heads for Jupiter to find out why. Very little is explained, and long stretches carry no dialogue at all.
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2025 · Drama
Three stories set in the same German university town in 1908, 1972 and 2020, tied together by an old ginkgo tree in the botanical garden. Slow, and it takes the tree as seriously as the people.
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2026 · Science fiction
A middle school teacher wakes from a coma on a spacecraft light-years from home, with no memory of how he got there and both crewmates dead. Flashbacks fill in the mission and what is eating the sun.
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2026 · Horror
In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein's monster asks a scientist to build him a companion, and she revives a dead woman who wakes with no idea who she was. He tells her she is his bride, and they go out into the city.
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2026 · Drama
Three days before the Normandy landings, a Scottish meteorologist is handed the job of telling Eisenhower whether the weather will hold. Most of it is argument over a forecast, against a 61-hour clock.
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2026 · Horror
A scientist releases a mutating bioweapon at a company presentation, and the building goes into lockdown with everyone still inside. Fast, loud and almost entirely in the one building.
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2026 · Horror
A fungus that came back down from space has sat sealed in a vault under a Kansas self-storage building since 2007, and it is getting out. A monster picture with jokes in it.
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2026 · Horror
A marine researcher is sent to a salmon farm deep in a Norwegian fjord, where the gear keeps getting wrecked, the fish behave oddly, and the old stories name what lives below. Cold, dark water.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2014 · Science fiction
A young coder wins a week at his boss's house in the mountains, where he is asked to sit with a robot and work out whether it can think. Three people, one building, and most of it is conversation.
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2018 · Drama
The years between Neil Armstrong joining NASA and stepping onto the Moon, at home as much as in the cockpit. Quiet and close in, with the flying shot from inside the capsule.
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2016 · Science fiction
Twelve alien craft arrive without explanation, and a linguist is brought in to work out how to ask them what they want. Most of it is the slow business of translation.
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2008 · Action
A billionaire who sells weapons is taken prisoner in Afghanistan and builds himself a way out, then keeps building once he gets home. Light on its feet, with as much workshop as fighting.
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1993 · Adventure
A billionaire invites two palaeontologists to inspect his island park before it opens, where the attractions are live dinosaurs. The power goes out during the tour.
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2023 · Comedy
A Victorian surgeon brings a drowned woman back to life, and she starts again from nothing, learning fast and then running off across Europe with a bad lawyer. Big sets, odd colors, and very blunt talk about sex.
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2012 · Science fiction
Scientists follow a set of matching cave paintings to a distant moon, on a ship paid for by a dying billionaire who wants to meet whoever left them. Big empty landscapes first, then a lot of running.
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2007 · Science fiction
The sun is dying, and a crew of eight is sent out with a bomb the size of Manhattan to restart it, on the second ship to try after the first never came back. It all happens inside the ship, and it gets tense as they get closer.
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2016 · Drama
Three Black women working as mathematicians at NASA in the early 1960s do the sums that put an astronaut in orbit, in a building that is still segregated. Their fight is mostly a bureaucratic one.
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1995 · Drama
An oxygen tank blows two days into a moon landing, and the mission becomes getting three men home in a crippled ship. Half the film is engineers at desks.
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2015 · Science fiction
An astronaut is left behind on Mars when his crew evacuates and has to work out how to eat and how to tell anyone he is alive. Cheerful for a survival film, and much of it is him talking to a camera.
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2007 · Science fiction
A man spots something through binoculars behind his new house, walks into the woods to look, and ends up somewhere he cannot easily explain. Almost all of it happens on one hillside over a single afternoon.
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2014 · Science fiction
With the crops failing on Earth, a former pilot leaves his daughter behind and flies through a wormhole looking for somewhere else to live. Long stretches of orbital mechanics, and a clock that runs at different speeds for different people.
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2023 · Drama
The physicist who ran the Manhattan Project builds the bomb, then spends years in rooms answering for it. Three hours, mostly of men talking, cut between two timelines.
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2019 · Documentary
The eight days of the first Moon landing, cut entirely from restored footage and mission audio recorded at the time. No narrator, no interviews, no talking heads.
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1977 · Science fiction
An Indiana lineman sees something over a road and cannot stop building the same shape out of everything in his house. Builds slowly to one very long encounter.
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1997 · Science fiction
A radio astronomer picks up a signal from Vega carrying instructions, and the argument over who should go turns political and religious. Long, talky, and serious about the science.
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1997 · Science fiction
Six strangers wake in a lattice of identical cubic rooms, some of them trapped, with no idea who put them there. One set, and the maths matters.
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2013 · Science fiction
A privately funded crew goes to a moon of Jupiter to look for life under the ice, told through the ship's own cameras. Small, procedural, and assembled out of order.
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2022 · Documentary
Two French volcanologists spent twenty years filming each other walking up to erupting craters, and this is cut from their own footage. The images are the reason to watch.
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2025 · Horror
A surgeon builds a man out of the dead and abandons him the moment he opens his eyes, and the creature gets to tell his own half of it. Lavish, sad and unhurried.
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1997 · Science fiction
In a world that sorts people by their genes at birth, a man born the ordinary way buys another man's identity to get a seat on a flight to Titan. Cool, still, mostly interiors.
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2018 · Science fiction
Convicts on a ship heading for a black hole are used for fertility experiments by the doctor travelling with them. Slow, cold and out of order, with a man and a baby alone on board.
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2015 · Science fiction
The park is finally open and doing good numbers, so the investors ask for a bigger animal. Runs straight from the first escape to the last.
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2017 · Horror
A crew on the space station receives a soil sample from Mars with something living in it, and it grows quickly. Tight, wet and mean.
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2020 · Documentary
A burnt-out filmmaker starts free-diving every day in a South African kelp forest and follows one octopus for a year. Quiet, and mostly underwater.
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2004 · Science fiction
Two engineers building something in a garage on evenings and weekends realise the box does something they were not aiming for. Made for almost nothing, and it explains nothing.
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2011 · Science fiction
A drug developed for Alzheimer's is tested on chimpanzees, and one of them is raised in a San Francisco house. Most of the film is on the ape's side.
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1972 · Science fiction
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a planet that appears to be reading the crew's minds, and finds his dead wife waiting for him. Extremely slow, and mostly talk.
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1979 · Science fiction
A guide takes a writer and a scientist into a forbidden Zone where one room is said to grant your deepest wish. Three men walking and talking for nearly three hours.
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1986 · Horror
A scientist who has built a working teleportation booth tests it on himself with a fly in the chamber. Mostly two people in a loft, and it gets very physical.
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2014 · Drama
A mathematician builds a machine to break German naval codes at Bletchley Park while hiding who he is. Cuts between three periods of his life.
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2005 · Science fiction
Residents of a sealed facility are told the outside world is contaminated and that a lottery wins a place on the last clean island. Turns into a chase quickly.
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2007 · Science fiction
A professor moving house tells the colleagues who came to say goodbye that he is fourteen thousand years old, and invites them to argue. One living room, ninety minutes.
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