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16 films tagged science
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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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.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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