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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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Year of Release: 1982, Director: Steven Spielberg, Brief Synopsis: A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.

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Blade Runner

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Year of Release: 1982, Director: Ridley Scott, Brief Synopsis: A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

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Jurassic Park

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Year of Release: 1993, Director: Steven Spielberg, Brief Synopsis: During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

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Year of Release: 1977, Director: George Lucas, Brief Synopsis: Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee, and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

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Alien

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Year of Release: 1979, Director: Ridley Scott, Brief Synopsis: After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

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2001: A Space Odyssey

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Year of Release: 1968, Director: Stanley Kubrick, Brief Synopsis: Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced supercomputer.

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Back to the Future

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Year of Release: 1985, Director: Robert Zemeckis, Brief Synopsis: Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.

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Inception

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Year of Release: 2010, Director: Christopher Nolan, Brief Synopsis: A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.

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The Matrix

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Year of Release: 1999, Director: The Wachowski Brothers, Brief Synopsis: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.

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Interstellar

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Year of Release: 2014, Director: Christopher Nolan, Brief Synopsis: A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

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Total Recall

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Year of Release: 1990, Director: Paul Verhoeven, Brief Synopsis: When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real, or does he?

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

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Year of Release: 1951, Director: Robert Wise, Brief Synopsis: An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

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District 9

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Year of Release: 2009, Director: Neill Blomkamp, Brief Synopsis: An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.

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The Terminator

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Year of Release: 1984, Director: James Cameron, Brief Synopsis: A seemingly indestructible robot is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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Year of Release: 1977, Director: Steven Spielberg, Brief Synopsis: Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.

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Moon

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Year of Release: 2009, Director: Duncan Jones, Brief Synopsis: Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.

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The War of the Worlds (Original)

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Year of Release: 1953, Director: Byron Haskin, Brief Synopsis: The film adaptation of the H.G. Wells story told on radio of the invasion of Earth by Martians.

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Stargate

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Year of Release: 1994, Director: Roland Emmerich, Brief Synopsis: An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

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Arrival

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Year of Release: 2016, Director: Denis Villeneuve, Brief Synopsis: A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.

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Minority Report

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Year of Release: 2002, Director: Steven Spielberg, Brief Synopsis: In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.

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Her

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Year of Release: 2013, Director: Spike Jonze, Brief Synopsis: In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.

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The Fifth Element

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Year of Release: 1997, Director: Luc Besson, Brief Synopsis: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.

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War of the Worlds

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Year of Release: 2005, Director: Steven Spielberg, Brief Synopsis: As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival in this sci-fi action film.

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Children of Men

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Year of Release: 2006, Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Brief Synopsis: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.

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Gravity

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Year of Release: 2013, Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Brief Synopsis: Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.

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