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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
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.
Blade Runner
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.
Jurassic Park
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.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
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.
Alien
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.
2001: A Space Odyssey
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.
Back to the Future
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.
Inception
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.
The Matrix
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.
Interstellar
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.
Total Recall
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?
The Day the Earth Stood Still
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.
District 9
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.
The Terminator
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.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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.
Moon
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.
The War of the Worlds (Original)
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.
Stargate
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.
Arrival
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.
Minority Report
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.
Her
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.
The Fifth Element
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.
War of the Worlds
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.
Children of Men
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.
Gravity
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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