scientific sci-fi movie

[XDurionX]

A lot of good recommendations so far, Solaris is a really interesting Sci-fi movie, I didn't get it the first time I saw it (I was young).

I watched it again a 3 or 4 years ago and a couple more times since, it is one of the most thought provoking movies I've ever seen.

Stanislaw Lem got the honorary degree by my faculty back in 2003 when i was still studying. AFAIK he didn´t like the Soderbergh movie, but i did, in arty because of the amazing soundtrack. Lem is always worth reading, he was a visionary.

[Afrospinach]

Not going to lie, I love this movie and just cant explain why

It is because of the composer and the music score.

Ennio Morricone? Yeah, the good, the bad and the ugly guy.

[Lodreh]

...but Killjoys is a fun sci-fi show to pass the time.

That and Dark Matter were great... miss them both.

[Machismo]

That and Dark Matter were great... miss them both.

I liked the first couple seasons of Dark Matter, but I didn't like how the writing changed in the end of the second season. The characters were fun, but I think they should have gotten more out of Corso.

[Trifle]

Thinking about movies, Annihilation hasn't been mentioned and is something very thought provoking (with some action)...right up there with Arrival.

I thought Annihilation was pretty horrible tbh. So much about it just made no sense.

In a similar vein to The Man From Earth, I really enjoyed Coherence. Indie movie that basically just takes place in a room, but gets quite clever with the idea of parallel worlds. Apparently it was mostly unscripted.

[Kaleredar]

You want a good hard sci-fi film? Watch The Martian. It's like the exact opposite of Gravity; instead of characters surviving or perishing due to random chance, The Martian is all about using science and planning to overcome technical obstacles. It's also well-paced.

Moon is also a really good, underappreciated science fiction film. It's a real tense slow burn, but it's pretty damn cool.


Also, Event Horizon is a bad movie. Hilariously bad, but bad nonetheless. I don't think it's what you're looking for, OP.

The Expanse sucks. I would not recommend the Expanse unless you are a BIG fan of noir. All the characters are vile which means you will quickly wish to see all of them die horribly. There are no characters to root for. I could at LEAST respect that if they were consistent with it and stuck to the noir style, but they are inconsistent are inevitably fall into the trap of attempting to write some characters as heroes to advance the plot, which utterly fails because everyone is evil.

Its a show where you root for the asteroid to wipe everyone out.

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Try these:

District 9 (2012)
Evolution (2015)
12 Monkeys (1995)
Also try the 12 Monkeys TV series (they wrap up the plots in 4 seasons)
The 5th Element (1997)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Total Recall (1990)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Of those films District 9, 5th element, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Total recall feature a lot of violence and/or evil aliens, which seems against what the OP is asking for.

Also, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind is a great film, but it's no more "science fiction" than Inception was.

[ro9ue]

More sciency sci-fi flicks I like: Ex Machina, Gattaca, Sunshine, Moon, The Martian

[Shadowferal]

The 5th Element? Really?
And just what was that 5th element again?

[Thelxi]

I agree with many of the movies mentioned here. I'd add Annihilation if you consider psychology a science, and I am Mother if you are into artificial intelligence speculation.

[Kokolums]

I thought Annihilation was pretty horrible tbh. So much about it just made no sense.

In a similar vein to The Man From Earth, I really enjoyed Coherence. Indie movie that basically just takes place in a room, but gets quite clever with the idea of parallel worlds. Apparently it was mostly unscripted.

Coherence was good.

It reminds me of a plot for a book or movie I've had rattling around in my head. The story is about how, in the far future, religion is banned and most people are atheists. The scientific community, being rooted in hard science, is run by a particularly hardcore version of atheism. Society has rejected religion to a point where parents have started giving their kids demonic names like Abaddon, Beelzebub, Belial, etc. A group of them develop time travel. They test it on themselves and go back in time, but it goes horribly wrong. They are now in the past, but they are somehow trapped on a mysterious plane of existence. They can move about in the past and hear people talk, but they cannot interact with anything unless they get very emotional and even then its very hard. People living in the past can just barely perceive them and only some of them. Some people interpret these interactions as ghosts or demons and wield Christian symbols and holy water etc against them which pisses the time traveling atheists off because to them its all stupid myth, and their anger at the Christian symbols ironically allows them to manifest briefly in the Earthly plane and move things around.

Some of them are stuck there for a very long time and, unable to do anything else, get mean and start torturing those on the earthly plane. The head scientist who developed time travel went back millions of years and got stuck in this odd plane of existence as well. His name was Zozo. After millions of years, trapped, unable to die, just existing, he kinda went insane and he's been a big big problem for humanity throughout history.

Then to add to another layer to this, in a far FAR future, long after time travel was first discovered, scientists mastered time travel to a great degree. They also are aware of how the first time travelers got trapped. They've elected to NOT rescue them, because they've become woven into human history too deeply. Instead, they go back in time and try to mitigate the damage. This second group of scientists are what we know as angels, and the collective group is what we might call God.

There's a lot of parallel worlds and stuff mixed in there.