Science fiction movies are top-rated these days. There are a variety of sci-fi films from under-the-radar to big-budget blockbuster events. Netflix had offered a large selection of sci-fi movies and television shows. And they always add some excellent content every month to their catalog. In this article, we will try to shortlist some best movies of the genre of both non-Netflix and Netflix platforms.
Science fiction is a genre that involves a broad category of individual elements that do not exist in terms of records and history. It means the current universe, the context of the supernatural, futuristic, time travel, parallel universe, and many such topics. It has been called “literature of ideas”, and offers the consequences of social, scientific, and technological innovations. It could be related to horror, fantasy, and superhero movies and includes many subgenres.
I Am Mother (2019)
I Am Mother is an Australian science fiction thriller movie written by Michael Lloyd Green and directed by Grant Sputore. Like the characters, Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne, Hilary Swank, and Luke Hawker are in the cast. It is a post-apocalyptic thriller that follows a teenage girl named Daughter, who was raised by a Mother robot. The Mother robot was designed to repopulate the world with preserved human-embryo. The Mother taught the Daughter about ethical lessons, moral values, and also warned her about the upcoming exams. But the routine of these two is disrupted when the Daughter meets a woman played by Hilary Swank. The woman said that a robot had shot her, and hence she preferred a human to perform her surgery. Later in the story, Mother said that the woman was lying as a projectile is not a caliber that is used by robots.
This movie includes some elements from the filmography of Ridley Scott and weaves it as a provoking thought of a young growing teenage girl. It had many impressive effects, but it was an underrated classic.
Total Recall (1990)
Total Recall is an American science fiction movie directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Gary Goldman, Ronald Shusett, Jon Povill, and Dan O’Bannon. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside are a few casts of the film. The story of the movie was loosely based on a short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick in 1966. The film follows a construction worker who found himself conflicted on Mars. And he was unable to understand whether he is experiencing it for real or it is the result of memory implants. The storyline involves scientific ethics and human perception. Despite the great concept, the script was going through development hell. Later in the year 1980, the project was taken by producer Richard Dreyfuss. In 1987, it was announced that De Laurentis would make the movie for his DEG company. The movie is one of the best of Arnold’s science fiction movies.
The Platform (2020)
The Platform is a Spanish sci-fi horror movie directed by Gaztelu Urrutia. The set of the film is in a tower-style “Vertical Self Management Center”. The cast involves Antonia San Juan, Ivan Massague, Emilio Buale Coka, Zorion Eguileor, and Alexandra Masangkay. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, and it also has won the People’s Choice Award for Midnight Madness. The movie was released on 20th March 2020 on the streaming platform Netflix.
The story followed a man named Goreng wakes who was in a concrete cell numbered 48. Trimagasi, his cellmate explained that they are in the Vertical Self Management Centre, where the elevator is used to serve, which would stop at every floor for a specified period. The food was nothing but leftovers. The movie was a social commentary, which is becoming very dominant with the likes of Ready Or Not, Parasite, and Knives Out.
District 9 (2009)
District 9 is a sci-fi action film directed by Neill Blomkamp, produced by Peter Jackson along with Carolynne Cunningham, and was written by Terri Tatchell. The movie was presented as a found footage format featuring the fictional interviews, and video from surveillance interviews. The storyline explores the theme of xenophobia, social segregation, and humanity.
The story started in 1982, where a giant extraterrestrial spaceship arrived in a Southern African city of Johannesburg. An investigating team found over a million malnourished aliens known as “prawns”. The alien civilization is sent to a camp named District 9. The movie followed a government agent Wikus van de Merwe who during a sting operation got infected with a fluid that turned him into a prawn.
Snowpiercer (2014)
Snowpiercer is a Korean sci-fi film based on a novel named Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette, and Benjamin Legrand. The movie was directed by Bong Joon-ho and was written by Kelly Masterson and Bong. As the cast of the movie Song Kang-ho, Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris, and Tilda Swinton are in the movie.
The story started after an attempt to stop global warming by using climate engineering, which backfired and began a new ice age in 2014. The story of the film is both engaging and thriller. It presents the basics of socially aware science fiction that expands into challenging elements.
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Ava Williams is a McAfee product expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Ava has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as mcafee.com/activate.
