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Sci-fi

Few genres stretch like science fiction, a marketplace for idle prediction, utopia, apocalypse and wonder.

This collection covers them all and serves as the embodiment of one man's belief that, "The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

Aniara Aniara

Science Fiction 2018 106 mins Director: Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja

The passengers on an interstellar space-liner are thrown into turmoil when their mission goes off course, in this compassionate and thought-provoking sci-fi drama.

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Metropolis Metropolis

Science Fiction 1927 150 mins Silent Director: Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang’s expressionist, dystopian vision is one of the first science fiction feature films, and is arguably the most influential.

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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

Period drama 1988 91 mins Director: Vincent Ward

A group of medieval English villagers find themselves transported to '80s New Zealand, in Vincent Ward's fusion of fantasy and time-travel.

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Welcome II the Terrordome Welcome II the Terrordome

Drama 1995 94 mins Director: Ngozi Onwurah

A ferocious dystopian nightmare, this was the first film directed by a Black British woman to receive a UK theatrical release.

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Code 46 Code 46

Science Fiction 2004 93 mins Director: Michael Winterbottom

Michael Winterbottom's cult sci-fi stars Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton as star-crossed lovers in a totalitarian world; set to an intoxicating soundtrack by David Holmes' Free Association.

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Sky Peals Sky Peals

Science Fiction 2023 91 mins Director: Moin Hussain

A coming-of-age tale about a father-son relationship that might just be out of this world.

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Ghost in the Shell Ghost in the Shell

Animation & Artists Moving Image 1995 83 mins Director: Mamoru Oshii

Mamoru Oshii's beautifully animated and disturbingly prophetic anime classic about the hunt for a supreme hacker in a transhumanist dystopia.

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Evolution Evolution

Drama 2015 82 mins Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic

The long-awaited second feature from Lucile Hadžihalilović (Innocence) is a gorgeously surreal coming-of-age tale laced with bizarre body-horror.

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High Life High Life

Science Fiction 2019 113 mins Director: Claire Denis

The messiness of sex, the mysteries of birth and the moving spectacle of devoted parenting in the face of impending oblivion.

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The Day the Earth Caught Fire The Day the Earth Caught Fire

Science Fiction 1961 100 mins Director: Val Guest

The BFI’s HD remaster of the British sci-fi classic. A journalist discovers that the Earth has been knocked off its axis and is moving ever closer to the sun. Is the Earth doomed?