Maybe it's because we were inspired by the recently released film Interstellar, or maybe it's just because we want to escape to other planets these cold days - we've put together a selection of ten science fiction movies that every real man should know. Are you among them?
1. Solyaris (1972)
No, this is not the 2002 movie starring George Clooney. This is a 1972 Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It has everything we love about great sci-fi movies: mysteries, other worlds, and radical ideas. While good sci-fi films entertain us with such ideas, great sci-fi films connect ideas on deeper levels, and that's exactly what Solaris does with the concepts of life and death.
2. Brazil (1985)
Brazil is like a sci-fi satire inside a Salvador Dali painting. Terry Gilliam's 1985 futuristic nightmare feels all too real. A visually interesting and daring film that makes us think.
3. Blade Runner (1982)
One of the more famous obscure and unusual films is certainly Blade Runner. Ridley Scott's masterpiece is in a category of its own - a sci-fi noir film where Los Angeles is a dystopian backdrop of darkness and gloom.
4. Snowpiercer (2013)
Joon-ho Bong's film surprised and disarmed the audience this year. The entire film takes place aboard a futuristic train, and if we're claustrophobic, we'll certainly wish the film had fewer walls. And yet, again one of those anti-utopian sci-fi movies that has everything it should have: secrets, gloom, and a preposterous stupor.
5. Los Cronocrímenes – Timecrimes (2007)
Want to watch something “trippy”, creepy and clever and you don't mind subtitles? Timecrimes is the right choice for you. The main character goes on a quest that leads him to a closet with a time machine. While this certainly sounds ridiculous, it is one of the better time travel movies you can watch.
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6. Children of Men (2006)
With the film Children of Men, Alfonso Cuarón blurred the line between a dystopian science fiction film and a conventional action thriller. The film presents a sad and anxious future. This is a movie without a shiny spaceship. Humans have lost the ability to reproduce and when one woman becomes pregnant, the brilliance of the story takes us through a futuristic war zone.
7. Stalker (1979)
After watching Solyaris, another masterpiece by Andrei Tarkovsky is on the line. Stalker tells the story of three men who travel through "the Zone" - a place in the Russian wilderness where there is supposed to be a bunker with a room that makes wishes come true. The feeling of watching the film is anxious, but the visuals are wonderful. Scary good fun for your eyes and mind.
8. District 9 (2009)
Most alien movies are similar: we discover the evil and powers of extraterrestrial life that nothing can defeat until we use our brains. District 9 goes the other way: the aliens are being held as fugitives. There's a level of emotion that we're not used to in a genre full of lasers and light-speed spaceships.
9. The Matrix (1999)
We must have seen the matrix. We know how to dodge a bullet in slow motion and pick pills that way. There's no need to elaborate on this, let's just remind you that the two films that followed the first one are worth another viewing. They must have fooled most of us the first time.
10. Under the Skin (2013)
If we want a more modern and excellent science fiction film, Michel Faber has the answer for us with the film Under the Skin, in which Scarlett Johansson also stars, among others. Once he sinks his subliminal claws into you, you'll be hooked.
