1970s Science Fiction
The decade of paranoia, auteurs, and the birth of the blockbuster.
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Alien
The commercial towing vessel Nostromo, hauling ore between stars, is diverted by company order to investigate a signal from a dead world. What the crew brings back aboard has a life cycle perfectly designed to use them — and their employer knew.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
A massive, unidentified energy cloud is on a direct collision course with Earth, destroying every ship that tries to stop it. Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of a newly refitted USS Enterprise and reassembles his original crew for one more mission — one that will force them to confront what's actually inside the cloud, and what it wants.
Star Wars
A farm boy on a desert planet intercepts a distress call hidden in a droid, and is swept into a galactic rebellion alongside a cynical smuggler, a fugitive princess and the last of an ancient order of knights — with a moon-sized battle station waiting at the end of the run.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After a close encounter with a UFO, Indiana power-company lineman Roy Neary becomes obsessed with a mountain shape he can't explain — one of hundreds of ordinary people worldwide being quietly invited to a rendezvous the government is racing to keep secret.
Logan's Run
In a domed city of endless pleasure centuries after civilization's collapse, every citizen lives in comfort until the age of thirty — at which point they're required to submit to Carousel, a ritual execution disguised as reincarnation. Logan 5, an enforcer tasked with hunting down citizens who try to run rather than submit, is ordered to go undercover as a runner himself — and begins to question everything his society has told him about what actually happens after the crystal in his palm turns black.
Soylent Green
New York City, 2022: forty million people are crammed into a metropolis choking on pollution and starvation, and most of the population survives on rations of a mysterious, government-distributed wafer called Soylent Green. When a wealthy executive of the company that makes it is murdered, hard-bitten detective Frank Thorn's investigation uncovers a conspiracy far worse than the killing itself — a secret buried in exactly what Soylent Green is actually made of.
Westworld
At Delos, a luxury resort populated entirely by lifelike androids, wealthy guests live out fantasies in perfectly recreated Western, medieval and Roman worlds — free to gunfight, romance, or duel robotic hosts programmed to lose every time. When a software failure begins spreading through the park's systems, the hosts stop following the script, and a implacable, silent Gunslinger android starts hunting a guest for real.
GemSilent Running
In a future where all plant life on Earth has gone extinct, botanist Freeman Lowell tends the last surviving forests aboard a fleet of orbiting greenhouse domes, cared for alongside three drone robots he's named Huey, Dewey and Louie. When corporate orders arrive to jettison and destroy the domes so the ships can return to commercial service, Lowell makes a desperate choice to save the only forest left in the universe — whatever the cost.
A Clockwork Orange
In a brutalist near-future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge leads his droogs through nights of 'ultra-violence' — until the state captures him and volunteers him for an experimental treatment that removes his ability to choose evil, and with it, his ability to choose at all.
The Omega Man
Two years after a biological war wipes out nearly all of humanity, Dr. Robert Neville believes he may be the last normal man alive in Los Angeles — immunized by an experimental serum while everyone else either died or mutated into a nocturnal, light-sensitive, quasi-religious cult calling itself The Family. By day, Neville scavenges an empty city and hunts his enemies; by night, he barricades himself inside his fortified apartment and waits for dawn.
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