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Science Fiction (Film)

Cinemagraphs are still images in which a minor and repeated movement occurs giving the illusion of watching a video, in the cases shown here ... Science Fiction. I think the combination of infinite repetition and the inherent silence of a photo work especially well for scifi imagery.  Of course, the story line is important, too.
Science Fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations while  authors commonly use it as a framework to explore politics, identity, desire, morality, social structure, and other literary themes. The following, though not complete, are some of the more popular titles:

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

In the late 21st century, global warming has flooded coastlines, and a drastic reduction of the human population has occurred. There is a new class of robots called Mecha, advanced humanoids capable of emulating thoughts and emotions.  A highly advanced robotic boy, named 'David', longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

 

Alien

The commercial towing spaceship Nostromo receives a distress call from an unexplored planetoid, LV-426. After searching for survivors, the crew heads home only to realize that a deadly bioform has joined them.

The success of Alien led 20th Century Fox to finance three direct sequels over the next eighteen years; James Cameron's Aliens,  David Fincher's Alien 3 , and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection.

 

Blade Runner

The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants, which are visually indistinguishable from adult humans, are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as by other "mega-corporations" around the world. A blade runner, a cop who specializes in terminating replicants, must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Among the folklore that has developed around the film over the years has been the belief that the film was a curse to the companies whose logos were displayed prominently as product placements in some scenes.While they were market leaders at the time, Atari, Bell, Cuisinart and Pan Am experienced setbacks after the film's release. The Coca-Cola Company suffered losses during its failed introduction of New Coke, but soon afterwards regained its market share.

 

Brazil

A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state. The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a consumer-driven dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines.

Though a success in Europe, the film was unsuccessful in its initial North America release. It has since become a cult film.

 

Dredd

In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner in a vast, dystopic metropolis called Mega-City One, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO.

 

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Master Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.

The film  initially received mixed reviews from critics, although it has since grown in esteem, becoming the most critically acclaimed chapter in the Star Wars saga.

 

Icarus Down (short)

A military vessel is shot down in an unknown planet, creating darkness and chaos amongst its passengers.

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Metropolis (1927)

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Metropolis is regarded as a pioneer work of science fiction movies, being the first feature length movie of the genre. Made in Germany during the Weimar Period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia.

 

Planet of the Vampires

After landing on Aura, a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.

AIP, American International Pictures, released the film as the supporting feature on a double bill with Daniel Haller's Die, Monster, Die!. Planet of the Vampires has accumulated a mixed to positive critical response over the years.

 

The Fifth Element

In the colorful future Korben Dallas, a cab driver, and his alien passenger, Leeloo, unwittingly becomes the central figures in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.

Mixed opinion of the film continues to date. It has been described in various publications as a science fiction cult classic.

 

The Matrix

Neo, a computer programmer and hacker, learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality, a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix", and his role in the war against its controllers.

The Matrix is known for popularizing a visual effect known as "bullet time", in which the heightened perception of certain characters is represented by allowing the action within a shot to progress in slow-motion while the camera's viewpoint appears to move through the scene at normal speed.

 

The Terminator

A human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.

 The film established James Cameron as a master of action, special effects, and quasi-mythic narrative intrigue, while turning Arnold Schwarzenegger into the hard-body star of the 1980s.