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Science fiction is easily one of the most popular and prolific genres in movies today.
This is your new favorite go-to list of under-the-radar science fiction flicks.
Here are 32 underrated sci-fi movies.
I’m Your Man (2021)
Can love be created?
As part of a research project, Alma is forced to live with Tom and document their relationship.
While Alma is resistant at first, emotions slowly become real.
It’s a movie still deserving of the franchise treatment, even now.
Also, for a tiny budget of less than $14 million, I.S.S.
has some pretty spectacular production value with gorgeous overviews of Earth.
Because when we even depend on the machines to give birth, at what point are we still human?
The Pod Generation lightly ponders this question with delightful humor.
Complete with a striking twist ending, Radius is not one to keep away from.
In doing so, they discover Yang’s secret desires to be human.
But their collaboration started almost a decade earlier with the nearly forgotten sci-fi actioner Oblivion.
This slowly begins a journey into realizing exactly what happened that destroyed the planet.
Oblivion drew only mixed reviews from critics but did well enough at the box office.
While Fingernails is indeed sci-fi, its grounded, even analog setting affords it relatable authenticity.
Besides Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 Soviet classic Solaris, there are few worthwhile Russian sci-fi films of note.
Right (1987)
It’s as scientifically sophisticated as an Atari video game, but Making Mr.
Right has its gears in the right places.
But of course, sparks unexpectedly start to fly.
Feeling like a mixture of other ’80s classics like Weird Science and The Mannequin, Making Mr.
Right offers its own charms thanks to a very playful Malkovich.
Dreamscape (1984)
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Vesper is understated and often gorgeous, being about perseverance and brilliance meant for the good of all.
(2020)
Co-written and co-directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, Save Yourselves!
proves there’s virtue in getting away from it all.
Pascal appears as Ezra, a rival prospector whose role as the antagonist is aided by his snake-like vibe.
But her latest job has her fighting from within when her new body’s host fights back.
Minor spoilers: It’s not a natural phenomenon that’s causing the earthquakes.
But not all is what it seems.
Unusual but quirky, LFO goes up to 11 and then breaks the dial.
Gatchaman (2013)
Before Power Rangers, there was Gatchaman.
Step aside, Avengers let these forerunner heroes take flight.
Implanted with a cutting-edge computer chip, Grey is able to walk again.
But the chip’s scary A.I.
Alive (2002)
Genre enthusiasts should know Ryuhei Kitamura.
In 2002, Kitamura helmed Alive, based on the manga by Tsutomu Takahashi.
Aniara (2018)
After climate change ravages Earth, humanity whisks away to Mars in luxury spaceships.
Ad Astra (2019)
You would think a sci-fi movie starring Brad Pitt would be a bigger deal.
But for some reason, audiences are still discovering Ad Astra.
Ad Astra is an emotionally driven sci-fi classic still waiting to be discovered.
