1. Metropolis
Metropolis is a classic dystopian science fiction film co-produced in Germany and the United States in 1927, which tells the story of in 2000, when human beings were divided into two classes and lived in two very different worlds. The vast machines on which the whole city was built and planned were the capitalists, led by Jon Friederson, who lived in palatial skyscrapers, and the vast groups of workers who built and maintained them day and night by their labor, living in dark dungeons. One day, in the beautiful garden fredson had built for his children, his son Fred fell in love with Maria, the daughter of a worker, at first sight, and followed her into the underground factory city to witness the machine accident. Stunned by the tragic sight, Fred decides to follow Maria; meanwhile, Fredson, puzzled by the workers' leaflets, turns to his former scientist rival Lotwang. Lottwan builds a robot that appears in the form of Maria, trying to incite a worker riot and completely destroy Fredson's machine world.
2. Stalker
Stalker is a science fiction suspense film directed by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. The film tells the story of a stalker who leads scientists and writers through a "zone" of ever-changing traps in search of a mysterious room that satisfies people's wishes and desires.
This highly epic film, a science fiction film that explores the essence of the human soul, "Stalker", uses poetic and highly metaphorical long shots to excavate the contradictions and deep meanings of the human subconscious and the external world. In 1957, a nuclear disaster called the Mayaka Factory near Chelyabinsk in the Soviet Union deeply touched director Andrei Tarkovsky and became the creative material for this film. The film won the Catholic Humanitarian Award at the 33rd Cannes Film Festival in 1980.
3. Fly into space
Flying into Space is also a science fiction film directed by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, released on March 20, 1972. Adapted from the novel of the same name by science fiction writer Lem, the film tells the story of a group of Soviet scientists who went to the planet Solaris to study the "ocean", only to discover that what looked like an ocean was actually the "brain" of the planet, and the fluctuations of the ocean could affect the minds and memories of astronauts. It's a really good sci-fi movie, involving standard sci-fi genres, space stations, spaceships, unknown planets, and it's a movie that asks real sci-fi questions.
4. Strange shape
In the winter of 1982, a helicopter from the Norwegian expedition team suddenly broke the calm of the Antarctic continent, and the helicopter frantically chased a sled dog and finally crashed near the American expedition camp. The American expedition had heard of the recent downsizing of the Norwegian expedition, so the pilot Mike and his men rushed to the Norwegian camp, only to see strange corpses scattered around in a dilapidated area, and evidence that the Norwegians had obtained some kind of frozen creature. Dr. Blair studied the body's mutation but was unable to decipher the cause. That night, the dogs in the kennels are attacked and mutated, and an unknowable creature is threatening the lives of the expedition members in this lonely Antarctic continent.
The format of "Strange Shape" is far-reaching, and Carpenter takes the horror atmosphere to the extreme in the film. The whole movie is smooth and natural, and most importantly it's very scary.
5. The Abyss
The Abyss is a science fiction film produced by Twentieth Century Fox Pictures and directed by James Cameron, released in the United States on August 9, 1989. The film tells the story of a member of an American nuclear submarine who finds an unknown object on the radar screen, the submarine is suddenly hit and sinks into a bottomless abyss, and the oil drillers led by Bud are ordered to save the submariners.
The Abyss set a milestone in the development of cinematic stunts. It creates an unprecedented underwater stunt effect. Cameron used a variety of methods to express underwater wonders, inspiring a group of filmmakers. Another stunt technique pioneered in the film that was even more revolutionary was the use of a large number of computer-generated images for the first time in film, and this computer-generated deformation of objects changed the development of the entire film industry.
6. RoboCop
Robocop is a science fiction film directed by Paul Verhoeven. It tells the story of a policeman who suffers misfortune during a mission, and is later transformed by scientists to become a policeman who combines man and machine, and begins to fight with criminals
"Robocop" is a Hollywood film that is quite successful in film visual and narrative art, and successfully pushes a new hero onto the film stage, the robocop is very colorful, interspersed with high-tech news reports and advertisements, the postmodern future world scene is vividly expressed
7. Invade brain cells
The psychopathic killer Carl Stagge built a glass chamber on an abandoned farm, where he drowned abducted young girls and used their bodies to perform a sadistic postmodern ritual. When the FBI found Stag and knocked him unconscious during the arrest, they found that there was another girl alive, but only Stager knew where she was. To save the last surviving girl, Catherine Dean, a pediatric clinical physician who is immersed in a groundbreaking research project, is tasked with using modern high technology to enter the brains of comatose killers. Unfortunately, things didn't go as smoothly as expected, and Catherine found herself trapped in the killer's mind world, truly feeling overwhelmed.
"Invasion of Brain Cells" uses shocking expressions and eye-catching images to describe some subconscious components of the human mind, and this film is not so much a commercial entertainment film packaged with crime themes as a figurative representation of the most terrifying scene in the human inner world.
8. Amnesia in deep space
"Deep Space Amnesia" tells the story of a group of astronauts who have been sleeping on a spaceship for many years, and suddenly wake up with no memory at all, and they find themselves in what appears to be an abandoned space shuttle, completely losing the ability to judge the direction because they are in an unmanned state. Soon, they realized in horror that unknown alien creatures were hunting them down. As the shocking, deadly and brutal secrets of the spacecraft are drawn up little by little, the four astronauts simultaneously realize that they must survive, even if they need to face and defeat unimaginable sources of terror.
"Deep Space Amnesia" integrates elements such as future science fiction, earth issues, psychological conflicts, horror aliens, social laws, kung fu actions, etc., and has a strong sense of cautionary prediction.
9. The Nether
"Nether" was released in the United States in 2016. The film tells the story of a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency scientist who undergoes a deadly mission to lead a team of carefully selected Delta Force soldiers into a war-torn city where mysterious ghosts known as the "Nether" wander, which are invisible and colorless, and can inadvertently cause mass casualties.
Compared with previous Hollywood blockbusters, "Nether" is a medium-low-cost science fiction film. Although the visual effects are much worse than special effects blockbusters such as "Transformers" and "Doctor Strange", it has to be said that it is still acceptable to watch the plot alone.
10. Depression
Melancholy is a 2011 sci-fi thriller film written and directed by Russ von Trier. The beautiful teenage girl Justin and the beloved Mike are about to have their wedding. But at the wedding banquet in the evening, the cold humiliation in the mother's congratulatory message and the constant urging of the boss made the inexplicable panic and sadness hit the heart, making Justin depressed and recreating a battle with his inner demons. Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding failed due to family tensions and broken relationships. Shortly after getting married, Justin developed depression. Meanwhile, astrologers have discovered that a mysterious wandering planet, several times larger than Earth, is approaching Earth at an unexpected speed, threatening it with an imminent collision. No one can escape.
The director does a great job of showing the diversity of beings in the film. The whole film combines the two methods of science fiction and realism, adhering to the director's personal style of using handheld photography, and in these shaky, out-of-focus, slightly unbalanced shots, the panic and anxiety of the human psyche are about to come out. The whole film is exceptionally smooth, fully demonstrating the personality of the creator.