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The 15 best biotech films worth collecting

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The 15 best biotech films worth collecting

1. Splice (2009) – Human-beast hybridization

With the support of the big company Newstead, bioscientist Cliff Nicholli and girlfriend Elsa Custer conducted experiments on genetic recombination and made initial progress. However, due to reasons such as funding and public opinion, Newstead's top management decided to cut off support for their existing research. Cliff and Elsa don't want to give up halfway, so they secretly start experimenting. They optimized and recombined the genes, mixed with some of Elsha's genes, and finally gave birth to a strange-looking female monster.

With the morality and conscience of a scientist, Cliff insists on killing the monster, while Elsa protects him as if he were her own, and names him Droren. Zhuo Lun grew up at a rapid pace and eventually became a girl with a unique sense of beauty. In the process, Cliff and Elsa get deeper and deeper...

2. Elysium (2013) – Elysium Space

In the next 2159 years, there will be two kinds of human beings in the world: on one side are the rich who live on the pollution-free man-made space station elysium ( Elysium ) , while the other group of poor people are surviving on a waste-laden, overpopulated planet. There are channels of communication between the two worlds.

But Rhodes, a tyrannical iron-blooded ruler of Elysium, strictly enforced laws prohibiting immigration, forcing the poor to live on Earth for generations without turning over. Soldier Max, given a difficult task, will return to Earth to fight for the defense of Elysium. When he comes to Earth, he finds that his life is threatened, and the difficult situation of the Earthlings makes him feel compassion, where will his fate go? Is there a possibility that two seemingly isolated worlds will be reversed?

3.Blueprint (2003) – Blue Concerto

In the 30s, the world-famous pianist and composer Alice Xining learned that she was suffering from an incurable disease, and in order to pass on her stunt skills to future generations, she underwent asexual reproduction surgery and gave birth to a daughter who was exactly like her, Cyril, and Alice wanted to control Cyril even more, hoping that she would be exactly the same as herself, whether in appearance or thought, the result was the opposite of her wishes, things were completely out of her control...

4.the andromeda strain (1971)

The Great Apocalypse on Earth/Andromeda strain

A U.S. military satellite, Coop VII, crashed into a remote town on the Piedmont Plateau in New Mexico. The U.S. military's recycling team came here painstakingly to find out if the satellite had completed its mission in space and brought the results back. But unexpectedly, when they arrived at this remote town, all the people in the town died mysteriously.

But what is even stranger is that there is an old man and a small child who are not dead. The special rescue team rescued them back to the laboratory and studied their situation, and then through the detection of the military's high-tech secret instruments, they found a mysterious and terrifying "enemy". They must defeat the "enemy" before it can complete its plot.

5.Black Sheep (2006) – Mad Sheep

Oliver and Angis, two brothers living in a New Zealand ranch, live in peace, and the lazy Angis is bent on making the sheep "eugenic" and selling for a good price, so oliver injects the ram with a procrastinator. Since then, the docile sheep have become ferocious carnivores...

6.blade runner 2049 (2017)

Blade Runner 2049

Sea levels are rising, air quality continues to deteriorate, and runaway waste has turned Los Angeles into an endless dump. 2049 focuses on a younger, more robotized replicant K whose job is to hunt down older replicants, under the command of the L.A. Police Department's tough Army Lieutenant Josie.

In his routine quest to hunt down sapper, an early model of the Chain 8 replicant, he made a startling discovery that threatened the order between humans and the millions of artificial human slaves today, and that the replicants' obedience to humans depended on their built-in validity, and the idea that they were created to serve their masters, and that many things could mess up the system.

Josh had reason to believe that K's discovery would trigger a replicant uprising, so he ordered K to destroy the evidence. He disobeyed the order and returned to a distant farm in search of clues, yet the clues were still vague, because years ago, powerful electromagnetic pulses led to the extinction of almost all data records. So K can only use the old-school investigation method to find the previous generation of blade killer Rick Decker, and jointly solve the earth-shattering conspiracy that is about to subvert human society.

7. Annihilation (2018) – Annihilation

The film tells the story of a female biologist who participates in a scientific expedition organized by the mysterious organization South Reach to investigate her husband's disappearance. A team of five women went to study the "x-area", a quarantined ecological disaster area in the United States. They discover that it is a pristine wilderness, hiding a mysterious dark power.

This is already the 12th expedition of the SR organization to the region, the first 11 have all failed, and all of them have occurred strange events: the second expedition team members committed suicide en masse, the third expedition team drew their guns and killed each other, the 11th team members all lost consciousness and died of cancer shortly after returning...

8.the amazing spider man (2012)

"The Amazing Spider-Man" tells the story of Peter Parker, an orphaned high school student abandoned by his parents and living in the home of Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter wanted to know who he was and how he became who he is today. Peter found his pure first love, Gwen Stacy, in high school, and together they fought for love, promised each other, and shared secrets.

When Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase left by his father, he begins to look for clues to the mysterious disappearance of his parents, and Peter, who is looking around for clues, is accidentally bitten by a spider, and his body undergoes strange changes on the way back, producing extraordinary abilities. A vicious lizard man also appeared in the city, and he was needed to fight.

Peter will use his power to make fate-changing choices and shape the fate of a hero.

Altered carbon (2018) – copy

Adapted from a classic cyberpunk-style black novel by Richard K. Morgan, set in a future more than 300 years from now, it tells a fascinating story of murder, love, sex, and betrayal. At that time, society had been transformed by a new technology: consciousness could be digitized, human bodies could be interchangeable, and death was no longer eternal.

Takeshi Kovacs' elite team of starfighters was defeated in an uprising against the New World Order, and he became the only surviving soldier among them. Kovacs' brains were sealed in the ice for centuries, until later the ultra-long-lived billionaire Laurens Bancroft offered him a chance to be born again. In exchange, Kovacs must investigate a murder case and solve the mystery of Bancroft's own murder.

10.Creation (2009) – Creation makes man

A world-renowned scientist, a man dedicated to his family, the premature death of his eldest daughter immersed him in grief and profoundly influenced him and his views on religion. At the same time, he was torn between his beloved wife's deep faith in Christ, while he himself became increasingly convinced of the idea that there was no God in the world. He found himself caught up in a war of faith and reason, true love and truth.

This is a particular story about Darwin and how he wrote the great tome On the Origin of Species. The global revolution has ended the boundaries of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most dangerous theory in history, evolution; a great theory that has survived being buried because of a child's logic.

Adapted from the biographical novel Anne's Box by Landau Keynes, Darwin's third-generation grandson, the story is a true account of Darwin's love and observation of children, as well as his hesitations between nature, science and faith, through the letters and notes of Darwin and Emma.

11. Awakenings (1990) – Speechless asking the heavens

The story takes place in the United States in 1969, when Malcolm Sayer, a shy and introverted brain doctor who is passionate about experimentation, comes to a hospital in the Bronx district of New York City to treat patients with ankylosing fainting in the hospital. The thoughts and behaviors of patients in the hospital come to a near standstill and can only be carried out with very limited activities.

Doctors later found that all patients were due to the lack of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain, so they first treated Leonard Lowe, who had been ill for many years, with drugs containing levodopa, and the improvement effect was remarkable. With the help and encouragement of nurse eleanor costello, the doctor raised funds to treat all patients, and successfully made most of the patients' condition improve significantly; but the good times did not last long, and soon after the patients woke up, there was a trend of deterioration in their condition.....

12. Contagion (2011) – Infectious Diseases

Beth Emkhoff returned to Minneapolis from a business trip to Hong Kong and suddenly felt unwell, thinking it was just a jet lag, but did not expect that her condition took a sharp turn for the worse and died in the hospital's emergency room two days later. The doctor told her husband Thomas that the cause of his wife's death was unknown.

Soon, similar cases appeared in major cities around the world, first coughing, fever, then coma, cerebral hemorrhage, and finally death. From Minneapolis to Chicago, from London to Paris, from Tokyo to Hong Kong, the virus crossed borders, through the most ordinary human daily contact, ten, ten hundred, tens of thousands of people were infected in one day, a global plague broke out, journalist Allen took the opportunity to spread unfavorable public opinion reports on the government and medical institutions.

Researchers at the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention have mobilized to solve the biological code of the virus before it mutates, while World Health Organization staff Leolantus is trying to find the origin of the virus's infection to humans, hoping to find a useful vaccine.

13.the boys from brazil (1978)

Nazi maniacs

The film is based on a science fiction novel published in Window of the World in the early 1980s, "Ninety-Four Little Hitlers." It mainly describes a Nazi officer who hid in South America after the war, and he was ambitious in his desire to conduct a scientific method of ethnographic experimentation in order to make a comeback and revive the Nazi Party. But one Jew made it his life's duty to hunt down the remnants of the Nazis, and the two sides engaged in a thrilling battle of wits.

14.orphan black (2013–2017)

Black Orphan

A wandering orphan, a street chameleon Sarah, who witnesses a woman commit suicide, decides to pretend to be the deceased to receive a sizable deposit – coincidentally, Sarah and the deceased look alike. However, Sarah never expected that he would step into a dangerous mystery.

The deceased was a police officer under internal investigation, which meant that Sarah had to pretend to be a police officer and was always subject to cross-examination that was clueless to her. Finally Sarah discovers a shocking fact: she and the policewoman who committed suicide are clones, and the clones are by no means just the two of them.

In order to achieve the ulterior motive, the relevant parties created a batch of cloned embryos and implanted them in the bodies of ordinary couples who did not know it, so that they could be born and grow up in different environments. No one knows who created these clones, nor does anyone know their ultimate purpose. The clones must find out the truth as soon as possible, or it will be too late - an unknown assassin is murdering them one by one.

15. icarus (2017) – Icarus

An investigation into drug use sparked a global chase after an American cyclist and a Russian expert detonated a serious scandal in the international sports world.

Sources| Doctor Maike, Douban, Baidu Encyclopedia

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