Hard Sci-Fi Movies

A con-artist uses reality television and the intelligence apparatus of a foreign autocracy to win the Presidency of the United States.

A housing estate resident in London vows to defend his home from aliens. He is elected as a member of the British National Party.

A desert contains a valuable consciousness-altering narcotic. After years of inter-cartel strife, Coloradans vote to legalize and tax it.

In the future, overcrowding leads to citizens being treated as cattle, herded by authorities into unsanitary pens. A large ball is dropped.

In the Holy Land, a new light shines in the sky above the town of Bethlehem. The rogue missile launch sparks a global nuclear exchange

NORAD tracks an object flying at high speed from the North Pole. The rogue missile launch sparks a global nuclear exchange

A group of people find themselves in an inexplicable Kafkaesque maze of cubes. They are paid to sit there for eight hours per weekday.

A smuggler shoots and kills a bounty hunter. After a lengthy trial he is acquitted due to contradictory accounts of who shot first.

In a violent America, select individuals may pursue, judge and execute people on the spot. They are known as Neighborhood Watch Coordinators

A pair of lovers break up, and each undergoes a procedure to erase the other from memory. It consists of tequila and Kink․com.

An alien warlord is determined to conquer Earth. Centuries of sub-lightspeed travel later, his great-grandchildren decide not to bother.

After diplomacy fails, the bridge of a starship is rocked by massive enemy firepower. Naturally, everyone is wearing their seat belt.

Cowboys battle aliens. Noting that interstellar travel is more advanced than animal husbandry, estimate the outcome. Show your working.

A fox encounters a friendly horse. They regard each other in absolute silence.

Using technology a man is imbued with superhuman strength and stamina. He is stripped of all his Tour de France medals.

A doctor ingests a substance that transforms him into a violent creature devoid of morals. He is directed to an AA meeting.

A rebellious youth is subjected to an experimental therapy whereby his eyes are propped open. He is paid $50 by Visine.

A dying replicant fears that his memories will be lost, like tears in rain. Fortunately he has automatic backup to the cloud.

A gigantic asteroid has devastated the US Midwest. Ar-Ar analysis of sanidine in crystalline-clast breccia dates the impact to 73.8 ±0.3 Ma.

When a test pilot crashes his plane, scientists decide to rebuild him. They have the technology. Their efforts allow an open-casket funeral.