Sci-fi movies that have been forgotten but are a gem

Although Marvel and “Avatar: The Way of Water” have now restored the sci-fi genre to popularity at the worldwide box office, sci-fi has long suffered from being classified for a certain niche of people. This has meant that many of the great modern jewels have been forgotten, but it is always a good time to remember.

Letterboxd users voted for some of the underrated sci-fi gems which is worth seeing. And at the top of the list is ‘Colossal’, a film by Nacho Vigalondo, starring Anne Hathaway in 2016. The story follows Gloria, a woman who loses her job, her boyfriend and now returns to her hometown. But suddenly a gigantic monster appears and imitates all her movements. Available on Claro and Amazon Prime Video.

Event horizon

Although his career gradually faded after that, Paul WS Anderson left one of the best underrated sci-fi movies as well as “Event Horizon”. Released in 1997, the film stars Sam Neill and Laurence Fishburne, who lead a group of astronauts sent to recover a spaceship that has been missing for seven years. Available on Amazon Prime Video.

Fountain

other of those sci-fi movies that have been forgotten is ‘The Fountain,’ directed by Darren Aronofsky, and starring Rachel Weisz with Hugh Jackman. This ambitious story features a man doomed to lose his wife in each of the different time phases he travels through. Available on Star+.

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The immense of the night

Far from any great Hollywood actor or director, we have ‘The Vast of Night’, a gem of sci-fi and terror, released in 2019. The story is set in 1950s New Mexico where two young radio operators find a strange frequency that appears to come from extraterrestrial life, and that it has landed on the outskirts of the city. Available on Amazon Prime Video.

High life

Claire Denis has a great interest in science fiction, but not in the way Hollywood has taught us. And for example ‘High Life’, a horror and sci-fi film from A24 with Robert Pattinson and Mia Goth, in which we meet a group of criminals sentenced to life imprisonment, who are sent on a mission to a black hole for scientific purposes .

ad astra

Finally, we have James Gray with the magnificent 2019 ‘Ad Astra’. A film starring Brad Pitt in which he plays astronaut Roy McBride, who has a mission to find his father, who has disappeared in space, and which leads him to explore the darkest of planets in the galaxy. Available on Netflix and Star+.