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Man of Steel
2013 film directed by Zack Snyder
Dune (2021 film)
Dune is a 2021 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert and the first installment in Legendary Pictures' Dune film series. The cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides as his family, the noble House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the deadly and inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.
Dune
1984 film by David Lynch
Dune: Part Two
Dune: Part Two is a 2024 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts. The sequel to Dune (2021), it is the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert and the second installment in Legendary Pictures' Dune film series. It follows Paul Atreides as he unites with the Fremen people of the desert planet Arrakis to wage war against House Harkonnen. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem reprise their roles from the first film, with Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken, and Léa Seydoux joining the cast.
Gattaca
Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his feature directorial debut. It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. The film presents a future society driven by eugenics where children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. The principal character, Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, was conceived outside the eugenics program and struggles to overcome genetic discrimination to
Twins
1988 film directed by Ivan Reitman
Freaks
1932 film by Tod Browning
I Am Mother
2019 film directed by Grant Sputore
Never Look Away
2017 film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Picnic on the Grass
1959 film by Jean Renoir
The Escape
1914 film by D. W. Griffith
Where Are My Children?
1916 film by Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
2008 American documentary film
That Forward Center Died at Dawn
1961 film by René Mugica
Mi hija Hildegart
1977 film by Fernando Fernán Gómez
The New Man
2007 film directed by Klaus Härö
The Black Stork
1917 film
Endgame
2007 film directed by Alex Jones