Hard science fiction films

Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan. It features an ensemble cast led by Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where Earth is suffering from catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through space in search of a new home for humanity.

1968 film by Stanley Kubrick

2013 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

2015 film directed by Ridley Scott

2004 film directed by Michel Gondry

2016 science fiction film by Denis Villeneuve

1997 film by Robert Zemeckis

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

2014 film directed by Alex Garland

2009 film directed by Duncan Jones

Project Hail Mary is a 2026 American science fiction film produced and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir. It stars Ryan Gosling, who also produced the film; Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz, and Lionel Boyce appear in supporting roles. The film follows Ryland Grace, a school teacher who awakens aboard an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of how he got there.

1984 film directed by Peter Hyams

1971 film by Robert Wise

2004 film directed by Shane Carruth

Autómata is a 2014 English-language Spanish-Bulgarian science fiction action film directed by Gabe Ibáñez starring Antonio Banderas (who also co-produced). The film is co-written by Ibáñez with Igor Legarreta and Javier Sánchez Donate, and co-stars Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Melanie Griffith, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster, and Tim McInnerny.

1950 film by Irving Pichel

2013 film directed by Sebastián Cordero

2012 film directed by Jake Schreier

1969 American film directed by John Sturges

1967 film by Robert Altman

2016 film

1959 Soviet science-fiction feature film directed by Mikhaïl Karioukov, Aleksandr Kozyr

2017 film directed by Kōbun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita

1953 film by Richard Talmadge

film by Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah

1999 television film