If you're in a mood for a monty-python-esque dystopia: Brazil (1985) is somewhat sci-fi-ish, as seen from the 20. Century. And it is “Christmas-themed“.
If you like the work of Denis Villeneuve and Chris Nolan like me I would really recommend Arrival, Inception, Interstellar and Tenet if you haven't seem them yet.
Without spoiling anything Arrival in particular is just mindblowing amazing IMO.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 69.5 ms ] thread- The Martian
- Arrival
- Snowpiercer
- Annihilation (a bit scary in some parts, but not really horror overall)
- The Congress
- Ex Machina
- Her
- Children of Men
- Blade Runner & the new Blade Runner
- Gattaca
- District 9
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Elysium
- Terminator 1 & 2
- Upgrade
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Mad Max (new one) and Fury Road
On the cheesier side:
- Demolition Man
- Judge Dredd (both the original and the new one)
- Terminator 3 and beyond
- Matrix movies
Grand vistas but slow and sometimes boring, and often haughty / overbearing:
- The new Dune movies
- 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequel (some other number, like 2010 or something, can't remember)
- Interstellar
- Inception
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Of all of those, my top 3 would be the first three (Martian, Arrival, Snowpiercer).
- Children of Men
- Stalker
- Solaris
- Blade Runner 2049
- Devs (a brief tv show, but just one shot the whole series)
- Contact
- Under the Skin
- Paprika
- Annihilation
- Arrival
- Ex Machina
- The 5th Element
- The Substance
- Primer
- Tenet
- Upstream Color
- 12 Monkeys
- Her
Death Machine
Surrogates
Cyborg
Freejack
Nemesis
Hardware (M.A.R.K. 13)
Dark City
Cypher
Ex Machina
Hardcore Henry
Reminiscence
Zone 414
Synchronic
Moon
Time Addicts (2023)
Midnight Special (2016)
The Signal (2014)
Timecrimes (2007)
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
eXistenZ (1999)
Dark City (1998)
Dark Star (1974)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
If you enjoy something a bit more out there and/or bonkers:
After Blue (Dirty Paradise) (2021)
Strawberry Mansion (2021)
Aniara (2018)
Under The Skin (2013)
Senn (2013)
Without spoiling anything Arrival in particular is just mindblowing amazing IMO.
Oddly enough, the next prequel Alien: Covenant, was over the top on the horror element.
Deep Impact (the only good asteroid movie?)
Jurassic Park + Independence Day (peak Goldblum)
Total Recall + A Scanner Darkly (best Philip K Dick adaptation)
Gravity (great visuals / perseverance story)
Total Recall (1990) - IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/
Don't watch Inception, if it hits you like it hit me it is emotionally debilitating and you'll be sad until February. Tenet is cool.
Ex Machina is unsettling but good.
"Devs" is a short series that is Ex Machina-esque in feel. Weird but good.
The 5th Element is best for beer drinking fun NYE.