Curated playlist
English-language science fiction adventure films
- Project Hail Mary (film)Project Hail Mary begins with a schoolteacher waking from an induced coma in the year 2032, aboard an interstellar spacecraft he has no memory of boarding. His name is Ryland Grace, and he teaches middle school science. He is also the only…
- The Mandalorian and GroguHollywood's 2023 labor disputes turned a planned Mandalorian TV season into a movie.
- Avengers: DoomsdayAvengers: Doomsday revealed its villain when a masked Doctor Doom removed his mask. Underneath was Robert Downey Jr.
- Avengers: Age of UltronAvengers: Age of Ultron cut Loki out completely after test audiences thought he controlled Ultron.
- Hoppers (film)Hoppers is a 2026 Pixar film about a college student who puts her mind inside a lifelike robotic beaver. Her plan is to talk with wild animals and rescue their habitat from human destruction. Instead, she accidentally sparks an uprising.…
- Star Wars: The Last JediIn Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Luke hesitates to burn the Jedi library, so Yoda's spirit does it.
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom MenaceA sudden sandstorm wrecked the Tunisian set of The Phantom Menace. The shoot still left Tunisia on schedule.
- Dune (2021 film)Dune, the 2021 film directed by Denis Villeneuve, began with a filmmaker who doubted he would ever get to make it. In September 2016 the Canadian director said, "a longstanding dream of mine is to adapt Dune, but it's a long process to get…
- Avatar (2009 film)Avatar, the 2009 science fiction film from director James Cameron, began with a dream he had when he was 19 years old. In the dream, he saw a bioluminescent forest. Its trees were made of fiber-optic strands, fan lizards moved through the…
- Avatar: The Way of WaterAvatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron's 2022 science fiction sequel, contains an underwater scene for which Kate Winslet held her breath for more than seven minutes. That broke the record for a breath hold during a filmed scene, which…
- Flash Gordon (serial)The 1936 Flash Gordon serial reused Frankenstein's watchtower sets inside Emperor Ming's palace.
- Star Wars: The Force AwakensIn early drafts of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Luke took over every scene. So he became the one being sought.
- Superman (2025 film)Superman, the 2025 film written and directed by James Gunn, has a private detail hidden in its release calendar. The date was chosen because it matches the birthday of Gunn's late father. That personal thread runs through a project that…
- Jurassic World RebirthJurassic World Rebirth begins in 2008 on Île Saint-Hubert, a research island in the Atlantic Ocean. There, the company InGen keeps mutated dinosaurs that its own head considers disturbing. One of them, a six-limbed Tyrannosaurus called…
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (film)George Lucas liked early footage of a Clone Wars TV series so much that he made it a movie.
- Tron: AresTron: Ares is a 2025 American science fiction action film directed by Joachim Rønning, and it is built around a countdown of 29 minutes. That is the longest a digital construct can survive in the real world before it disappears. A hidden…
- SpaceballsGeorge Lucas let Spaceballs mock Star Wars on one condition. No Spaceballs action figures could ever be made.