Five exciting sci-fi movies: what to watch this fall weekend

Space travel, the secrets of the universe, explorations of the role of AI in society that raise questions about what it means to be human - all this is for fans of exciting movies. UNN offers a selection of fantastic films to watch this weekend.

I Am Mother (2019) - The film is set in the future, after a global cataclysm that has destroyed all of humanity on Earth. In a bunker isolated from the outside world, a program is activated to save people from complete extinction. A special robot nurse grows a child from an embryo that can revive human civilization. For many years, the robot teaches and educates the girl, telling her about the terrible catastrophe and the role she has been prepared for. However, one day a strange woman enters the station. She does everything she can to make the girl doubt her ideas about the world and the real intentions of the Robot Mother.

• Genre: Movies, Thrillers, Horror, Science Fiction,

• Country: Australia

• Director: Grant Spector

• Cast: Luke Hawker, Hilary Swank, Clara Rugor-Larsen, Rose Byrne.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - millions of years ago, a black monolith of alien origin landed on Earth, which managed to teach land primates manual labor, which contributed to the further development of their brains. In 2001 ad, evolution allowed humanity to conquer nearby space and colonize the moon, where the same monolith was found, which has the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped. The crew of the discovery spacecraft is flying to the orbit of Jupiter to study another discovered black rectangle.

• Genre: Adventure, Detective, Fiction

• Country: USA, UK

• Director: Stanley Kubrick

• Cast: Keir Dulli, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzek.

She (2013) – the main character Theodore Twombly is going through far from the best of times: ahead of him is waiting for a divorce from the woman he loves, with whom they spent many years in marriage. For him, this is a real tragedy, and it is not possible to fully understand how all this will greatly affect his future life. To somehow overcome loneliness, Theodore decides to purchase an operating system based on artificial intelligence. Its main ability is rapid learning, and the fact that it very quickly adopts the thinking of its owner. Soon, communication with the operating system helps Theodore reconsider his views on life, and he even begins to feel some feelings for it.

• Genre: Drama, Fiction, Romance

• Country: USA

• Director: Spike Jones

• Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Lisa Renee Pitts, Chris Pratt.

Ex Machina (2015) - Caleb, a genius programmer, has been working for a multibillion-dollar corporation for a long time. One day he is given the opportunity to visit the luxurious country house of his boss. Caleb is invited to the cottage to conduct research on a new artificial intelligence embodied in a woman's body. The computer mind was named Ava. In addition to being very smart and beautiful, the half-human, half-robot was also endowed with a deep inner world. Gradually, Caleb begins to feel sympathy for Ava, forgetting that she is not a woman of blood and flesh.

• Genre: Detective, Drama, Thriller, Fiction

• Country: United Kingdom

• Director: Alex Garland

• Cast: Domhnall Gleeson, Corey Johnson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander.

After Yang (2021) - the film is set in a future where most of the daily work is done by robots. The social order is developing in such a way that robot children are bought as nannies who raise children from the day they are born and later become full-fledged family members. Jake and Kira are a couple who decided to adopt a teenage girl named Mika who lived in China. The family's nanny is a robotic android named Young, who suddenly falls into a coma after experiencing some kind of internal malfunction. The father and daughter try to save the robot, which during its service has become a close relative to them on a par with a human.

• Genre: Drama, Fiction

• Country: USA

• Director: Kogonada

• Cast: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Maleah Emma Tyandravidjaja, Justin Min, Orlagh Cassidy, Richie Koster.