Film & Television

A selection of recommended movies and television shows.

Recommended by playfuleye

 * Gattaca: A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel. Tech noir.


 * The Fifth Element - A former military cab driver is caught in a plot to fulfill an ancient destiny and save the world from an outer planetary menace.
 * Firefly (Series) - A space western following a rougish captain and crew as they smuggle goods (and criminals) throughout the star systems.

Recommended by mamalai

 * Blade Runner: the director's cut, of course. The perennial sci-fi-noir-cyberpunk classic.


 * Ghost In The Shell: TV and film. Another standing classic.


 * Mad Max: For a good look at a desert wasteland running low on a precious resource. Tala'talaian fashion is less BDSM inspired, however ...


 * Star Trek: All of it, really, though the new film in particular.


 * The Manchurian Candidate (1962): Not sci-fi, but a great look at government brainwashing and programming how people think and act.
 * Battlestar Galactica (1978): Cheesey and campy, but the theme of misplaced humans looking for a new planet to call home is fitting.
 * Star Wars: The original trilogy and as close to the original theatrical release as you can find. For desert worlds and smugglers and authoritarian governments and underdog rebellions.

Recommended by Liz

 * Alphaville (1965), dir. Jean-Luc Godard. Warning: very French. Further reading.
 * Moon (2009), dir. Duncan Jones. Seriously one of my favorite movies; Bonus: the director is David Bowie's son.