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I just want to mention Event Horizon as another very underrated sci-fi horror gem I've watched recently. Not without its flaws, it's still a pretty crazy ride.
The Thirteenth Floor. It kind of got lost in the glow of The Matrix, but it is a real mind bender. Time Lapse. For sure. And the absolute gem, Coherence.
You probably have watched it, the South Korean movie "The Call" (2020). A mixture of few genres really. Along with Sci-fi, you get thriller/horror. But for really obscure ones: ARQ (2016). Not the greatest movie, but a very solid time loop (I dig those), and a Japanese movie Tag (2015): This one very hard to describe, lol. The Japanese/Korean movies always fascinate me with their utter weirdness. Again, it is not amazing or something, but I think it is worth a watch.
It's not a movie but is a limited run series. "Dark" is FANTASTIC and mind bending. It involves time travel and time loops that are handled superbly, complete with all the paradoxes they cause.
You got a new subscriber for the Predestination suggestion. That film hits! I'm pretty sure you've seen my suggestion - Upgrade (2018). It's another film done well on a small budget.
I love time travel movies and Predestination is one of the best (the Endless is another one); it is absolutely logical and also surprising. And moving. Great performances.
Thanks Marianna. Another quality list. And thanks for the Faculty, which I must confessed to watched far too many times. And then there's Strange Days, which I saw on one of the largest screens in New York City. And it really put that projection to work. Vast of Night seems to be calling to me. By the way I want to send you a rare one of kind ultra-mysterious Polish horror film from the creaky past. But before I do I need to know if you have a region free Blu Ray player. Well do you?
Predestination is definitely the best movie in this list. After 60 years of watching scifi movies, it is the best time travel movie I have ever seen. It turns the paradoxes inside out again, and again, and again...and again. It is the ultimate mind (i'll clean this up.) twister movie. It is also one of the few movies that actually improves on the source material. Don't let anyone give you spoilers. You have to let the details unfold, then watch it again to make srue you caught everything.
Your recommendations are always excellent! i often save the tab to refer back to when i need something to watch and i am not disappointed when i watch!
LOVE lists like this. Thank you for helping me discover the joy of The Faculty. I had no idea that movie existed. And Predestination was definitely a mind-blow! Looking forward to a few others on this list too! I had only seen 3!
Love all the films you listed. ❤😊 Especially Prospect, Oxygen and Strange Days. 😊 I will definitely watch Last and first Men and Vast of Nigh. I've never seen them. 😉 Maybe you should check out Dark City, The Clone returns home or City of the lost Children. ❤ Greetings from Germany. 😊
Primer was a good time travel movie I don't know if you have covered it. K-PAX is a interesting one in spite of how you might feel about Kevin Spacey. Silent Running is a good space movie for a younger generation a bit Green Peace like but it was the 70's. Another 70's great RollerBall a 1974 prediction of the coming new millennium in the year 2018 very well done. Time Lapse is a really unique time paradox movie. Just to name a few. Great channel !👋
Another series (not a movie) in this genre is Invisible City. It is a Brazilian series and the english dub was not so bad, but it is an incredible story
Yes you saved the best for last, Marianna! When I first saw that film was confused but as it went on I was mesmerized. Also I like Prospect and Oxygen. For a long time I heard of Strange days and recently saw it listed on HBO. Will be watching it tonight. Awesome recommends!!
Great list, Marianna. Faculty is childhood - great staple of the genre and one of the Robert's best . Predestination is truly mind-banding. Sarah Snook is great in this, sad she doesn't have a decent career after this. And Strange days one of the bleakest movies in sci-fi history. I would add Perfect Sense (2011) Movie about global pandemic, where people are start loosing their scenses. But which is more important than others? Also, Daybreakers is interesting sci-fi spin with supernatural speciesies (from directors of Predestination)
Primer, Monsters, The man from Earth, Under the skin, Chronicle, Safety not guaranteed, Another Earth, and one of my favourite ever...Skyline. All of these movies are very much worth watching, all low budget and all better than most of the constant stream of soulless blockbuster offerings.
I liked this Safety not Guaranteed movie, I would have changed one minute of it. When he was doing the suduko(?), crossword(?), I would have had him fill it in from left to right line by line. What do you think?@user-og6mp3sn9r
Hi Marianna, my hidden gems are 1. Beyond the infinite two minutes: really enjoyable and funny 2. Spring: Love is a monster: scifi with fantasy elements 3. Settlers: More of an arthouse scifi movie, but I really liked the exploration of the human conditions of people, who live on another planet You should definitely check them out 😊
I'm a huge fan of Coherence (2013) and The Man From Earth (2007). Both are very low budget but have fascinating premises and are extremely engrossing imo. Highly recommend both if you haven't seen them
The opening to Strange Days with almost peerless steadycam work was so innovative for it's time and many of the concepts of the movie were also ahead of it's time unless you were William Gibson fan. The cast was amazing with the recently deceased Tom Sizemore giving a career best performance. And as Marianne has warned her viewers, Strange Days has by far one of the most disturbing scenes in film history. On a surface level, it's really disturbing. But if one thinks about it using a virtual reality mindset, it's absolutely horrifying and sick and the scene probably killed it's box office potential. And I did see this one in the theaters twice during it's brief run.
Great video! Made me realize I need to expand my sci fi viewing quite a bit! A lot of my favorites tend to be the classics like 2001, Solaris, They Live, etc. I’ll recommend a couple that I think are pretty underrated. Repo Man (1984): The tone of it is pretty different from most of what you recommended, as it’s a comedy. But the humor in it is really off kilter and specific, which for me is refreshing for ‘80s movies. The sci fi bit is more secondary to hanging out with the characters but it’s fun. From Beyond (1986): Maybe a bit more horror than sci fi, but the science is more emphasized than Gordon’s other similar film, Re-Animator. I know you weren’t a fan of that one, but the tone of this one is a lot more serious/existential and less overtly comedic. I like it a lot more for that reason. Great Lovecraft adaptation. Color Out of Space (2019): Underrated Lovecraft movie I think. Again, the execution is more horror, but I love the sci fi ideas in this. To me it’s way more interesting for aliens to be this bizarre, incomprehensible trip experience than intelligent humanoid life forms. It’s got a crazy Mega Cage performance so it may not be for everyone, but I love it enough that I own it on blu ray.
Some suggestions I have for underappreciated sci-fi films are "Another Earth" with Britt Marling and "Archive" with Theo James. These are 2 films that are masterfully carried by their respective leads.
Aniara is a good one. Has some pretty difficult themes and I think the recently cancelled Avenue 5 HBO series was a satirical take on the very serious of Aniara.
I watched Strange Days in the cinema when I was probably too young to watch it and it's still one of my favorite Sci-Fi films of all time. Oozes with atmosphere and tension. Very happy to see it mentioned!
Didn’t include it because I felt like categorising it as sci-fi is a spoiler, but I love that movie! Maybe I’ll make one of these videos about underrated horror and I can talk about it there))
No disrespect but triangle was just.... okay. And properly scored as not... a master piece. But I will say that Melissa George is an all time femme fatale 😊
@@Lifesizemortal uh NO you said it was an Underrated Masterpiece. Re-read your comment. I feel like it also is a Masterpiece, but you did call it a Masterpiece.
Such a great list and so many wonderful recommendations in the comments. Will have to come back to this video so many times bcoz i have only watched Oxygen. My recommendation is The man from earth(2007)!
If you haven't seen Predestination, I can confidently tell you that something happens in this movie that you've never seen, or contemplated before. And as you see it coming, you'll be in disbelief. This movie kept me up at night in a good way, trying to unravel the incredible story.
Predestination is an amazing film. Sarah Snook gave a performance which was criminally ignored at the time and in a different decade would have resulted in winning many acting awards. Too bad the directors, the Spierig Brothers, went on to direct so so movies to terrible movies (Winchester) after this time traveling masterpiece.
Time Lapse (2014) is a good blend of science fiction and noir. And I always recommend a Dutch movie called Polder, which is one of the best "everything's melting" movies ever made.
Great list... a few I haven't seen yet. And you're right, Predestination is amazing. You should check out "Coherence" and "Primer" if you haven't seen them.
What a list Marianna! I've seen all of the recommended films with the exception of the two from the 90's (but will probably fix that soon!). Can I just add one to list that I absolutely cannot get tired of recommending it? Let's add Triangle please. :)
I’m a big fan of “Triangle” actually! I hesitate to include it with sci-fi because I feel like that’s a spoiler? But I would definitely put it on an underrated horror list!
Can't say much about this very underrated film without spoiling it. Watched if for free on YT a few years ago, expecting it to be worth just about that much--free--but was hugely impressed. Have watched it three times. Ran a googs on top flicks of 2009 (to remind me) and found four for sure better. LSS, "Triangle" is in my top 10 for its year.
Ok, I'm about to work my way through all of these because they all sound fantastic. (Minus The Faculty because I used to watch the heck outta that one already 😅)
A really insightful, enthusiastic and well-presented video; you just earned a subscriber. :) Oxygen was one of my favourite films of 2021, and Melanie Laurent deserved an Oscar nomination. Predestination is an outstanding film, and this and the Spanish thriller Timecrimes are my two favourite time travel movies. Incidentally, Sarah Snook is one of my top picks to play the Doctor (and she'd be the first Australian actor to play the Doctor). 🤞
Thank you for the list and thank you for including Strange Days - it's a stupidly good film and it's completely beyond my understanding how it isn't a cult classic nowadays (or maybe it is but for a very small part of the general audience). As for the other underappreciated movies I'd like to propose two more cyberpunk films. Both of them are obcectively not that good, but very atmospheric and somehow I have a soft spot for them. First one is Johnny Mnemonic (1995) with Keanu Reeves, based on the short story by William Gibson, who's the father of the entire cyberpunk genre. Second one is The Gene Generation (2007), a low-budget production based on a comic book, starring Bai Ling. I also have to mention Hardware (1990, sometimes known as MARK 13) - a sci-fi horror about a killing robot with Stacey Travis, Dylan McDermott and some great music.
Buried...directed by Rodrigo Cortés. Similar to Oxygen but superior, taking it to the ultimate limit. Jung-E ... A deeply sensitive Korean mother/daughter love story. Last and First Men is the best Sci-Fi I've ever seen - mesmerizing in its transcendence. Original Outer Limits ...The man who was never born. (This 60s series is well worth perusing.)
Predestination is a marvel. As you said, even better on 2nd, 3rd, 4th viewing. Almost every seemingly "throw away" line is a brilliant clue to the truth. (Now 1 year after your video, it is streaming on Prime video)
I'm gonna check "The Vast of the Night", looks like La Paradoja de Antares (The Antares Paradox) which is another Spanish sci-fi low budget movie that I really enjoyed.
Just watched a similar video on an another channel earlier today which, I’m sure, is why the algorithm suggested yours later on… Kudos. Yours was much better. Though both contained in my opinion great sci-fi movies, yours were clearly more “underrated” whereas the other contained fairly well known films. Oh and Predestination- SO GOOD. Thank you. Please keep it coming.
Some of my favorite under-rated scifi movies; The 13th Floor, Yesterday, and A Map of Tiny Perfect Things. The last two aren't as deep as your recommendations. But they are fun and interesting IMO. For non scifi, I really enjoy Matchstick Men which is wildly under rated.
Great!! Speaking of underrated sci-fi movies, it comes to my mind one I've recently enjoyed "Don't Look Deeper" (th-cam.com/video/8YL0P-GlQxo/w-d-xo.html). It even has a tv series on it... Greets from Tenerife (Canary Islands) 😘🌞🙌
I love Gattaca. Doesn’t seem to be streaming anywhere right now (free). I own that movie though. Recently heard they’re doing a series based off the film…? 😮 That movie is my favorite sci-fi film. Hands down.
Thank you. I like your choices and have only not seen Prospect, so thanks for the heads up. Since you includes Oxygen, I would also suggest having a look at Meander, a little seen French Sci-Fi film.
I would like to recommend a film i recently watched on netflix, wesper, i loved the cinematography and the strange beautiful other worldly feeling of it, and the protagonist`s personality reminded me so much of Ellie from TLOU the game
I don't know if it would qualify as SciFi, but one of my favorite movies is "Perfect Sense" with Ewan McGregor and Eva Green. It's about a virus that causes people to lose their senses. It poses some very deep questions when you really think about it. A show I just discovered (not SciFi related) on Prime but was made in 2019, is called "Too Old to Die Young." It's directed by the same guy who made "Drive," with Ryan Gosling. VERY slow paced show with minimal dialog, but it has some beautiful cinematography and music. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but based on your reviews of other films and series, I think you would appreciate it. It reminded me a lot of the "No Country for Old Men" type of storytelling and ending.
I think "Perfect Sense" definitely qualifies as sci-fi! It wasn't streaming anywhere when I was making the list so I couldn't include it, but I agree, it's a very under-appreciated film.
@@ImpressionBlend I just watched "Little Fish" tonight, based on your recommendations here. EXCELLENT film! It was so moving and so beautifully done. Some of the lines were so deep. I'd never heard of it before, so thank you for putting it on the list. Looking forward to watching your other recommendations this weekend.
My apologies but this move in scifi to have people's emotions center stage and - oh - put it in a scifi setting I find cheep and just poor drama. It feels like the writers can't make it in the drama movie/tv world (because they're not good enough), don't have the budget but know scifi fans are starved for content so they've come over to hijack scifi. And strangely enough, scifi fans know this and that's why these movies aren't 'making it big'. All of the topics undertaken in these movies are done better in drama movies. Like 2023's best sci fi movie to date according to fans!!! "Infinity Pool". Apart from being dead dull boring - a single thought: "Why don't they just give them a jail for life sentence while giving their double - or is it - the death penalty?" But your not allowed to think that because otherwise the 'meaningful point, or morality' of the movie is lost... My apologies but to quote Robbie Williams: "Oprah Winfrey Ricki Lake / Teach me things I don't need to know" Or, in other words, apathy. Scifi has always been about intergalactic warfare, exploring the unknown, aliens, action, horror, superheros... Or, if you want human drama in scifi, consider Chappie, Finch, District 13, Firefly. Because these movies described above? I'm sorry but they are just really poor dramas trying to find success by hijacking scifi.
Oxygen is fantastic, ingenious. Last and First Men is incredible in its cerebral reach. If you savored Arrival, for example, you'll probably dig this astonishing work.
The terrible digital cinematography puts me off almost all of them. I've developed a special sense for it after watching "Le Mans '66" (2019). Good movie but not shot on film. I'm sticking to movies shot on film only, the colours are fatter and rounder, it's superior.
On Marianne's advice, and its high ranking on Rotten Tomatoes by both critics and fans, I watched "Predestination" and I'm very sorry I did. I want my four bucks and 97 minutes back. It's a very slow-paced film. Sure, it's only 97 minute long, but it's based on a 5000-word short story. A lot of the story consists of two people talking in a bar. It just didn't have a lot of action. You have to follow the story very carefully to pick up the hints about what's actually going on. And I didn't buy the characters' actions at ALL. They HAD to make certain choices at certain times for the story to work as it did, and I wasn't sold on those choices as consistent with the character, or any human being. My advice is to read the short story, it's a much lesser investment in time and effort and for pretty much the same reward. (It's available for free online in PDF form.) I write this to warn others. I think the people who rated this film so highly on Rotten Tomatoes may have had an agenda. I don't know what Marianne's was, or if she had one.
Seven months late, but ... I really enjoyed the first 90% of "The Faculty", but the final reveal opened up a plot hole big enough to swallow the entire movie - why didn't Marybeth infest the gang of misfits who were investigating the strange happenings at the school?
Dios Mio! Mirage was an absolute ride. I wouldn't put it ahead of its cinematic compatriot Time Crimes, but it did not disappoint. Although I was half expecting the body in the suitcase at the end to be the boy. Tragic endings is my jam.
... predestination is massively good. I thought coherence was also extremely entertaining. Kept me thinking much after the fact. You mentioned oxygen being a one location movie. I have recently watched a few one location films that I found quite good - break, freezer, and flipped.
Indeed Predestination is an adaptation of Robert Heinlein's 1959 short story All You Zombies. Of course it could not be titled that now days, Zombies meant, in 1959 (in this films context) , something totally different. The short story is very short! The Spierig Brothers who adapted it were street smart , not only is it a faithful adaptation but it has been elaborated in a very clever way. Someone noted this is a time travel story about someone who never existed, does not exist, and will never exist! Talk about the perfect 'time travel' agent! I don't know why more prose science fiction is not adapted , there is a whole lot that could be done with more intelligent and sophisticated stories than the 'original' films and TV I see. (Noticed Sara Snook in this way before she became famous in Succession.)
Had some good movies some I had watched some I will. But surprised you didn't have "The Signal, Automata, & Anon. Maybe those are not streaming anymore.
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Virtual Revolution superficially looks like a Blade Runner knockoff, but it's not. It surprised me, I thought it would be a bad video game adaptation, but it's actually a cyberpunk noir movie that punches way above its budget limitations to deliver a film about the harshness of reality.
Gods I feel old. I would swear by Faculty and Strange days over all of the others combined. 🤣I have no doubt any of the new movies were made on a much higher budget than those two and yet the heart and soul poured into them are just ... Timeless. Though I haven't seen The Last and The First Men. MEN, eh?
i agree with the others who suggested COHERENCE. all you need to know: adults at a dinner party on an evening when a comet is traveling overhead - everything else is best discovered, just like the characters.
Ohhhhh I see Predestination :0 One of my all time favorite films Edit: All the other movies are ok. But if you only pick 1 from the list its "Predestination"
Maybe Coherence, but probably not considered underrated. On Prime right now a must see. I will definitely be checking out some of your suggestions in this video.
1:48 "Do you have friends or lived ones that are important to your life?" Yeah, that's kinda the definition of friends or loved ones. You might as well ask if we have mitochondria important to our cells.
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2021 film dune movie 😊
The Quiet Earth, a 1985 film from New Zealand. Great little movie. The main actor is fantastic, and the ending is one of the best in Sci-Fi.
Thank You Impression Blend! Are you related to Barbara Bain, the actress from both Space 1999 and the original Mission Impossible t.v. show?
I really liked Vast of Night. It's like a really well done student film with a slightly bigger budget.
it's so cool to see how they used their budgetary limitations creatively and actually made as awesome sci-fi movie!
The atmosphere in that movie is breathtaking! (No pun intended.)
@@ImpressionBlend agreed 😊
You may also enjoy La paradoja de Antares.
I just want to mention Event Horizon as another very underrated sci-fi horror gem I've watched recently. Not without its flaws, it's still a pretty crazy ride.
Oh no that is definitely a "horror on a spaceship" movie that doesn't make sense. See Sunshine for more of the same.
There's no flaws in Event Horizon.
That's not underrated. And I rewatched it recently and it still has a lot of flaws
The Thirteenth Floor. It kind of got lost in the glow of The Matrix, but it is a real mind bender. Time Lapse. For sure. And the absolute gem, Coherence.
Ooo I haven’t heard of “The Thirteenth Floor”! Gotta look into that, thanks
Damn, you beat me to it. I thought no one would mention The 13th floor. Such a great movie.
You probably have watched it, the South Korean movie "The Call" (2020). A mixture of few genres really. Along with Sci-fi, you get thriller/horror.
But for really obscure ones: ARQ (2016). Not the greatest movie, but a very solid time loop (I dig those), and a Japanese movie Tag (2015): This one very hard to describe, lol. The Japanese/Korean movies always fascinate me with their utter weirdness. Again, it is not amazing or something, but I think it is worth a watch.
It's not a movie but is a limited run series. "Dark" is FANTASTIC and mind bending. It involves time travel and time loops that are handled superbly, complete with all the paradoxes they cause.
Dark is brilliant but I thought Season 3 was a mixed bag.
It’s in my watchlist
It's not underrated though
You got a new subscriber for the Predestination suggestion. That film hits! I'm pretty sure you've seen my suggestion - Upgrade (2018). It's another film done well on a small budget.
Thanks! I had begun watching Predestination but forgot to finish it; so I just did.
Vast of night is beautiful. I was hooked. It really makes you want to make movies
I love time travel movies and Predestination is one of the best (the Endless is another one); it is absolutely logical and also surprising. And moving. Great performances.
Thanks Marianna. Another quality list. And thanks for the Faculty, which I must confessed to watched far too many times. And then there's Strange Days, which I saw on one of the largest screens in New York City. And it really put that projection to work.
Vast of Night seems to be calling to me.
By the way I want to send you a rare one of kind ultra-mysterious Polish horror film from the creaky past. But before I do I need to know if you have a region free Blu Ray player. Well do you?
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the list! Unfortunately my blu-ray player is not region-free. I plan on upgrading at some point, but not yet.
Predestination is definitely the best movie in this list. After 60 years of watching scifi movies, it is the best time travel movie I have ever seen. It turns the paradoxes inside out again, and again, and again...and again. It is the ultimate mind (i'll clean this up.) twister movie. It is also one of the few movies that actually improves on the source material. Don't let anyone give you spoilers. You have to let the details unfold, then watch it again to make srue you caught everything.
Forgot my #1 pick for underrated, Minrity report. I've seen 3 Sci-fi movies more than 10 times, 2001 , Blade runner and Minority report.
Your recommendations are always excellent! i often save the tab to refer back to when i need something to watch and i am not disappointed when i watch!
Thank you! I'm always happy to help add more movies to your watchlist))
LOVE lists like this. Thank you for helping me discover the joy of The Faculty. I had no idea that movie existed. And Predestination was definitely a mind-blow! Looking forward to a few others on this list too! I had only seen 3!
I’m glad you enjoyed!
Love all the films you listed. ❤😊 Especially Prospect, Oxygen and Strange Days. 😊
I will definitely watch Last and first Men and Vast of Nigh. I've never seen them. 😉
Maybe you should check out Dark City, The Clone returns home or City of the lost Children. ❤ Greetings from Germany. 😊
"Dark City" is actually one of my favorite movies! Will definitely check out the other two, thanks for the recommendations!
@@ImpressionBlend You're welcome. 😉 You'll love City of the lost Children. It's from the director Jean-Pierre Jeunet with Ron Perlman.
Primer was a good time travel movie I don't know if you have covered it. K-PAX is a interesting one in spite of how you might feel about Kevin Spacey. Silent Running is a good space movie for a younger generation a bit Green Peace like but it was the 70's. Another 70's great RollerBall a 1974 prediction of the coming new millennium in the year 2018 very well done. Time Lapse is a really unique time paradox movie. Just to name a few. Great channel !👋
Another series (not a movie) in this genre is Invisible City. It is a Brazilian series and the english dub was not so bad, but it is an incredible story
Yes you saved the best for last, Marianna! When I first saw that film was confused but as it went on I was mesmerized. Also I like Prospect and Oxygen. For a long time I heard of Strange days and recently saw it listed on HBO. Will be watching it tonight. Awesome recommends!!
Enjoy!!
Great list, Marianna. Faculty is childhood - great staple of the genre and one of the Robert's best . Predestination is truly mind-banding. Sarah Snook is great in this, sad she doesn't have a decent career after this. And Strange days one of the bleakest movies in sci-fi history. I would add Perfect Sense (2011) Movie about global pandemic, where people are start loosing their scenses. But which is more important than others? Also, Daybreakers is interesting sci-fi spin with supernatural speciesies (from directors of Predestination)
Amazing! I have only watched Predestination in this list. Excited to go through these!
Predestination was awesome. Not familiar with the others (most) and this one is killer.
Olivia Cooke, say no more ...I am sold
Yes, finally Strange Days is been acknowledged, thank you!
Thanks for the list! Strange Days was great!
Thanks for watching!
"The Vast of Night" is such a great movie!
I was beginning to think Predestination will not be mentioned. But behold it is your most recommended movie. Approved! 👍
I will take every opportunity I can to talk about "Predestination" ))
Thanks!
Clea Duvall and Salma Hayek? I'm there. The Faculty is on my list. I rather enjoyed The Adjustment Bureau, BTW.
Prospect is my fave. It doesn't get talked about enough!!!
Agreed!! Super underrated
Thumbs up for Last and First Men. Criterion release when?
We need it! Make it happen, Criterion!
Primer, Monsters, The man from Earth, Under the skin, Chronicle, Safety not guaranteed, Another Earth, and one of my favourite ever...Skyline. All of these movies are very much worth watching, all low budget and all better than most of the constant stream of soulless blockbuster offerings.
Safety not guaranteed is great fun! Keeps you guessing till the end.
Don’t understand how Chronicle didn’t get a bigger audience. Also good to see another Skyline fans. Wow there must be 5 of us now. 😄
I liked this Safety not Guaranteed movie, I would have changed one minute of it. When he was doing the suduko(?), crossword(?), I would have had him fill it in from left to right line by line. What do you think?@user-og6mp3sn9r
Hi Marianna, my hidden gems are
1. Beyond the infinite two minutes: really enjoyable and funny
2. Spring: Love is a monster: scifi with fantasy elements
3. Settlers: More of an arthouse scifi movie, but I really liked the exploration of the human conditions of people, who live on another planet
You should definitely check them out 😊
I'm a huge fan of Coherence (2013) and The Man From Earth (2007). Both are very low budget but have fascinating premises and are extremely engrossing imo. Highly recommend both if you haven't seen them
Rewatched Coherence a few months and my appreciation of that film increased (already loved it).
I need to rewatch The Man From Earth.
@@mainchannel1566 Coherence it's so great!
I literally thought of these two missing gems seeing the list.
The opening to Strange Days with almost peerless steadycam work was so innovative for it's time and many of the concepts of the movie were also ahead of it's time unless you were William Gibson fan. The cast was amazing with the recently deceased Tom Sizemore giving a career best performance. And as Marianne has warned her viewers, Strange Days has by far one of the most disturbing scenes in film history. On a surface level, it's really disturbing. But if one thinks about it using a virtual reality mindset, it's absolutely horrifying and sick and the scene probably killed it's box office potential. And I did see this one in the theaters twice during it's brief run.
I saw it multiple times in the theater and loved it.
Thanks.
May I lobby for the use of "its," rather than "it's," which means "it is?"
I'm so ecstatic to see Prospect made this list. Its an incredible sci fi movie that needs way more love and attention. It truly deserves it.
I have owned that one for a while. They did so much with so little. Absolutely outstanding.
Great video! Made me realize I need to expand my sci fi viewing quite a bit! A lot of my favorites tend to be the classics like 2001, Solaris, They Live, etc. I’ll recommend a couple that I think are pretty underrated.
Repo Man (1984): The tone of it is pretty different from most of what you recommended, as it’s a comedy. But the humor in it is really off kilter and specific, which for me is refreshing for ‘80s movies. The sci fi bit is more secondary to hanging out with the characters but it’s fun.
From Beyond (1986): Maybe a bit more horror than sci fi, but the science is more emphasized than Gordon’s other similar film, Re-Animator. I know you weren’t a fan of that one, but the tone of this one is a lot more serious/existential and less overtly comedic. I like it a lot more for that reason. Great Lovecraft adaptation.
Color Out of Space (2019): Underrated Lovecraft movie I think. Again, the execution is more horror, but I love the sci fi ideas in this. To me it’s way more interesting for aliens to be this bizarre, incomprehensible trip experience than intelligent humanoid life forms. It’s got a crazy Mega Cage performance so it may not be for everyone, but I love it enough that I own it on blu ray.
Some suggestions I have for underappreciated sci-fi films are "Another Earth" with Britt Marling and "Archive" with Theo James. These are 2 films that are masterfully carried by their respective leads.
Another Earth is really good, and done with such a small budget but doesn't feel like it. Highly recommended.
Aniara is a good one. Has some pretty difficult themes and I think the recently cancelled Avenue 5 HBO series was a satirical take on the very serious of Aniara.
I watched Strange Days in the cinema when I was probably too young to watch it and it's still one of my favorite Sci-Fi films of all time. Oozes with atmosphere and tension. Very happy to see it mentioned!
Triangle (2009) another underrated sci-fi masterpiece
Didn’t include it because I felt like categorising it as sci-fi is a spoiler, but I love that movie! Maybe I’ll make one of these videos about underrated horror and I can talk about it there))
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No disrespect but triangle was just.... okay. And properly scored as not... a master piece. But I will say that Melissa George is an all time femme fatale 😊
@@Moist369 I didn't say it was a masterpiece, I said it was underrated
@@Lifesizemortal uh NO you said it was an Underrated Masterpiece.
Re-read your comment.
I feel like it also is a Masterpiece, but you did call it a Masterpiece.
Such a great list and so many wonderful recommendations in the comments.
Will have to come back to this video so many times bcoz i have only watched Oxygen.
My recommendation is The man from earth(2007)!
Coherence with Nicholas Brendan (Xander from Buffy)
"Coherence" is such a mind-bender!
If you haven't seen Predestination, I can confidently tell you that something happens in this movie that you've never seen, or contemplated before. And as you see it coming, you'll be in disbelief. This movie kept me up at night in a good way, trying to unravel the incredible story.
One of my underrated favorites was The OA on Netflix. I wish it had been able to go longer
Predestination is an amazing film. Sarah Snook gave a performance which was criminally ignored at the time and in a different decade would have resulted in winning many acting awards. Too bad the directors, the Spierig Brothers, went on to direct so so movies to terrible movies (Winchester) after this time traveling masterpiece.
Synchronic. 2019 Netflix.
OMG It is amazing to find little known gems. I've only seen 3 of 10 films you've recommended. THANK YOU!
Time Lapse (2014) is a good blend of science fiction and noir. And I always recommend a Dutch movie called Polder, which is one of the best "everything's melting" movies ever made.
“Time Lapse” has been sitting in my watchlist, I need to see it. Haven’t heard of “Polder”, adding this to the list!
Great list... a few I haven't seen yet. And you're right, Predestination is amazing. You should check out "Coherence" and "Primer" if you haven't seen them.
What a list Marianna! I've seen all of the recommended films with the exception of the two from the 90's (but will probably fix that soon!). Can I just add one to list that I absolutely cannot get tired of recommending it? Let's add Triangle please. :)
I’m a big fan of “Triangle” actually! I hesitate to include it with sci-fi because I feel like that’s a spoiler? But I would definitely put it on an underrated horror list!
Can't say much about this very underrated film without spoiling it. Watched if for free on YT a few years ago, expecting it to be worth just about that much--free--but was hugely impressed. Have watched it three times. Ran a googs on top flicks of 2009 (to remind me) and found four for sure better. LSS, "Triangle" is in my top 10 for its year.
Ok, I'm about to work my way through all of these because they all sound fantastic. (Minus The Faculty because I used to watch the heck outta that one already 😅)
Have fun!
upgrade (2018 ) is really good action and sci-fi
Agreed! “Upgrade” is so much fun!
Try a time travel film called Time lapse. It's got a Shallow grave sort of twist to it. It's a little gem, trust me you will pleasantly surprised.
A really insightful, enthusiastic and well-presented video; you just earned a subscriber. :)
Oxygen was one of my favourite films of 2021, and Melanie Laurent deserved an Oscar nomination. Predestination is an outstanding film, and this and the Spanish thriller Timecrimes are my two favourite time travel movies.
Incidentally, Sarah Snook is one of my top picks to play the Doctor (and she'd be the first Australian actor to play the Doctor). 🤞
Maybe a bit of a stretch to call it sci fi but Blindness with Julianne Moore.
Coherence is probably the best sci fi I've seen in years.
"Blindness" absolutely is sci-fi - I would say post-apocalyptic movies are sci-fi by definition.
Thank you for the list and thank you for including Strange Days - it's a stupidly good film and it's completely beyond my understanding how it isn't a cult classic nowadays (or maybe it is but for a very small part of the general audience).
As for the other underappreciated movies I'd like to propose two more cyberpunk films. Both of them are obcectively not that good, but very atmospheric and somehow I have a soft spot for them. First one is Johnny Mnemonic (1995) with Keanu Reeves, based on the short story by William Gibson, who's the father of the entire cyberpunk genre. Second one is The Gene Generation (2007), a low-budget production based on a comic book, starring Bai Ling.
I also have to mention Hardware (1990, sometimes known as MARK 13) - a sci-fi horror about a killing robot with Stacey Travis, Dylan McDermott and some great music.
Buried...directed by Rodrigo Cortés. Similar to Oxygen but superior, taking it to the ultimate limit.
Jung-E ... A deeply sensitive Korean mother/daughter love story.
Last and First Men is the best Sci-Fi I've ever seen - mesmerizing in its transcendence.
Original Outer Limits ...The man who was never born.
(This 60s series is well worth perusing.)
Predestination is a marvel. As you said, even better on 2nd, 3rd, 4th viewing. Almost every seemingly "throw away" line is a brilliant clue to the truth. (Now 1 year after your video, it is streaming on Prime video)
I'm gonna check "The Vast of the Night", looks like La Paradoja de Antares (The Antares Paradox) which is another Spanish sci-fi low budget movie that I really enjoyed.
Just watched a similar video on an another channel earlier today which, I’m sure, is why the algorithm suggested yours later on…
Kudos. Yours was much better. Though both contained in my opinion great sci-fi movies, yours were clearly more “underrated” whereas the other contained fairly well known films.
Oh and Predestination- SO GOOD.
Thank you. Please keep it coming.
Some of my favorite under-rated scifi movies; The 13th Floor, Yesterday, and A Map of Tiny Perfect Things. The last two aren't as deep as your recommendations. But they are fun and interesting IMO. For non scifi, I really enjoy Matchstick Men which is wildly under rated.
Great!! Speaking of underrated sci-fi movies, it comes to my mind one I've recently enjoyed "Don't Look Deeper" (th-cam.com/video/8YL0P-GlQxo/w-d-xo.html). It even has a tv series on it... Greets from Tenerife (Canary Islands) 😘🌞🙌
You are a hidden gem. You should have way more subscribers
I love Gattaca. Doesn’t seem to be streaming anywhere right now (free). I own that movie though. Recently heard they’re doing a series based off the film…? 😮 That movie is my favorite sci-fi film. Hands down.
Same here, “Gattaca” is amazing!
Thank you. I like your choices and have only not seen Prospect, so thanks for the heads up. Since you includes Oxygen, I would also suggest having a look at Meander, a little seen French Sci-Fi film.
Predestination is my goto movie whenever someone asks me for a sci-fi suggestion. I don't think there's a more paradoxal storyline ever told.
I would like to recommend a film i recently watched on netflix, wesper, i loved the cinematography and the strange beautiful other worldly feeling of it, and the protagonist`s personality reminded me so much of Ellie from TLOU the game
Just finished "Predestination" (after watching this vid a couple of weeks ago). Good story, and GREAT acting. I thought Sarah Snook was amazing!
I don't know if it would qualify as SciFi, but one of my favorite movies is "Perfect Sense" with Ewan McGregor and Eva Green. It's about a virus that causes people to lose their senses. It poses some very deep questions when you really think about it.
A show I just discovered (not SciFi related) on Prime but was made in 2019, is called "Too Old to Die Young." It's directed by the same guy who made "Drive," with Ryan Gosling. VERY slow paced show with minimal dialog, but it has some beautiful cinematography and music. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but based on your reviews of other films and series, I think you would appreciate it. It reminded me a lot of the "No Country for Old Men" type of storytelling and ending.
I think "Perfect Sense" definitely qualifies as sci-fi! It wasn't streaming anywhere when I was making the list so I couldn't include it, but I agree, it's a very under-appreciated film.
@@ImpressionBlend I just watched "Little Fish" tonight, based on your recommendations here. EXCELLENT film! It was so moving and so beautifully done. Some of the lines were so deep.
I'd never heard of it before, so thank you for putting it on the list.
Looking forward to watching your other recommendations this weekend.
My apologies but this move in scifi to have people's emotions center stage and - oh - put it in a scifi setting I find cheep and just poor drama. It feels like the writers can't make it in the drama movie/tv world (because they're not good enough), don't have the budget but know scifi fans are starved for content so they've come over to hijack scifi. And strangely enough, scifi fans know this and that's why these movies aren't 'making it big'. All of the topics undertaken in these movies are done better in drama movies. Like 2023's best sci fi movie to date according to fans!!! "Infinity Pool". Apart from being dead dull boring - a single thought: "Why don't they just give them a jail for life sentence while giving their double - or is it - the death penalty?" But your not allowed to think that because otherwise the 'meaningful point, or morality' of the movie is lost... My apologies but to quote Robbie Williams: "Oprah Winfrey Ricki Lake / Teach me things I don't need to know" Or, in other words, apathy. Scifi has always been about intergalactic warfare, exploring the unknown, aliens, action, horror, superheros... Or, if you want human drama in scifi, consider Chappie, Finch, District 13, Firefly. Because these movies described above? I'm sorry but they are just really poor dramas trying to find success by hijacking scifi.
Oxygen is fantastic, ingenious.
Last and First Men is incredible in its cerebral reach.
If you savored Arrival, for example, you'll probably
dig this astonishing work.
The terrible digital cinematography puts me off almost all of them. I've developed a special sense for it after watching "Le Mans '66" (2019). Good movie but not shot on film. I'm sticking to movies shot on film only, the colours are fatter and rounder, it's superior.
On Marianne's advice, and its high ranking on Rotten Tomatoes by both critics and fans, I watched "Predestination" and I'm very sorry I did. I want my four bucks and 97 minutes back. It's a very slow-paced film. Sure, it's only 97 minute long, but it's based on a 5000-word short story. A lot of the story consists of two people talking in a bar. It just didn't have a lot of action. You have to follow the story very carefully to pick up the hints about what's actually going on. And I didn't buy the characters' actions at ALL. They HAD to make certain choices at certain times for the story to work as it did, and I wasn't sold on those choices as consistent with the character, or any human being. My advice is to read the short story, it's a much lesser investment in time and effort and for pretty much the same reward. (It's available for free online in PDF form.) I write this to warn others. I think the people who rated this film so highly on Rotten Tomatoes may have had an agenda. I don't know what Marianne's was, or if she had one.
Seven months late, but ... I really enjoyed the first 90% of "The Faculty", but the final reveal opened up a plot hole big enough to swallow the entire movie - why didn't Marybeth infest the gang of misfits who were investigating the strange happenings at the school?
Dios Mio! Mirage was an absolute ride. I wouldn't put it ahead of its cinematic compatriot Time Crimes, but it did not disappoint. Although I was half expecting the body in the suitcase at the end to be the boy. Tragic endings is my jam.
... predestination is massively good. I thought coherence was also extremely entertaining. Kept me thinking much after the fact.
You mentioned oxygen being a one location movie. I have recently watched a few one location films that I found quite good - break, freezer, and flipped.
"Freaks" is the little movie that could...
be a film. It made my top 15 of the decade. Yep. It's that good.
Indeed Predestination is an adaptation of Robert Heinlein's 1959 short story All You Zombies. Of course it could not be titled that now days, Zombies meant, in 1959 (in this films context) , something totally different. The short story is very short! The Spierig Brothers who adapted it were street smart , not only is it a faithful adaptation but it has been elaborated in a very clever way. Someone noted this is a time travel story about someone who never existed, does not exist, and will never exist! Talk about the perfect 'time travel' agent!
I don't know why more prose science fiction is not adapted , there is a whole lot that could be done with more intelligent and sophisticated stories than the 'original' films and TV I see.
(Noticed Sara Snook in this way before she became famous in Succession.)
Had some good movies some I had watched some I will. But surprised you didn't have "The Signal, Automata, & Anon. Maybe those are not streaming anymore.
You may have seen it and talked about it already, but Another Earth is a hidden gem.
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Virtual Revolution superficially looks like a Blade Runner knockoff, but it's not. It surprised me, I thought it would be a bad video game adaptation, but it's actually a cyberpunk noir movie that punches way above its budget limitations to deliver a film about the harshness of reality.
Predestination is criminally underrated Strange Days is over hyped from cult lovers, it is almost unwatchable today (and quite silly)
Is not on any streaming platform (I think), but COHERENCE it's a sci-fi low budget gem!
Gods I feel old. I would swear by Faculty and Strange days over all of the others combined. 🤣I have no doubt any of the new movies were made on a much higher budget than those two and yet the heart and soul poured into them are just ... Timeless. Though I haven't seen The Last and The First Men. MEN, eh?
Great List As Always But I Prefer Disturbing Behavior Over The Faculty!
Liked all of these I have seen so far. Not sure if is is streaming yet, but wd add Mad God by stop motion master (& dinosaur wrangler)
Phil Tippett.
strange days is AWESOME... i watched a long time ago and didnt remember it's name until now. 10/10
Opened up with Little Fish and Prospect? Not messing around! Low budget SciFi is my absolute jam.
This probably comes across as the height of hypocrisy given that I just poo-pooed Predestination, but I really like Moon.
I watched Freaks some time ago. Great movie. I watched Oxygen 2021.
i agree with the others who suggested COHERENCE. all you need to know: adults at a dinner party on an evening when a comet is traveling overhead - everything else is best discovered, just like the characters.
Ohhhhh I see Predestination :0
One of my all time favorite films
Edit: All the other movies are ok. But if you only pick 1 from the list its "Predestination"
Maybe Coherence, but probably not considered underrated. On Prime right now a must see. I will definitely be checking out some of your suggestions in this video.
This content is remarkable. A similar book would be an ideal next read for those interested. "Galaxies United" by Olivia Whitestone
Prospect is one of the BEST looking 4ks in my collection!!
Great list. Except for Predestination, the most navel gazing movie in history. Terrible.
I really enjoyed Mirage, Oxygen and Predestination. I recommend In the Shadow of the Moon.
1:48 "Do you have friends or lived ones that are important to your life?"
Yeah, that's kinda the definition of friends or loved ones. You might as well ask if we have mitochondria important to our cells.