
10 Best Sci-Fi Movies on HBO Max
HBO Max’s sci-fi collection contains some of the all-star gems of the genre. Leap into the future with our picks!
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 M04 2Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world’s most advanced super computer.
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Blade Runner
1982 M06 25Androider gjør opprør mot menneskene i jakten på sitt innerste selv. Politimannen Rick Deckard tar opp jakten, men begynner etter hvert å tvile på om oppdraget er moralsk riktig.
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The Matrix
1999 M03 30Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
The entire Matrix Trilogy is on HBO Max, so take the red pill and jump into this brain-bending world.
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Independence Day
1996 M06 25On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped ‘destroyer’ spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
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THX 1138
1971 M03 11People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
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Ready Player One
2018 M03 28When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
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I Am Legend
2007 M12 12Et virus gjør menneskerasen om til blodtørstige mutanter, og Robert Neville – den eneste som ikke er smittet – blir sivilisasjonens siste håp.
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Time Bandits
1981 M07 13Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they’ve purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
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Scanners
1981 M01 14After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
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Solaris
1972 M03 20A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.