Directed by Peter Weir • 1998 • United States
Starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris
An instant classic that anticipated the rise of reality TV, Peter Weir’s brilliantly meta marvel of a movie—part media satire, part thought-provoking exploration of the very nature of consciousness—features Jim Carrey in one of his finest performance as Truman Burbank, a man whose entire life is, unbeknownst to him, a soundstage-set reality show populated by actors and controlled by a godlike producer (Ed Harris). While viewers around the world tune in to observe his day-to-day life, Truman exists in a state of blissful ignorance—until, gradually, he starts to suspect that something is amiss and begins to wonder what lies beyond his insular world.
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Minority Report
Directed by Steven Spielberg • 2002 • United States
Starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha MortonIt’s 2054, a future in which psychic “precogs” are able to envision murders before they happen. When he’s pegged as the soon-to-be killer of a man he doesn’t know, detective John Anderton (Tom...
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Gattaca
Directed by Andrew Niccol • 1997 • United States
Starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude LawOne of the most intelligent and thought-provoking science fiction films of the 1990s, this engrossing thriller unfolds in a not-too-distant future where a society obsessed with genetic perfection divides...
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The Lives of Others
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck • 2006 • Germany
Starring Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian KochSet in East Berlin in the early 1980s, this acclaimed debut feature from Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck focuses on GDR’s pervasive and chilling surveillance state. The successful ...
