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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 was pleasantly surprised by Predestination as I had read the Heinlein story many times over the years. Very underrated film

You are a hidden gem. You should have way more subscribers

Triangle (2009) another underrated sci-fi masterpiece

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 really liked Vast of Night. It's like a really well done student film with a slightly bigger budget.

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.

Predestination is one of my favorite movies. I never figured they could turn that story into a movie, but they did, and it's great.

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!

Amazing! I have only watched Predestination in this list. Excited to go through these!

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 did watch Predestination based on a previous video where you had recommended it. It was very good! Thank you for that. Now I need to check out these others. 😊

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!

Thanks for these suggestions. I have seen "Prospect" and "Oxygen". Both excellent films. It's good to find a channel - new to me - for movie reviews, etc. So, I have subscribed. I also noticed other videos on your channel that I will watch after this. Great work.

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

Awesome list! Predestination blew my mind!!

This is great getting sci-fi movie recommendations from Jessica 6!

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.

The way you describe Prospect is literally what I feel about the Expanse, a show that I highly HIGHLY recommend to you

The only one I’ve seen in the list is Strange Days. Excited to check out the rest. Thanks!

I was JUST looking for some underrated sci-fi gems to stream this weekend - and here you are! Thanks, your videos are always a treat! ^^

Brilliant list. Unfortunately, I've seen them all bar one. But thank you for your recommendations.

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). 🤞

Fantastic list. Little Fish was my favorite film from that year. Personal, real. Great chemistry between the leads. Makes you want to grab your loved one and not let go.

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!

Great review ❤

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.

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.

I'm always excited when you talk about Sci-Fi!! I got deja vu because I was sure you've made videos about some of these before. You confirmed that but I guess they are still underrated. Streaming rights are weird outside of the U.S. We don't get Hulu in Canada so I have to figure out where to find them Thanks for the recommendations! Yes, Bigelow is so underrated for her direction of action scenes. I'd like see more movies from her, too.

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.

Awesome recommendations!! Last and first men looks really rare and interesting...

I really Enjoy your channel ❤️ Your suggestions have been noted and I will be checking them out in the near future

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.

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.

hi. just want to say that i always waiting for your videos. so please keep make videos like this or anything about film/series. thank you🥰🥰🥰

Thanks for the list! Strange Days was great!

One of my underrated favorites was The OA on Netflix. I wish it had been able to go longer

I saw Oxygen. Hard agree! A wonderful, delightful suprise of a movie.

I had seen 2/3rds of this list already (which is to be expected by those of us hunting for the gems) but I was happy to see a few selections on this list I had NOT seen before or was concerned it wasn't worth the investment. But now I will give those few a shot. Thanks. I liked the vid and hope to see more videos by you that show some good digging. 😊

Interesting list. Haven’t seen many of these

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.

Fantastic video - you sniped a few of my favorite underrated sci-fi (Predestination, Prospect, Vast of the Nigh, and Little Fish - just saw this a week ago - speechless), and added some new ones to the list. Some extremely under the radar sci-fi that I have to recommend: -Advantageous: simplistic, futuristic sci-fi that examines the increasing impact of age & beauty in society/career, and drastics steps to be taken to keep up. A simple, slow moving film, but nonetheless gripping. -The Endless: sometimes the lower budget shows, but I find it strikes a perfect tone in weaving together death cult horror, monster feature, and central sci-fi elements. I simply love it. -Marjorie Prime: another extremely minimalistic sci-fi feature that examines relationships, past and present, memories, and how therapeutic, robotic replacements of loved ones could impact our lives. -Mr. Nobody: One of the more moving, sweeping looks at life, past, future, alternative realities. Beautiful film. Other titles you've almost certainly heard mention of, but want to throw a nod to in case you haven't seen them yet: -Primer -Twelve Monkeys -Space Sweepers (May have seen a call-out on one of your videos, but just in case I'm misremembering) -The Lobster Thanks again for a fantastic video! I skipped the segment on Mirage and added it straight to my watchlist (generally my response to a time travel recommendation) and am extremly intrigued by Last and First Men - no idea if I'll like it, but looking forward to giving that a try!

I completely agree with everything you said about Predestination. I always mention it to people and they have no idea what it is. It's such a great film and even better on re-watch!

You are spot on about Predestination. It is in my personal top ten of all time.

loved last and first men! next to that one i only saw the vast of night. when you talked about and showed mirage, i had to cry. don't know what that means, but i'll watch it! on the topic of time travel, Primer (2004) impressed me a lot. would love to know what you think about this one.

Thought I was the only one who loved Prediction. Thanks for putting it on this list.

how on earth I didn't know your channel before? as someone who watches too many movies to the point I don't have anything more to watch I found your channel to be the best movie suggestions channel in here

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.

Excellent video Marianna. Loved it. Some awesome choices there, the only one I’ve seen from this list is the faculty, and strange days, so I will check out some of the other movies definitely. The faculty is great. I love that film. Dark City is another one of my favourites. I adore that film.👍

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)!

Prospect is excellent! I first heard about it from a friend who got to see it in a theater in 2018, but it wasn’t out anywhere where I lived. It was fantastically shot.

Great list, the only movie i missed was After Yang

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?

Very good list, I know each of them. 😉 And I'd like to add some more of my favourites: Spectral, Infini.

I saw Predastination the second time and it is amazing how I knew everything and the time still flew so fast I did not even notice its the ending already. Amazing movie. Not the typical cliche superhero stories. Propably thats why its underrated.

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!!

Happy to see Strange Days mentioned. I was one of the only people I knew who saw it. It also reminded me of The Thirteenth Floor which also seems to be forgotten.

Strange Days is sooo good! Just recently watched it for the first time and I was blown away!

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 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.

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.

Great picks. Thinking about watching Little Fish, Oxygen (Netflix),Predestination, Strange Days, and Prospect 👀👀

I remember seeing Strange Days in the cinemas. It felt weird, but with so many qualities.

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.

Strange Days is criminally forgotten to time.....I also recently watched Johnny Mnemonic which is worth a watch. Honorable mentions are Ghost in the Shell (all versions) and I think Alita Battle Angel has the potential to turn into some even more awesome sequels.

Yes, finally Strange Days is been acknowledged, thank you!

I probably have watched The Vast of Night 5 times since it came out. For a small, inexpensive movie to make, it's so good.

That's it. I'm watching The Faculty tonight. Idk what I can recommend, you've seen everything haha. I just came back from watching Scream 6. Is there going to be a video review?

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 😅)

Similar subjects explored in these two: "The Man who Fell to Earth" (David Bowie as an alien), and "Starman" with Jeff Bridges.

Vast of night is beautiful. I was hooked. It really makes you want to make movies

I love this kind of videos, thank you so much for this one, it's so cool :) I love your lists. I haven't seen Little fish but while listening to you and seeing the images, I immediatly thought that this move looks like a lot as Perfect senses. A couple, a virus erasing human capatibilities, a love story... It's the same plot, just one about senses and the other about memory. It's a bit weird, and feel a lot like plagiarism. Anyway, I will watch it with pleasure, I'm quite curious to see how the story evolve. About Kathryn Bigelow, I also wish she makes more movies. I love her stuff, she is so talented. If the couple Bigelow Cameron lasted, we would have a powerful couple behind huge movies, and maybe more movies made by both of them. About recommendations, of course Perfect senses, this movie is so beautiful. Coherence, complete mind blown. I origins, so unique, as Another earth by the same director. The endless. Spectral.Moon.

Thanks!

Opened up with Little Fish and Prospect? Not messing around! Low budget SciFi is my absolute jam.

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.

I loved Strange Days! Saw it in the cinema and was perplexed it bombed.

I haven't watched it yet, but as you describe it, the premise for Vast of Night actually reminds me quite a bit of the first episode of The Outer LImits; The Galaxy Being. That was a great show at times -- more dedicated to sci-fi than the Twilight Zone was, even if TZ is more thematically consistent and has a lot more episodes to delve into.

Well you are wrong when you said I haven't seen Oxygen 😂, I saw your review and immediately when to watch it😂

I recommend Strange days and Predestination all the time to people they are so good, I went into both movies with no idea what to expect. Another all time favorite of mine is Dark City a movie people have forgotten about

strange days is AWESOME... i watched a long time ago and didnt remember it's name until now. 10/10

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 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.

... I watched anti-matter on Tubi and was very pleasantly surprised.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my favorite films and Little Fish is amazing👍

I just finished watching predestination and OMG how come nobody is talking about this movie it’s great. Thank you for recommending it 😊

I agree with Oxygen and Predestination! Very underrated for some reason. Here are some more recent ones: After Yang (2022) Underwater (2020) Ad Astra (2019) Snowpiercer (2013) Dredd (2012) Chronicle (2012) Looper (2012) Source Code (2011) Monsters (2010) Mr Nobody (2009) I could literally go on forever...

"Freaks" is the little movie that could... be a film. It made my top 15 of the decade. Yep. It's that good.

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.

Another Earth with Britt Marling is an underrated gem.

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.

I strongly recomend reading the book First and Last Men by Olaf Stabledon, also his book Starmaker (but this is not always an easy read to fully understand).

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)

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.

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.

Great list, Marianna... 😗 My Iist of lesser known sci-fi gems. Shows: Into the Night, Katla, Foundation, Archive 81, Osmosis, Ad Vitam, Shining Girls, Parrellels. Speaking of time travel: Synchronic. Great Netflix original movie.

STRANGE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for all of these recommendations - adding all these gems to the watchlist

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.

I saw Prospect in the Theaters and was in my TOP 10 films of the year it came out