People want to learn as much as possible about all the mysteries of the Universe, to visit other planets. And although it is impossible in reality, it is possible to discover distant planets and learn about the superpowers of some of the inhabitants of Earth in the 2019 sci-fi films presented here.
El hoyo
- Rating IMDB – 7.0
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller, drama
- Production Spain / 2019
- Worldwide gross: $1 090 116
- Directed by Halder Gastelu-Urrutia
- Cast: Ivan Massage, Sorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkei, Zihara Llana, Mario Pardo, Algis Arlauskas, Chubio Fernandez, Eric Goode
Goreng is a guy who decides to take part in an unusual experiment. He, like the other test subjects, is placed in a multi-level tower. Periodically, a platform with food comes down from above, but nothing reaches the lower floors.
Every month there is a rotation and people end up on a random level. At first, the hero is lucky and gets to the 48th floor. However, he soon learns how cruel human society can be.
An interesting fact – if we consider that the height of each chamber is 6 meters, and the levels are only 333, the height of the tower should be almost 2 km.
Alita: Battle Angel
- Rating IMDB – 7.3
- Genre: Fantasy, аction, аdventure
- Production USA, Japan, Canada / 2019
- Budget: $170,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $404,980,543
- Director Robert Rodriguez
- Cast: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley, Keean Johnson, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Lana Condor, Idara Victor
In the year 2563, several hundred years after the war between Mars and Earth, the latter was completely devastated. The people left on it led a rather meager existence. Dyson Ido, one of the inhabitants of Earth, finds a cyborg girl and manages to launch her.
Alita remembers almost nothing of herself and the world around her. So begins a long journey with one goal in mind: to recover her memory. She has many new discoveries to make, especially that she is a combat cyborg and wields deadly fighting techniques.
The film is based on the manga Grumm by Yukito Kishiro.
Avengers: Endgame
- Rating IMDB – 8.4
- Genre: Fantasy, action, drama, adventure
- US production / 2019
- Budget: $356,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $2,797,501,328
- Director Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
- Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan
The “click” happened. Half of the entire universe has been destroyed. The remaining Avengers must find a way to confront Thanos and his growing power. To do so, they will need to collect the Infinity Stones again, traveling to different worlds. They will have only one chance, otherwise Thanos will gather his strength and simply wipe them off the face of the universe.
Only Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. were familiar with the full script. The others only read the part that was directly related to their characters. This is one of the best sci-fi movies (2019) of the year.
Spider-Man: Far from Home
- Rating IMDB – 7.4
- Genre: Fantasy, аction, аdventure
- US production / 2019
- Budget: $160,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $1,131,927,996
- Directed by Jon Watts
- Cast: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zendaya, Cobie Smulders, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Jacob Batalon, Tony Revolori, Angourie Rice
Peter Parker and a group of friends decide to go to Europe for a vacation, but after arriving in Venice, all his plans fall apart. There they find themselves in the middle of a battle with a powerful new adversary. The Elemental is Parker’s new adversary. And now Peter will have to find a way to get himself a new suit to fight him. Can Spider-Man save the day once again?
The film was shot fairly quickly, the filming process began in July 2018, and came to a close by early October of that year.
Captain Marvel
- Rating IMDB – 6.8
- Genre: Fantasy, аction, аdventure
- Production USA, Australia / 2019
- Budget: $175,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $1,128,274,794
- Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
- Cast: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law, Annette Bening, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Clark Gregg
Carol Danvers is a pilot in the U.S. armed forces. She is the one who is unheard-of lucky – after an encounter with the troops of an alien race she unexpectedly discovers she has superpowers. She gained the power and invulnerability.
However, nothing just happens – she will have to use her new powers to the fullest to save the Earth from the evil overhanging her. A powerful enemy is preparing to wipe her off the face of the galaxy, and only Captain Marvel can stop him.
Brie Larson is allergic to cats, which is why the creators had to use puppets and computer graphics when filming scenes involving a cat.
Dark Phoenix
- Rating IMDB – 5.7
- Genre: Fantasy, аction, аdventure
- Production USA, Canada / 2019
- Budget: $200,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $252,442,974
- Directed by Simon Kinberg
- Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Ty Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Evan Peters, Cody Smith-McPhee, Jessica Chastain
Jean Grey, using her powers, inadvertently causes her mother’s death. That’s why Professor Xavier picks her up – he senses her growing potential. Another rescue mission in space turns the girl into a powerful mutant, and the rest of the team will have to think about what to do and how to dispose of such power. However, the result will still be inexorable – Jean can destroy the entire planet, including the X-Men.
For director and screenwriter Simon Kinberg, this film was his debut.
Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Fiction, fantasy, action, adventure
- US production / 2019
- Budget: $275,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $1,074,144,248
- Directed by JJ Abrams
- Cast: Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Aki, Domhnall Gleason, Richard E. Grant
One year after the events of The Last Jedi, Kylo Ren manages to find Palpatine alive and about to revive the Galactic Empire with a fleet of the latest Star Destroyers. But to make sure it all works, they need to meet Rey, who is in training.
The rebel forces will have to face far more numerous and powerful enemies, and many will have to sacrifice their lives. Furthermore, will Kylo Ren finally realize whose side he’s on and finally take the side of the Force and end the confrontation? Likewise, Rey will be the one to put a fat end to the war.
In this 2019 sci-fi space movie, the planet Kijimi was named by J.J. Abrams after a Japanese synth.
Men in Black International
- Rating IMDB – 5.6
- Genre: Fantasy, action, comedy, adventure
- Production USA, China / 2019
- Budget: $110,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $253 890 701
- Directed by F. Gary Gray
- Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Ferguson, Rafe Spall, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Laurent Bourgeois, Larry Bourgeois, Kaivan Novak
The Men in Black have been defending Earth against alien criminals for years, each time saving the planet from destruction or capture by anyone. This time, however, Agents H and T face a new threat.
The swarm is a parasitic race capable of fusing with the DNA of captured species. And spies are already operating among the agents with the sole purpose of destroying the organization. So can humans escape planetary catastrophe this time, too?
Agents always look flawless thanks to the fact that their suits are sewn from a special fabric, which itself smooths out the wrinkles.
Terminator: Dark Fate
- Rating IMDB – 6.2
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller, action, adventure
- Production USA, China / 2019
- Budget: $185,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $261 119 292
- Director Tim Miller
- Cast: Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, Diego Boneta, Alicia Borracero, Enrique Arce, Stephen Cree, Ferran Fernandez
Sweet girl Dani works in a factory, but one day she learns that automatics will now work in her place. Soon she is attacked by the terminator REV-9, sent from the future. Had it not been for Grace, also from the future, Dani would have been killed.
Together they will fight a new threat and meet the iconic characters of the franchise – Sarah Connor, who became a cyborg hunter after the death of her son, as well as T-800, who has integrated into society. Will they be able to save the human world?
Originally, an 18-year-old Mexican woman was wanted for the role of Dani, but in the end the role went to Natalia Reyes, originally from Colombia, who at the time of filming was 31 years old.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
- Rating IMDB – 6.0
- Genre: Fiction, fantasy, action, adventure
- Production USA, Japan / 2019
- Budget: $170,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $386,600,138
- Directed by Michael Dougherty
- Cast: Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe, Zhang Ziyi, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, Thomas Middleditch, Aisha Hinds
The Monarch organization invents a device to control titans. However, due to a terrorist attack, the prototype is stolen. As it turns out, they intend to use it to awaken other monsters.
But their plans are quickly detected, thanks to Godzilla activating and quickly letting people know that a battle for the survival of all mankind is about to begin. After all, the awakened monsters are far more dangerous than one might imagine.
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Fiction, fantasy, detective, adventure, family
- Production USA, Japan / 2019
- Budget: $150,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $433,005,346
- Director Rob Letterman
- Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Gere, Suki Waterhouse, Josette Simon, Alejandro De Mesa, Rita Ora
An old detective Harry Goodman suddenly disappears, and his son Tim decides to investigate, assisted by the pokémon Pikachu. Together they will have to look for clues, as well as try to understand the true nature of this chatty pokemon.
The pair will have to travel through the streets of Rime City to find Harry, and at the same time uncover a serious plot that could pose a threat to all pokémon.
Viewers wanted Pikachu to be voiced by Danny de Vito so much that they created a petition.
Boss Level
- Rating IMDB – 6.8
- Genre: Fantasy, аction
- US production / 2019
- Budget: $45,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $1,753,823
- Director Joe Carnahan
- Cast: Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, Rio Grillo, Ken Jeong, Sean McKinney, Annabelle Wallis, Michelle Yeoh, Will Sasso, Selina Lo
Roy Pulver is a former Special Forces man living an unconventional life. He is stuck in a time loop, and his every day begins with a desperate fight for life. First a maniac with a machete, a helicopter, thugs. Even if he wins, at a certain point he still dies. He never manages to live longer than 12:47.
One day he discovers that his wife is dead, but managed to launch some kind of installation that led to the creation of this loop. And now Roy has to fix it, or the planet may end.
Loop
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Fantasy, drama
- Production Brazil / 2019
- Directed by Bruno Bini
- Cast: Bruno Galiasso, Branca Messina, Beatriz Arantis, Nicholas Antunes, Roberto Birindelli, Zecarlos Machado, Giuliano Coacci, Lys Luquiddi, Sandro Lucose, Luciano Bortoluzzi
The physicist Daniel loses his girlfriend. She dies in tragic circumstances. And so he decides to do the impossible – to build a time machine to save her. However, for this he will have to spend a lot of effort, and most importantly, to carefully think through a plan of how exactly he is going to save her. But will Daniel be able to avoid the consequences?
This is the debut film for director Bruno Bini. Before that, he managed to make several short films: Hardball (2006), S2 (2015), Três Tipos de Medo (2016).
Volition
- Rating IMDB – 5.6
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller
- Production Canada / 2019
- Worldwide gross: $5,844
- Directed by Tony Dean Smith
- Cast: Adrian McMorran, Magda Apanovic, John Cassini, Frank Cassini, Alex Paunovich, Bill Marchant, Kimi Alexander, Cecilly Day, Darcy Hinds
In 1991, baby James’ parents are killed in a car accident. The worst part is that James is a clairvoyant, and he clearly saw the moment, but no one believed him.
Many years later, having grown up and switched to petty fraud, James tries to forget about his misfortunes and get his affairs in order. And that’s when the man is visited by a particularly important vision where his own death is present. Will the clairvoyant be able to push it aside, or perhaps avoid it? Or is doom already predetermined, and any action only brings it closer?
Gemini Man
- Rating IMDB – 5.7
- Genre: Action, fantasy
- Production USA, China / 2019
- Budget: $138,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $173,469,516
- Directed by Ang Lee
- Cast: Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, Benedict Wong, Douglas Hodge, Ralph Brown, Linda Emond, Ilya Volokh, E.J. Bonilla, Victor Hugo
Henry Brogan, a former sniper, now works for U.S. Intelligence. One day he receives an assignment to eliminate another terrorist. However, as it turns out later, the target was a biologist engaged in unusual developments. It was a setup and now Henry is being hunted. Subsequently, he even meets the killer, who suspiciously strongly resembles him. And now he has a lot of things to figure out.
Interestingly, Will Smith was rejuvenated with CGI rather than makeup in the production of the picture.
Enhanced
- Rating IMDB – 4.7
- Genre: Fantasy, аction
- Production Canada / 2019
- Director James Mark
- Cast: George Chertov, Alanna Bale, Adrian Holmes, Chris Mark, Eric Hicks, Michael Joseph Delaney, Patrick Sabongui, Elvis Stoiko, Stefano Colacitti, Jeffrey R. Smith
Once upon a time, modified humans could live and work with their superpowers in peace. However, at one point the government decided that they were not worthy of life and hunted them all down. Becoming outcasts, the mutants began to hide and fight for their rights.
Behind them are sent special agents trained to fight against the modified. And when defeat already hangs over the heads of mutants, a special man appears, a modified, so powerful that he is able to turn the course of events. But can he do it?
Code 8
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Fantasy, аction, сrime
- Production Canada / 2019
- Worldwide gross: $157,209
- Director Jeff Chan
- Cast: Kari Matchett, Robbie Amell, Penny Eizenga, Lawrence Bain, JJ Jones, Alex Mallari Jr., Sean Benson, Sung Kang, Aaron Abrams, Martin Roach
4% of people are born with unusual abilities. However, technological progress has made them unnecessary. The simple guy Reed is one of them. He has the ability to control electricity. Potentially his gift could help many, but he has to live in poverty and constantly hide.
When his mother falls ill with cancer, Reed needs to find money for treatment urgently, so he agrees to work for a gang of violent criminals. But will it help him solve his problems?
The film was made possible thanks to fans who raised $2.4 million on crowdfunding services.
Glass
- Rating IMDB – 6.6
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller, drama
- Production USA, China / 2019
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $246,999,039
- Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
- Cast: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlain Woodard, Luke Kirby, Adam David Thompson, M. Night Shyamalan
David Dunn manages to get on Kevin Crumb’s trail weeks after the events of Split. However, their scuffle is interrupted by the arrival of the police, who imprison both of them in a special psychiatric hospital.
There they meet the Glass Man. And the attending doctor, Ellie Staple, tries to obsessively convince her patients that they have no powers and cannot have any. So is it true? Or is the secret organization the doctor represents very interested in this?
The film was made in just 39 days from a script of 139 pages. The result, however, was a solid story.
Le chant du loup
- Rating IMDB – 6.9
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller, action, adventure
- Production France / 2019
- Worldwide gross: $12,652,790
- Directed by Abel Lanzac
- Cast: François Civil, Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz, Reda Kateb, Paula Behr, Alexis Michalik, Jean-Yves Berthelot, Damien Bonnard, Sebastien Libessard
The young submariner Chantérod is lucky – he naturally possesses a very rare gift that allows him to hear and distinguish absolutely any sound. Thus, he becomes the best acoustician in the French Navy.
The mission to rescue the special forces turns into a near total disaster for the team. They suddenly notice a strange object that turns out to be an old Soviet submarine. Soon a warhead is launched on France and the president orders a retaliatory strike on Russia. But Chantarod knows very well that there were Islamists inside that submarine. But can he save the day and keep World War III from starting?
Life Like
- Rating IMDB – 5.4
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller, drama
- US production / 2019
- Directed by Josh Janovich
- Cast: Addison Timlin, Stephen Strait, James D’Arcy, Drew Van Ecker, Mark Famiglietti, Nicolas Baroody, Lysanne Valentine, Hilary Barraford, El Armi, Akaash Yadav
One couple is made a unique offer – they can get the world’s first unique humanoid robot. His advanced intelligence makes it impossible to distinguish him from an ordinary guy. And so, when the trio begins to live together, their understanding of what it means to be human is dramatically overturned.
They have to face a new reality, where a human-made robot is capable of showing more humanity than they do. Will this become a problem? Or will the new world prove to be better than the old?
I Am Mother
- RatingIMDB – 6.7
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller, drama, detective
- Production Australia / 2019
- Worldwide gross: $643,593
- Directed by Grant Spewtor
- Cast: Clara Rugor, Rose Byrne, Hilary Swank, Luke Hawker, Maddie Lenton, Hazel Sandery, Summer Lenton, Thalia Sturzaker, Jacob Nolan, Tracy Britton
An unknown apocalypse has occurred in the world and humanity is on the brink of extinction. In a hidden underground bunker, an advanced AI called “Mother” begins to implement a grand plan to resurrect the human species. She creates a girl, and begins to care for her, instilling the right moral and ethical complex.
However, the plan is jeopardized when an injured woman unexpectedly knocks on the door of the bunker, claiming that it was the machines that destroyed the world outside. The girl faces difficult decisions under the watchful eye of a tireless robot. Can she find the right path?
Vivarium
- Rating IMDB – 5.8
- Genre: Fantasy, drama
- Production Ireland, Belgium, Denmark / 2019
- Budget: $4,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $482,833
- Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
- Cast: Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Senan Jennings, Inna Hardwick, Danielle Ryan, Molly McCann, Jonathan Aris, Kom Tiri, Olga Wehrli
Gemma and Tom decide to live together, but to do so they need to buy a house. They decide to go to a real estate agency, where an extremely strange man starts talking to them. Nevertheless, the couple agrees to look at the house he offers. The agent shows them house number 9 and then disappears.
The guy and the girl repeatedly tried to leave, but kept coming back to this house. They even intended to burn it down, but soon realized that they were surrounded by houses just like it, going to infinity. The house was intact again the next day, and next to it they found a baby and a note – “Raise the baby, get your freedom.”
The Silence
- Rating IMDB – 5.3
- Genre: Horror, fantasy, thriller, drama
- Production Canada, Germany / 2019
- Worldwide gross: $2,325,977
- Directed by John R. Leonetti
- Cast: Stanley Tucci, Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto, Kate Trotter, John Corbett, Kyle Harrison Breitkopf, Dempsey Bryk, Billy MacLellan, Chris Whitby, Barbara Gordon
Mankind is out of luck – in Pennsylvania, speleologists have opened up a cave, unleashing a huge number of vicious pterodactyls, or creatures strongly similar to them. The monsters are oriented by sound, are completely blind, and multiply very quickly, filling the planet.
The Andrews family finds themselves in the middle of nowhere and tries to escape, despite all the chaos that has begun in North America. This time there’s no easy way to get away, and to survive, they’ll have to be silenced. Perhaps forever.
The Mandela Effect
- Rating IMDB – 5.8
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller, drama
- US production / 2019
- Directed by David Guy Levy
- Cast: Charlie Hofheimer, Alexa Palladino, Robin Lord Taylor, Clarke Peters, Madeleine McGraw, Tim Ransom, Ptolemy Slocum, Vernie Watson, Elena Campbell-Martinez, Steven Daniel Brun
Brendan is a successful computer programmer whose family is going through a tragedy because his daughter died recently. Going through her things, he unexpectedly finds a book, a story about bears. However, the man realizes that it used to have a completely different title.
Brendan sees that something strange is going on around him, the details in his memories do not add up. He turns to his friend and becomes convinced that the latter also remembers that the book had a different title. Together, the men have to figure out how human perception can influence the remembering of various facts.
IO
- Rating IMDB – 4.7
- Genre: Fantasy, drama, adventure
- US production / 2019
- Directed by Jonathan Alper
- Cast: Margaret Qualley, Anthony Mackie, Danny Huston, Tom Payne, Emma Fitzgerald, Justin Jamison, Teegan Johnson
Earth’s atmosphere had become toxic and life on Earth was impossible for most people. So humanity decided to relocate to Io, the moon of Jupiter. Only Sam Walden remained on Earth, driven by the idea of reviving life on the planet.
She thought she was the only one, but her views changed when she unexpectedly met another man. Will their meeting be life-changing for the planet? Will they join forces in the search for salvation, or will the Earth remain uninhabited?
Synchronic
- Rating IMDB – 6.2
- Genre: Fantasy, drama
- US production / 2019
- Worldwide gross: $1,463,555
- Directed by Justin Benson, Aaron Moorehead
- Cast: Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Ellie Ioannides, Katherine Aselton, Ramiz Moncef, Bill Oberst Jr., Betsy Holt, Shane Brady, Kate Adair, Matthew Underwood
Steve and Dennis are paramedic friends working in New Orleans. In recent days, they have begun to encounter regular suspicious deaths related to a recently emerged drug.
After another outing, they find out that Dennis’s daughter managed to try it and then disappeared without a trace. The men soon realize that teenagers under the influence of the drug are missing forever. So will Dennis be able to get his daughter back, because in order to do so, he may very well have to break through time?
In the Shadow of the Moon
- Rating IMDB – 6.2
- Genre: Fantasy, detective, thriller, crime
- Production USA, Canada / 2019
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Director Jim Mickle
- Cast: Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman, Bokeem Woodbine, Michael C. Hall, Rudy Dharmalingham, Al Maini, Quincy Kirkwood, Sarah Dugdale, Rachel Keller, Ryan Allen
1988 has not gone too well for police officer Thomas Lockhart. Starting a case, he thinks it’s his perfect chance to become a detective. But things turn out to be a lot more complicated than one might think. What’s more, the suspect is a rather strange person – she can predict the future.
Ten years later, the murders begin to recur, and the victims have a “distinctive handwriting” on their bodies. Once again, Thomas decides to investigate. And again the same suspect, whose case was closed. So what’s going on around here? Is the detective trapped inside a time loop? And is it possible to leave without losing his mind?
The Wave
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller
- US production / 2019
- US fees: $8,101
- Directed by Gille Klabin
- Cast: Justin Long, Tommy Flanagan, Katya Winter, Donald Faison, Sheila Vand, Bill Sage, Ronnie Jean Blevins, Sarah Minnick, Monique Candelaria, Blythe Howard
Frank is a young lawyer who has found a loophole in the law that allows him not to pay his client a large sum. Naturally, such a thing is worth noting – a promotion awaits him at the firm.
Going out with friends to a party, he decides to take a dubious drug. Soon he wakes up, alone and without his wallet, and an important meeting is to take place in two hours. Grabbing his things, Frank sets out on business, but notices that time itself is somehow distorted, everything is somehow different. Could it be a hallucination? Or a new reality?
Méandre
- Rating IMDB – 5.5
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller, horror
- Production France / 2019
- Worldwide grosses: $675,001
- Directed by Mathieu Turi
- Cast: Gaia Weiss, Peter Frantzen, Roman Lieber, Frederic Franchitti, Corneliu Dragomirescu, Eva Nivdansky, Carl Laforet, Henri Benard, Fabien Housse
The girl decides to go along with the stranger and gets into his car. After that, she loses consciousness, and when she wakes up, she finds a bracelet on her arm with a countdown timer on it.
She fell into the hands of a mad maniac, ready to create an entire maze for his victims, and to get out, she would have to face the fear of closed rooms, narrow passages, and aggressive monsters. To get free, the girl must act quickly and accept the rules of the cruel game, otherwise she will simply die in the blazing fire.
Ad Astra
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Fantasy, thriller, drama, detective, adventure
- Production USA, China, Brazil / 2019
- Budget: $87,500,000
- Worldwide gross: $127,461,872
- Director James Gray
- Cast: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland, Kimberley Elise, Lauren Dean, Donnie Keshawartz, Sean Blakemore, Bobby Nish, Lisa Gay Hamilton
In the not-too-distant future, mankind launches Project Lima to search for alien life. It was led by Captain Christoffer McBride. Soon communication with the explorers is lost and 16 years later, the leader’s son, Roy McBride, must find him.
He needs to get in touch with his father, as he has important clues about what began to happen on the planet. But is it really that simple? Will the son be able to contain his emotions, or will he let them run wild and ruin the planet?
Donald Sutherland, Tommy Lee Jones and Lauren Dean are all involved in the film at the same time. The last time they were together on the set was in 2000, when Space Cowboys was being made.
Cosmos
- Rating IMDB – 5.9
- Genre: Fantasy
- Production UK / 2019
- Directed by Elliot Weaver, Zander Weaver
- Cast: Tom England, Joshua Ford, Arjun Singh Panam, Ben Vardy, Mark Baileys, Mike Coletta, Simon Worthington
Several amateur astronomers suddenly intercept strange signals. They soon realize that they are not coming from a planet, or any other space object. It’s aliens! This conclusion causes a revolution in their minds. However, the world is still asleep in the dark, and the unknown objects are approaching the planet inexorably. So what happened? Will they be able to find out the truth?
The film was made on pure enthusiasm, even the actors were filmed for free. The only expense for the filmmakers was food, water, gas, and electricity, for which $7,000 was spent.
Color Out of Space
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Horror, fantasy
- Production USA, Malaysia, Portugal / 2019
- Budget: $6,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $1,023,510
- Director Richard Stanley
- Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight, Tommy Chong, Brendan Meyer, Julian Hilliard, Josh S. Waller, Q’orianka Kilcher, Melissa Nirman
Farmer Nathan lives away from the city with his wife and children. Among the other residents they are known as peculiar oddballs. But one day a meteorite falls near their house, which simply turns the family’s life upside down.
Far from immediately, but they begin to go crazy. Communications stop working, life around them begins to go through incredible metamorphosis, and the visiting hydrologist is absolutely convinced that the water here is poisonous. But Nathan does not want to leave, he is ready to stay until the very end, even if he has to die. Soon his whole family begins to behave very strangely. And those around them have to react to this…
The film is based on Lovecraft’s story of the same name.
Captive State
- Rating IMDB – 6.0
- Genre: Horror, fantasy, action, thriller
- US production / 2019
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $8,808,611
- Directed by Rupert Wyatt
- Cast: John Goodman, Vera Farmiga, Ashton Sanders, Jonathan Majors, Kevin Dunn, James Ransone, Alan Ruck, Madeleine Brewer, Machine Gun Kelly, Kevin J. O’Connor
Earth has fallen under the invasion of aliens. Unfortunately, their rule has lasted for ten years. Part of the planet’s population accepted and decided to cooperate with the new power, especially since it suddenly began to solve social problems. However, part of the people organized the underground in order to resist.
And so, the Chicago police receive a difficult order – in 24 hours to catch the leader of the rebels, Phoenix. Otherwise, nothing good awaits the people. That’s why the head of the Chicago Police Department decides to take a desperate step and recruits the son of one of the dead soldiers. Will Gabriel be able to save everyone?
The original film should have been called Captivity, which would have been a good reflection of the hidden essence of the plot.
Liu lang di qiu
- Rating IMDB – 5.9
- Genre: Fantasy, аction, drama
- Production China / 2019
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $699,856,699
- Directed by Frant Gwo
- Cast: Jacky Wu, Qu Chuxiao, Li Guangjie, Ng Man-Tat, Zhao Jinmai, Qu Jingjing, Zhang Yichi, Yang Haoyu, Arkady Sharogradsky, Li Hongchen
In about 300 years the Sun will cease to exist. And to avoid this, for 30 years all of humanity’s resources have been devoted to building a huge number of plasma engines to make the planet go to the star Alpha Centauri. This is necessary in order to create new life there.
As a result of cataclysmic events, the planet has already managed to turn into a wasteland, but it will only get worse from here. Entering the orbit of Jupiter turns into a complete disaster. The Earth is gradually drawn into the giant’s atmosphere, and the tectonic plates begin to shift. Total destruction is inevitable, or maybe not?
The film is set on the first day of the Chinese New Year, then the first release of the film took place.
