When a high profile scientist at the University of Chicago is murdered, Eddie, an undergraduate, and physicist Lily are framed and accused of stealing an innovative alternative fuel formula. **Director**: Andrew Davis **Writers**: Arne Schmidt (story), Rick Seaman (story), Josh Friedman (story) **Cast**: Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz  [More details on IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115857/)

In the not-too-distant future, a less-than-perfect man wants to travel to the stars. Society has categorized Vincent Freeman as less than suitable given his genetic make-up and he has become one of the underclass of humans that are only useful for menial jobs. To move ahead, he assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a perfect genetic specimen who is a paraplegic as a result of a car accident. With professional advice, Vincent learns to deceive DNA and urine sample testing. Just when he is finally scheduled for a space mission, his program director is killed and the police begin an investigation, jeopardizing his secret. **Director**: Andrew Niccol **Writer**: Andrew Niccol **Cast**: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law  [More details on IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/)

Two parallel stories are told. In the first, a group of research scientists from a variety of backgrounds are investigating the strange appearance of items in remote locations, primarily desert regions. In continuing their investigation, one of the lead scientists, a Frenchman named Claude Lacombe, incorporates the Kodály method of music education as a means of communication in their work. The response, in turn, at first baffles the researchers, until American cartographer David Laughlin deciphers the meaning of the response. In the second, electric company lineman and family man Roy Neary and single mother Jillian Guiler are among some individuals in Muncie, Indiana who experience some paranormal activity before some flashes of bright lights in the sky, which they believe to be a UFO. Roy becomes obsessed with what he saw, unlike some others, especially in some form of authority, who refuse to acknowledge their belief that it was a UFO in not wanting to appear crazy. That obsession both for Roy and Jillian is ratcheted up a notch when they begin to have a vision of a mound with vertical striations on its side as a key to what is going on. While the obsession negatively affects Roy's life as he knows it in its entirety, Jillian knows she has to find the answer as to its meaning, especially as it relates to her only child, three year old Barry Guiler, who may be more attuned to what is happening than the adult figures around him. These two stories have the potential to intersect if Roy and Jillian can discover where they've seen that mound before, and if they can overcome what they believe to be the lies perpetrated by those in authority in covering up what is going on. **Director**: Steven Spielberg **Writers**: Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood (additional story), Jerry Belson (uncredited) **Cast**: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr  [More details on IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/)

Four hundred years in the future, set in the year 2415, Æon Flux is a mysterious assassin. Four centuries after a virus nearly annihilated the human race, leaving only five million survivors in a utopian city called Bregna. Aeon is struggling to destroy the Goodchild regime led by its namesake, Trevor Goodchild, the ruler of Bregna and a descendant of the man who found a cure for the deadly virus. As instructed by the Handler, Æon is assigned to assassinate Goodchild, but there are deeper secrets to be discovered, and conspiracies to be foiled. **Director**: Karyn Kusama **Writers**: Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi, Peter Chung (characters) **Cast**: Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sophie Okonedo  [More details on IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402022/)