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tales of the impossible turned possible, the unreal viewed real. the anthoropic principle at its fullest effect, ideas explored into the depths that can help humanity, or hurt it in the process. With fiction, you can do anything... can you? Should you?
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- A kidnapped college student must team up with eight other hostages to escape a sunken ship. But in doing so, he starts to unravel a sinister mystery.Morphegenic field, telepathy, alternate timelines.
- DirectorValerie AremStarsChiaki OmigawaAli HillisPeggy O'NealCollege Student Sigma is kidnapped and taken to a underground bunker, where he is forced to play a deadly variant of the prisoners dilemma against 8 others in order to win his freedom.alternate timelines, time travel, artifical intellegence
- DirectorKotaro UchikoshiStarsTomokazu SugitaMiyuki SawashiroTatsuhisa SuzukiNine people find themselves forced to play a deadly game in a nuclear bunker, where every 90 minutes their memories of recent events are erased. In order to escape, they must kill 6 people via various "decisions."Question of free will/existence, alternate timelines, artifical intellegence, time travel.
- CreatorCharlie BrookerStarsWunmi MosakuMonica DolanDaniel LapaineFeaturing stand-alone dramas -- sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that explore techno-paranoia -- "Black Mirror" is a contemporary reworking of "The Twilight Zone" with stories that tap into the collective unease about the modern world.Various, the ethics of tech.
- DirectorDavid SladeStarsFionn WhiteheadCraig ParkinsonAlice LoweA young programmer starts to question reality when he adapts a mad writer's fantasy novel into a video game.Alternate universe, Questioning of free will.
- StarsMamoru MiyanoAsami ImaiKana HanazawaAfter discovering time travel, a university student and his colleagues must use their knowledge of it to stop an evil organization and their diabolical plans.alternate timeline, time travel
- CreatorAkiyoshi HongoStarsMasako NozawaMakoto TsumuraYuka ImaiAn animated series based on the popular children's toy "Digimon", in which kids raise electronic monsters to fight against those raised by other kids.Artifical intellegece, quantum computing.
- StarsJared ZeusNell MooneyBrian ProtheroeSimon Jarrett finds himself in a mysterious, ravaged facility after seemingly losing consciousness during a new, experimental brain scan which was suggested to him for his brain damage after his car accident.Cloning, questioning of identity, artificial intelligence.
- DirectorOtto HantulaOlli HarjolaStarsAeone WatsonSimon FellowsJevan MorrisAs a survivor on a space station, you have to discover where everyone else is and what the alien life forms want all the while unlocking the mystery of the Swapper device.Hive minds, Cloning, questioning of identity, artificial intelligence.
- StarsErica LindbeckCristina ValenzuelaRobbie DaymondThis "paranormal science" story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, linked by the "Choujou Kagaku Kirikiri Basara" occult summary blog run by 17-year-old second-year high school student Yuuta Gamon. Little incongruities that occur around these nine eventually lead to a larger, unimaginable event that may alter what is considered common sense in this world.Questioning of reality, Afterlife
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsJared LetoSarah PolleyDiane KrugerA boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.Alternate timelines,Questioning of free will.
- DirectorBen C. LucasStarsJessica De GouwLiam GrahamFiona PressAfter inventing a drug that induces time-compressed virtual realities, young Ren grapples with partner Sam over how to use their powerful creation.Altering of memories, simulated reality, questioning of realitty
- DirectorCharlie McDowellStarsRobert RedfordMary SteenburgenBrian McCarthyTwo years after the afterlife is scientifically proven, a man attempts to help a young woman break away from her dark past.Alternate universes, The afterlife
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerSharon StoneMichael IronsideWhen a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?Altering of memories, simulated reality, questioning of realitty
- CreatorLeslie StevensStarsKevin ConwayAlex DiakunEric SchneiderA modern revival of the classic science fiction horror anthology show The Outer Limits (1963). Episodes often have twist-endings and involve aliens. Sometimes, a story from one episode continues in a later episode.Various
- DirectorJosef RusnakStarsCraig BierkoGretchen MolArmin Mueller-StahlA computer scientist running a virtual reality simulation of 1937 becomes the primary suspect when his colleague and mentor is murdered.Simulation-in simulation, questioning of reality
- DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsAmy AdamsJeremy RennerForest WhitakerA linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.time observation,viewing all time at once.
- CreatorChiyomaru ShikuraStarsClifford ChapinLindsay SeidelLydia Mackay2019, Divergence Ratio 1.048596. The near future, where a device popularly called the PokeCom, packaged with PhoneDroid OS, spreads, bringing the Augmented Reality world close to existence. Central Tanegashima High School's Robot Research Club is in danger of losing its club status. Kaito Yashio, one of only two members, is only obsessed with robot fighting games, showing no interest in the Robo Club even in this situation. The reckless, useless club head, Akiho Senomiya, aims to complete a giant robot, struggling hard to avoid losing the club's status. Then, one day, Kaito discovers the A.R. annotation that becomes the Kimijima Report. Written in that report is the indictment of someone named Kou Kimijima's conspiracy involving the world. (Source: VNdb)Artificial intelligence, AR
- StarsTodd HaberkornBrittney KarbowskiCarrie SavageA high school student who stumbles on a murder scene spirals into paranoid delusions as he becomes convinced the police are after him.
- StarsDaman MillsAlejandro SaabClifford ChapinSix years after the deadly earthquake and events of ChäoS;HEAd, Tokyo's reconstructed Shibuya district becomes home to a familiar series of abnormal events and a string of mysterious deaths. A high school newspaper club member begins to sense a pattern.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJude LawJennifer Jason LeighIan HolmA game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.Simulation-in simulation, questioning of reality
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJames WoodsDebbie HarrySonja SmitsA programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.manipulation of information, brainwashing, questiong of reality
- DirectorAlex GarlandStarsNatalie PortmanJennifer Jason LeighTessa ThompsonA biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.alien sentient destruction, reality warping
- CreatorDan HarmonJustin RoilandStarsChris ParnellSpencer GrammerSarah ChalkeThe fractured domestic lives of a nihilistic mad scientist and his anxious grandson are further complicated by their inter-dimensional misadventures.Alternate universies, varous stuff
- DirectorPeter SasdyStarsMichael BryantJane AsherIain CuthbertsonA research team from an electronics company moves into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but also to exorcise it--with terrifying results.The Stone tape theory
- CreatorLeslye HeadlandNatasha LyonneAmy PoehlerStarsNatasha LyonneCharlie BarnettGreta LeeA cynical young woman in New York City keeps dying and returning to the party that's being thrown in her honor on that same evening. She tries to find a way out of this strange time loop.Time travel
Alternate Universe - DirectorJulius OnahStarsGugu Mbatha-RawDavid OyelowoDaniel BrühlOrbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.Alternate universes
quantum entalglement - CreatorNagaru TanigawaStarsTomokazu SugitaAya HiranoYûko GotôThe crazy adventures of the SOS Brigade, led by the insane but charismatic Haruhi.
- StarsMaureen TeefyKeith CarradineJason Lee"Perversions of Science" was an anthology series of science fiction stories in the style of "Tales from the Crypt".