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POSSIBLE FILM CHOICES FOR FINAL PAPER A Clockwork Orange (1971) Johnny Mnemonic (1995) Aliens (1986) Invaders from Mars (1956) La jetée (1962) Videodrome (1983) Brazil (1985) I, Robot (2004) Forbidden Planet (1956) Soylent Green (1973) Moon (2009) Strange Days (1995) Melancholia (2011) They Live (1988) Fiend Without a Face (1958) Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) eXistenZ (1999) It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) WALL·E (2008) The Invisible Man (1933) Surrogates (2009) RoboCop (1987) Fantastic Voyage (1966) The Abyss (1989) Silent Running (1972) Source Code (2011) Logan's Run (1976) The Fly (1986) Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) Total Recall (1990) The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) Village of the Damned (1960) The Thirteenth Floor (1999) Contact (1997) When Worlds Collide (1951) Gojira (1954) 2010 (1984) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Never Let Me Go (2010) Sleeper (1973) Tron Legacy (2010) Sunshine (2007) Avatar (2009) The Andromeda Strain (1971) In Time (2011) A Scanner Darkly (2006) Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) Alphaville (1965) Super8 (2011) Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Branded (2012) The War of the Worlds (1953) Chronicle (2012) War of the Worlds (2005) The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009) Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Splice (2009) Escape from New York (1981) The Hollow Man (2000) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) The Cell (2000) Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) Code 46 (2003) Westworld (1973) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Moon (2009) (2004) Looper (2012) The Island (2005) A Boy and His Dog (1975) V for Vendetta (2006) TRON (1982) Sleep Dealer (2009) Dune (1984) The Handmaid’s Tale (1990) Independence Day (1996) The Lawnmower Man (1992) Rollerball (1975) The City of Lost Children (1995) Phase IV (1974) Waterworld (1995) Destination Moon (1950) Virtuosity (1995) Demon Seed (1977) Gattaca (1997) Solaris (1972) Night of the Comet (1984) X: The Unknown (1956) The Quiet Earth (1985) Electric Dreams (1984) Panic in Year Zero (1962) The Magnetic Monster (1953) The Stepford Wives (1975) This Island Earth (1955) Prometheus (2012) Zardoz (1974) Cloud Atlas (2012) Ghost in the Shell (1995) Hardware (1990) Red Planet (2000) Cloverfield (2008) The Invasion (2007) .

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