Can You Slay This Sci-Fi Movies Challenge?

Back to the Future was a 1985 science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox as teenager Marty McFly, who accidentally travels back in time to 1955, where he meets his future parents and becomes his mother’s romantic interest.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was a 1982 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg. It tells the story of Elliott, a lonely boy who befriends an extraterrestrial, dubbed “E.T.”, who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help E.T. return to his home planet, while attempting to keep him hidden from their mother and the government.

District 9 was a 2009 science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp. The film is partially presented in a found footage format by featuring fictional interviews, news footage, and video from surveillance cameras. The story, which explores themes of humanity, xenophobia, and social segregation, begins in an alternate 1982, when an alien ship appears over Johannesburg, South Africa.

Starman was a 1984 science fiction romance film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of a humanoid alien who has come to Earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe.

Metropolis was a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction drama film directed by Fritz Lang. The silent film is regarded as a pioneering work of the science-fiction genre in movies. Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder and Maria to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes of their city, and bring the workers together with Joh Fredersen, the master of the city.

Independence Day was a 1996 science fiction action film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. The film focuses on disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a worldwide attack by an extraterrestrial race of unknown origin.

Spaceballs was a 1987 comic science fiction film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. The film’s setting and characters parody the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as other sci-fi franchises including Star Trek, Alien, and the Planet of the Apes films.

Guardians of the Galaxy was a 2014 superhero film. In Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill forms an uneasy alliance with a group of extraterrestrial criminals who are fleeing after stealing a powerful artifact.

Batman was a 1989 superhero film directed by Tim Burton. The film takes place early in the title character’s war on crime, and depicts Batman’s battle with his nemesis the Joker.

Superman was a 1978 superhero film directed by Richard Donner. . The film depicts Superman’s origin, including his infancy as Kal-El of Krypton and his youthful years in the rural town of Smallville. Disguised as reporter Clark Kent, he adopts a mild-mannered disposition in Metropolis and develops a romance with Lois Lane, while battling the villainous Lex Luthor.

Time Bandits was a 1981 British fantasy film co-written, produced, and directed by Terry Gilliam. The film follows eleven-year-old Kevin who has a vivid imagination and is fascinated by history, particularly ancient Greece; his parents ignore his activities, having become more obsessed with buying the latest household gadgets to keep up with their neighbours.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus. The film is the first installment in the long-running Harry Potter film series and was written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman. Its story follows Harry Potter’s first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as he discovers that he is a famous wizard and begins his education.

Looper was a 2012 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. It revolves around criminal syndicates using contracted killers called “loopers” to kill victims sent through time travel.

The Andromeda Strain was a 1971 science fiction film directed by Robert Wise. The film stars Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, and David Wayne as a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin.

2001: A Space Odyssey was a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film, which follows a voyage to Jupiter with the sentient computer HAL after the discovery of a mysterious black monolith affecting human evolution, deals with themes of existentialism, human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Donnie Darko was a 2001 science fiction film written and directed by Richard Kelly. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The film follows the adventures of the troubled title character as he seeks the meaning behind his doomsday-related visions.

Unbreakable was a 2000 superhero thriller film directed by M. Night Shyamalan. In Unbreakable, a security guard named David Dunn survives a horrific train crash. After the incident, with the help of a disabled comic art gallery owner named Elijah Price, he learns that he possesses superhuman powers.

Dark City was a 1998 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas. The film follows John Murdoch, an amnesiac man who finds himself suspected of murder. Murdoch attempts to discover his true identity and clear his name while on the run from the police and a mysterious group known only as the “Strangers”.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was a 1989 action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. In the film, set largely in 1938, Indiana searches for his father, a Holy Grail scholar, who has been kidnapped by Nazis.

Mad Max was a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller. The film presents a tale of societal collapse, murder, and revenge set in a future Australia, in which an unhinged policeman becomes embroiled in a violent feud with a savage motorcycle gang.

King Kong was a 2005 epic monster adventure film directed by Peter Jackson. Set in 1933, King Kong tells the story of an ambitious filmmaker who coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to the mysterious Skull Island. There they encounter Kong, a legendary giant gorilla, whom they capture and take to New York City.

Dune was a 1984 epic science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch. Set in the distant future, the film chronicles the conflict between rival noble families as they battle for control of the extremely harsh desert planet Arrakis, also known as “Dune”.

Alien was a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott. It is the first film in what became a large Alien franchise. The film’s title refers to a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature that stalks and attacks the crew of a spaceship.

Children of Men was a 2006 British-American dystopian thriller film directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón. The film takes place in 2027, where two decades of human infertility have left society on the brink of collapse. Illegal immigrants seek sanctuary in the United Kingdom, where the last functioning government imposes oppressive immigration laws on refugees.

The Last Starfighter was a 1984 space opera film directed by Nick Castle. The film tells the story of Alex Rogan, an average teenager recruited by an alien defense force to fight in an interstellar war.

The Matrix was a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers and starring Keanu Reeves. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called “the Matrix”, created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source.

Prometheus was a 2012 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott. It is set in the late 21st century and centers on the crew of the spaceship Prometheus as it follows a star map discovered among the artifacts of several ancient Earth cultures.

I, Robot was a 2004 science fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas. The film is set in the year 2035, humanoid robots serve humanity, which is protected by the Three Laws of Robotics. Del Spooner, a Chicago police detective, hates and distrusts robots because he was rescued from a car crash by a robot using cold logic, leaving a 12-year-old girl to drown.

Gravity was a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed, co-written, co-edited, and produced by Alfonso Cuarón. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts who are stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their space shuttle, and their subsequent attempt to return to Earth.

A Clockwork Orange was a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.

The Fly was a 1986 science-fiction body horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg. The film tells of an eccentric scientist who, after one of his experiments goes wrong, slowly turns into a fly-hybrid creature.

Escape from New York was a 1981 post-apocalyptic science-fiction action directed by John Carpenter. The film is set in what was near-future of 1997, in a crime-ridden United States that has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into the country’s maximum security prison.

The Birds was a 1963 horror-thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It focuses on a series of sudden, unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California over the course of a few days.

Highlander was a 1986 British-American adventure action fantasy film directed by Russell Mulcahy. It stars Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, and Roxanne Hart. The film narrates the climax of an ages-old battle between immortal warriors, depicted through interwoven past and present-day storylines.

Frankenstein was a 1931 pre-Code horror monster film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale about a scientist and his assistant who dig up corpses to build a man animated by electricity, but his assistant accidentally gives the creature an abnormal, murderer’s brain.

X2 was a 2003 superhero film based on the X-Men superhero team appearing in Marvel Comics. The plot, inspired by the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills, pits the X-Men and their enemies, the Brotherhood, against the genocidal Colonel William Stryker.

Brazil was a 1985 dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam. The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living in a small apartment, set in a consumer-driven dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained machines.

Gattaca was a 1997 science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents.

Forbidden Planet was a 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox. The movie pioneered several aspects of science fiction cinema. It was the first science fiction film to depict humans traveling in a faster-than-light starship of their own creation. It was also the first to be set entirely on another planet in interstellar space, far away from Earth.

Tremors was a 1990 monster film directed by Ron Underwood. It follows Valentine “Val” McKee and Earl Basset who work as handymen in Perfection, Nevada, an isolated ex-mining settlement in the high desert east of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was a 1982 science fiction film directed by Nicholas Meyer. The plot features Admiral James T. Kirk and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise facing off against the genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh, a character who first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek episode “Space Seed”.

Ghostbusters was a 1984 comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis as eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City.

The Crow was a 1994 superhero dark fantasy action film directed by Alex Proyas. The film tells the story of Eric Draven, a rock musician who is revived from the dead to avenge his own death as well as the rape and murder of his fiancée.

Armageddon was a 1998 science fiction disaster film directed by Michael Bay. The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth.

The Terminator was a 1984 science-fiction action film directed by James Cameron. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose son will one day become a savior against machines in a post-apocalyptic future.

Planet of the Apes was a 1968 science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. The film tells the story of an astronaut crew who crash-lands on a strange planet in the distant future. Although the planet appears desolate at first, the surviving crew members stumble upon a society in which apes have evolved into creatures with human-like intelligence and speech.

The Time Machine was a 1960 science fiction film in Metrocolor from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An inventor in Victorian England constructs a machine that enables him to travel into the distant future; once there, he discovers that mankind’s descendants have divided into two species, the passive, childlike, and vegetarian Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi.

The Iron Giant was a 1999 animated science fiction film. Set during the Cold War in 1957, the film is about a young boy named Hogarth Hughes, who discovers and befriends a giant robot who fell from space.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was a 2004 science fiction romantic comedy film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry. It follows an estranged couple who have erased each other from their memories, then, started dating again.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I., was a 2001 science fiction drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. Set in a futuristic post-climate change society, A.I. tells the story of David, a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to love.

Thor: The Dark World was a 2013 film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor. In the film, Thor teams up with Loki to save the Nine Realms from the Dark Elves led by the vengeful Malekith, who intends to plunge the universe into darkness.

Hellboy was a 2004 superhero film directed by Guillermo del Toro. In the film, a demonic beast-turned superhero known as Hellboy, secretly works to keep the world safe from paranormal threats with his team, the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense.

The Day the Earth Stood Still was a 2008 science fiction thriller film. Directed by Scott Derrickson and starring Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, this version replaces the Cold War theme of nuclear warfare with the contemporary issue of humankind’s environmental damage to the planet. It follows Klaatu, an alien sent to try to change human behavior or eradicate humans from Earth.

Apollo 13 was a 1995 space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard. The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America’s third Moon landing mission. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA’s flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.

WALL-E was a 2008 computer-animated science fiction film. It follows a trash compactor robot in a deserted world, left to clean a largely abandoned city. However, he is visited by a probe sent by the Axiom ship, whom he falls in love with and pursues across the galaxy.

12 Monkeys was a 1995 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam. A deadly virus released in 1996 wipes out almost all of humanity, forcing survivors to live underground. A group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to have released the virus.

Moon was a 2009 science fiction film directed by Duncan Jones and written by Nathan Parker. The film follows Sam Bell, a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon.

Stargate was a 1994 science fiction adventure film. The plot centers on the premise of a “Stargate”, an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a wormhole enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in the universe. The film’s central plot explores the theory of extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization.

Interstellar was a 2014 science fiction film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to survive, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was a 1954 Technicolor adventure film and the first science fiction film shot in CinemaScope. The film is set in 1868, where rumors of a sea monster attacking ships in the Pacific Ocean have disrupted shipping lanes. The United States invites Professor Pierre M. Aronnax and his assistant, Conseil, onto a Navy expedition to prove the monster’s existence.

War of the Worlds was a 2005 science fiction disaster film directed by Steven Spielberg. In the film, an American dock worker is forced to look after his children, from whom he lives separately, as he struggles to protect them and reunite them with their mother when extraterrestrials invade the Earth and devastate cities with towering war machines.

Star Wars was a 1977 epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise. The film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia, and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire’s space station, the Death Star.

Edge of Tomorrow was a 2014 science fiction film directed by Doug Liman. The film takes place in a future where Earth is invaded by an alien race. Major William Cage, a public relations officer with no combat experience, is forced by his superiors to join a landing operation against the aliens.

The Fifth Element was a 1997 English-language French science-fiction action film directed and co-written by Luc Besson. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film’s central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas, a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman falls into his cab.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier was a 2014 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America. It stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America. The film follows Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon who join forces to uncover a conspiracy within S.H.I.E.L.D. while facing a mysterious assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

Spider-Man was a 2002 superhero film directed by Sam Raimi. The film stars Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker, a high school student living in New York City, who turns to crimefighting as Spider-Man after developing spider-like super powers.

The Martian was a 2015 science fiction survival film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. The film is about an astronaut who is mistakenly presumed dead and left behind on Mars. The film depicts his struggle to survive and others’ efforts to rescue him.

Blade Runner was a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott. The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies.

Minority Report was a 2002 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where PreCrime, a specialized police department, apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics called “precogs”.

Tron was a 1982 science fiction action-adventure film written and directed by Steven Lisberger. The film stars Jeff Bridges as a computer programmer who is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer where he interacts with programs in his attempt to escape.

WarGames was a 1983 Cold War science fiction film directed by John Badham. The film follows David Lightman, a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war.

The Mummy was a 1999 action fantasy film directed by Stephen Sommers. In this film, adventurer Rick O’Connell travels to Hamunaptra, the city of the dead, with an archaeologist and her brother. There they accidentally awaken Imhotep, a high priest from the reign of the pharaoh Seti I who has been cursed for eternity.

Journey to the Center of the Earth was a 1959 adventure film directed by Henry Levi. The film is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1880. Professor Sir Oliver Lindenbrook, a geologist at the University of Edinburgh, is given a piece of volcanic rock by his admiring student, Alec McEwan.

Jurassic Park was a 1993 science-fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America’s Pacific Coast near Costa Rica, where billionaire philanthropist John Hammond and a small team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of cloned dinosaurs.

The Abyss was a 1989 science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. When an American submarine sinks in the Caribbean, the U.S. search and recovery team works with an oil platform crew, racing against Russian vessels to recover the boat. Deep in the ocean, they encounter something unexpected.

Serenity was a 2005 science fiction action film directed by Joss Whedon. Set in 2517, Serenity is the story of the captain and crew of Serenity, a “Firefly-class” spaceship. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbors a dangerous secret.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers was a 1956 science fiction horror film directed by Don Siegel. The film’s storyline concerns an extraterrestrial invasion that begins in the fictional California town of Santa Mira. Alien plant spores have fallen from space and grown into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human.

Avatar was a 2009 epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor.

They Live was a 1988 science fiction horror film written and directed by John Carpenter. It follows an unnamed drifter who discovers that the ruling class are aliens concealing their appearance and manipulating people to spend money, breed, and accept the status quo with subliminal messages in mass media.

Inception was a 2010 science fiction action thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious, and is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for the implantation of another person’s idea into a target’s subconscious.

Pitch Black was a 2000 science fiction action horror film co-written and directed by David Twohy. Dangerous criminal Richard B. Riddick is being transported to prison in a spacecraft. When the spaceship is damaged by comet debris and makes an emergency crash landing on an empty desert planet, Riddick escapes.

The Butterfly Effect was a 2004 supernatural psychological thriller film written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber, starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart. Kutcher plays 20-year-old college student Evan Treborn, with Amy Smart as his childhood sweetheart Kayleigh Miller, William Lee Scott as her sadistic brother Tommy, and Elden Henson as their neighbor Lenny.

Predator was a 1987 science fiction action horror film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of an elite paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in guerrilla-held territory in an unspecified country in Central America.

Westworld was a 1973 science fiction Western thriller film directed by novelist Michael Crichton about amusement park androids that malfunction and begin killing visitors. It stars Yul Brynner as an android in a futuristic Western-themed amusement park, and Richard Benjamin and James Brolin as guests of the park.

Starship Troopers was a 1997 military science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. The story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in a futuristic military unit. Rico’s military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an insectoid species known as “Arachnids”.

The Running Man was a 1987 science fiction action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser. The film’s story, set in a dystopian United States between 2017 and 2019, is about a television show called The Running Man, where convicted criminal “runners” must escape death at the hands of professional killers.

Fahrenheit 451 was a 1966 British dystopian drama film directed by François Truffaut. The film takes place in a controlled society in an oppressive future in which the government sends out firemen to destroy all literature to prevent revolution and thinking.

The Thing was a 1982 science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter. It tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous “Thing”, a parasitic extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates and then imitates other organisms.

Contact was a 1997 science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. Jodie Foster portrays the film’s protagonist, Dr. Eleanor “Ellie” Arroway, a SETI scientist who finds strong evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact.

Galaxy Quest was a 1999 comic science fiction film directed by Dean Parisot. A parody of science fiction films and series, it follows the cast of a defunct cult television series called Galaxy Quest, in which the crew of a spaceship embarked on intergalactic adventures, who are suddenly visited by actual aliens who believe the series to be an accurate documentary, and become involved in a very real intergalactic conflict.

Fantastic Voyage was a 1966 science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is about a submarine crew who shrink to microscopic size and venture into the body of an injured scientist to repair damage to his brain.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind was a 1977 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO).

Logan’s Run was a 1976 science fiction film, directed by Michael Anderson. It depicts a utopian society where the population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by killing everyone who reaches the age of 30. The story follows the actions of Logan 5, a “Sandman” who has terminated others who have attempted to escape death, and is now faced with termination himself.

The Omega Man was a 1971 science-fiction film directed by Boris Sagal. It is set in In 1975, a border conflict between China and the Soviet Union escalates into worldwide biological warfare, which kills most of the world’s population.

Total Recall was a 1990 science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. The film tells the story of a construction worker who suddenly finds himself embroiled in espionage on Mars and unable to determine if the experiences are real or the result of memory implants.

Soylent Green was a 1973 post-apocalyptic science fiction thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film follows the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman and a dystopian future of dying oceans and year-round humidity due to the greenhouse effect, resulting in suffering from pollution, poverty, overpopulation, euthanasia and depleted resources.

RoboCop was a 1987 cyberpunk action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy who is murdered by a gang of criminals and subsequently revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) as a superhuman cyborg law enforcer known as RoboCop.

Men in Black was a 1997 science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. The film stars Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as two agents of a secret organization called the Men in Black, who supervise extraterrestrial lifeforms who live on Earth and hide their existence from ordinary humans.