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The 2010s rolled out a ton of sci-fi movies, with some soaking up the spotlight, like Nolan's Interstellar.
But nestled among these blockbusters are 25 gems that didn't quite get their moment to shine as bright. These movies, while they might not have had the mega budgets or the all-star casts, packed in enough creativity and out-of-this-world storytelling to stand toe-to-toe with the big hitters, telling stories that stick in your mind long after the credits roll.
25. "Freaks: You're One of Us" (2020) Rotten Tomatoes score: 27%
A working-class mother discovers that she has superpowers and, with the help of a mentor, learns to use them to fight crime and injustice.
24. "Bokeh" (2017) Rotten Tomatoes score: 45%
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wakes up one morning to discover every person on Earth has disappeared.
A physicist who invents a time machine must travel back to the past to uncover the truth about his creation and the woman who is trying to steal it.
22. "The Void" (2016) Rotten Tomatoes score: 48%
Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures.
21. "Embers" (2015) Rotten Tomatoes score: 51%
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory.
20. "High-Rise" (2015) Rotten Tomatoes score: 60%
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control. An exploration of class struggle and social decay.
19. "The Signal" (2014) Rotten Tomatoes score: 60%
A group of college students is lured to the middle of the desert by a hacker where they encounter something unimaginable.
18. "Radius" (2017) Rotten Tomatoes score: 60%
A man wakes from a car crash with no memory, and he discovers that anyone who comes within a certain distance of him dies instantly.
17. "The Infinite Man" (2014) Rotten Tomatoes score: 61%
A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.
In the near future, a time of artificial intelligence: 86-year-old Marjorie has a handsome new companion who looks like her deceased husband and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her.
15. "The Girl with All the Gifts" (2016) Rotten Tomatoes score: 67%
In a dystopian future, humanity has been ravaged by a mysterious fungal disease. The infected are turned into flesh-eating 'hungries'.
14. "The Platform" (2019) Rotten Tomatoes score: 73%
In a vertical prison system, inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors.
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
6. "Freaks" (2018) Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
A bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father's protective and paranoid control.
5. "Sputnik" (2020) Rotten Tomatoes score: 88%
During the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. However, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him.
4. "Prospect" (2018) Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon's toxic forest.
3. "I Am Mother" (2019) Rotten Tomatoes score: 89%
In the wake of humanity's extinction, a teenage girl is raised by a robot designed to repopulate the earth. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
2. "The Endless" (2017) Rotten Tomatoes score: 92%
As two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago, they discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.
1. "See You Yesterday" (2019) Rotten Tomatoes score: 93%
Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build makeshift time machines to save C.J.'s brother from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.
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