Difficult to make a choice. In the science fiction film category, on Netflix, there is everything. Space operas like Star Trek (2009) and its sequel Star Trek : Into Darkness (2013), dystopias like The world after us (2023), post-apocalyptic films like Without a sound (2018), and many more. If you don't know which one to choose, let yourself be guided by the recommendations of other viewers while watching the best sci-fi film available on the streaming platform which is none other thanInterstellar (2014), de Christopher Nolan.
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The film by the British director to whom we owe, among other things, Oppenheimer (2023), Tenet (2020), or even Inception (2010) obtains the rating of 4.5 on Allocinéand is widely talked about with more than 80,000 reviews (mostly favorable) from Internet users. He thus advances Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), by James Cameron, rated 4.3, and Dune (2021), by Denis Villeneuve, rated 4.2.
A desire for realism
The plot ofInterstellar takes place in 2067, when the Earth is dying. After a sandstorm, Joseph Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey, a former NASA pilot turned farmer, and his daughter Murphy (played successively by Mackenzie Foy, Jessica Chastain and Ellen Burstyn), discover symbols in the dust that has placed on the floor of their house.
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Symbols formed by gravitational waves which indicate geographical coordinates, that of a secret NASA scientific center where Professor Brand (Michael Caine) and his daughter Amélia Anne Hathaway work). Father and daughter prepare a space expedition through a wormhole that appeared near Saturn leading to another galaxy. Their goal: to find a new habitable planet. Despite his daughter Murphy's fears, Joseph Cooper agrees to leave.
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Although it is purely fiction, the film is still based on works on the American physicist Kip ThorneNobel Prize in Physics in 2017 for his work on gravitational waves. He was a consultant on the filming ofInterstellar to ensure the realism of the film.
Two animated films and a romance
Among the science fiction films available on Netflix with the highest ratings from viewers, we find after Terminator 2 et Dune, Nimona (2023), animated science fantasy film, rated 4.2, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), mix between a dystophia and a romance by Michel Gondry. And Akira (1988), adaptation of the manga of the same name describing an apocalyptic world. The choice is yours.
