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From Netflix originals to some of the best cult classic sci-fi movies ever made, here is a look at some great mind-bending films you can watch on Netflix.
7) Spaceman
Spaceman is a Netflix original sci-fi movie starring Adam Sandler as an astronaut. This mind-bending movie is based on the sci-fi novel, Spaceman of Bohemia, by Jaroslav Kalfaล. It tells the story of a Czech cosmonaut (Sandler) who is sent on a space mission to investigate a mysterious cloud of dust and particles just past Jupiter. He left his wife and unborn daughter to go on the mission, and he has lost contact with her while in space.
However, what happens next is where things get bizarre. Jakub meets what seems to be an alien life form that looks like a spider-like creature, who begins to communicate with him. The question is whether this is really happening or if Kakub is losing his sanity while deep in space. The film has Sandler primarily acting against the CGI alien, voiced by Paul Dano, and it’s an exploration of regret and loneliness
6) Mute
Mute mainly received negative reviews when released, which is disappointing because Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) has some great ideas under the hood of this sci-fi movie. The movie stars Alexander Skarsgรฅrd as Leo, a mute bartender who is searching for his lover, who has disappeared. The entire plot surrounds a twisted underworld with a tech-noir basis. The film is a mystery about what happened to Leo’s girlfriend and what it has to do with a criminal underground dealing with rogue surgeons and child abuse.
Jones wanted to make a film with the look and feel of Blade Runner, as he set it in a noir-like dystopian world. The film had an exciting connection, as it was the spiritual follow-up to his 2009 movie,ย Moon, which was a brilliant sci-fi film starring Sam Rockwell as a man stationed on a moon station who encounters clones of himself. That movie was a brilliant sci-fi release, and while Mute fell a little short, it deserves a better reputation than it has.
5) Upgrade
Saw screenwriter Leigh Whannell wrote and directed the cyberpunk sci-fi movie Upgrade in 2018, and it is available right now on Netflix. The movie takes place in the future, 2046, and an auto mechanic is on his way home with his wife in their self-driving car when they lose control of it, and it crashes. When they get out, some people are there who kill his wife and paralyze him by shooting him in the neck. When Grey gets a chance to walk again, thanks to a brilliant scientist and STEM implants, everything goes wrong.
The simple way of describing Upgrade is by comparing it to Venom, where the STEM implant has a mind of its own, and when it takes control, Grey can do superhuman feats. However, what this STEM implant is, and why this is happening, is where the movie starts to spin into the deeper mysteries. It is a mind-bending film that is all explained in the end, but the road there is great fun.
