The Future in the Past
by pictura@mail.dk | created - 07 Apr 2021 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicMovies in the past predicting the future. Sometimes by a specific year.
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1. Things to Come (1936)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Votes: 9,071
World War II and the bombing of London predicted only 4 years before 1940 in a 1936 film.
2. The Shining Future (1944)
20 min | Short, Music, Musical
Star-studded propaganda short aimed at persuading Canadians to buy Victory Bonds. A 1960 family looks back at 1944.
Director: LeRoy Prinz | Stars: Olive Blakeney, Jack Carson, Benny Goodman, Bing Crosby
Votes: 76
1960 predicted by a 1944 film.
3. Queen of Outer Space (1958)
Unrated | 80 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
American astronauts are drawn by a mysterious force to the planet Venus, which they find to be inhabited only by beautiful women and their despotic queen.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Dave Willock, Laurie Mitchell
Votes: 2,572
1985 predicted by a 1958 film.
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 719,875 | Gross: $56.95M
2001 predicted by a 1968 film.
5. 2010 (1984)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban
Votes: 57,291 | Gross: $40.20M
2010 predicted by a 1984 film.
6. Blade Runner (1982)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos
Votes: 823,402 | Gross: $32.87M
2019 predicted by a 1982 film.
7. The Name of the Game (1968–1971)
TV-PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Sandy, a young woman in the research dept of Howard Publications has wild romantic daydreams about her boss Glenn Howard that confuse her sense of reality, hampering Howard in an investigation.
Stars: Gene Barry, Susan Saint James, Robert Stack, Anthony Franciosa
Votes: 696
8. Way... Way Out (1966)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic world, the USA decides to send a married couple of astronauts to its moon base in order to prevent any improper contact with the Soviet female cosmonauts manning the USSR moon base.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Connie Stevens, Robert Morley, Dennis Weaver
Votes: 1,111
A 1966 sci-fi comedy depicting 1989.
9. Soylent Green (1973)
PG | 97 min | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors
Votes: 70,593 | Gross: $7.92M
Year 2022 depicted by a 1973 sci-fi thriller.
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