Aliens aren't all these heroes have to contend with. Check out these films with women at the forefront.
Aliens aren't all these heroes have to contend with. Check out these films with women at the forefront.
What to Watch: Sci-Fi Movies Led by Women
ByDavid RenardDec. 21, 2020
5 Sci-Fi Movies Led by Women
5 Sci-Fi Movies Led by Women
Wrecked spaceships, difficult crewmates and aliens (friendly or hungry) are just some of the things these heroes have to contend with.
Check out these five science-fiction films with women at the forefront→
5 Sci-Fi Movies Led by Women
Arrival (2016)
Amy Adams plays a linguist sent in as a translator for all of humanity in this cerebral movie by Denis Villenueve (“Blade Runner 2049,” “Dune”).
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5 Sci-Fi Movies Led by Women
Contact (1997)
Starring Jodie Foster and based on a book by Carl Sagan, this film “presents one long chain of teasingly open-ended questions” about the universe, The Times’s Stephen Holden wrote.
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5 Sci-Fi Movies Led by Women
Gravity (2013)
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney fight to survive in Alfonso Cuarón’s space thriller. It might lose a bit in 2-D, but at least you can skip the glasses.
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5 Sci-Fi Movies Led by Women
Alien (1979)
Sigourney Weaver observes the extraterrestrial life cycle (from egg to face hugger to vicious toddler to adult) inside a haunted house of a spaceship.
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5 Sci-Fi Movies Led by Women
Annihilation (2018)
This movie, based on Jeff VanderMeer’s eco-dystopian novel, sends Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez and Tuva Novotny into an alien mystery zone.
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