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 | Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) (2001)
Recommender: Paul Li
A possible glimpse of the future on how far technology can go and how it change the way we live if machines can really "think."
Buy It Now! |  | Awakenings (1990)
Recommender: Heather Ferrante
Starring Robert Dinero an Robin Williams. It's the story of a man who wakes up after being in a vegetative state for years. It turns out that he wasn't really vegetative like everyone ha thought. Now he wants to see the world outside of he mental institution he's been kept in before the effect of the new medicine wears off and he slips back into a vegetative state. (I'm bad at explaining movies, but it's a classic and a must see!)
Buy It Now! |  | Das Experiment (2002)
Recommender: Keyvan Rahmatian
Must For: Psych fans
Based on a Stanfurd psychology experiment gone terribly wrong!
Buy It Now! |  | Flatliners (1990)
Recommender: Katharine Clark
Must For: Those stuck in the chinese room!
What if you could stop your heart to simulate a temporary death, and then be revived so you could describe your near-death experience to others? The mysteries of life--and the afterlife--compel five medical students (Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt) to experiment with their own mortality, and what they discover has unsettling psychological implications.
Buy It Now! |  | Identity (2003)
Recommender: Bryan Kennedy
Must For: Anyone who doesn't mind a slightly cheesy horror film
With an ace up its sleeve, Identity does for schizophrenia what The Silence of the Lambs did for fava beans and a nice chianti. On the proverbial dark and stormy night, this anxiety-laced thriller offers a tasty blend of And Then There Were None and Psycho, with a dash of Sybil for extra spice and psychosis. Things go from bad to worse when 10 unrelated travelers converge at an isolated motel and proceed to die, one by one, with no apparent connection... until they discover the common detail that's drawn them into this psychological nightmare of relentless trauma.
Buy It Now! |  | Memento (2000)
Recommender: Bryan Kennedy
Must For: Anyone who is interested in memory (anterograde).
Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator, who's memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's murder. His quality of life has been severely hampered after this event, and he can now only live a comprehendable life by tattooing notes on himself, and taking pictures of things with a Polaroid camera. The movie is told in forward flashes of events that are to come that compensate for his unreliable memory, during which he has liaisons with various complex characters. Leonard badly wants revenge for his wife's murder, but, as numourous characters explain, there may be little point if he won't remember it in order to provide a satisfying feel to him. The movie veers between these future occurrences, and a telephone conversation Leonard is having in his motel room, in which he compares his current state to that of a client whose claim he once dealt with.
Buy It Now! |  | Minority Report (2002)
Recommender: Paul Li
Must For: Sci-Fi Buffs
Buy It Now! |  | Pi (1998)
Recommender: Bryan Kennedy
Patterns exist everywhere: in nature, in science, in religion, in business. Max Cohen (played hauntingly by Sean Gullette) is a mathematician searching for these patterns in everything. Yet, he's not the only one, and everyone from Wall Street investors, looking to break the market, to Hasidic Jews, searching for the 216-digit number that reveals the true name of God, are trying to get their hands on Max. This dark, low-budget film was shot in black and white by director Darren Aronofsky. With eerie music, voice-overs, and overt symbolism enhancing the somber mood, Aronofsky has created a disturbing look at the world. Max is deeply paranoid, holed up in his apartment with his computer Euclid, obsessively studying chaos theory. Blinding headaches and hallucinogenic visions only feed his paranoia as he attempts to remain aloof from the world, venturing out only to meet his mentor, Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), who for some mysterious reason feels Max should take a break from his research. This movie is complex--occasionally too complex--but the psychological drama and the loose sci-fi elements make this a worthwhile, albeit consuming, watch. Pi won the Director's Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival.
Buy It Now! |  | Scanners (1981)
Recommender: Paul Li
Must For: Sci-Fi Buffs
A nice movie about the result of a drug test that goes a wrong and its aftermath.
It touches on the intolerance of human beings for anything different.
You could say this was the precursor to the "x-men franchise" but it's more serious
and more memorable.
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