Sci-Fi movies for slow mornings from the 80s and 90s. Includes Gattaca, Predator, Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn and more, curated by Moviepiq.
Slow mornings call for films that don't rush. These take their time.
Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.
Unhurried in the best way. Sits well with a second cup of coffee.
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Made to be watched without urgency. The morning pacing is built in.
Not paying attention to his job, a young demon allows the evil cleansing machine to overflow and explode, turning the young demon into the infamous monster Janemba. Goku and Vegeta make solo attempts to defeat the monster, but realize their only option is fusion.
Unhurried in the best way. Sits well with a second cup of coffee.
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home.
Made to be watched without urgency. The morning pacing is built in.
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
Made to be watched without urgency. The morning pacing is built in.
Slow-morning films are a specific pleasure. No urgency, no stakes. Just cinema and coffee.
The kind of film that makes a slow morning feel worthwhile.
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese.
Made to be watched without urgency. The morning pacing is built in.
Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making.
Unhurried in the best way. Sits well with a second cup of coffee.
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
Unhurried in the best way. Sits well with a second cup of coffee.
Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.
Made to be watched without urgency. The morning pacing is built in.
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
Unhurried in the best way. Sits well with a second cup of coffee.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.
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