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2001: A Space Odyssey

1968 · TMDB 8.0

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

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Kubrick's cosmic epic, where a bone tossed into the air becomes a spacecraft, and a sunrise over a monolith marks the next step in human evolution.

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