12 Recent Sci-Fi Movies That Are Future Classics

10. The Platform

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Netflix

This gloriously gory - and gruesomely literal - slice of Spanish dystopia picked up the People's Choice Award for Midnight Madness at last year's Toronto International Film Festival and has already built up something of a cult reputation with genre fans since its release on Netflix in March.

Crafting a sci-fi chiller where the titular surface descends through a multi-tiered prison carrying food, it's got no shortage of allegorical power to match its grisly exploits, which debutant Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia orchestrates with nasty effectiveness. This one deserves to stick in the mind.

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