Over time, A24 has become a household name synonymous with distinctly tasteful cinema. The then indie studio has now become a big time player within the echelons of the power circles of Hollywood, after consolidating its position as a worthy contender, with Academy Award-winning films like Moonlight and Minari. Despite being known for its auteur-based approach towards indie films, A24 has a wide filmography, with many of the titles being in the science fiction genre. Here are some of the best Sci-Fi films from A24, that will leave you speechless.

10 Causeway (2022)

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A24 / IAC Films / Excellent Cadaver

Lila Neugebauer’s Causeway depicts the tragic life of a US soldier, Lynsey (Jennifer Lawrence) who suffers from a traumatic brain injury while serving in Afghanistan. Once Lynsey in sent back home to New Orleans, she finds it hard to get on with life, quietly yearning for redeployment. Causeway intricately fuses slice-of-life and science fiction, to give a new meaning to human interaction and the effect technology has on our daily lives.

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9 It Comes At Night (2017)

It Comes At Night (2017)
A24

Faced with an apocalyptic threat, a family finds a safe haven inside a desolate home. This familial harmony is ruptured with the arrival of another family, as they are forced to share a limited supply of resources, set against a backdrop of the world's end.

8 Under The Skin (2013)

Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin
A24

Under The Skin works as an amalgamation of a road movie, mixed with a healthy dose of science fiction. The plot sees a mysterious alien (Scarlett Johansson), disguised as a beautiful woman that targets young men by inviting them into her van, and eventually sending them into another dimension where they are brutally consumed. Under The Skin is a bleakly scary watch, that will terrify you while simultaneously posing pertinent, existential questions.

7 White Noise (2022)

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A24

Directed by Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story, Frances Ha), White Noise is a satirical take on the morality of a man faced that is tasked with facing the consequences of a life-taking event. The plot follows Jack Gladney (Adam Driver), a professor of Hitler studies, and his conundrum pertaining to a chemical spill from a rail car that releases an airborne toxin into the environment, which might force Gladney to evacuate with his eccentric family. White Noise makes for a lighthearted comedy, blended with a dash of sci-fi, garnished with Adam Driver’s endearing charm.

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6 After Yang (2021)

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Showtime / A24

When Jake’s daughter’s android companion, Yang, malfunctions, Jake sets out to get the robot repaired. In the process, he realizes the other areas of his life that need attention as well. What starts off as a sci-fi world, slowly orbits around a world proceeded by human intervention and human emotion. After Yang is based on a Japanese story that oozes traditional family values, with the addition of android technology, giving the film a new, sci-fi body with an old school heart.

5 Men (2022)

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A24

From the mind of Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), comes Men, a terrifying tale of horror garbed within the parameters of Sci-fi. Similar to After Yang, Men, has the bodily structure of a horror film but layered with a thick coat of sci-fiction on top of it. The film’s plot revolves around a woman named Harper who retreats to the British countryside in order to deal with a personal tragedy. Soon Harper's modest sense of paranoia blossoms into full-blown nightmares, spinning her world into a spiral of madness.

4 The Killing of A Sacred Deer (2017)

Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan sit at a table in The Killing of a Sacred Deer
A24

The interesting part about Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of A Sacred Deer is that the film changes meaning when glanced at from different angles, reminiscent of a kaleidoscope. When viewed with one angle, the film can be placed as a revenge drama; another angle could position it as a horror film with unknown motives and elements. Whatever the inner lifeblood of the film, what stays constant is the cool and pristinely cold, scientific world the film is wrapped in.

3 Ex Machina (2014)

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A24

Ex Machina is one of the best rogue AI films ever. Alex Garland leverages human emotion to lay the cornerstone of the film. The film follows a young coder who’s invited to a retreat with his company's CEO, where he gets a chance to interact with a highly advanced artificial robot, housed in the body of a beautiful woman. The young coder gets mesmerized by the robot, crossing a few deadly boundaries from which there's no going back. In Ex Machina, Garland wonderfully juxtaposes the similarities and differences AI shares with its maker.

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2 The Lobster (2015)

Colin Farrell in The Lobster
A24

Another Yorgos Lanthimos masterpiece on the list is The Lobster. The film has a dystopian vibe to it and is set somewhere in the near future, where single people are sent to a hotel where they have to find a partner within 45 days, or be turned into an animal of their choice. The film has moments of extreme hilarity while also having brutally darker shades of bitterness.

1 Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once
A24

Arguably one of the best films to have come out of the USA, let alone A24, is the Daniels' Everything Everywhere All At Once. As the title suggests, the film is a rollercoaster ride stopping at metaphysical level explanations of different worlds inhabited by different personalities of the same person. Many consider the film to be a masterpiece in all things wacky and absurd, taking the viewer into a free-falling journey across many dimensions.