The Thirteenth Floor (1999) / World on a Wire (1973) (Way better if you speak German or can deal with subtitles) - both based off a book called Simulacron-3.

Anime:
Paprika (2006) - Inception but in anime
Megazone 23 (1989) 1&2

qk4-li3 To me "proper" Sci-Fi is earth- and human- centric. Space fantasies and UFOs and E.T.s are different thing.

disagree completely. I think anything not worldly, and clearly not (but sometimes can be) horror is sci-fi. How could Alien not be sci-fi? But Tremors can be ('human-centric')?

your source is even title dis 'definitions' with a plural for a reason🙂.

Brazil is dystopian future movie based real loosely on Orweil's masterpiece) and we both agree it belongs squarely in Sci-Fi as most of the brilliant mind of Gilliam's does. We could parse semantics all day, but I respect your commitment to the definition, and your unique take. I don't believe there can be true right or wrong anyway.
If it's a day that ends with a Y I am wrong about something!

      ender I'm going to give this a try because I love the time-travel sub-genre. Some is unplausible crap (butterfy effect) and some really is plausible.

      Speaking of the brilliant mind of T. Gilliam, I thought his 12 Monkey's was the greatest time travel movie ever made because 1) it was sensible and 2) a large degree of human error was built into it as it didn't pretend to be precise in any way. Sometimes you aim for 1917 and end up in the 40's.
      --I look forward to seeing Time Lapse on your rec.

          brent Cool comment.
          Not familiar with Tremors. But Alien as sci-fi film is a bit of a stretch, ha! smileyface, how do I manage to add smileyface here? 🇦 🇧 🇨 🇩 🇪 🇫 🇬

              qk4-li3 cool movie and definition.
              where would you classify all the spacecraft/ufo movies anyway. Fantasy or something similar?

                  brent "Space opera" (as like soap opera): Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica etc. "spacecraft" films. Could be also something like"Science- Fantasy". Includes some magical thinking: "May the force be with you" or whatnot, not very science based. Something like that.

                      qk4-li3 To me, SciFi is speculative fiction, and may contain any other genre.

                        elfprince I haven't watched the new Dune II yet

                        I haven't even watched the new Dune I yet, so I second that motion. Are these available only on YouTube?

                        Ahh ... I looked. Apparently just the trailers. So, theaters only at this point?

                            elfprince Dune I is on Netflix and Prime I believe.

                            I'll just be patient for now. I checked Prime, and no joy. And I dumped Netfliix after their last price increase, because I seldom used it. Down to just 7 streaming services now. I've got a feeling that sooner or later, Disney will buy the series, and I've got that covered.

                              Dune (1984) is on Amazon Prime as well. The Blue Ray is dirt cheap as well.

                              I saw Part 2 on the weekend. Good but diverting too far from canon for me.

                              IMHO the best was the miniseries Dune (2000) and Children of Dune (2003). I think it was Sci-fi channel. Fortunately I recorded it at the time and subsequently ripped it to DVD. I've never seen it on a streaming service but I think it is available on DVD &/or Blu Ray.

                              edit. Maybe not on US Prime?

                              brent 12 Monkey's is one of my favorites as well, but take a look at La Jetee (1962) which inspired it. Pretty cool movie.

                                  riffer heard all about it as the original touchstone source and had always been on my 'to find' list. I knew that meant 'the runway' and all the b. willis stuff beginning/end was centered on that moment.