Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now

‘Still Time’

Stream it on Netflix.

Dante (Edoardo Leo) works in insurance. Or rather, he overworks in insurance. His life is spent rushing around and juggling responsibilities, and so he is always running late, much to the frustration of his artist girlfriend, Alice (Barbara Ronchi). Until the morning following a birthday, when Dante wakes up to the realization that an entire year has gone by while he was asleep — mind you, everybody else experienced it normally. Another day goes by, and another year that has elapsed for him. In what feels like just a few (subjective) hours, Alice is pregnant, then the couple have a baby, who just as quickly turns into a toddler, and into a little girl. One day Dante’s a grunt at his company, the next he is the boss, and so on. To his horror, he is living his life in fast-forward.

An Italian remake of the 2021 Australian film “Long Story Short” (which stars Rafe Spall and is also on Netflix), Alessandro Aronadio’s comedy skips cumbersome logistics — the script does not bear close scrutiny — to essentially focus on Dante’s powerlessness as his life passes him by. The message to slow down and smell the roses is fairly obvious, but that does not make “Still Time” any less fun.

‘Re/Member’

Stream it on Netflix.