Our New Year's tradition is to watch a movie set in the new year. Here is a list of movies set in 2020.

Annihilation Earth (2009) 3.2/10 (US)

Two scientists must save the planet when terrorists destroy a supercollider.

• Written by Rafael Jordan
• Directed by Nick Lyon
• Starring Luke Goss, Marina Sirtis, Colin Salmon
• Theme music composer Claude Foisy

Black Butler (2014) 6.2/10 (JPN)

After her supposed death, a young woman returns as the son of her noble family to precede the family's prestigious company, with a demon at her side to avenge her parent's murder.

• Directed by Kentarō Ōtani & Keiichi Satō
• Produced by Shinzo Matsuhashi
• Written by Tsutomu Kuroiwa
• Based on Black Butler by Yana Toboso
• Starring Hiro Mizushima

Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019) 7.0/10 (UK)

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

• Based on All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class by Tim Shipman & Unleashing Demons: The Inside Story of Brexit by Craig Oliver
• Directed by Toby Haynes
• Starring Benedict Cumberbatch et al

Code Name Phoenix (2000) 4.6/10 (US)

A Hong Kong martial artist joins forces with a U.S. marshal in 2020 to stop the release of a virus that halts the aging process.

• Directed by Jeff Freilich

Domino (2019) 4.4/10 (US)

A Copenhagen police officer seeks justice for his partner's murder by a mysterious man.

• Directed by Brian De Palma
• Produced by Michel Schønnemann
• Written by Petter Skavlan
• Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten, Guy Pearce

Droid (1988) (US)

just read the wiki. this one might be my top choice.

• Directed by Peter Williams aka Philip O'Toole
• Produced by Nacada O'Toole & Christopher Saint Booth
• Written by Nacada O'Toole & Christopher Saint Booth
• Starring Greg Derek, Krista Lane, Steven Densmore, Kevin James, Kristara Barrington, Herschel Savage

Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 7.9/10 (US)

A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

• Directed by Doug Liman
• Produced by Erwin Stoff, Tom Lassally, Jeffrey Silver, Gregory Jacobs, Jason Hoffs
• Screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth
• Based on All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
• Starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson

Future X-Cop (2010) 3.4/10 (HK)

A cop travels back in time to take on a corporation that's out to eliminate a doctor who has created a new technology which can break up the monopoly on a energy resources.

• Directed by Wong Jing
• Produced by Venus Keung
• Written by Wong Jing
• Starring Andy Lau, Barbie Shu, Fan Bingbing, Xu Jiao, Ma Jingwu, Mike He

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) 6.3/10 (US)

Count Dracula and company participate in a cruise for sea-loving monsters, unaware that their boat is being commandeered by the monster-hating Van Helsing family.

• Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
• Produced by Michelle Murdocca
• Written by Genndy Tartakovsky, Michael McCullers
• Based on Characters by Todd Durham
• Starring Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Keegan-Michael Key, Molly Shannon, Fran Drescher, Kathryn Hahn, Jim Gaffigan, Mel Brooks

In Search of Fellini (2017) 6.2/10 (US)

A shy small-town Ohio girl who loves movies but dislikes reality, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of Federico Fellini, and sets off on a strange, beautiful journey across Italy to find him.

• Directed by Taron Lexton
• Produced by Michael Doven, Milena Ferreira, Monica Gil
• Screenplay by Nancy Cartwright, Peter Kjenaas
• Starring Ksenia Solo, Maria Bello, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Jil Jung Juk (2016) 6.8/10 (IN)

In 2020, three guys get into trouble, while smuggling cocaine.

• Directed by Deeraj Vaidy
• Produced by Siddharth
• Written by Deeraj Vaidy & Mohan Ramakrishnan
• Starring Siddharth, Avinash Raghudevan, Sananth Reddy
• Narrated by Siddharth

Mission to Mars (2000) 5.7/10 (US)

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

• Directed by Brian De Palma
• Produced by Tom Jacobson
• Screenplay by Jim Thomas, John Thomas, Graham Yost
• Story by Lowell Cannon, Jim Thomas, John Thomas
• Starring Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell, Kim Delaney, Tim Robbins

Napping Princess (2017) 6.3/10 (JPN)

In the near future, a high school senior discovers that events in her waking life begin to parallel events in her dreams.

• Directed by Kenji Kamiyama
• Produced by Naoki Iwasa & Yoshiki Sakurai
• Screenplay by Kenji Kamiyama
• Starring Mitsuki Takahata, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Tomoya Maeno, Rie Kugimiya, Arata Furuta, Hideki Takahashi, Yōsuke Eguchi

Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys (2004) 6.1/10 (JPN)

A comet bearing a deadly Pokemon creature crash-lands onto Earth, terrorising a nearby high-tech city, where Ash, Pikachu and friends are currently visiting...

• Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama
• Produced by Choji Yoshikawa, Junya Okamoto, Takemoto Mori, Tukako Matsusako
• Screenplay by Hideki Sonoda
• Based on Pokémon by Satoshi Tajiri, Junichi Masuda, Ken Sugimori

A Quiet Place (2018) 7.5/10 (US)

In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.

• Directed by John Krasinski
• Produced by Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller
• Screenplay by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, John Krasinski
• Story by Bryan Woods & Scott Beck
• Starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe

Real Steel (2011) 7.1/10 (US)

In the near future, robot boxing is a top sport. A struggling ex-boxer feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot.

• Directed by Shawn Levy
• Produced by Shawn Levy, Susan Montford, Don Murphy
• Screenplay by John Gatins
• Story by Dan Gilroy & Jeremy Leven
• Based on Steel by Richard Matheson
• Starring Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand

Reign of Fire (2002) 6.2/10 (US)

A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.

• Directed by Rob Bowman
• Produced by Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Dean Zanuck
• Screenplay by Matt Greenberg, Gregg Chabot, Kevin Peterka
• Story by Gregg Chabot & Kevin Peterka
• Starring Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler

Stranded (2001) 5.4/10 (ES)

1st Mars mission crash lands, kills the captain and 5 survive. Help from Earth will take 2+ years. Food and electricity (recycling oxygen and water) shortage means only 2 can survive. The other 3 leave and have their last hours recorded.

• Directed by María Lidón
• Produced by José Magán
• Written by Juan Miguel Aguilera
• Starring Vincent Gallo, Maria de Medeiros, Joaquim de Almeida, Maria Lidón, Daniel Aser, Johnny Ramone, José Sancho, Paul Gibert

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) 6.5/10 (US)

An augmented human and Sarah Connor must stop an advanced liquid Terminator, from hunting down a young girl, whose fate is critical to the human race.

• Directed by Tim Miller
• Produced by James Cameron & David Ellison
• Screenplay by David Goyer, Justin Rhodes, Billy Ray
• Story by James Cameron, Charles H. Eglee, Josh Friedman, David Goyer, Justin Rhodes
• Based on Characters by James Cameron & Gale Anne Hurd
• Starring Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, Diego Boneta

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) 3.8/10 (USSR/US)

In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7 [...].

At least watch the trailer for this one.

• Directed by Pavel Klushantsev & Curtis Harrington
• Produced by George Edwards, Roger Corman, Stephanie Rothman
• Written by Aleksandr Kazantsev & Curtis Harrington
• Starring Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgiy Zhzhonov, Gennadi Vernov, Georgiy Teich, Yuri Sarantsev

Yesterday (2002) 5.0/10 (KR)

1990, A number of children suddenly disappear. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense selects an elite group of scientists for a top-secret mission. Then, 30 years later, the year is 2020 on a reunified Korean Peninsula [...]

• Directed by Chong Yun-su
• Produced by Ahn Byoung-ju
• Written by Chong Yun-su
• Starring Kim Seung-woo, Yunjin Kim, Choi Min-soo, Kim Sun-a

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