Interstellar

Earth is dying of blight, and a former pilot leaves his children to fly through a wormhole looking for somewhere else to put humanity. What it is actually about is the cost of that decision — the film's most brutal scene is not a black hole, it is a man watching twenty years of messages from children who grew up without him.

Nolan brought in physicist Kip Thorne, and the rendering of the black hole Gargantua was accurate enough that the work behind it was published as a physics paper. The time dilation is real physics rather than a plot device: one hour near the water planet costs seven years back home, and the film makes you feel the arithmetic.

Hans Zimmer's score is built around a church organ, which is a strange choice for science fiction and the reason the film sounds like nothing else.