Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (1972)

A movie after a book by the acclaimed Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem, and a juwel of artistic cinema. You may wonder how any one could ever have the atrocious nerve to re-do it! Yes, you didn’t count on Hollywood, they indeed thought of it in 2002, but there’s not a cinematgropher alive in Hollywood who can approach this brilliantly construed movie.