Human Cloning - Dramas

Learning to Love the Grey
Director: Nigel Levy
Country of origin and year: UK, 2001
Starring: Clive Carter, Virginia Clay
Leading scientist, Dr Edward Marsh, is an expert in the field of cloning. Reluctantly he agrees to help a young writer, Sarah Jones, who has been commissioned by his Medical School, to write a play to help the public's understanding of the subject. However, Sarah struggles because she has become troubled by the ethical issues of embryo research but at the same time is aware of the benefits that such research might yield. Sarah eventually realises she can no longer deny her own feelings about cloning and confronts Edward. Edward realises there are other things to take into consideration aside from the scientific benefits but now the challenge is to convince Sarah to give him a second chance.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367958/

Creator
Director: Ivan Passer
Country of origin and year: USA, 1985
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway and Vincent Spano
Dr. Harry Wolper is a lonely eccentric who has dedicated decades of research to cloning his long-dead wife Lucy from a culture of living tissue. He enlists the services of likeable Graduate assistant Boris. Then he hijacks new high-tech equipment for his own research. He mounts his search for a human egg donor by stapling notices to every telephone pole in town from his bike, which is how he meets Mili. As the year progresses, he sees Boris' romance follow the same pattern as his own, twenty-five years ago.
Internet Movie Database webpage:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088960/

Morella
Director: James Dudelson
Country of origin and year: USA, 1999
Starring: Lisa Blair, Lisa Darr and Nicholas Guest
Edgar Lynden is a prison hospital doctor who conducts some unauthorized and certainly unethical medical experiments in company with his ruthless paramour, Dr. Patricia Morella. He has a twisted relationship with her, which becomes macabre when, as she is comatose and dying from a rare degenerative disease, he implants an embryo cloned from her DNA into her womb. The embryo grows up to become Sarah Lynden, Dr. Morella's spitting image, who has psychic powers and an exaggerated form of her mother's ruthlessness. Eventually, her adoptive father realizes the extent of his errors.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119705/

Moon
Director: Duncan Jones
Country of origin and year: UK, 2009
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey and Dominique McElligot
Sam Bell is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. With only three weeks left in his three year contract, he is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. The long period of time alone however has resulted in him talking to himself for the most part, or to his plants. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he has been replaced by his clone who believes that he is himself. An identity crisis results for both individuals. They both also come to realize that their world is not what they thought it was.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/

A Number
Director: James MacDonald
Country of origin and year: UK, 2008
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Tom Wilkinson
Parents make mistakes. They mess up, and if they do it badly enough, their children bear the marks of their misjudgments. So imagine a scenario in which a parent is given a second chance to raise an initially beloved child, or at least to be given a genetic duplicate of the baby who was once so lovely and perfect. Driving the film's exploration of the moral, ethical and psychological implications of cloning is the mystery of how this particular cloning occurred - how and when it took place, how many clones exist, whether a lawsuit is feasible, and what the effects of having "a number" of genetic copies means to the men who share genetic material but are far from identical.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1010035/

Blueprint
Director: Rolf Schübel
Country of origin and year: Germany, 2003
Starring: Franka Potente, Hilmir Snær Guðnason and Ulrich Thomsen
When the world famous pianist and composer Iris Sellen was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she convinced the ambitious scientist Dr. Fischer to produce a clone of herself, her daughter Siri. When Siri finds out at the age of thirteen that she is her mother’s clone, her whole world falls apart and their relationship turns into an emotional struggle. They fight for the same man, compete with their musical careers, and nearly pay with their lives. In order to escape the disappointment of her own existence, Siri later moves to Canada where she lives a lonely life in the woods. But fate grants her the possibility of release from her self-imposed isolation when she meets Greg, a charming architect who brings love back into Siri’s life and even paves the way toward reconciliation between mother and daughter.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321473/

The 6th Day
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Country of origin and year: USA, 2000
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport and Tony Goldwyn
In the not-too-distant future when cloning plants, pets and human organs is accepted, a sinister corporation has begun illegally duplicating entire human beings. One night Adam Gibson, old-fashioned family man and decorated fighter pilot, comes home to find his perfect life has been stolen by his clone. Suddenly plunged into a sinister world of murder and corruption and high-tech deception, he is torn from his family as relentless assassins desperately try to kill him to bury the evidence.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216216/

Cloned
Director: Douglas Barr
Country of origin and year: USA, 1997
Starring: Elizabeth Perkins, Bradley Whitford, Scott Paulin
In the year 2008, a married couple is distraught over losing their 8 year old son in a boating accident. However, when the mother suddenly sees another child who looks identical to her dead child, she investigates the fertility clinic who aided her with her pregnancy and discovers that they cloned her child in an experiment dubbed "Baby 2000". She also discovers that they still have the genes to develop another child for them and faces the question of whether the couple wants another identical child.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126245/

Never Let Me Go
Director: Mark Romanek
Country of origin and year: UK, 2010
Starring: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield
Friends Kathy, Tommy and Ruth grow up together at a seemingly idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. When they leave the school, it is revealed them the truth of their purpose – they are clones destined to serve as organ donors. They must simultaneously confront deep-seated feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to tear their friendship asunder.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1334260/

The Boys from Brazil
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Country of origin and year: USA, 1978
Starring: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier and James Mason
This fast-paced thriller centers on a battle of wits between the "Angel of Death," Nazi-war-criminal Josef Mengele and his pursuer Ezra Lieberman. Ezra must foil Mengele's plot to clone Hitler to produce hundreds of genetically identical young men, and have them raised in environments similar to that of the young Hitler in an attempt to produce a new Fuhrer.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077269/

The Island
Director: Michael Bay
Country of origin and year: USA, 2005
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor and Djimon Hounsou
Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid 21st century. Like all of other inhabitants, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island" - reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers this is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones whose only purpose is to provide "spare parts" for their original human counterparts. Lincoln makes a daring escape with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta. Relentlessly pursued by the forces of the sinister institute that once housed them, Lincoln and Jordan engage in a race for their lives to literally meet their makers.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/

Blade Runner
Director: Ridley Scott
Country of origin and year: USA, 1982
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer
L.A. circa 2019 has become a pan-cultural dystopia of corporate advertising, pollution and flying automobiles, as well as replicants, human-like androids with short life spans built by the Tyrell Corporation for use in dangerous off-world colonization. Rick Deckard, a retired cop, was a talented blade runner, a euphemism for detectives that hunt down and assassinate rogue replicants. Called before his one-time superior, Deckard is forced back into active duty because a quartet of replicants led by Roy Batty has escaped and headed to Earth, killing several humans in the process. Deckard tracks Batty to sabotage his plans to murder the head of the Tyrell foundation and a bloody and violent final confrontation between Deckard and Batty takes place on a skyscraper rooftop high above the city.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/

Multiplicity
Director: Harold Ramis
Country of origin and year: USA, 1996
Starring: Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell and Zack Duhame
Doug Kinney is a man with too many tasks and not enough time to complete them, and when he feels too much pressure, his temper explodes with disastrous results. So when researcher Dr. Owen Leeds offers him a somewhat unusual remedy for his problem, he gives it a try. Soon, a fully grown clone of Doug is delivered, complete with his memories up to the time of its "birth." Being in two places at once offers some advantages, but problems arise when Doug #2 cannot handle the stress of overwork any better than the original. Perhaps Doug #2 could benefit from having his own helper. As versions of Doug multiply as do the complications. For instance, having more of him around doesn't make life simpler for Doug's wife Laura.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117108/

Godsend
Director: Nick Hamm
Country of origin and year: USA, 2004
Starring: Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn
Paul and Jessie Duncan are parents of Adam, their only child, who dies tragically. Dr. Richard Wells presents the couple with a Faustian bargain: even though the procedure is illegal, if they will agree to the terms, he will clone their son in his clinic, the Godsend Fertility Clinic. However, bizarre things start to happen several years after his rebirth.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335121/

Code 46
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Country of origin and year: UK, 2003
Starring: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton and Om Puri
Code 46 is set in a near-future where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have "papeles" a special travel permit issued by the totalitarian government, the "Sphinx". Outside these cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with people without IDs forced to live primitive lives. William, a government investigator, is sent to Shanghai to solve a case of fake IDs. There, he meets Maria. Although he realizes she is behind the forgeries, he cannot help but fall completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his visa: 24 hours...
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0345061/

The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
Director: Bob Wynn
Country of origin and year: USA, 1971
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Bradford Dillman and James Daly
When television newsman Harry Walsh sees a well-known U.S. Senator have a car accident, and he takes video coverage on the scene. However, when he arrives at the hospital to follow up on the story, he is told that no such person is, or ever was there. Since the senator is a presidential hopeful, this is a very important story, and Harry keeps at it. His TV station, which ran a report on the accident, retracts the story with an apology when the senator's office calls with the story that the senator is on a fishing trip. Harry does not believe it. In a parallel story, the senator wakes up in a hospital with all sorts of transplanted organs, etc., when he should simply be dead. He discovers that his survival is part of a worldwide medical blackmail scheme involving world political leaders.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067669/

The Clonus Horror
Director: Robert S. Fiveson
Country of origin and year: USA, 1979
Starring: Tim Donnelly, Paulette Breen and Dick Sargent
In this horror, Americans have not realized that their government is in cahoots with certain industrial and medical giants to clone the citizens and thereby create a society that is easily controlled. Richard, one of the clones slowly comes to believe that the normal human society is much better than the cloned version and starts a rebellion against the powerful forces in control.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078062/

Strange New World
Director: Robert Butler
Country of origin and year: USA, 1975
Starring: John Saxon, Kathleen Miller and Keene Curtis
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state after having spent nearly two centuries in suspended animation, and come back to an apocalyptic Earth inhabited by clones.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073754/

The Clones
Director: Lamar Card, Paul Hunt
Country of origin and year: USA, 1973
Starring: Michael Greene, Gregory Sierra and Otis Young
A scientist discovers a plot whereby one of his co-workers has been cloning the minds of geniuses in a nefarious attempt to control the world. With the help of a clone-chaser the scientist has a slim chance of saving the planet.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071336/

The Cloning of Joanna May
Director: Philip Saville
Country of origin and year: UK, 1992
Starring: Patricia Hodge, Brian Cox, Billie Whitelaw
Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They divorced after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then, Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she's fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that he has created young clones to replace her.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101594/

Dupe
Director: Chris Waitt
Country of origin and year: UK, 2005
Starring: Danielle Mcleod, Chris Waitt
Adam is a young man who works as a copying clerk. One day, he takes delivery of a very special copying machine. It seems to promise an end to all his problems, but in fact leads him into a very complex situation when he comes to face to face with himself in a very unusual way.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480529/

Clone (Original title: Womb)
Director: Benedek Fliegauf
Country of origin and year: Germany, Hungary, 2011
Starring: Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216520/
2010 Clone (aka Womb) see blog post https://bioethicsbytes.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/clone-2010-bringing-loved-ones-back-from-the-dead/

No Ordinary Baby (Original title: After Amy)
Director: Peter Werner
Country of origin and year:
Starring: Bridget Fonda, Mary Beth Hurt, Valerie Mahaffey
A reporter gets the scoop on the first baby cloned for an infertile couple, but the furor surrounding the event jeopardizes the baby's birth and the career of the doctor responsible for creating the clone.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289658/