Passengers and more science-fiction love stories

By Jessica Wedemeyer 12:15am PST, Dec 19, 2016

In "Passengers," Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence star as Jim Preston and Aurora Lane, a mechanical engineer and a journalist who fall in love after they wake up from an induced hibernation 90 years before they're scheduled to arrive at their destination while traveling to a new planet aboard a starship. In honor of the film's debut on Dec. 21, 2016, Wonderwall.com is taking a look back at more of the sweetest and saddest love stories in sci-fi films…

In 2004's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet star as Joel and Clementine, who are drawn together but don't realize that they're former lovers who've had their memories of each other erased.

In 1980's "Somewhere in Time," the late Christopher Reeve stars as playwright Richard Collier, who travels back in time to meet actress Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour) after he falls in love with a photograph of her. If you can watch this film without your heart breaking in two, you're dead inside.

In 2016's "Deadpool," mercenary Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) abandons his fiancée, escort Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), after he is disfigured during an experimental medical procedure to cure his cancer — and becomes the anti-hero Deadpool. Wade and Vanessa's unconventional romance was one of our favorite love stories of the year!

In 2013's "Oblivion," Tom Cruise stars as Jack Harper, who's part of a two-person crew harvesting resources from Earth after humanity has relocated to Saturn. Not long after he starts dreaming about Olga Kurylenko's Julia Rusakova, the mystery woman falls out of the sky in a sleeping pod. Their strange connection has the power to affect the future of humanity in the sci-fi film.

Tom Cruise also headlined 2014's "Edge of Tomorrow" as cowardly public affairs officer Major William Cage, who's doomed to live the same day over and over again after aliens invade Earth. He learns to fight — and to love! — from Emily Blunt's war hero Sergeant Rita Vrataski.

The show-mance between Josh Hutcherson's Peeta Mellark and Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen eventually becomes a genuine romance in "The Hunger Games." Their relationship constantly shifts throughout the course of the four-film series — from competing tributes to partners off and on the battlefield.

In 2009's "Avatar," Sam Worthington stars as paraplegic former (human) Marine Jake Sully, who falls in love with Zoe Saldana's Neytiri while using an avatar in an attempt to befriend and learn about her people, the native Na'vi.

In the 2008 Disney film "WALL-E," the titular trash-collecting robot is Earth's sole inhabitant until a probe robot named EVE shows up to scan the planet to determine whether or not it's habitable.

The Oracle foretold that Carrie-Anne Moss's Trinity would fall in love with The One — and so she did, with Keanu Reeves' Neo — after freeing him from the titular computer-generated dream world that artificially intelligent machines built to control human beings so that they can be used as batteries in 1999's "The Matrix."

In 1984's "The Terminator," Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor falls for Michael Biehn's Kyle Reese, a soldier sent back in time to protect the waitress — who's destined to give birth to the leader of the human resistance after the artificial intelligence Skynet takes over Earth — from a deadly cyborg played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In 2011's "The Adjustment Bureau," a mysterious organization that controls the fate of mankind conspires to separate Matt Damon's politician David Norris and Emily Blunt's ballerina Elise Sellas. Despite their strong attraction to each other, The Bureau believes that it's in humanity's best interest that the duo remain apart — but the lovers won't give up on their budding romance without a fight!

In 2010's "Never Let Me Go," Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield star as clones who are created so that their organs can be harvested when they reach adulthood. During their childhood years, Carey's shy Kathy falls in love with Andrew's Tommy, who in turn is seduced by Keira's outgoing but insecure Ruth. It takes years — and accepting the reality of their fates — for the love triangle to work itself out.

In 2013's "Her," Joaquin Phoenix's lonely and introverted Theodore Twombly falls in love with an artificially intelligent operating system named Samantha (the voice of Scarlett Johansson) while struggling to get over his divorce from his childhood sweetheart.

The 2009 sci-fi love story "The Time Traveler's Wife" chronicles the relationship between Eric Bana's time-traveling Henry DeTamble, who's mostly unable to control his jumps through time, and his love, Rachel McAdams' Clare Abshire, as they encounter each other over the years.

Rachel McAdams also played the paramour of a man with the ability to travel through time in 2013's "About Time." She starred as Mary, who falls for Domhnall Gleeson's Tim Lake, who uses his power to jump back in time to places he's already been to successfully woo her.

Shailene Woodley's Tris falls for Theo James' Four after she defects to the Dauntless faction, where he serves as the transfer initiates' instructor, in 2014's "Divergent." Their love is so strong that Tris is able to break him free from a powerful mind-control serum.

In 2008's "The Incredible Hulk," Edward Norton stars as the titular nuclear physicist Bruce Banner. Liv Tyler portrays his ex-girlfriend, cellular biologist Betty Ross, whom Bruce is forced to abandon while learning how to control his transitions into The Hulk. Only Betty's love for Bruce can bring peace to the green monstrosity.

In 2006's "The Fountain," Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz star as three different sets of lovers throughout time and space: as Dr. Tom Creo, who's attempting to cure his wife Izzi's brain tumor with a sample of the Tree of Life, as conquistador Tomás Verde, who's searching for the Tree of Life for Queen Isabella of Spain, who has promised to marry him, and as the futuristic space traveler Tommy, who is venturing in a biosphere with the Tree of Life, which contains the spirit of his lover, whom he hopes will be reborn.

In 2012's "Upside Down," Jim Sturgess' Adam Kirk and Kirsten Dunst's Eden Moore are childhood friends and lovers from two planets with opposing gravities that orbit together — him from the poor Down Below and her from the wealthy Up Top. With the help of an anti-gravity invention, Adam is able to travel to Eden's home to win her heart.