List of movies based on Isaac Asimov stories

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1. A halhatatlansag halala A halhatatlansag halala (literal translation: The Death of Immortality) is a 1976 Hungarian made-for-TV movie based on the Isaac Asimov novel The End of Eternity. It is about an organisation of time travellers called 'The Eternity' who make subtle interventions in human history to minimise suffering. The organisation is troubled by a future time period (known as the hidden centuries) where for some unknown reason they can't travel to. The reachable time beyond those hidden centuries is devoid of human life.
2. The Ugly Little Boy The Ugly Little boy is a 1977 Canadian made-for-TV movie based on the Isaac Asimov short story of the same name (which was originally titled Lastborn). It is about a nurse who cares for Neanderthal child, after it was brought to the present day by a time travel experiment.
3. Konets vechnosti Konets vechnosti is a 1987 Russian movie based on the Isaac Asimov novel The End of Eternity.
4. Nightfall (1988) Nightfall is a 1988 American movie based on the 1941 short story of the same name by Isaac Asimov (which was later rewritten as a novel by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg in 1990). The story is set on a planet in an unusual (if not impossible) solar system with six suns, that keep the entire surface of the planet continuously illuminated. The people of that planet fear the dark, enough so that it can make them go mad. A group of scientists at a university make a series of related discoveries including the collapse of civilisations about every 2000 years, and an astronomical phenomena that is predicted to cause nightfall on their planet.
5. The Android Affair The Android Affair is an American made-for-TV movie released in 1995.
6. Bicentennial Man Bicentennial Man is a 1999 American film based on the 1992 novel The Positronic Man which was co-written by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg. The novel was based on the 1976 novella The Bicentennial Man which was written by Isaac Asimov. Its story spans two centuries and is about an android who was purchased to be a household servant.
7. Nightfall (2000) Nightfall is a straight-to-DVD American movie from 2000, and is the second film to be based on the Nightfall story.
8. I, Robot I, Robot is an American science fiction film that was released in 2004. Although it shares the same name as Isaac Asimov's compilation of nine interwoven short stories from 1950, the film is based loosely on a combination of elements of the short stories Little Lost Robot and Runaround (in particular the three laws of robotics), and also uses some of the character names.
9. Formula of Death Formula of Death is a 2012 Persian movie based on the Isaac Asimov novel of the same name. It is about a depressed university professor who discovers the dead body of his student in the lab.

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