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Explore imagined technology, futures and worlds beyond our own.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,369 films · Page 119.

Scorcher (2002)

Action, Adventure, action film, disaster film, science fiction film

Renegade soldier Colonel Ryan Beckett (Mark Dacascos) is called in by the President of the United States (Rutger Hauer) to save the planet from imminent destruction after a Chinese nuclear-testing accidentally loosens the subterranean plates and exposes the Earth's core, which threatens to bring "Hell on Earth" in just three days. Beckett assembles a crack team to deliver and detonate not one, but two nuclear bombs that must go off simultaneously in the only place on the planet in which they will do any good at stopping the movement of the plates—Los Angeles. The city is evacuated in a panic, but Beckett's teen daughter (Rayne Marcus) is…

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The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)

Fantasy, Komödie, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction film

The film begins in the celestial realms, with three superhuman entities – gods, or perhaps angels – regarding the planet Earth. Despairing of these "animals" that one of them continues to care about, the other two dare him to conduct an experiment to see if such lesser creatures can handle the kind of power over reality that might let them deserve to reach the stars. As the experiment's only limit, the Celestials will allow no control over a person's free will, as decreed by their master (possibly God).

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Droid (1988)

science fiction film

In Los Angeles in 2020, the crime rate is up 200%. The police are known as Eliminators, and they fight against the Droid Warriors of Azteca (Lorrie Lovett), who dresses in Nazi regalia. The Droid were created as servants, and Taylor has one, Rochester (played by Kevin James, in a very close approximation of Daniel's speech patterns).

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Doom Runners (1997)

children's film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

The story concerns a group of children in a post-apocalyptic world searching for the last unpolluted place on Earth, New Eden. However, the Doom Troopers (DTs), led by Dr. Kao (Tim Curry), want to get there first and will do anything to stop the children.

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Project Lazarus (2016)

science fiction film

A man with a terminal illness has his body frozen in cryostasis and becomes the first man to be resuscitated from cryonics seventy years later in the year 2084. His on-and-off-again girlfriend is by his side as he commits suicide in order to be cryopreserved. Being an accomplished artist with a design firm under his wing, he cannot stand the randomness of his throat cancer and decides to "go" under his own volition and control.

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White Dwarf (1995)

adventure film, coming-of-age film, fantasy film, science fiction film

In the year 3040, New York medical student Driscoll Rampart (Neal McDonough) arrives from Earth to the planet of Rusta for a six-month internship at the Light Side clinic run by Dr. Akada (Paul Winfield). Rampart's ambition is to eventually set up a private practice in Manhattan on Park Avenue.

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Beyond Loch Ness (2008)

Monster Film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film

James Murphy is a rugged cryptozoologist who, thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, was attacked by the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father and research assistants, and left James with a deep facial scar. Currently, James is hunting for Nessie when his search leads him to the sleepy town of Ashburn, on Lake Superior. He encounters Josh Riley, owner of a bait shop.

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Ghost Machine (2009)

Action, Sci-Fi, science fiction film

The film opens with a tied and hooded woman being taken to some sort of jail run by the British military. Nine years later, military technicians and video gamers; Tom and Vic perform a training exercise for several candidates for a special force. They smuggle their top secret, virtual warfare program into a disused prison (as seen before), to experiment with it using two of the candidates.

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Tooth & Nail (2007)

Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, slasher film

After an apocalypse, mankind has depleted all fossil fuel reserves, and civilization has collapsed. A group of survivors called "Foragers" take cover in an abandoned hospital where the group attempt to rebuild civilization. After saving a young girl from being murdered and eaten by a gang of cannibals called "Rovers", the Foragers find themselves on the run from the cannibals, who stalk the survivors and brutally kill them off one-by-one as the Foragers begin to fight back, causing a chaotic battle of blood and mayhem.

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Space Odyssey (2004)

docudrama, documentary film, science fiction

Part One At an unspecified point in the near future, five astronauts, commander Tom Kirby, engineer Yvan Grigorev, medic John Pearson, geologist Zoë Lessard, and exobiologist Nina Sulman depart Earth orbit on a mile-long nuclear-powered spaceship, Pegasus. Six weeks later, Pegasus arrives in orbit around their first destination, Venus, where Lessard and Grigorev pilot the lander Orpheus to the surface, where Grigorev conducts a short walk in a specially designed reinforced pressure suit while Lessard remains inside the lander. During the walk, Grigorev visits the nearby derelict Soviet lander Venera 14, which had arrived on Venus in 1982.

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Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse (2014)

Action, Sci-Fi, apocalyptic film, science fiction film

When archaeologists unearth a 2,000-year-old astrology carving in a Peruvian lead mine, global cataclysms start to destroy the globe: explosive meteor storms, tsunamis, lightning storms, lava geysers and giant waterspouts erupt everywhere, each disaster corresponding to a specific sign of the zodiac. While the artifact discovered in the dig falls into the wrong hands of a government agency that kills to hide the secret, a divorced university professor, his estranged son and two scientists race against time and carnage to decipher the symbols on the artifact as a prediction of the coming of Nibiru, a mythical ninth planet believed to bring…

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The Mind of Mr. Soames (1970)

Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film

John Soames is a thirty-year-old man who has been in a coma since a brain injury during birth. After an operation and now revived, he shows the behaviour of an infant and is monitored by two doctors attempting to find out if he can be rehabilitated into the adult world. During all this time, John has met no women, nor had any schooling in morality.

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The Big Bang (1987)

dystopian film, science fiction comedy

In 1995, World War III begins by accident when a hitman uses an miniature nuclear weapon in a hit which destroys Sicily; Italy mistakes the blast for nuclear terrorism and annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg bombs England.

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World Gone Wild (1988)

Action, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film

In the nuclear-ravaged wasteland of Earth in the year 2087, rain has not fallen for fifty years and water is as precious as life itself. The isolated town of Lost Wells, an outpost that survived the holocaust, is led by Ethan, a Moses-like guru and the last schoolteacher on the planet, Angie. The inhabitants of the town guard the secret of their existence and source of their water from the outside world.

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UFOria (1985)

Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, science fiction film

Sheldon Bart is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud Sanders, a big-time con man into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small town. Bud has developed a real ability to heal, although he has no idea how this has happened.

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The Shadow Men (1997)

science fiction film

A married couple, Bob and Dez Wilson, and their 12-year-old son Andy are being accosted by a blinding light when driving home from a daytrip. They wake up a couple of hours later seemingly unscathed but soon experience recurring nightmares. It seems that they have been abducted by aliens, as is later proved by their son's Andy's handycam that had suddenly started running right after the incident.

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Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)

post-apocalyptic film

On a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains in central California, Steven Anders and his two teenage children, Deborah and David, are exploring a cave when they experience an earthquake. After emerging, they hear from a ranch-hand who was outside that there was a bright solar flash prior to the earthquake. He soon falls ill and dies, whereupon his body turns to a powdery substance.

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Advantageous (2015)

Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film

Set in the near future, Gwen sells cosmetic procedures for the Center for Advanced Health and Living. Despite her relatively affluent position, she has difficulty sustaining a lifestyle that will ensure her daughter, Jules, a solid education and future. When she is abruptly fired from her job, Gwen's optimism quickly dissolves as she realizes that the only offer she has for employment is an egg donor position, due to women rapidly becoming infertile.

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The Happiness Cage (1972)

Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film

After an altercation at a party given by his girlfriend, U.S. Army private James Reese is arrested for assault. Reese comes to the attention of Major, the head of Army program attempting to help those with terminal illnesses deal with their pain via a brain implant.

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Locusts - The 8th Plague (2005)

Action, Animalhorror, Drama, horror film, science fiction film

The film starts in a genetics laboratory 15 miles outside Prairie, Idaho. Inside the laboratory, Gary Wolf (David Keith) and Russ Snow (Jeff Fahey) have made a completely new species of locust that is genetically engineered to eat insects that destroy crops. In the main room in the crop dome, Russ releases the locusts into a crop field filled with insects for one minute, luring them back into the main holding pen using a strong pheromone lure.

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The Infinite Man (2014)

science fiction film

Dean, an inventor, plans a special weekend getaway at a hotel to celebrate his anniversary with his girlfriend Lana. However, the romantic weekend is interrupted when Lana's ex-boyfriend Terry unexpectedly shows up. After a disastrous confrontation, Lana leaves.

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