The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything (1980)
comedy film, science fiction film
Kirby Winter is an easy-going man who meets a free-spirited brunette named Bonny and inherits from his millionaire uncle a gold watch that has the power to stop time.
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comedy film, science fiction film
Kirby Winter is an easy-going man who meets a free-spirited brunette named Bonny and inherits from his millionaire uncle a gold watch that has the power to stop time.
Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film
Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
On a fog-bound moonlight night, a wolf howls in a swamp. In his nearby laboratory, Dr. Lorenzo Cameron draws blood from a caged wolf.
Adventure, Horror, horror film, science fiction film
Deep in the Latin American jungles, plantation manager Barney Chavez kills his elderly employer, who is married to the beautiful Dina Van Gelder. Old native witch Al-Long witnesses the murder and places a curse on Barney, who transforms into a rampaging gorilla-like beast each night. Superstitious police commissioner Taro investigates the plantation owner's death and a rash of strange animal killings.
Action, science fiction action film
In 2019, former Indonesian Marine soldier and journalist Angga Saputra proposes to his girlfriend and fellow journalist Sari Nirmala moments before she leaves for Solo to interview the newly democratically elected president, Indra. The same day, a revolution led by PIRANAS breaks out and she and the elected president are declared missing. 11 years later, Angga has become a PIRANAS cadre and now is a congressman of the party.
Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
On the day of Alice Wentworth's wedding, mad scientist Dr. Lorenz sends the young bride an unusual orchid, the scent of which places the young woman in a state of suspended animation resembling death. He then spirits her body away to the basement laboratory of his isolated mansion and extracts glandular fluid from behind her ears to inject into his vain and aged wife in order to renew her youth and beauty, as well as to save her from a slow and painful death.
Action, Aliens, Horror, alien invasion, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Just as the local grocery store is about to close, a group of six armed, masked people enter the building. They take the staff and remaining customers hostage and immediately shoot down one of the employees. One of the masked men named Spooky is then told to check whether "he" is among the hostages.
Action, Buddy Cop, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 2045, Los Angeles Police Department detective Hammond (Michael Jai White) and his new partner "Andy" (Randy Wayne) — a state of the art crimefighting robot cop — are tasked with recovering a runaway Telepresence android containing the consciousness of Mayor Jacobs's (Charles S. Dutton) daughter Helen (Larissa Vereza), who remains unaware that she is a human mind in a machine body. Hammond does not trust machines due to a prior incident in which his partner was killed by an automated gun turret despite their using a code to control it, and maintains a tense, often sarcastic relationship with Andy.
Horror, exploitation film, horror film, science fiction film
In an atomic-powered laboratory beneath the mansion of the elderly, unpleasant, and very rich Mrs. Hettie March, Dr. Otto Frank is experimenting with brain transplantation.
Thriller, science fiction film
A group of students attempt to create a wireless neural network of collective consciousness connected through a quantum computer. They discover that motor skills can be transferred through quantum theory and freely spread their technology, which they believe is a step towards intellectual freedom. The group later discovers they are a part of a larger, more sinister experiment.
Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, family film, science fiction film, thriller film
The movie begins with a bunch of newscasters talking about the many accomplishments of genius Atticus Virtue before switching to high school student Max Winslow. Max lives with her mother and brother, her dad having left when she was five years old. Max is socially awkward and spends most of her time on computers and never connecting with people in real life.
Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, science fiction film
Pre-med college student Mark Chrisman (William Ragsdale) finds out that his recently deceased mentor Professor Lippzigger (Robert V. Barron) had discovered and retained Victor von Frankenstein's monster. Chrisman, and his more dubious roommate Jay Butterman (Christopher Daniel Barnes), decide to revive the monster.
Drama
The story centers on Matt Ellman, a war reporter, and his beloved Jessie, as they embark on a trip to Singapore, with Matt intending to propose marriage. Tragically, their lives are cut short in a devastating terrorist attack carried out by a suicide bomber. Their journey, however, does not end with death.
action film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Christmas film, science fiction film
thumb|left|A scene from the film. Three aliens from an unknown planet, a Biblical Magi allusion, visit Earth to know the true meaning of Christmas. Peter, a young boy, and Lucy, his goose, are the first to encounter them.
Action, Sci-Fi
In 2047, more than 75% of the population, known as the Connected, spend the majority of their lives living in online virtual games (called verses). The world is dominated by a few corporations, and politicians are happy to keep the masses docile through online games. After 148 gamers are killed in a computer virus attack perpetrated by terrorist group Necromancers, Synternis Corporation operative Dina hires shadow agent Nash to track and eliminate the attackers.
monster film, science fiction comedy
The film opens with a parody credit of “R.I. Diculous Presents". Private Philbrick and Private Penn are stuck in monotonous assignments at Fort Nicholson, a U.S.
science fiction film
The film follows the story of Thomas Mathews, a well-known and award-winning reporter who suffers a big impact with the disappearance of his son. A year later, Thomas has not discovered anything about the kidnapping and remains obsessed with it to the point of being about to lose his home and his job. In order to help him, his boss offers a special project, in which the journalist must investigate cases of UFO sightings, close encounters of the first, second and third kind and even abductions.
Sci-Fi, Thriller, disaster film
On August 23, 1992, Air Force General James Roberts leads a top-secret weather experiment off the coast of Florida. They use a cargo plane to launch a generator into the developing storm to enhance its power. The plane is destroyed by a lightning strike and the storm develops into hurricane Andrew which devastates Miami.
science fiction
In July 1969, 90-year-old Julius Bedford (Rory Kinnear) tells young Jim (Alex Riddell) the story of two men who made the first journey to the Moon in 1909. He relates that when he was a young man, he met Professor Arthur Cavor (Mark Gatiss) at Apuldram. Cavor had invented "Cavorite", a substance that blocked the force of gravity.
fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film
Kate Lethbridge-Stewart responds to a message from ex-UNIT operative Douglas Cavendish to investigate a haunting. Arriving at Cavendish's isolated cottage, she faces a demonic power her father had previously battled. Summoned by a future tyranny, a Dæmon is set to return to Earth.
Animalhorror, Sci-Fi, horror film
When two young boys are savagely attacked and killed by a legion of rattlesnakes in a small California desert town, the local sheriff calls upon herpetologist Dr. Tom Parkinson, a Los Angeles college professor, to discover why the snakes are displaying abnormal aggression and swarming behavior. The sheriff teams Parkinson with war photographer Ann Bradley.
Action, Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
A plague has wiped out most of humanity. The last human colony struggles to survive in a bunker under the Rocky Mountains, while the surface has become a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy the colony. A vaccine has been developed for a disease spread by the mutants, but gathering the components to make it requires returning to the surface.
horror film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, television film
In Russia, US Army Colonel Robert Evans Jefferson Jr. has been tasked to lead Russian soldiers commanded by Sergeant Ivan Petrov on a secret mission to capture an 80-foot python that was created by American scientists and has gotten loose near the Ural Mountains. Colonel Jefferson and Sergeant Petrov, accomplish their assigned task (although one of Petrov's men is killed by the snake.) and the snakes are placed aboard an American cargo plane heading for the United States, Chechen rebels mistake the plane for a Russian one and they shoot it down, This alerts a Russian Army unit nearby, who then attack the rebels and subsequently take the…