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Drama, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
Norman Sterns and Leela Sterns are newlyweds who are driving from their home in New York City to Los Angeles. They become lost and run out of gas, stranding them in the rural Ozark countryside. They meet a friendly paleontologist named Wayne Thomas.
Action, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2013, capital punishment has been abolished. With prison spaces running out, a group of prisoners are taken to an island called Novaya Zemlya for the sake of an experiment.
horror film, science fiction film
After being selected at random by a computer to seek safety in an underground bomb shelter on the eve of a nuclear attack, a group of refugees makes a horrible realization: They are sharing the space with a colony of vampire bats. And since going back above ground is not an option, they are forced to stay and fight for their lives.
Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Satire, Sci-Fi, comedy film
The film, set in 1972 (five years after it was made), was inspired by an actual incident which occurred on 17 January 1966: a USAF Boeing B-52G Stratofortress collided with a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker over Palomares, Spain, and four 1.1-megatonne hydrogen bombs aboard the B-52 were briefly lost. In a title sequence shot by Maurice Binder, a chorus of Spanish flamenco dancers explains why the film's location is Greece rather than Spain. Life on the remote fictional Greek island of Karos is changed for ever when atomic bombs are dropped there by a military plane which was rapidly losing power.
Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
Stan Armbrewster, an executive at military contractor Norton Cyberdyne, lures public relations head Tim Calhoun to the basement of the building with a pair of prostitutes. He shows them a reptilian humanoid, "Syngenor" (short for Synthesized Genetic Organism), the company's newest product. Armbrewster covertly releases the Syngenor and flees, leaving it to kill Calhoun and the prostitutes.
Crime, Erotic Film, Komödie, science fiction film
Someone is killing off the female leads of the movie production of Bad Girls from Mars. The producers feel they should try to finish the film, even though they're making a lucrative amount from insurance payoffs, so they fly in European sex bomb Emanuelle as the new lead. Emanuelle immediately begins embarrassing the producers by leading a wild party life around town.
Fantasy, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
The story is set in the year 2036 and revolves around a special forces team led by Major Agatha Doyle (Farrell) formed from death-row prisoners and their ensuing mission. Captain Aldrich is a former war hero convicted and on death row who is offered the chance at a pardon if he will join the team and undertake their mission to infiltrate an enemy facility. Once they have gained access to the base they are confused by the apparent lack of resistance and upon further inspection they find their enemies bodies piled up in a storeroom.
comedy horror, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Robins plays bumbling mad scientist Nathaniel Pickman Wingate, of the Miskatonic University. He works on opening a portal to another dimension while his wife, Nancy (Laura O'Malley) and family prepare his fiftieth birthday party. When he succeeds with contact with the new dimension, two triops-like creatures escape.
fantasy film, science fiction film
thumb|left|200px|Unga Khan's Volkites emerging from "The Juggernaut" The plot involves the main character "Crash" Corrigan trying to stop an evil tyrant ruler of Atlantis from conquering the lost continent and then the entire upper world. Lieutenant Crash Corrigan, in his last year at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, is invited by Billy Norton to visit his father, Professor Norton, after a wrestling match. At their house, the professor is demonstrating his new invention, which can detect and prevent (at short range) earthquakes, to Diana Compton and his theory about regular tremours from the area where Atlantis used…
Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, science fiction film
On the remote mining planet Ordessa, the management uses killer military police androids to crack down on workers upset with the terrible conditions. Lorca (John Tarrant) and his mother Abbie (Donogh Rees) led the human underground resistance movement until Abbie was killed by androids. Now, Lorca and Suzi (Cassandra Webb) battle Captain Jowitt (Ralph Cotterill) and the brutal bounty hunter Danny (Hugh Keays-Byrne), with the help of the friendly android Kid (Deep Roy).
Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, science fiction film, spy film
Adam Chance (Peter Mark Richman) works for an American agency called Human Aetiological Relations Machine, or H.A.R.M. He is assigned to protect Dr. Jan Steffanic (Carl Esmond), a recent Soviet defector who has developed a new weapon which fires spores that upon contact with human skin slowly dissolves it.
drama film, ghost film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
The plot concerns the mayor of Auckland and an "expert ghost shark hunter" as they fight to save the city from a supernatural beast known as Ghost Shark. Despite being labelled "Ghost Shark 2", it is not related to SyFy's Ghost Shark, and the decision to make it a sequel was made for narrative reasons. The tone of the film is that of a serious drama, despite the seemingly parodic subject material.
Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, science fiction film
The film is described as a "lightly futuristic comedy about babies who don’t age."
Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction film
At an unspecified point several centuries in the future, a unified Earth (known as the 'Democratic Republic of Earth') is exploring and colonizing the galaxy. One of its earliest colonies, the planet Cynosura, has declared independence and is attempting to establish its own sphere of influence as Earth's rival. The already tense situation escalates after Earth discovers and claims an ideally habitable world named Meraz.
Sci-Fi, disaster film, science fiction film
The scientific team of Dr. David Conway (William Leslie), Dr. Ellis Morton (Tristram Coffin), and Laura Hutchinson (Kathryn Grant) has built a machine that can predict earthquakes.
Sci-Fi, zombie film
Dr. Karol Noymann, an atomic scientist, is killed in a laboratory explosion. His colleague, Dr.
Horror, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, mystery film, science fiction film
Ann Collins, a painter, and her husband David are expecting a baby. What confuses the couple is that David has had a vasectomy, and Ann is not supposed to be pregnant. Even though David suspects that Ann has been unfaithful to him, he stays with her.
Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
Dr. Paul Steiner and Dr. Christopher Mitchell work on a projection device that enables them to transmit any object within a few miles of the machine.
Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
During an archeological dig at Pompeii, a worker uncovers a jewel box and the calcified body of a gladiator. En route to the Museo di Napoli, the body comes to life and kills the driver of the truck that is transporting it. Afterwards, the body, apparently dead again, is found several meters away from the wrecked truck.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, animal-like creatures known as "the ravagers" roam the earth and kill all survivors. A man named Falk (Richard Harris) witnesses his wife's murder by the creatures. Seeking vengeance, Falk becomes a vigilante.
Drama, Sci-Fi
The series is set during the final stages of the First Cylon War. It focuses on a younger William "Husker" Adama in his fighter pilot days aboard Galactica while on an important mission to uncover the Cylons' “super weapon” on a mysterious icy planet. The webisode series starts on the 4,571st day of the war (about 40 years before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol).
Animalhorror, Horror, Horror comedy, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, comedy horror
After the mayor uses a potentially dangerous substance to protect the local plantation, the lakeside town of Mountview, in California, is attacked by a lethal species of large cockroach. After some of the town's inhabitants are killed, the mayor enlists the help of eccentric pest exterminator General George S. Merlin in order to prevent further harm to the local dwellers.
Horror, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
A railroad passenger car carrying a reporter and his photographer mysteriously breaks away from its locomotive, accidentally ending up on a remote sidetrack in Gudavia, an isolated Ruritanian-style, one-village dictatorship. The newsmen discover a mad scientist using gamma rays to turn the country's youth into either geniuses or subhumans.