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action film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, thriller film
Returning from a Hong Kong business trip, Beth Emhoff meets up with a former lover during a Chicago layover. She feels slightly ill; two days later, back home in Minneapolis, she suffers a seizure and dies from an unknown illness. Her 6-ye…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, adventure film, epic film, science fiction film
In an unnamed galaxy, the imperialistic Motherworld sees its royal family, including Issa, a princess who was expected to end its militaristic Imperium's planetary conquests, assassinated. Balisarius, a senator and former general, subseque…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, dystopian film, romance film, science fiction film
A medical breakthrough in the 1950s has, by the late 1960s, extended human lifespan beyond 100 years. In 1978, the young Kathy H, along with her friends Tommy D and Ruth C, spent their childhood at Hailsham, a traditional boarding school. …
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Japanese Monster Movie, Monster Film, action film, kaiju, science fiction film
In 1954, Godzilla, a prehistoric alpha predator, is lured to Bikini Atoll in an attempt to kill him with a nuclear weapon. In 1999, Monarch scientists Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham investigate the skeleton of a monster similar to God…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, prison film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Shortly after escaping the planet LV-426, the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco is travelling back to Earth with Ellen Ripley, Rebecca "Newt" Jorden, Cpl. Hicks, and the damaged android Bishop in cryonic stasis. An alien egg hatches on boar…
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Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, war film
After being attacked by a brainwashed Peeta Mellark, Katniss Everdeen recovers from her injuries in District 13. President of District 13, Alma Coin, refuses to let Katniss go to the Capitol until they secure District 2, the last district …
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
Childhood friends Reed Richards and Ben Grimm have worked together on a prototype teleporter for seven years, eventually attracting the attention of Professor Franklin Storm, director of the Baxter Foundation, a government-sponsored resear…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, crime film, dystopian film, fantasy film, postcyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal fiat cu…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
In Kathmandu, the sorcerer Kaecilius and his zealots enter the secret compound Kamar-Taj and behead its librarian. They steal several pages from a book belonging to the Ancient One, a long-lived sorcerer who has taught every student at Kam…
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Action, Destiny, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, epic film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera
Three years after the start of the Clone Wars, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Knight Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from the cyborg Separatist commander General Grievous. After infiltrating Grievous'…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
In 1928 at Giza, Egypt, archaeologist Professor Paul Langford, accompanied by his daughter Catherine, unearths cover stones engraved with Egyptian hieroglyphs and other markings. Beneath he discovers a large metallic ring of unknown purpos…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
In 1845, James Howlett, a boy living in the Northwest Territories, witnesses his father's murder by groundskeeper Thomas Logan. Rage activates the boy's mutation: bone claws that protrude from his knuckles, and he impales Thomas, who revea…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Time Travel, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
thumb|thumbtime=103|upright=1.5|Teaser of the film Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awaken from deep hibernation when their spacecraft crashes into a lake on an unknown planet after a near-light-speed space voyage. Before they abandon …
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comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, romance film, science fiction film
Throughout the film, the action is split between showing a television special documenting the behind-the-scenes creation of a new play and a presentation of the play itself. The play's events are depicted in widescreen and stylized color, …
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Christmas film, Dark Comedy, Retro Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, comedy film, dystopian film, fantasy film, neo-noir, retrofuturism, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In a dystopian, polluted, hyper-consumerist, overbearing, bureaucratic, totalitarian future based on elements of the 20th century, Sam Lowry is a low-level government employee who frequently dreams of himself as a winged warrior saving a d…
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Action, Aliens, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, crossover fiction, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
A satellite detects a heat bloom beneath Bouvet Island, an island about off the coast of Antarctica. Wealthy industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland discovers through thermal imaging that there is a pyramid buried beneath the ice. He assemble…
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Ghost-Movie, Parodie, Sci-Fi, Silly Movie, parody film
Shaquille O'Neal and Dr. Phil wake up to find themselves chained to pipes in a bathroom. Their host, Billy the Puppet, reveals that the room is slowly filling with nerve gas, with the only way out being to make a basket and get the saws, w…
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Sci-Fi, apocalyptic film, disaster film, katastrophe, science fiction film
In 2011, astronauts Brian Harper, Jocinda "Jo" Fowler, and Alan Marcus are on a Space Shuttle mission to repair a satellite. A mysterious swarm of alien technology attacks the orbiter, killing Alan and knocking Jo unconscious before tunnel…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, action film, disaster film, science fiction film, war film
In the twenty years after the War of 1996, the United Nations has founded the Earth Space Defense (ESD), a global defense program using reverse-engineered alien technology and serves as Earth's defense force against extraterrestrial threat…
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Ghost-Movie, Komödie, comedy film, ghost film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In Summerville, Oklahoma, Egon Spengler captures an entity in occultist Ivo Shandor's mine outside the town and lures another to his farm. He activates an elaborate setup on his property, but the power fails. Egon manages to conceal the gh…
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Adventure, Komödie, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, comedy film, dystopian film, science fiction film, teen film, time-travel film
On October 26, 1985, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown arrives unexpectedly in the DeLorean time machine, persuading Marty McFly and his girlfriend, Jennifer Parker, to travel to the future with him and help their future children. Once they arrive in…
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Fantasy, Western film, action film, fantasy film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Eleven-year-old Jake Chambers experiences visions of a mysterious warlock, the "Man in Black", who seeks to destroy a "Tower" and bring ruin to the "Universe" while a lone "Gunslinger" opposes him. Jake's visions are dismissed by his mothe…
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LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The story jumps between eras, spanning hundreds of years, until each storyline eventually resolves. Communications from characters in prior storylines are found in some of the future storylines, connecting a few of them. Characters appear …
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Drama, Thriller, disaster film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, survival film, techno-thriller, thriller film
The Space Shuttle Explorer, commanded by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski, is in Earth orbit to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Ryan Stone is aboard on her first space mission, to perform hardware upgrades on the telescope.
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