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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,369 films · Page 136.

The Invader (1997)

Action, Aliens, Science fiction, thriller film

A day has come when not one, but two UFOs make their way into Earth's atmosphere. The larger ship is clearly chasing the smaller one, and the alien has the look of a soldier about him. The smaller ship is able to cause the larger one to crash, then lands itself.

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Spark (2024)

Drama, Science fiction, thriller film

Aaron, a transmasculine illustrator, meets a handsome man named Trevor at a party. After they have sex, Aaron becomes trapped in a time loop, reliving the day he met Trevor over and over again. His initial eagerness to learn more about Trevor becomes unsettling as Aaron suspects Trevor actually knows about the time loop too.

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La morte vivante (1982)

Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Science fiction, sexploitation film, Vampire

Two men break into an old crypt, seeking to dump toxic waste and rob the graves. When an earthquake causes the toxic waste to spill, Catherine Valmont, a young woman who died several years previously, is resurrected. She viciously kills the thieves and drinks their blood.

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Welcome to Blood City (1977)

Science fiction, Western

Five strangers awake finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed – what the townspeople refer to as being "immortal" – by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.

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Terminal Entry (1986)

Science fiction, thriller film

The film begins with Lady Electric and Bob. After being chased down another corridor and into an elevator where they both fall to their deaths Bob snaps out of his daydream at the last second. When he comes to, he finds his friends have lost the game in the same fashion.

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Cerberus (2005)

Action, fantasy film, Horror, Science fiction

Marcus Cutter and a bunch of mercenaries steal Attila the Hun's breastplate from a museum in Bucharest, Romania. They kill the curator Professor Radu before they escape by helicopter. Meanwhile, Samantha Gaines, Professor Radu's best student, organises an exhibition in New York City.

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Captain Video, Master of the Stratosphere (1951)

Adventure, Science fiction, Superhero

Judd Holdren, in what was only his second starring screen role, plays Captain Video, the leader of a group of crime-fighters known as the Video Rangers. He faces an interplanetary menace, as the evil dictator of the planet Atoma, Vultura (Gene Roth) and his lackey, the traitorous earth scientist Dr. Tobor (George Eldredge) are planning to conquer the planet Earth, by controlling the weather.

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The Brain (1962)

Horror, Science fiction, thriller film

Dr Peter Corrie and his colleague Dr. Frank Shears remove the brain from the corpse of tycoon Max Holt, who was injured in an air-crash but subsequently died. Corrie attempts to keep the removed brain alive in a chemical bath.

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The Cure (2014)

Science fiction, thriller film

Researcher Beth Wakefield (Prebble) works for ScopaMed Pharmaceuticals. She accidentally discovers the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer many years earlier. They have not released it because that would destroy their chemotherapy drug sales.

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Omega Cop (1990)

Action, Science fiction

In the year 1999, the world is in the midst of an environmental holocaust, the result of a series of solar flares which have scorched the Earth for the last 30 years. Exposure to the flares results in a radiation poisoning which causes the affected to degenerate into psychotic killers. The vast majority of the world's population is dead, the world is desolate and arid, and in the United States the government and military now only control New York City and Washington DC.

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Zarkorr! The Invader (1996)

Comedy, monster film, Science fiction

Intelligent aliens who have been studying Earth for centuries decide to challenge mankind by sending in a 185-foot, laser-eyed monster called Zarkorr to wreak city-crushing havoc. Only one incredibly average young man, postal worker Tommy Ward (Rhys Pugh), can find the beast's weakness and save the planet with the help of a 6-inch-tall pixie (Torie Lynch), who says she is "a mental image projected into his brain" by the aliens. She explains that Zarkorr cannot be destroyed by weapons, but that the key to the monster's destruction lies within the monster itself.

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Black Dragons (1942)

Crime, Mysterie, propaganda film, Science fiction, spy film

It is prior to the American entry into World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission.

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InAlienable (2007)

Drama, Horror, Science fiction

Dr. Eric Norris remains wracked with guilt after a terrible tragedy that cost him his family, and when he learns that an alien parasite is not only growing inside him but shares his DNA, he develops a fiercely paternal bond with the creature. The alien "might regenerate into a surrogate son to replace his own child who was lost years earlier." Dr Shilling is a scientific research institute administrator who dislikes Norris because he had been mutually in love with Norris's wife, who died; he blames Norris for his own now bleak life and enjoys insulting him.

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Sinbad and the Minotaur (2011)

Action, children's film, fantasy film, monster film, Pirate Film, Science fiction

Sinbad, his first mate Karim and slave girl Tara embark on a voyage to Crete in search of King Minos's treasure believed to be hidden within the fabled Labyrinth. They are pursued by the evil Sorcerer Al Jibbar who bears a striking resemblance to Sokurah, the antagonist of the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Al Jibbar's cannibal henchman is seemingly immortal, capable of surviving grievous wounds and highly skilled in the ways of the Indian Jettis, strongmen capable of torturing and killing prisoners with their bare hands.

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Steel Frontier (1995)

Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, Western

In 2019, a gang of bandits called the United Regime Deathriders invade the town of New Hope. They are led by General Julius 'J.W.' Quantrill (Brion James), a descendant of Confederate cavalry officer William Quantrill. A mysterious motorcycle riding gunslinger named Johnny Yuma (Joe Lara) arrives in town and joins the gang, but actually plays the thugs against each other, causing the drunken riders to shoot each other.

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Metal Gear Solid - Philanthropy (2009)

Action, Science fiction, Secret Agent

The film is divided into three parts, the first part entitled "The Overnight Nation" is sixty-nine minutes long and follows Snake as he joins Philanthropy, an organization created to stop Metal Gears around the world. Snake (Giacomo Talamini) teams up with Elizabeth Laeken (Patrizia Liccardi) and Pierre Leclerc (Nicola Cecconi) as they attempt to find out what's really going on in "The Overnight Nation". The film is set in 2007, taking place before or shortly after the first part of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

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The Cold Room (1984)

Mysterie, Psychological horror, Psychological Thriller, Science fiction, thriller film

Carla Martin (Amanda Pays) is leaving an English parochial boarding school for the summer to live with her estranged father at an inn in East Berlin. The headmistress (Ursula Howells), a nun, gives her a 1936 guide to Berlin, telling Carla that she may find it useful, even though Berlin has surely changed as much as she has. Her best friend, Sophie (Lucy Hornack), gives her a bag of marijuana.

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Running Against Time (1990)

Action, Science fiction

David Rhodes is a college history professor, who is obsessed with the death of his older brother Chris in Vietnam in 1966. When his girlfriend Laura interviews eccentric physics professor Dr. Koopman about his revolutionary time travel theories, David finds that the Professor has perfected time travel and sees a way to save his brother; by preventing the 1963 assassination of President John F.

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Three Inches (2011)

Action, fantasy film, Science fiction

On the same day that 26-year-old Walter Spackman confesses his love to the non-reciprocating Lily, he is struck by lightning. He awakens from a coma to discover that he has gained the ability to move objects with his mind up to a distance of three inches. The mysterious Troy Hamilton recruits Walter to join his team of superheroes and Walter joins in the hope of helping to improve the world.

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