The Destructors (1968)
Science fiction
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Science fiction
Adventure, Science fiction
Department "S" of the Federal Security Investigation Commission sends Harry Sennitt, an international secret agent nicknamed "Goldman" due to his unlimited expense account, to investigate suspected sabotage of US space program rocket launches. Sennitt, who carries a chequebook instead of a weapon, and his superior, Captain Flanagan, discover an Auric Goldfinger-type beer baron named Rehte is destroying the rockets with laser beams fired from Rehte's beer trucks parked outside the installation. Rehte's lair is a Dr No-type underwater city off the coast of Cape Canaveral, where he plans to launch a rocket to the Moon carrying a laser cannon…
Science fiction
LaMB takes place in the distant future on a desert planet called Cerra. The story features a prison system, in which prisoners are sealed in personal containment systems known as "laminated suits" and used for labor. Prisoners go through a "Lamination" process, where they are fitted with cybernetic, laminated skin-tight suits.
Horror, Science fiction
A young doctor named Larry Forbes (Shepperd Strudwick) arrives in a French village in order to wed the niece of prominent local doctor, Dr. Renault (George Zucco). Dr.
Comedy, musical film, Science fiction
The film is set in Australia, where an accidental future time traveler finds himself going back in time to change events to prevent a calamity. It stars Rob Hartley as Black Alice (who performed most of the songs for the movie) and Australian musician Jeff Duff (who sang "The Burn").
science fiction comedy
Dale Sweeney, the radio host of an immensely unpopular late-night talk program on the AM dial, only ever drums up listeners who are nutty, half-zonked small-town denizens who want to discuss UFO sightings on the airwaves. Just prior to the final broadcast, with the program in arm's length of cancellation, Sweeney receives a strange phone call from an individual who speaks anxiously in an unintelligible language. The next morning, two federal agents turn up to question Sweeney, demonstrating heightened interest in one of the latest UFO sightings.
Adventure, Science fiction
After months of hyper-sleep aboard the cargo transport ship Solar System Shipping Vessel No.17 (SSS-17), two crew members awaken: Chris McNiel and Theta Kaplan. They discover that they've been awakened from hyper-sleep, by the ship's computer, almost ten months past their scheduled time, as something has gone terribly wrong on board. The ship's internal systems are badly damaged, they have almost no fuel and their position is some way off the ecliptic.
Action, fantasy film
Sometime in World War II, German SS officers discover ancient ruins which contain stone gargoyles. They bring the gargoyles to life with blood so they can combat U.S. forces.
Crime, Science fiction
The inventor of a burglar alarm attempts to get back at the man who stole the profits to his invention (Hinds) before he goes blind. The device is then subverted by gangsters who apply pressure to the inventor and use his device to facilitate burglaries.
Action, Cyberpunk, Science fiction
Horror, Science fiction
War Wolves depicts the lives of several Army soldiers who are ambushed in a small town in the Middle East. They return home and to their normal lives, however, they find that they had changed considerably. Growing fangs at will and slowly going through a mysterious and painful change, they part ways when they realize their own taste for blood.
Action, Science fiction
fantasy film, Science fiction
On his way to UNIT H.Q. by Land Rover to deliver some radioactive materials, Warrant Officer John Benton has an unexpected flashback to his childhood in Lancashire. After visiting the grave of his older brother Chris, Benton has a further flashback to his childhood in 1944.
Science fiction
Horror, monster film, Science fiction
In the town of Golderton, crooked businessman Billy Butler (Michael Badalucco), reopens an abandoned gold mine. It was closed after five miners were trapped in the mine sometime in the 1800s. Centuries later, Butler, a descendant of the mine's owner, reopens it, unaware of the curse that was cast upon the site.
Action, Science fiction
In 2107 Earth is controlled by a military-political party known as the Bridgists. A galaxy-wide rebellion against the Bridgists' rule results in the destruction of all life on Earth. Soon, the rebellion is on the brink of defeat by the Bridgists.
Action, Science fiction
A cop and his partner have to save a young gang member from certain death, as a team of killers from the future are set on a mission to kill the members before their future crimes while they're still mere delinquents.
Science fiction
thumb|The Mälsåker Castle (image from 2004) was filmed as the headquarters. The story begins with an interviewer asking contestants from different countries why they are fighting in the games, of which they give different answers. Meanwhile, officers and colonels from different countries arrive at a castle near Stockholm where Peace Game number 256 is to be arranged by the Swedish Army using the ICAROS-system.
Horror
Six teenagers on a chaperoned rehabilitation camping trip find themselves being hunted by mutant giant birds infected with a mysterious virus that changes the birds into deadly predators. Porky is the first to be injured by the birds. Counselor Guy gets killed by birds.
Drama, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
In an undefined near future, Professor Erol Erin, a seed geneticist, lives in a city protected from multi-ethnic immigrants by magnetic walls. For unknown reasons, the city's agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis. In a meeting at the headquarters of Novus Vita, the corporation which employs him, Erol hears about Cemil Akman, a fellow geneticist who wrote a thesis about the recurrent crises affecting genetically modified seeds.
Crime, Drama, Science fiction
Two scientists from the World Health Organisation's Low Temperature Unit in Berlin – the American Dr. Frank Overton and Dr. Helen Wieland, a West German, have successfully frozen chimpanzees, stored them at -80 °C for three months, and thawed them with no ill effects.
LGBTQ-related film, Science fiction
Horror, Science fiction
A bio-engineered creature called a Syngenor (which stands for SYNthesized GENetic ORganism) takes refuge in Los Angeles's sewer system, going into the streets at night in search of human spinal fluid. The police are stymied due to the lack of eyewitnesses and fingerprints, and consequently are ridiculed by the news media. They only link the cases by the killer's brutal feats of strength, such as ripping the door off a car and pulling on a victim's hair hard enough to break her neck.
Horror, Science fiction
Gudenberg, 1890: Professor John Mayer has invented a ray gun which runs on nuclear power. During testing, a ray is shot into space and attracts the attention of a flying saucer. The aliens decide to come to Earth to destroy the weapon...