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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, action film, post-apocalyptic film, thriller film
Thirty years after a nuclear holocaust, Eli travels on foot across the wasteland of the continental land of the former U.S. nation in search of water. He arrives in a ramshackle town ruled by a warlord named Carnegie, who seeks to control …
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Action, Animalhorror, action film, adventure film, horror film, kaiju, science fiction film, thriller film
Five years after the events of the first film, Jonas Taylor has been involved in fighting environmental crimes while helping Mana One explore the Mariana Trench, where the Megalodon had been found. Following the death of Jonas' wife Suyin …
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Action, Time Travel, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, time-travel film
In 2029, aboard the United States Air Force space station Oberon, Leo Davidson works closely with apes who are trained for space missions. His favorite is a chimpanzee named Pericles. With a deadly electromagnetic storm approaching the sta…
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Action, action film, disaster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, war film
In 2005, potentially habitable "Planet G" is discovered, and in 2006, a communications array to reach any extraterrestrial life is built on Oʻahu. There, a slacking Alex Hopper is arrested while attempting to impress Samantha "Sam" Shane, …
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Action Comedy, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, action film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In a dystopian 2050, fighter pilot Adam Reed steals a time jet to escape to 2018 to save his wife, Laura, from assassination. During his escape, he is injured and crash-lands in 2022, where he encounters his 12-year-old self, who has been …
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, mystery film, science fiction film
At the 1964 New York World’s Fair, young inventor Frank Walker attempts to showcase his homemade jet pack, but it fails and does not impress the judges. However, a mysterious girl, Athena, sees potential in him. She gives him a lapel pin m…
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Mysterie, science fiction film, thriller film
Ellie, her mother Celeste, her stepfather Daniel, and her stepsister Anna live on Caddo Lake on the Louisiana-Texas border. Anna vanishes one night while near the lake. The family and community begin searching for her, with no results.
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Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, dystopian film, film noir, horror film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film
John Murdoch awakens in a hotel bathtub with amnesia. He receives a phone call from Dr. Daniel Schreber, who urges him to flee the hotel to evade a group of men who are after him.
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film
47,000 BC A family of Neanderthals consists of father Thorn, pregnant mother Hera, daughter Lark, and younger child Ebb. However, a bad fall leaves Thorn in critical condition, and he barely survives thanks to Hera's efforts. Tragedy strik…
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Action, Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1997, Los Angeles is experiencing a heat wave and a turf war between heavily armed Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels. A Predator watches a shootout between the gangs and the LAPD, observing as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan charges into the…
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Animation, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Thriller, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller
A scientist is commissioned by his government to create a highly intelligent robot in the name of peaceful progress, which the government then seizes and turns into the Fabrication Machine, an automaton that can construct an army of war ma…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia
A dystopian near-future Australia is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily owing to widespread oil shortages and ecocide. The berserk motorbike gang member Crawford "Nightrider" Montazano kills a rookie officer of the poorly funded M…
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Romantic Comedy, fantasy film, romantic comedy film, science fiction film, screwball comedy film
Nick Marshall, a Chicago advertising executive, is a chauvinist skilled at selling products to men and seducing women. He expects a promotion at the advertising firm Sloane Curtis, but agency boss Dan Wanamaker instead announces that he is…
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Retro Science Fiction, Thriller, Western, Western film, action film, alien invasion, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In 1873 New Mexico Territory, a man awakens injured in the desert with a strange metal bracelet attached to his left wrist and no memory. He wanders into the town of Absolution, where preacher Meacham treats his wound. Sheriff John Taggart…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Five years after Kyra's death, Riddick has become uneasy in his role as Lord Marshal of the Necromonger fleet. His refusal to swear into the Necromonger faith has caused dissent among his subjects. After the latest attempt on his life, Rid…
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Dark Comedy, Satire, Sci-Fi, Social Drama, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In a dystopian near future, Cassius "Cash" Green and his artist girlfriend Detroit live in the garage of Cash's uncle Sergio. Struggling to pay rent, Cash gets a job as a telemarketer for RegalView. He struggles with customers until his ol…
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Action, Adventure, Animation, Musical, Sci-Fi, action film, adult animated film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
"Soft Landing" The title sequence was based on the comic of the same name by Dan O'Bannon and Thomas Warkentin. The title sequence story opens with a Space Shuttle orbiting the Earth. The bay doors open, releasing a 1960 Corvette.
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Drama, Fantasy, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Premise The film follows the members of the O'Brien family in the 1940s–1960s and 2010. Most of the film takes place in the 1950s, but the film jumps between different narratives. The O'Briens appear to be a standard American middle-class …
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Horror comedy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy horror, gothic horror film, horror film, parody film, science fiction film
Early in the 20th century, Frederick Frankenstein, a lecturing physician at an American medical school, is actively distancing himself from his grandfather Victor Frankenstein, the infamous mad scientist, pronouncing his surname as "Fronke…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
An Army sniper living in a trailer park struggles to protect her family from a trio of super soldiers who have escaped from a secret military facility and are killing everyone in their path.
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction action film, science fiction film
In 2259, Captain James T. Kirk is removed from command of the starship USS Enterprise for violating the Prime Directive by revealing the ship to the primitive inhabitants of the planet Nibiru to save them, and Spock, from a cataclysmic vol…
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Monster Film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
thumb|250px|Play the film's trailer right|thumb|250px|Frankenstein lobby card In a village in the Bavarian Alps, scientist Henry Frankenstein and his hunchbacked assistant Fritz piece together a human body. Some of the parts are from fresh…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, war film
In 2028, two years after the Battle of San Francisco, an American battalion known as "Alpha-Omega" aided by apes derogatorily called "donkeys", searches for Caesar's ape colony. A platoon assaults an ape outpost, but the apes repel the att…
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Girls with Guns, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, Zombiefilm, action film, biopunk, girls with guns, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
Underneath Raccoon City, a genetic research facility called the Hive is owned by the Umbrella Corporation. A thief steals the genetically engineered T-virus and contaminates the Hive with it. In response, the facility's artificial intellig…
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