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Mysterie, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain living a quiet and sheltered life. He spends his days leading tours off a tranquil, tropical enclave called Plymouth Island and is obsessed with catching an evasive giant yellowfin tuna whom he calls "J…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
In the 28th century, cooperation between the Earth and extraterrestrial species has expanded the former International Space Station to the point its mass threatens gravitational disruption to Earth. Relocated to deep space, it becomes Alph…
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Komödie, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
Dr. Reed Richards, along with his friend, Ben Grimm, convinces Dr. Victor von Doom, CEO of Von Doom Industries, to allow him access to his space station to test the effects of exposure to clouds of cosmic energy on biological samples.
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Destiny, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Social Drama, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Jeremy "Powder" Reed is a young albino man who has incredible intellect and is able to sense the thoughts of the people around him. Jeremy's brain possesses a powerful electromagnetic charge, which causes electrical objects to function abn…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, adventure film, science fiction film, survival film, thriller film
Sixty-five million years ago on the planet Somaris, space pilot Mills is convinced by his wife to take a two-year space expedition to earn money to treat their ill daughter, Nevine. His spaceship, the Zoic, is damaged in an asteroid storm …
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Action, Mysterie, action film, disaster film, mystery film, science fiction film
In October 1959, an elementary school in Lexington celebrates its opening with a competition in which students draw what they believe will happen in the future. Lucinda Embry fills her paper with numbers while being guided by whispering vo…
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, science fiction action film, speculative fiction film, spy film, thriller film
A Drax Industries Moonraker Space Shuttle orbiter on loan to the United Kingdom is hijacked in midair while on a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The carrier is destroyed but no wreckage of the shuttle is found. M, head of MI6, assigns James Bond…
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, Time Travel, Western, Western film, comedy film, science fiction film, teen film, time-travel film
On November 12, 1955, moments after witnessing Emmett "Doc" Brown disappear in his DeLorean, Marty McFly learns that Doc was sent 70 years in the past to 1885. Using information from Doc's 1885 letter, Marty and the 1955 Doc find and repai…
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Cyberpunk, Japanese Animation Film, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia
In 2029, with the advancement of cybernetic technology, the human body can be augmented or even completely replaced with cybernetic parts. Another significant achievement is the cyberbrain, a mechanical casing for the human brain that allo…
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Action, Ghost-Movie, Komödie, comedy horror, fantasy film, female buddy film, ghost film, science fiction film
Particle physicists and estranged friends Abby Yates and Erin Gilbert co-authored Ghosts from Our Past, a book detailing their paranormal investigations since high school. Erin later disavowed the work, while Abby continues her research at…
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Animalhorror, Horror comedy, Komödie, action film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, kaiju, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, thriller film
In the isolated desert town of Perfection, Nevada, handymen Valentine "Val" McKee and Earl Bassett decide to leave for the nearby town of Bixby after growing dissatisfied with their work. Before they can depart, they discover resident Edga…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, action comedy film, comic book, live action, parody film, science fiction film
In 1982, Sam Brenner and his friends Will Cooper and Ludlow "The Wonder Kid" Lamonsoff play at an amusement arcade together before Brenner participates in a video game championship, where he seemingly loses a Donkey Kong match to Eddie "Th…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the year 2678, the spaceship Hunter-Gratzner is struck by micrometeoroids that penetrate the hull, killing the captain and sending it off course toward a nearby planet. First Officer Owens and docking pilot Carolyn Fry attempt an emerge…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Zombiefilm, action film, biopunk, girls with guns, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film, zombie film
Dr. James Marcus, the founder of the Umbrella Corporation, had a daughter, Alicia, who was dying of progeria. Desperate to save her, Marcus confiscates an untested embryonic Umbrella project—the T-virus—created by his colleague Dr.
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Cyberpunk, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, space Western, speculative fiction film
In the 26th century, humanity has colonized a new solar system. The central planets formed the Alliance and won a war against the outer planet Independents who resisted joining the Alliance. Child genius River Tam is conditioned by Allianc…
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Action, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, comedy film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In 2012, alien criminal Boris the Animal escapes from a maximum-security prison on the Moon to take revenge on Men in Black (MIB) Agent K, who shot off his arm and arrested him in 1969. He eventually confronts K and his partner Agent J, te…
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Adventure, Parodie, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, adventure film, comedy film, parody film, science fiction film
The cast of the 1980s space-adventure series Galaxy Quest attend fan conventions and make trivial promotional appearances. Though the series' vain former star, Jason Nesmith, thrives on the attention, his co-stars Gwen DeMarco, Alexander D…
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Drama, Fantasy, Hard Science Fiction, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Monster Film, Romantic Drama, horror film, science fiction film
In a castle on a stormy night, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron praise Mary Shelley for her story of Frankenstein and his Monster. She reminds them that her intention for writing the novel was to impart a moral lesson, the consequences …
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Fantasy, Romance Film, Time Travel, alternate history, drama film, fantasy film, melodrama, romance film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In 2006, physician Kate Forster leaves the lake house she has been renting near Chicago and starts a job at a downtown hospital. She leaves a note in the mailbox asking the next tenant to forward her mail and explaining that the painted pa…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, science fiction film
In 2026, ten years after a "Simian Flu" pandemic, humans are nearly extinct, with only about 1 in 500 (0.2%) genetically immune. Human civilization was destroyed after societal collapse. The apes, all bestowed with genetically enhanced int…
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Romance Film, Romantic Drama, Time Travel, drama film, fantasy film, melodrama, romance film, science fiction film
In the early 1970s, Henry DeTamble is in a car accident that kills his mother, Annette DeTamble, but he survives by inadvertently time-traveling back two weeks. Moments later, Henry is helped by an older version of himself who has also tra…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
Billions of years ago, the Guardians of the Universe used the green essence of willpower to create an intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps. They divided the universe into 3,600 sectors, with one assigned Green Lantern …
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film
Novelist James Foster and his wife Em spend time at a resort in the fictional seaside country of Li Tolqa, where a local festival is underway. The couple's implied marital strife is exacerbated when Gabi, a fan of James' only published nov…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Earth and countless other planets were established by families of transhuman and alien royalty to harvest the resulting organisms to produce a perpetual life-extending youth serum for the elites on other planets. After the matriarch of the…
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