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Explore imagined technology, futures and worlds beyond our own.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 4,367 films · Page 23.

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Girls with Guns, Sci-Fi, Zombiefilm, action film, biopunk, girls with guns, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film, zombie film

Alice and the survivors on board the Umbrella Corporation freighter Arcadia are attacked by a fleet of Umbrella gunships led by Alice's brainwashed former ally, Jill Valentine; Alice is captured during the attack. An Alice clone awakens in…

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

Mysterie, Police Film, action film, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film

Dana Scully, a former FBI Special Agent, is now a staff physician at a Catholic hospital; she is treating Christian, a young boy with symptoms similar to Sandhoff disease. FBI Special Agent Mosely Drummy approaches Scully for help in locat…

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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, horror film, science fiction film

After a flying saucer lands in the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the United States Army surrounds it with soldiers and tanks. A humanoid in a spacesuit emerges, announcing that he comes "in peace and with good will". While the alien i…

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Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1979)

Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, adventure film, science fiction film

In the 23rd century, a Starfleet monitoring station, Epsilon Nine, detects an alien entity hidden in a massive energy cloud, moving through space toward Earth. The cloud easily destroys three Klingon warships and Epsilon Nine on its course…

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C.H.U.D. (1984)

B movie, Horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, slasher film, zombie film

A woman, Flora Bosch, is walking her dog down an empty, darkened city street. As she passes by a manhole, a creature attacks Mrs. Bosch and drags her and the dog into the sewers.

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The Dead Zone (1983)

Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mysterie, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, political thriller film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film

After having a headache following a ride on a roller coaster in Castle Rock, Maine, schoolteacher Johnny Smith politely declines when his girlfriend Sarah asks if he wants to spend the night with her. As he drives home through stormy weath…

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The Nutty Professor (1996)

Komödie, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy film, science fiction film

Sherman Klump, a morbidly obese, kind-hearted professor at Wellman College, creates an experimental formula that reconstructs someone's DNA for weight to be lost easier. Sherman, during a date at a club with Carla Purty, a chemistry gradua…

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Ender's Game (2013)

Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film, science fiction film, teen film

In the future, humanity is preparing to launch an attack on the homeworld of an alien race, called the Formics, that had attacked Earth and killed millions. The Formic invasion was stopped by Mazer Rackham, who crashed his fighter jet into…

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The Transformers: The Movie (1986)

Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, super robot

In 2005, the evil Decepticons have conquered the Transformers' home planet of Cybertron. The heroic Autobots, operating from Cybertron's two moons, prepare a counteroffensive. The Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, sends a shuttle to Autobot C…

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The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Computeranimation, Family Comedy, apocalyptic film, road movie, science fiction film

Katie Mitchell is a quirky aspiring teenage filmmaker in Kentwood, Michigan, who often clashes with her father Rick, a middle-aged, nature-obsessed, and technophobic man, and has recently been accepted into film school in California. The e…

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Home (2015)

Buddy Film, Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, musical film, science fiction film

A cowardly alien race called the Boov, led by Captain Smek, commences their "friendly" invasion on Earth. Relocating the humans, whom they deem as simple and backwards, to the Australian Outback, the Boov inhabit their homes. Oh, an accide…

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Hypnotic (2023)

Mysterie, action film, drama film, police film, science fiction film, thriller film

In a therapy session, Austin Police Detective Danny Rourke recounts the abduction of his seven-year-old daughter, Minnie, three years earlier. He and his partner, Nicks, act on an anonymous tip that a safe deposit box will be robbed, and w…

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Chappie (2015)

Action, Sci-Fi, action comedy film, comedy drama, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film

A skyrocketing crime rate leads the dystopian city of Johannesburg, South Africa to buy a squadron of scouts—state-of-the-art armor-plated attack robots—from weapons manufacturer Tetravaal. These autonomous androids were developed by Briti…

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Cube (1997)

Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, psychological horror fiction, science fiction film

A man named Alderson awakens in a room that has hatches on each wall and floor, each leading to other rooms. He enters another room and is killed by a hidden wiretrap. Five different people all meet in another room: three men (Quentin, Ren…

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Boss Level (2021)

Action Comedy, Time Travel, action film, science fiction film

Roy Pulver, a retired Delta Force soldier in Atlanta, has been stuck in a time loop for nearly 140 days and has learned the day's patterns through many previous loops. He wakes at 07:00 AM each day, avoids an assassin in his apartment and …

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White Christmas (2014)

science fiction

Joe Potter (Rafe Spall) and Matt Trent (Jon Hamm), have lived together in a cabin for five years but barely speak. On Christmas Day, Matt explains why he ended up in the cabin. He used to work as an advisor that would talk less confident o…

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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film

The US government asks Reed Richards to track a mysterious, meteor-like object that has entered Earth's atmosphere, is creating large craters and is seemingly causing fluctuations in the weather and power outages. Meanwhile, Reed and his f…

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The Boys from Brazil (1978)

Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, crime film, political thriller film, science fiction film, thriller film

Barry Kohler, a young amateur Nazi hunter, spies on a meeting of the fugitive Nazi organization Kameraden in Paraguay. At this meeting, infamous Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele provides instructions for the assassinations of 94 civil servan…

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Doom (2005)

Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film, zombie film

In 2026, the Ark, a wormhole portal to an ancient city on Mars, is discovered deep below the Nevada desert. Twenty years later, the 85 personnel at the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) research facility on Mars are attacked by an unknown …

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Strange World (2022)

Adventure, Computeranimation, adventure film, animated film with LGBT character(s), fantasy film, science fiction

In the land of Avalonia, which is surrounded by an endless wall of mountains, Jaeger Clade and his son, Searcher brave the wilderness to explore new worlds. While trying to traverse the mountains to find a way across it, Searcher discovers…

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Forbidden Planet (1956)

Retro Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film

thumb|Film trailer In the 23rd century, after more than a year's journey, the United Planets starship C-57D arrives at the distant planet Altair IV to determine the fate of the ship Bellerophon, sent there 20 years before. Dr. Edward Morbi…

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Darkman (1990)

Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, superhero film

Dr. Peyton Westlake is a scientist developing a prototype for a new "synthetic skin" to help burn victims, but he cannot overcome a flaw that causes the skin to disintegrate after 99 minutes. His girlfriend Julie Hastings discovers an incr…

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Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Action, Sci-Fi, action film, crime film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film

In the near future, humans are augmented with cybernetic improvements such as superhuman strength. Megacorporation Hanka Robotics establishes a secret project to manufacture an artificial body, or "shell", that can integrate a human brain …

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The Core (2003)

Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, disaster film, science fiction film

After 32 people mysteriously drop dead in Boston, the U.S. government calls in scientists Dr. Joshua "Josh" Keyes and Dr.

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