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Aliens, Military Film, action film, alien invasion, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, war film
On August 12, 2011, hostile alien spacecraft make landings off the coasts of large cities. Los Angeles is evacuated while Marines from Camp Pendleton arrive, including Staff Sergeant Michael Nantz, an Iraq War veteran. Nantz, who was to be…
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Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
The crew of the newly commissioned are enjoying shore leave after the starship's shakedown cruise, with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy camping at Yosemite National Park. Their leave is interrupted when the Enterprise is ordered by Starfleet Comman…
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Scientific Documentary, Space Opera, Sword And Sorcery, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, sword and sorcery film
The entity known as the Beast and his army of Slayers travel the galaxy in a mountain-like spaceship called the Black Fortress, intent on enslaving the planet Krull, as he has done to many other worlds. Ynyr recites the prophecy that was g…
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Fantasy, Monster Film
On June 13, a weaponised strain of influenza known as Project Blue is accidentally released from a secret U.S. Army laboratory in California. A soldier, Charlie Campion, escapes the facility with his wife and child, unknowingly spreading t…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
The people and animals of the sleepy fictional coastal town of Midwich in Marin County, California, fall asleep at a 10 AM "blackout" and regain consciousness at 4 PM. Following the blackout, ten women of child-bearing age mysteriously fal…
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Action, Martial-Arts, Super Hero, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, ninja film, science fiction film
In New York City, shortly after the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles defeat the Shredder, a young pizza delivery boy named Keno inadvertently encounters burglars at a mall on his route and tries to stop them. The burglars attack Keno, who prov…
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Hard Science Fiction, Thriller, disaster film, katastrophe, science fiction film
Dr. Jeremy Stone recounts the events before the United States Senate Committee on Space Sciences in 1971: After a U.S. government satellite crashes near the small rural town of Piedmont, New Mexico, on February 5, nearly all the residents …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Sci-Fi, dystopian film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film
Joanna Eberhart, a young wife and aspiring photographer, moves with her husband Walter and their two daughters, Kim and Amy, from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut. She finds that the women in town all look flawless and are obsessed with …
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, historical film, science fiction film
In the Ural Mountains, a hunter-gatherer tribe called the Yagahl survives by hunting woolly mammoths, but as the migrations grow more scarce, uncertainty as to their future mounts. When a young blue-eyed girl is brought to their camp, the …
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, cyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller film
Following the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s, artificial cloning of animals has become commonplace by 2015. Human cloning is prohibited by "Sixth Day" laws, following a botched attempt. Charter pilot Adam Gibson is hire…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
After miraculously recovering from an apparently fatal bullet wound to the head inflicted by a child soldier, Gulf War veteran Jack Starks returns to Vermont in 1992, suffering from periods of amnesia. While walking, he sees a young girl, …
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Adventure, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action comedy film, adventure film, buddy film, drama film, science fiction film
In 1958, two U.S. Air Force pilots and aspiring astronauts William "Hawk" Hawkins and Frank Corvin are testing a modified Bell X-2 when Hawk decides to break speed and altitude records. The plane stalls and they are forced to eject, narrow…
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Adventure, Fairy-Tale Film, Sci-Fi, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Ben Crandall is a young teenage boy living in a fictional Maryland suburb, who experiences vivid dreams about flying through clouds and over a vast, city-like circuit board, usually after falling asleep watching old sci-fi films. Upon waki…
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Dark Comedy, Nazi exploitation, Retro Science Fiction, action film, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction film, steampunk film
In 2018, an American crewed mission lands on the Moon. The lander carries two astronauts, one of them an African-American model, James Washington, specifically chosen to aid the U.S. President's re-election (various "Black to the Moon" pos…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 1996, an experimental military program selects and raises a group of orphaned infants to be trained as highly disciplined, ruthless, professional soldiers. Recruits considered physically or mentally underperforming are culled and the su…
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Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, flashback film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film
In Montreal, scientist André Delambre is found dead with his head and arm crushed in a hydraulic press. His wife Hélène confesses to the crime but refuses to provide a motive, and begins acting strangely. In particular, she is obsessed wit…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Irene Kelly's daughter Anna is murdered by a restaurant cook named Neville. She travels through various parallel universes to kill Neville's other selves using a universe-hopping machine. In one of these universes she encounters teenage ru…
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Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, martial arts film, science fiction film, thriller film
Gabriel Yulaw, once an agent of the MultiVerse Authority (MVA) which polices interdimensional travel, seeks to hunt down 124 variants of himself across parallel universes. By killing his other selves and absorbing their life energies, Yula…
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Computeranimation, Japanese Animation Film, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, children's film, science fiction film
In the 22nd century, Toby Tenma is a teenager who lives in the futuristic city-state of Metro City, which floats above the polluted Earth. His father, Dr. Tenma, works at the Ministry of Science, alongside Dr.
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Sci-Fi, Slasher Horror, science fiction film, slasher film
On April 18, 2003, in the small town of Sweetly, Minnesota, high school senior Summer Field unenthusiastically attends the senior class celebration Spring Fling, as her close friends Emmy, Brian, and Val were recently murdered by a serial …
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Animation, Komödie, comedy film, fantasy film, heist film, musical film, mystery film, science fiction film
Following their last adventure, the Muppets are unsure of their next move. Their new tour manager, Dominic Badguy, suggests a world tour. Unknown to them, Dominic is secretly working for Constantine, the world's number one criminal who bea…
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Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In August 1994, news broadcasts announce that the ozone layer is fading, and will be completely gone in a matter of months. In Africa, millions have perished from the effects of unfiltered sunlight. Among the dead is Connor MacLeod’s wife,…
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, science fiction film
Prior to Earth's destruction, the chimpanzees Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo salvage and repair Taylor's spaceship and escape the planet. The shock wave of Earth's destruction sends the ship through a time warp that brings the apes to 1973 E…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Time Travel, apocalyptic film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In the year 2067, Earth has been devastated by climate change, deforestation and an ongoing nuclear war. Only one city in the ruins of Australia has been able to hold out against these catastrophic changes, thanks to synthetic oxygen; but …
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