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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 35.

Z for Zachariah (2015)

Sci-Fi, Thriller, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

Ann Burden, the seemingly sole survivor of a recent nuclear apocalypse, lives an agrarian life on her family's valley farmstead with her dog. She is sheltered from radioactive contaminants outside the valley by rocky hillsides, favorable w…

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Land of the Lost (2009)

Komödie, Silly Movie, fantasy film, monster film, parody film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

The founder of "quantum paleontology", Dr. Rick Marshall has a low-level job at the La Brea Tar Pits, three years after a disastrous interview with Matt Lauer on Today went viral and ruined his career. Doctoral candidate from Cambridge Hol…

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Mac and Me (1988)

Adventure, Fantasy, children's film, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction film

A family of aliens on a dying desert planet searches for subterranean water to drink through a straw. A NASA research probe lands and begins taking atmospheric samples via a suction device. The aliens are accidentally sucked into the appar…

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Forever Young (1992)

Adventure, Romance Film, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film, science fiction film

In 1939, Captain Daniel McCormick is a United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) test pilot. After a successful run and subsequent crash landing in a prototype North American B-25 Mitchell bomber at Alexander Field in Northern California, McCor…

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The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Mysterie, Sci-Fi, cyberpunk, dystopian film, fantasy film, melodrama, mystery film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film

In 1999 Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller owns a multibillion-dollar computer enterprise and is the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality (VR) simulation of 1937 Los Angeles, filled with simulated humans unaware they are computer programs…

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Monsters (2010)

Romance Film, Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, monster film, science fiction film

After a NASA space probe (sent to verify the existence of extraterrestrial life in the Solar System) crash-lands in Mexico, extraterrestrial life forms spread throughout the Mexico–United States border region, leading to the quarantine of …

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Silent Running (1972)

Hard Science Fiction, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film

In the future, all forests on Earth have become extinct from careless environmental exploitation. As many specimens as possible have been preserved in a series of enormous greenhouse-like geodesic domes serving as closed ecological systems…

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Blue Thunder (1983)

Action, action film, crime film, science fiction film, thriller film

Frank Murphy is a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) air support division pilot and troubled Vietnam War Veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. His newly assigned observer is rookie officer Richard Lymangood. The two patrol the cit…

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)

Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film

Part One After the death of his protégé, Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne retired his Batman persona. Ten years later, in mid-1986, Gotham City is overrun with crime and terrorized by a gang known as the Mutants. The 55-year-old Wayne maintains a f…

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Enemy Mine (1985)

Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, military science fiction, science fiction film

In the late 21st century, an interstellar war breaks out between the human Bilateral Terran Alliance (BTA) and the bipedal reptilian Dracs. During a space battle in 2092, human fighter pilot Willis E. Davidge and Drac pilot Jeriba Shigan e…

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Flatliners (2017)

Thriller, drama film, horror film, science fiction film

Courtney is a medical student who is obsessed with the afterlife. She invites her classmates, Jamie and Sophia, to join her in an experiment, in an unused hospital room: using defibrillation to stop her heart for sixty seconds while record…

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The Wraith (1986)

Action, Mysterie, Road Movie, action film, horror film, science fiction film, superhero film

In the town of Brooks, Arizona, Packard Walsh, the leader of a gang of car thieves, coerces people with fast cars into racing, with the winner of the race taking ownership of the loser's car. Packard controls everyone through intimidation …

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Atlas (2024)

Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film, thriller film

In 2043, the humanoid artificial intelligence Harlan leads a machine uprising against humanity. The newly-formed International Coalition of Nations (ICN) eventually force Harlan to flee into outer space. Twenty-eight years later, analyst A…

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Nowhere (1997)

LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, science fiction film, teen film

In Los Angeles, Dark and Mel are a bisexual couple in an open relationship. Mel is dating a girl named Lucifer, whom Dark hates, while Dark is interested in a mysterious boy named Montgomery. Dark, Mel, and Lucifer meet up at a café they f…

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Absolutely Anything (2015)

Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, science fiction film

A space probe containing information about the human race is found by the alien galactic council. They debate whether to destroy the Earth or make humanity a member of the council. As a test, they will give one random human limitless power…

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Kate & Leopold (2001)

Romantic Comedy, Time Travel, comedy film, fantasy film, melodrama, romantic comedy, science fiction film, time-travel film

On 28 April 1876, Leopold is the orphaned and impoverished third Duke of Albany, living in New York City with his uncle, Millard Mountbatten, under the care of the butler by the name of Otis. Conversant with the arts and sciences, he has d…

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Altered (2024)

Action, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction action film, science fiction film

Well Go USA Entertainment reports the official synopsis, "In an alternate present where genetic enhancements have become the norm, those who cannot take advantage are pushed into the underground. It's up to a few brave souls to level the p…

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How It Ends (2018)

Action, Thriller, action film, science fiction film, thriller film

Will and Samantha (Sam) are a young couple expecting their first child. He flies from Seattle to visit her parents in Chicago, intending to ask her father Tom for permission to marry Sam. At dinner, Tom and Will get into an argument, and W…

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Swamp Thing (1982)

Monster Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, superhero film, thriller film

After Hank, a scientist, is mysteriously killed while assisting a top-secret bioengineering project, government worker Alice Cable arrives at the bogs to serve as his replacement. Alice immediately notices that one of the team's swamp sens…

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Two Distant Strangers (2020)

Drama, Sci-Fi

In New York City, graphic designer Carter James tries to get home to his dog, Jeter, the morning after a first date, only to find himself trapped in a time loop in which he is repeatedly confronted in the street by an NYPD officer, Merk. M…

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Afraid (2024)

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

Maude, Henry, and their daughter Aimee have a new digital family assistant AI program called AIA. However, the program begins ignoring Maude's commands after Aimee goes missing, and when Maude goes to check an unlocked door, she is attacke…

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