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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 36.

Push (2009)

Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, science fiction film, thriller film

Since 1945, various countries have set up Divisions to track, categorize, and experiment on people with psychic abilities to turn them into soldiers. 10 years ago, two Movers, Jonah Gant and his young son Nick, were pursued by the U.S. Div…

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Possessor (2020)

Horror, Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, cyberpunk, thriller film

Tasya Vos is an assassin who takes control of other people's bodies to carry out her hits. Through an implant installed in the unwitting host's brain, Vos' consciousness is inserted into their minds. She returns to her own body by forcing …

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A Boy and His Dog (1975)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, arthouse science fiction film, comedy drama, comedy thriller, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

In the post-nuclear United States of 2024, Vic is an 18-year-old boy, born in and scavenging throughout the wasteland of the former southwestern United States. Vic is most concerned with food and sex; having lost his parents, he has no for…

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Star Trek - Insurrection (1998)

Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, science fiction film

Lieutenant Commander Data is temporarily transferred to an undercover mission observing the peaceful Ba'ku people. He suddenly malfunctions and reveals the presence of the joint Federation–Son'a task force observing the Ba'ku. Admiral Doug…

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The Thinning (2016)

Thriller, dystopian film, science fiction film

In 2039, due to Earth's human overpopulation, the United Nations instructs all nations to annually cut their populations by 5%. The United States implements the 10-241 or "the Thinning", a standardized test in which those who fail will be …

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RoboCop 3 (1993)

Action, Crime, Cyberpunk, Thriller, action film, cyberpunk, science fiction film, superhero film

Following the events of the first two films, the conglomerate Omni Consumer Products (OCP) have succeeded in their plan of acquiring the city of Detroit via bankruptcy but are now struggling. The Kanemitsu Corporation, which bought a contr…

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In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)

Sci-Fi, Thriller, crime film, thriller film, time-travel film

In 1988 in Philadelphia, several people are found dead whose brains hemorrhage out of their facial orifices. Police officer Thomas Lockhart and his partner, Maddox, investigate with Lockhart's brother-in-law, Detective Holt. They are conne…

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The Darkest Hour (2011)

Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film

Two Americans, Ben and Sean, travel to Moscow to sell a software application. After arriving, they find their business partner, Skyler, has betrayed them by already selling a knockoff. Disappointed, the pair goes to a nightclub, where they…

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Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, adventure film, children's film, family film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film

An alien spacecraft crashes near Searchlight, Nevada, 45 miles outside of Las Vegas. Project Moon Dust, a secret Defense Department unit led by Henry Burke, reach the scene of the crash in black helicopters. Men in black seize the spaceshi…

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Reminiscence (2021)

Drama, Film Noir, Sci-Fi, science fiction film

In a partially flooded future Miami, climate change has forced most of the population to work at night. Recent war veterans Nick Bannister and Emily "Watts" Sanders operate a machine that allows clients to relive memories. One morning, a w…

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My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)

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

Steven Mills is a widowed scientist working on different ways to send radio waves into deep space. After he sends a radio wave out of the galaxy, it hits the planet of Cosine N to the 8th, disrupting the planet's gravity. Celeste is sent t…

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2073 (2024)

Drama Documentary, Sci-Fi, documentary film

In a ruined 2073, a lone survivor in dystopian New San Francisco reflects on how unchecked climate collapse, authoritarian rule and tech-driven surveillance transformed the world, mixing her struggle with real-world archival footage that w…

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The last Man on Earth (1964)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Horror, drama film, dystopian film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, vampire film in Italy, zombie film

thumb|The Last Man on Earth (full movie) It is 1968, and Dr. Robert Morgan lives in a world where everyone else has been infected by a plague that has turned them into undead, vampiric creatures that cannot stand sunlight, fear mirrors, an…

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The War of the Worlds (1953)

Aliens, Sci-Fi, adventure film, alien invasion, disaster film, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film

A narrated prologue shows the weapons of modern warfare from World War I and World War II, then warns of the upcoming "War of the Worlds" fought with "the terrible weapons of super-science menacing all mankind and every creature on Earth".…

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Batman: The Long Halloween (2021)

action film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, superhero film

Part One Hoping to solicit help in laundering his funds, Gotham City mob boss Carmine Falcone meets with billionaire Bruce Wayne under the guise of repairing the relationship between their families. Bruce declines. On Halloween, someone mu…

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Capricorn One (1978)

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

Capricorn One—the first crewed mission to Mars—is on the launch pad. Just before liftoff, astronauts Charles Brubaker, Peter Willis, and John Walker are suddenly ordered out of the spacecraft by a NASA official. Bewildered, they are flown …

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Harry and the Hendersons (1987)

Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, fantasy film, monster film, science fiction film

Following a camping trip in the nearby Cascade mountains, George Henderson drives home to the Wallingford neighborhood in Seattle with his family when he hits a Bigfoot with his station wagon. Believing it to be dead and the key to fame an…

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Mars needs Moms! (2011)

Animation, Komödie, science fiction film

Unbeknownst to humans, a technologically sophisticated society of Martians lives below the surface of Mars. Their Supervisor, while observing Earth, sees a mother persuading her son, Milo, to do his chores. The Martians decide to bring her…

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Timeline (2003)

Action, Adventure, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, period drama film, science fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film

Castlegard, a village near La Roque Castle in Dordogne, France, is the site of the 1357 hanging of Lady Claire, sister to Arnaut de Cervole. Her martyrdom led France to win the Hundred Years War against the English. While excavating a near…

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The Avengers (1998)

Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, action film, science fiction film, spy film

Secret agent John Steed and meteorologist Dr. Emma Peel are summoned to The Ministry. They meet the spymaster, codenamed Mother, who informs them that the Prospero project — an attempt to influence the weather — was apparently sabotaged by…

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Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

The orangutan Lawgiver, in "North America – 2670 A.D.", explains to an unseen audience some key events of ape and human events in the late 20th century, then moves forward to the story of the chimpanzee Caesar in the early 21st century, ye…

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Them! (1954)

Animalhorror, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, B movie, action film, horror film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film

In 1954, New Mexico State Police Sergeant Ben Peterson and his partner, Ed Blackburn, discover a little girl wandering the desert in a catatonic state near Alamogordo, and the ravaged and abandoned travel trailer she came from a few miles …

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Earth, Girls are Easy (1988)

Komödie, Musical, Romance Film, Sci-Fi, musical film, romantic comedy, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

In the San Fernando Valley, Valerie Gail works as a manicurist at the Curl Up & Dye salon. Dissatisfied with the lack of sexual interest from her fiancé, Dr. Ted Gallagher, she receives a makeover from her friend and the salon manager, Can…

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