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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)

Adventure, comedy drama, comedy film, fantasy film, musical film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

A garbage-can spaceship is seen flying near Earth, and is then shown inside an antique shop owned by Captain Manzini. A boy named Dodger is being assaulted by four older teenage bullies in a park. Juice, the leader, steals Dodger's money a…

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Kafka (1992)

Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, dystopian film

In Prague in 1919, Franz Kafka works as an insurance adjuster while moonlighting as a writer. He gets involved with an underground group after one Eduard Rabin, of his co-workers, is murdered. The underground group, responsible for bombing…

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1984 (1956)

Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film

In the mid-1960s, a nuclear war and devastation of Earth gave rise to three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. By 1984, London, with its bomb-proof ministry, is designated as the capital of Airstrip One, a province of Oceania, co…

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Watchers (1988)

Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, monster film, science fiction film

An explosion occurs in a classified research laboratory, causing an intense fire. A mutated monster known as the OXCOM (Outside Experimental Combat Mammal) escapes and chases a Golden Retriever from the same lab, through the surrounding wo…

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The Giant Claw (1957)

Aliens, Animalhorror, Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film

Mitch MacAfee, a civil aeronautical engineer, spots a UFO while engaged in a radar test flight in the Arctic. Jet fighters are scrambled to pursue and identify the object, despite it not appearing on radar, but one aircraft goes missing. M…

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The Curse (1987)

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

Teenage boy Zack lives on a farm in Tellico Plains, Tennessee with his mother Frances, younger sister Alice, stern and pious old stepfather Nathan Crane and unpleasant, dim-witted stepbrother Cyrus. One night Frances sneaks out of the hous…

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Deep Blue Sea 2 (2018)

Animalhorror, horror film, science fiction film

In a small boat off the coast of South Africa, two fishermen are killing sharks to harvest their dorsal fins. A warning is sent out over the radio and via flare, advising all vessels to leave the area immediately as it is dangerous, but th…

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Beowulf (1999)

Action, Fantasy, action film, drama film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

A castle-like outpost comes under attack by a creature named Grendel on a nightly basis. However, it refuses to attack the border lord Hrothgar. One of the outpost's residents, Pendra, escapes the following morning but is captured by a riv…

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The Ice Pirates (1984)

Action, Adventure, Komödie, Sci-Fi, adventure film, pirate film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

In a distant galaxy, water is so scarce and rationed that it is considered an immensely valuable substance, both as a commodity and as a currency in ice cubes. The Templars of Mithra control the water and they destroy worlds that have natu…

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Les Visiteurs en Amérique (2001)

Fantasy, Komödie, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

The film takes place in 12th-century England, where Count Thibault Malefète is about to marry Princess Rosalind, the daughter of the reigning King Henry. At the wedding banquet, an enemy known as the Earl of Warwick accidentally gives Thib…

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Code 8: Part II (2024)

Action, Sci-Fi, science fiction film

Five years following the events of Code 8, the LCPD has reformed their militarized tech program, replacing the majority of their armed humanoid robots (Guardians) with non-lethal companion K9 robots, similar to dogs. Under the leadership o…

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Space Truckers (1997)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sitcom, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

At a corporation's base on the Neptunian moon Triton, mercenaries are setting up a defense perimeter to try to hold off an unstoppable cyborg warrior. The company's CEO E.J. Saggs and chief scientist Dr.

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2036: Nexus Dawn (2017)

Sci-Fi

Niander Wallace is called to a hearing about his desire to manufacture a new generation of replicants. Wallace is warned that what he is doing is illegal and not open to debate, which Wallace questions saying they are debating it. Wallace …

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The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988)

Super Hero, action film

thumb|left|Donald Blake and Thor Dr. David Banner has been gainfully employed at the Joshua-Lambert Research Institute (as David Bannion), where he and a team of scientists are putting the final touches on a Gamma Transponder. The Transpon…

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Trancers (1985)

Christmas film, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, science fiction film, time-travel film

Jack Deth is a retired police trooper in the 23rd century who has been called back into service to assist in hunting down Martin Whistler, a criminal mastermind who uses psychic powers to turn people into mindless "Trancers" and carry out …

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The Manhattan Project (1986)

Sci-Fi, Thriller, teen film, thriller film

Dr. John Mathewson discovers a new process for refining plutonium to purities greater than 99.997 percent. The United States government provides him a laboratory located in Ithaca, New York, masked as a medical company.

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The Tingler (1959)

Horror, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film

A pathologist, Dr. Warren Chapin, discovers that the tingling of the spine in states of extreme fear is due to the growth of a creature that every human being seems to have, called a "tingler," a parasite attached to the human spine. It cu…

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The Apple (1980)

Musical, Sci-Fi, musical film, science fiction film

In a cut two-song prologue of the film named "Paradise Day," Mr. Topps (Joss Ackland) creates heaven and carves the first human, Alphie, out of a rock, sending Alphie to Earth to meet Bibi. The two take part in the 1994 Worldvision Song Fe…

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Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016)

action film, comedy film, science fiction film

At Wayne Manor, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson watch their favorite show, Gotham Palace. During the programming, a band that was supposed to play on the show is revealed to be hidden and replaced by the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler, and C…

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The Return of Swamp Thing (1989)

Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, superhero film

After her mother's mysterious death, Abigail Arcane travels to the Florida swamps to confront her evil stepfather, Dr. Anton Arcane, who had been resurrected after his death in the first film. In an attempt to stave off the effects of agin…

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Space Sweepers (2021)

science fiction film, space opera

During the year 2092, Tae-ho, Captain Jang, Tiger Park and an android named Bubs are a crew of space sweepers who live at an orbiting space station created by the UTS corporation after Earth becomes uninhabitable. Under the leadership of S…

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The Machine (2013)

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

In the future, United Kingdom is on the brink of war with China over the Taiwan issue. The British military needs soldiers with fluency in Chinese who are also ruthless killers. At an underground military base, scientists employed by Brita…

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The Suite Life Movie (2011)

Family Comedy, Komödie, comedy drama, drama television series, science fiction film, teen film

After making plans to spend spring break with his girlfriend Bailey Pickett, Cody Martin decides to leave the SS Tipton, a large cruise ship where he attends school, to work as an intern for Dr. Donald Spaulding (John Ducey) at a prestigio…

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