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Revenge of the Creature (1955)

Monster Film, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, monster film, romance film, romantic horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film

Having previously survived being riddled with bullets, the Gill-man is captured and sent to the Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida, where he is studied by animal psychologist Professor Clete Ferguson and ichthyology student Helen Dobson. H…

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Prophecy (1979)

Horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film

While searching for lost lumberjacks in Maine, three members of a search-and-rescue team are killed by an unseen force. In Washington, D.C., Dr. Robert Verne accepts a job from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to write a report ab…

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Megaforce (1982)

Action, action film, science fiction film

The story involves two fictional countries, the peaceful Republic of Sardun and their aggressive neighbor Gamibia. Unable to defend themselves from a Gamibian incursion, Sardun sends Major Zara Benbhutto and General Edward Byrne-White to a…

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Island of Lost Souls (1933)

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

Shipwrecked traveler Edward Parker is rescued by a freighter delivering animals to an isolated South Seas island owned by Dr. Moreau. Parker fights with the freighter's drunken captain who mistreats M'ling, a passenger with some bestial fe…

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Simulant (2023)

Sci-Fi, Thriller

Simulant is set in a near-future world where "simulants", humanoid robots designed to serve humans, are governed by four immutable precepts: they cannot harm humans, modify themselves or others, disobey laws, or refuse commands from their …

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Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

Dark Comedy, Horror, Horror comedy, Splatter Film, comedy horror, science fiction film, zombie comedy

Eight months after the events of Re-Animator, doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain are working as medics in the middle of a bloody Peruvian civil war. In the chaos of battle and with plenty of casualties to work on, they are free to experimen…

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Turtles Forever (2009)

Martial-Arts, action film, adventure film, crossover fiction, martial arts film, ninja film, science fiction film

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles watch a video broadcast of warriors who look like them fighting the Purple Dragons on TV. The Turtles break into the Purple Dragons' HQ and discover that their "imposters" are actually alternate versions of…

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The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

Black mine inspector Ralph Burton becomes trapped in a cave-in at a Pennsylvania coal mine. He can hear rescuers digging towards him, but after five days they slow down and then stop completely, along with the drainage pumps keeping the sh…

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Star Trek: Renegades (2015)

science fiction film

Ten years after the starship Voyagers return from the Delta Quadrant, the Federation is in a crisis. The Federation's main suppliers of dilithium crystals (the primary catalyst for the fuel used in faster-than-light travel) are disappearin…

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The Lair (2022)

Action, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film

In 2017, Royal Air Force pilots Captain Kate Sinclair and WSO Terry Johnson are shot down over Afghanistan. They are attacked by insurgents and Johnson is killed. Unable to call for help, Sinclair stumbles upon an abandoned Soviet bunker, …

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Alien Hunter (2003)

Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film

In 1947 New Mexico, a radio operator receives a bizarre signal coming from Roswell, New Mexico. He decides to investigate its origin and disappears tracking it. In the present day, the same signal is received from the South Pole and then r…

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Xtro (1983)

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

As Sam Phillips and his son Tony are playing outside their farm, Sam is suddenly abducted by a bright light. Three years later, the light returns and plants a seed in a forest. A half-human, half-alien creature develops from the seed, and …

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Death Machine (1995)

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

In 2003, the megacorporation Chaank Armaments is the world's leading manufacturer of cutting-edge weapons and military hardware. A cybernetically-enhanced supersoldier, codenamed "Hard Man", malfunctions and massacres the patrons of a dine…

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Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004)

Animalhorror, Komödie, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film

In 1889, the inhabitants of Rejection are completely dependent on the income from a nearby silver mine. One day, water from a hot spring causes graboid eggs to hatch, resulting in the death of 17 miners. Hiram Gummer, great-grandfather of …

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Io (2019)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, drama film, science fiction film

The film is set in a post-apocalyptic present, where Earth's atmosphere has become toxic. Most humans have fled the planet, to live on a space station near Io, a moon of Jupiter. Sam Walden is one of the few humans remaining on Earth.

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Mothra (1961)

adventure film, fantasy film, kaiju, science fiction film, thriller film

In waters off Infant Island, a presumed uninhabited site for atomic tests of the Eurasian country Rolisica, the Daini-Gen'you-Maru is caught and run aground in the turbulence of a typhoon. A rescue party following the storm finds four sail…

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Dead Heat (1988)

Buddy Cop, Police Film, Zombiefilm, action film, zombie comedy, zombie film

Detectives Roger Mortis and Doug Bigelow are called to the scene of a rather violent jewelry store robbery. The robbers take on a squadron of police in a messy shootout, but neither seems affected when they are riddled with bullets. Thanks…

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The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

Fantasy, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film

The residents of Frankenstein's village feel they are under a curse and blame all their troubles on Frankenstein's monster. The Mayor allows them to destroy Frankenstein's castle. Ygor finds the monster released from his sulfuric tomb by t…

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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

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

The Martians Momar (Mom Martian) and Kimar (King Martian) are worried that their children Girmar (Girl Martian) and Bomar (Boy Martian) are watching too much Earth television, most notably station KID-TV's interview with Santa Claus in his…

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Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)

Conspiracy Thriller, Justice Drama, action film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film

In 1859, a meteorite streaks across the sky and crashes into the Gela Alta glacier in western Greenland, causing a massive explosion that kills an Inuk fisherman. In present-day Copenhagen, Smilla Jaspersen, a transplanted Greenlander, is …

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Timescape (1992)

Sci-Fi, science fiction film

The grieving widower Ben Wilson is renovating an old guest house on the outskirts of his hometown with his young daughter, Hillary. The local bus driver, Oscar, arrives with a group of peculiarly behaved and dressed tourists, who insist on…

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The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)

Action, Adventure, Christmas film, Drama, Fantasy, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film

Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) is a day away from his fourteenth birthday. As Will walks home with his siblings, Miss Greythorne (Frances Conroy), the local mistress of the Manor, and her butler, Merriman Lyon (Ian McShane), invite them t…

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Joy to the World (2024)

adventure film, science fiction, time-travel fiction

The Doctor arrives at the Time Hotel in London, an establishment in the year 4202 that uses time travel to offer hotel rooms at various points in history. The Doctor enlists Trev, a hotel employee, to investigate a man handcuffed to a myst…

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