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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, fantasy film, science fiction film
After being snubbed before a weekend getaway by his teaching assistant, socially awkward professor of physics Tarl Cabot accidentally unlocks the magical properties of a ring that transports him to the planet Gor. After his arrival, Cabot …
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
Six children are identified by a team of UNESCO researchers investigating child development. The children have extraordinary powers of intellect and are all able to complete a difficult brick puzzle in exactly the same amount of time. Brit…
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science fiction film, superhero film
A rash of suspicious suicides among scientists and businessmen, all found holding a small scarab, gets the attention of Mayor Randolph. He demands that Police Commissioner Dryden and District Attorney Grant Gardner get to the bottom of the…
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Horror, animal horror film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
Dr. Robert "Rack" Hansen, a veterinarian in rural Verde Valley, Arizona, receives an urgent call. Farmer Walter Colby's prize calf is sick, and dies shortly afterward.
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Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Swashbuckler, action film, fantasy film, medieval film
A year before his death, Sir Bowen visits the cave of his long-dead dragon friend Draco and finds an egg. He entrusts it to the monastery of his friend Brother Gilbert. Aware of a prophecy stating that "a dragon's heart could doom mankind …
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Musical, Sci-Fi, musical film, science fiction film
"John Williams" is an alien Alphoid, who has adopted human form and lived on earth for millennia. Galactic Control instructs him to investigate a strange vibration they have detected coming from planet Earth. The sound is being produced by…
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science fiction film
A fleet of warships are helmed by the 'felis sapiens', under the tyrannical rule of Rodon (Ray Fearon), the ruthless feral cat leader who has vowed to wipe out all cats who worship anyone but him. Three cat clerics (Tom Bennett, Mandeep Dh…
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Super Hero, action film, horror film, science fiction film, superhero film
Scientist Peyton Westlake is still searching for the key to creating a permanent liquid-skin formula to mend his burned face and body, and continues to operate as the vigilante "Darkman." He interrupts a criminal exchange spearheaded by po…
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Monster Film, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
In 1982, a Soviet moon lander crashes into the Bering Sea. In 2015, biology professor Stephen and graduate students Ronelle and Sadie go on an experimental tour to study the effects of global warming on whales. Sadie's grandfather, Graff, …
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, horror film, science fiction film
Daily World newshawk Lee Taylor is investigating a series of pathological murders that have taken place over a series of months in New York City. The murders always take place at night, under the glow of a full moon, and each body has been…
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Horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
In a stretch of woods, two hunters are caught in a thunderstorm. They decide to seek refuge in Willows House, supposedly abandoned and haunted. They find Willows House occupied, and the current owner, scientist Dr.
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science fiction action film, superhero film, teen film
College student Caitlin Fairchild is offered a scholarship by the National Security Committee to attend a secret military school set in a U.S. desert base. While there, she meets new friends Percival Chang (Grunge) and Roxanne Spaulding (F…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Paul and Jessie Duncan are a happily married couple who have an eight-year-old son named Adam. The day after his eighth birthday, when fetching a basketball into the street, Adam is killed in a collision. While leaving a church, Jessie and…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film
In the year 3000, the salvage spaceship Mother III happens upon the derelict transport Demeter. Captain Van Helsing and his crew board the abandoned ship. They explore the bridge and find the corpse of the Demeter's Captain tied to a chair…
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Action, Sci-Fi, spy film
Oscar Goldman is reluctantly attending a gala banquet at The Pentagon to celebrate the upcoming "World Unity Games" unhappy that he now has to practice détente with former enemies in the era of glasnost. Also at the gala, Steve Austin is n…
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Animalhorror, Horror, Sci-Fi, Slasher Horror, anthology film, horror film, monster film
Terror in Topanga During a routine traffic stop, a highway patrolman is viciously stabbed by an unseen assailant, though he survives and is taken to the hospital. The perpetrator is William Henry Glazier, a serial killer who escaped a ment…
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B movie, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, disaster film, horror film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
A nuclear submarine on its shakedown cruise in the Pacific Ocean, captained by Commander Pete Mathews, comes into contact with a massive sonar return. Unable to outrun or outmaneuver the object, the boat is disabled, but frees itself and r…
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Animalhorror, Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
thumb|left|Joan Collins in the movie. The opening narration notes how ants use pheromones to communicate and how this causes an obligatory response. As the opening credits roll, barrels sporting radioactive waste decals are dumped off a bo…
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Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi, comedy horror, science fiction film
A group of medical students observe Dr. Daniel Jekyll perform brain surgery at Our Lady of Pain and Suffering Hospital in Los Angeles, California. Hubert Howes, the world's richest man, watches a recording of the procedure from his hospita…
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science fiction film
After a Yeti is killed by a group of Sherpa, a team of university scientists travel to Nepal to find the origins of the creature. Teaming up with a rugged tracker, the group set out from the Sherpa village and, after a large avalanche, dis…
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Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film
Commander Christopher "Kit" Draper, USN, and Colonel Dan McReady, USAF, reach the red planet in their spaceship, Mars Gravity Probe 1. They are forced to use up their remaining fuel in order to avoid an imminent collision with a large orbi…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero
Luthor, the Atom Man, invents several deadly devices to plague the city, including a disintegrating machine which can reduce people to their basic atoms and reassemble them in another place. Superman manages to thwart each scheme. Since Kr…
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Action, action film, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Nomad (Patrick Swayze), a swordsman, wanders through the desert in a post-World War III world. He searches for his mentor's killer, the assassin Sho (Christopher Neame). In the past, Nomad had a position of privilege as a soldier of the el…
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Space Opera, adventure film, science fiction film
Battlestar Galactica is set in a distant star system, in an age described as "the seventh millennium of time". Twelve colonies of humans, living on different worlds, have been fighting a 1,000 year war against the robotic race of Cylons, w…
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