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fantasy film, live-action/animated film, science fiction film
The opening sequence in live action shows Gulliver announcing his intention to go to sea as a ship's surgeon, followed by scenes of a shipwreck. The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu; with the tiny inhabitants creat…
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Mysterie, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
While on the phone with his girlfriend Jill, who has moved away to attend college, David prompts her to explicitly wish that he were there to see her compete in a fencing tournament, only to surprise her with an unplanned visit. After the …
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Horror, Sci-Fi, monster film, science fiction film
Told in a narrative noir style mostly on Los Angeles location, popularized by the television police series Dragnet, by police detective Dick Chasen, the story concerns a 72-hour period of horror for the city of Los Angeles. Charles "Butche…
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Satire On Media, Sci-Fi
In the future, society is divided between "low-drives" that equate with the labouring classes and "hi-drives" who control the government and media. The low-drives are controlled by a constant broadcast of pornography that the hi-drives are…
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Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
A small oil rig located on a small river in Louisiana hits it big and former oiler John Sanders (who quit when a blowout occurred on a rig he was the boss of and four men died) and his friend Emery are hired to take his ex-wife Kelly and h…
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Aliens, Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, independent film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Allan Kelley and his family struggle to survive on their small date ranch, located in the bleak California desert landscape well away from civilization. His wife Carol hates living so far from civilization, often taking her frustration out…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction film
TV personality Carrie Madison goes to visit crackpot scientist Dr. Hartmann who has invented a teleporter to another dimension. On the way she gets into a car accident with electrician Dan Roebuck, mainly caused by earthquake tremors, whic…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi
Dexter, a once lazy and underachieving student at Medfield College, becomes an instant genius when a freak computer lab accident transfers an entire online encyclopedia to his brain. He uses his newfound intellect to ace a physics midterm …
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Animalhorror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
After a mechanical failure aboard the spaceship Odyssey, Captain Lee Norsythe is forced to crash land on a planet with atmosphere and conditions much like that of Earth, although it is many light-years away. As the ship sinks into the lake…
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Horror, science fiction film
While California University of the Sciences Professor Douglas McCadden explores the tomb of the ancient Egyptian king Tutankhamun, an earthquake causes a wall in the tomb to collapse, revealing a hidden chamber. Inside, Douglas finds a mum…
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science fiction film
Stanton has taken charge of a research company following the death of his father. He warns scientists Mark Mannin, "Doc" Gordon, and Karen White that unless they prove that their time travel experiments can produce some results, their fund…
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Animalhorror, B movie, horror film, science fiction film
When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller
On September 29, 1979, the Interstellar Exploration Agency launches a Japanese rocket ship, the JX-1 Hawk, into space on a nine-month journey to investigate Saturn. At its conclusion, however, the crew is given a new mission after scientis…
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Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
The doll manufacturing company Dolls Inc. is owned and operated by Mr. Franz, who has a personal collection of very lifelike dolls stored in glass canisters locked in a display case on a wall.
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horror film
Dr. Elaine Frederick, a mad scientist, is working on developing maggots that prefer human flesh, while her services are used to make a clone of Adolf Hitler. She cooperates with the plan to resurrect Hitler as a way of exacting revenge for…
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Horror, horror film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, television film
Two people disappear along the Appalachian Trail: a young man jogging with his girlfriend and a hermit who rarely leaves his home. Sheriff Grady Barnes finds a trail that leads him to parts of the hermit's body. That night, young Roy Satte…
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Action, Horror, action film, horror film, science fiction film
Carl Lehman is a scientist working on a next-generation space suit for the ARC corporation in a high-tech secret lab, run by the sinister Alex Whyte. One of the projects being developed for the space suit, the "rage program", is software t…
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Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, science fiction film
A Scanner (a person with special telepathic and telekinetic abilities) goes crazy and is shot by officer Pete Harrigan (Richard Grove). Harrigan discovers the Scanner had a child and adopts him. 15 years later, Harrigan leads the Los Angel…
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Adventure, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Around the turn of the century, American mining engineer Ben Harris is working on the Cornish coast in England when he finds a body washed up on the beach. Ben makes inquiries at the nearby hotel. While talking to the hotelier's daughter, …
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, science fiction film
In Victorian England, everyone is trying to make new scientific discoveries, including such failures as the Duke of Barset's attempt to create the first house in England illuminated by electricity (leading to its going up in flames), Sir C…
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body horror film, horror film, psychedelic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Lou (Natasha Lyonne) is a hard-partying stoner who lives in a run-down trailer outside a rural Michigan town where women have recently been going missing. She awakens one morning after a party at an abandoned warehouse and finds herself ex…
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science fiction film
Four years after the events of the previous film, the D.E.T.I.A. has mostly lost its funding and nearly everyone has been let go. Lazer Team has also been disbanded, as the four heroes do not work well together, Woody being the only member…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The Rider arrives on his advanced motorcycle equipped with an artificial intelligence computer called Einstein. He crashes but manages to pass through the "wall of illusion" where he is brought back to health by the Enlightened Elders. The…
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Sex Film, Zombiefilm, gay pornographic film, horror film, new queer cinema, zombie film
An extraterrestrial zombie (who may just be a schizophrenic vagrant, and whose appearance constantly shifts between that of a corpse, a tusked beast with irregular genitals, and a normal man) emerges from the sea, and begins making its way…
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