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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, science fiction action film, speculative fiction film, spy film, thriller film
A Drax Industries Moonraker Space Shuttle orbiter on loan to the United Kingdom is hijacked in midair while on a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The carrier is destroyed but no wreckage of the shuttle is found. M, head of MI6, assigns James Bond…
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Cyberpunk, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, space Western, speculative fiction film
In the 26th century, humanity has colonized a new solar system. The central planets formed the Alliance and won a war against the outer planet Independents who resisted joining the Alliance. Child genius River Tam is conditioned by Allianc…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, action film, political thriller film, thriller film
Congressman Phil Hammersley opposes a proposed counterterrorism bill that would significantly expand surveillance powers for American intelligence agencies, arguing that it poses a threat to civil liberties. In response, National Security …
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Adventure, Parodie, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, adventure film, comedy film, parody film, science fiction film
The cast of the 1980s space-adventure series Galaxy Quest attend fan conventions and make trivial promotional appearances. Though the series' vain former star, Jason Nesmith, thrives on the attention, his co-stars Gwen DeMarco, Alexander D…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
Billions of years ago, the Guardians of the Universe used the green essence of willpower to create an intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps. They divided the universe into 3,600 sectors, with one assigned Green Lantern …
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, adventure film, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, hard science fiction, science fiction film, survival film
After an oil crisis, Lunar Industries makes a fortune by building Sarang Station, a facility on the far side of the Moon to mine the alternative fuel helium-3. The facility requires only one human to maintain operations and launch canister…
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Aliens, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, crossover fiction, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film
A Yautja ship leaves Earth carrying captured Xenomorph facehuggers and Scar's body before a chestburster emerges, with characteristic traits of both species. The chestburster quickly matures into an adult Predalien, and starts slaughtering…
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Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk oversees a simulator session of Captain Spock's trainees. In the simulation, Lieutenant Saavik commands the starship on a rescue mission to save the crew of the damaged ship Kobayashi Maru, but is attacked by…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film
Nine years have passed since the failure of the Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, in which commander David Bowman and his crew were lost. Amid international tensions, the United States and Soviet Union each prepare separate missions to…
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Drama, Historie, adventure film, drama film, historical film
In 1947, over the Muroc Army Air Field in California, a number of test pilots are killed while flying high-speed aircraft such as the rocket-powered Bell X-1. After another pilot, Slick Goodlin, demands $150,000 () to attempt to break the …
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Komödie, Sci-Fi, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction film
One Thursday morning, Arthur Dent discovers that his house is to be immediately demolished to make way for a bypass. He tries delaying the bulldozers by lying down in front of them; however, Arthur's friend Ford Prefect convinces him to go…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, horror film, science fiction film
After a flying saucer lands in the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the United States Army surrounds it with soldiers and tanks. A humanoid in a spacesuit emerges, announcing that he comes "in peace and with good will". While the alien i…
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Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, adventure film, science fiction film
In the 23rd century, a Starfleet monitoring station, Epsilon Nine, detects an alien entity hidden in a massive energy cloud, moving through space toward Earth. The cloud easily destroys three Klingon warships and Epsilon Nine on its course…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film, science fiction film, teen film
In the future, humanity is preparing to launch an attack on the homeworld of an alien race, called the Formics, that had attacked Earth and killed millions. The Formic invasion was stopped by Mazer Rackham, who crashed his fighter jet into…
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Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
The US government asks Reed Richards to track a mysterious, meteor-like object that has entered Earth's atmosphere, is creating large craters and is seemingly causing fluctuations in the weather and power outages. Meanwhile, Reed and his f…
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Retro Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film
thumb|Film trailer In the 23rd century, after more than a year's journey, the United Planets starship C-57D arrives at the distant planet Altair IV to determine the fate of the ship Bellerophon, sent there 20 years before. Dr. Edward Morbi…
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Gross Out Film, Komödie, Parodie, Sci-Fi
The film follows a group of intergalactic homosexual black men from the planet Anus, who discover the presence of female creatures on planet Earth. Using rayguns, they proceed to eliminate all females from Earth, eliciting gratitude from t…
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Erotic Film, Sci-Fi, adventure film, comedy film, erotic film, fantasy film, retrofuturism, science fiction film, space opera
In an unspecified future, space adventurer Barbarella is sent by the Earth's president to retrieve Durand Durand from the Tau Ceti planetary system. Durand is the inventor of a laser-powered weapon, the positronic ray, which Earth's leader…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, family film, science fiction film
Ten-year-old boy genius Jimmy Neutron lives in Retroville with his parents, Judy and Hugh, and his robot dog, Goddard. Jimmy's friends are overweight Carl Wheezer and hyperactive Sheen Estevez, and his long-standing rival intelligent class…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, adventure film, mystery film, science fiction film, time-travel film
A spacecraft presumed to be of alien origin is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, estimated to have been there for nearly 300 years. A team of experts, including marine biologist Dr. Beth Halperin, mathematician Dr.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Hard Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In the 24th century, Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare in which he relives his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier. He is contacted by Starfleet, who inform him of a new Borg threat against Earth. Concerned…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Hard Science Fiction, Political Thriller, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
thumb|left|The Excelsior weathers the shock wave generated by the explosion of Praxis. In 2293, the Federation starship Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, discovers that the Klingon moon of Praxis has been destroyed in a mining a…
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, superhero film
Buckaroo Banzai and his mentor Dr. Tohichi Hikita perfect the "oscillation overthruster", a device that allows an object to pass through solid matter. Banzai tests it by driving his Jet Car through a mountain.
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Computeranimation, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Early in the Clone Wars, Galactic Republic forces find themselves stranded across the Outer Rim as the Separatists gain control of more hyperspace lanes. Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker leads the Republic against a droid army on Christophsis …
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