Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with speculative fiction genres and themes.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 265 films.
Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In the distant future, Duke Leto Atreides is assigned by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV to replace Baron Vladimir Harkonnen as the fiefholder of Arrakis, a harsh desert planet and the sole source of "spice", a valuable psychotropic substa…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, epic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Following the defeat of House Atreides by House Harkonnen, Princess Irulan—daughter of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam Corrino IV—records in her journal her father's betrayal of the Atreides. On the planet Arrakis, a Fremen tribe led by Stil…
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Occult Horror, horror film, speculative fiction film, supernatural horror film
Cousins Teresa and Jessica, and Jessica's boyfriend Caleb, are vacationing at a lakeside cabin when a possessed Jessica scalps Teresa and decapitates Caleb before levitating above the lake. One day earlier, guitar technician Beth discovers…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In Ixtenco, Mexico, Nick Fury and Maria Hill investigate an unnatural storm and encounter the Earth Elemental. Quentin Beck, a super-powered individual, arrives and defeats the creature. Fury and Hill subsequently recruit him.
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Natural Disaster, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, drama film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Structural engineer John Garrity lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his estranged wife, Allison, and their diabetic son, Nathan. He is on the way home to watch the near-earth passing of a recently discovered interstellar comet nicknamed "Clar…
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Political Drama, Political Satire, Social Drama, action film, arthouse science fiction film, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, exploitation film, mystery film, prison film, satirical film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
thumb|right|Human furniture from the Korova milk bar, where the "milk-plus" was served In a futuristic Britain, Alex DeLarge is leader of a gang of "droogs": Georgie, Dim, and Pete. They engage in an intoxicated evening of "ultra-violence"…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In 5000 BC, ten superpowered beings known as Eternals—Ajak, Sersi, Ikaris, Kingo, Sprite, Phastos, Makkari, Druig, Gilgamesh, and Thena—are sent to Earth by Arishem, a Celestial, on the starship Domo. They are charged with exterminating in…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Sword And Sorcery, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film, speculative fiction film
Orphaned as a baby, Harry Potter is entrusted to his only living relatives, the Dursley family that is not related to the wizarding world, by Professor Albus Dumbledore, Professor Minerva McGonagall, and key keeper Rubeus Hagrid from Hogwa…
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Horror, drama film, horror film, romance film, speculative fiction film, vampire film
Prince Vlad of Wallachia renounces God and becomes Dracula after the murder of his wife Elisabeta during a battle with the Ottomans. Over four centuries, Dracula attempts to track down the reincarnation of his wife, creating vampiric agent…
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Splatter Film, Vampirfilm, horror film, speculative fiction film, vampire film
Abigail, a young ballet dancer, is kidnapped by six skilled criminals and taken to the secluded Wilhelm Manor. Lambert, who hired them, instructs them to guard Abigail for 24 hours, at which point each of them will receive $7 million from …
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space opera, speculative fiction film
Thirty years after the Battle of Endor, the First Order has risen from the fallen Galactic Empire and seeks to destroy the New Republic. General Leia Organa leads The Resistance against the First Order, while also searching for her lost tw…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, horror film, psychological horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, supernatural horror film
In 2047, a distress signal is received from the Event Horizon, a spaceship that disappeared during its maiden voyage to Proxima Centauri seven years earlier. The ship has mysteriously reappeared in orbit around Neptune, prompting the US Ae…
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Adventure, Romantic Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, melodrama, romance film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In the distant future, the Avalon, a sleeper ship transporting 5,000 colonists and 258 crew in hibernation pods, is traveling from Earth to the planet Homestead II, a 120-year journey as part of a wave of space colonization to escape the o…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, science fiction film, space opera, speculative fiction film, superhero film
At their new headquarters on Knowhere, the Guardians of the Galaxy are attacked by Adam Warlock, a Sovereign warrior created by High Priestess Ayesha who seeks to destroy them for stealing from her. After critically wounding Rocket, Adam i…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, crossover fiction, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the representative of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for obtaining the Tesseract, a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises to provide Loki with …
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, action thriller, horror film, speculative fiction film
In 1719 in the Great Plains, Naru, a young Comanche woman trained as a healer, dreams of becoming a great hunter like her brother, Taabe. While tracking deer, she witnesses strange lights in the sky, which she believes to be a Thunderbird,…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, tech noir, thriller film
In 2027, total human infertility has led to wars and global depression, pushing civilization to the brink of collapse as humanity faces extinction. The UK has transformed into a totalitarian police state in which asylum seekers are arreste…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, monster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Three years after defeating Mechagodzilla, Kong has established his new territory in Hollow Earth and searches for more of his kind. On the Earth's surface, Godzilla continues to maintain order between humanity and giant monsters, known as…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, suspense film, thriller film
A Predator ship crash-lands on Earth. U.S. Army Ranger sniper Quinn McKenna and his team are attacked by the Predator while on a hostage retrieval mission.
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Drama, drama film, fantasy film, romance film, speculative fiction film
In August 2005, Daisy Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. She tells her daughter Caroline about blind clockmaker Mr. Gateau, hired to make a clock for a train station in 1918.
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Drama, Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In 1977, French scientist Claude Lacombe, along with interpreter and cartographer David Laughlin, examine Flight 19—a group of United States Navy aircraft that vanished over the Bermuda Triangle in 1945—now found immaculate and abandoned i…
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Action, Natural Disaster, action film, adventure film, disaster film, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
A massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis before entering the atmosphere and extensively damaging New York City. The meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue asteroid the size of T…
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Fantasy, Musical, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, musical film, speculative fiction film
Willy Wonka, a young chocolatier, arrives at the Galéries Gourmet with dreams of establishing his own chocolate shop. Wonka is coerced to stay at Mrs. Scrubitt's boarding house by her co-worker, Bleacher, and unknowingly signs a predatory …
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Crime, Fantasy, Komödie, Splatstick, comedy film, fantasy film, gangster film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In Edge City, insecure bank teller Stanley Ipkiss is frequently ridiculed by everyone except for his co-worker and best friend, Charlie Schumaker. Meanwhile, gangster Dorian Tyrell plots to overthrow his boss, Niko, who owns the Coco Bongo…
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