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 · Page 2.
Drama, Fantasy, Knights Tale, medieval film, speculative fiction film, sword and sorcery film
Gawain is awakened on Christmas morning in a brothel by his lover, a commoner woman named Essel. He returns to Camelot, following a scolding by his mother Morgan le Fay. Gawain attends a feast at the Round Table with his uncle the Lord, wh…
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Action, Japanese Monster Movie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, apocalyptic film, dystopian film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In 2013, colossal extraterrestrials called Kaiju emerge from an interdimensional portal called the Breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and begin to attack coastal cities along the Pacific Rim. In response, humanity constructs massive…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Komödie, Musical, action film, adventure film, family film, fantasy film, musical film, romance film, speculative fiction film
In the fictional city of Agrabah, an orphaned street urchin named Aladdin and his monkey, Abu, meet Princess Jasmine, who has snuck away from her sheltered life in the palace. She wishes to succeed her father as Sultan but is instead expec…
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Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, musical film, speculative fiction film
Twelve year-old Bea moves into her grandmother Margaret's apartment in New York while her father awaits heart surgery in the same hospital where her mother died years earlier. Bea insists that she is not a child, but that night, while watc…
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Action Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, speculative fiction film, sword and sorcery film
Prior to being imprisoned for grand larceny, bard Edgin "Ed" Darvis served in the Harpers, an order of peacekeepers, until his wife was killed by disciples of a Red Wizard he arrested. Accompanied by barbarian Holga Kilgore, Ed attempted t…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In 2600 BC, the tyrannical king Ahk-Ton of Kahndaq enslaves his people to mine the mythical metal Eternium, using it to forge the Crown of Sabbac to attain power and invincibility. After attempting to stage an uprising against Ahk-Ton, a y…
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Action, Hard Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. This dystopian community is governed by a strict set of rules. The residents are told that the outside world has become too contaminated to support li…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, space Western, speculative fiction film
On the planet Corellia, orphans Han and Qi'ra escape a local gang. They bribe an Imperial officer with stolen coaxium, a starship fuel, for passage on a transport, but Qi'ra is captured before she can board. Han vows to return for her and …
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Action, Crime, Cyberpunk, Satire, Super Hero, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, superhero film, thriller film
In a near-future dystopia, Detroit is on the brink of social and financial collapse. Overwhelmed by crime and dwindling resources, the city grants the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) control of the Detroit Police Department. …
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Super Hero, Vampirfilm, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film, thriller film, vampire film
At a hospital in Greece, 10-year-old Michael Morbius welcomes his surrogate brother Lucien, whom he renames Milo; they bond over their shared blood illness and desire to be "normal". Seeing Michael's potential, their adoptive father and ho…
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Drama, Fantasy, Horror, body horror film, drama film, experimental film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, speculative fiction film, surrealist fiction, surrealist film, thriller film
Henry Spencer's face appears superimposed over a planet in space. He opens his mouth and a spermatozoon-like creature emerges. A man inside the planet moves a set of levers, and the creature is flushed away.
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
Four years after becoming king of Atlantis, Arthur Curry has married Mera and has a son, Arthur Jr., while splitting his life between land and sea. Meanwhile, David Kane / Black Manta continues to seek revenge against Arthur for his father…
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Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
At the White House, a teleporting mutant, Nightcrawler, attacks the President of the United States; he is shot and retreats. Meanwhile, Logan explores an abandoned military installation at Alkali Lake in Alberta for clues to his past, but …
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, action film, alien invasion, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, religious horror, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Former Episcopal priest Graham Hess lives on a rural farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with his asthmatic preteen son, Morgan, and young daughter, Bo, who has a fixation on contaminated water. Graham's younger brother Merrill, a failed min…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Time Travel, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
thumb|thumbtime=103|upright=1.5|Teaser of the film Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awaken from deep hibernation when their spacecraft crashes into a lake on an unknown planet after a near-light-speed space voyage. Before they abandon …
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Ghost-Movie, Komödie, comedy film, ghost film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In Summerville, Oklahoma, Egon Spengler captures an entity in occultist Ivo Shandor's mine outside the town and lures another to his farm. He activates an elaborate setup on his property, but the power fails. Egon manages to conceal the gh…
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Horror, horror film, speculative fiction film, supernatural horror film
In 2019, nine years after his possession, Josh Lambert's memories of his experience in The Further have been repressed. He is divorced from his wife Renai and his mother Lorraine has recently died. His relationship with his son Dalton has …
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Action, Adventure, Animalhorror, Fantasy, action film, fantasy film, speculative fiction film
In 1944, two World War II fighter pilots, American pilot Hank Marlow and Japanese pilot Gunpei Ikari, parachute onto an island in the South Pacific after a dogfight and engage in close combat until the fight is interrupted by a giant ape. …
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure fiction, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction
Ten-year-old Walter and six-year-old Danny are two brothers who do not get along with each other or their teenage sister, Lisa. While their father is away at work and Lisa is napping, Danny discovers an old science fiction-themed board gam…
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Action, Adventure, Bible Film, Drama, adventure film, apocalyptic film, drama film, epic film, fantasy film, speculative fiction film, sword-and-sandal film
As a child, Noah sees his father, Lamech, killed by king Tubal-cain for his land. As an adult, Noah lives with his wife, Naameh, and their sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth. He dreams of a great flood, so he takes his family to consult his grand…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
Off the coast of Rome, Italy, an iron maiden is brought up from the ocean floor. When the device is opened on the deck of the ship, it is revealed to contain Quỳnh, an immortal who has been imprisoned inside for 500 years. Six months after…
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Action Comedy, Christmas film, Modern-Day Fantasy, action comedy film, black comedy film, speculative fiction film
A bitter and jaded Santa Claus has become so fed up with centuries of enabling mankind's materialism and greed that he intends to retire after finishing this year's Christmas deliveries. In Greenwich, Connecticut, Jason Lightstone and his …
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Action, Time Travel, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, time-travel film
In 2029, aboard the United States Air Force space station Oberon, Leo Davidson works closely with apes who are trained for space missions. His favorite is a chimpanzee named Pericles. With a deadly electromagnetic storm approaching the sta…
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Action, action film, disaster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, war film
In 2005, potentially habitable "Planet G" is discovered, and in 2006, a communications array to reach any extraterrestrial life is built on Oʻahu. There, a slacking Alex Hopper is arrested while attempting to impress Samantha "Sam" Shane, …
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