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 5.
Komödie, adventure film, buddy film, children's film, comedy film, fantasy film, parody film, speculative fiction film
Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose live a melancholic life since their television series was canceled in 1964. Their animated home, Frostbite Falls, is deforested, Rocky can no longer fly, and their show's unseen narrator li…
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Cartoon, Super Hero, action film, crime film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Batman: Gotham Knight is split into six segments: Have I Got a Story for You (Studio 4°C) Have I Got a Story for You was written by Josh Olson and animated by Studio 4°C. A street kid meets with his three friends at a skate park, to which …
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Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Baron Wolf von Frankenstein, son of Henry Frankenstein, relocates his wife Elsa and their young son Peter to the family castle. Wolf wants to redeem his father Henry's reputation but finds this will be more difficult than he thought after …
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Drama, Komödie, Sci-Fi, anti-war film, comedy film, drama film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, war film
In Ilium, New York, the middle-aged Billy Pilgrim writes a letter to the editor claiming to have become "unstuck in time"; he finds himself as a young man behind enemy lines in Belgium during World War II, where he and some other American …
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Cartoon, action film, crime film, speculative fiction film, thriller
In an alternate universe, heroic versions of Lex Luthor and Joker (called the Jester) steal a device called the "Quantum Trigger" from the headquarters of the Crime Syndicate. When an alarm is tripped, the Jester sacrifices himself to allo…
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Action, Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adult animated film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In ages past, the Arakacians, a malevolent race, discovered a place where spacetime leaked a type of fluid. This fluid granted immortality to anyone who consumed it. The Arakacians built an empire and enslaved the known universe for centur…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, crime film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In near-future New Orleans, a mysterious distributor offers a free supply of "Power"—a pill that grants various superpowers for five minutes—to a group of drug dealers, including one named Newt. Newt's teenage cousin Robin is a dealer hers…
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science fiction, speculative fiction
In 2013, the Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald are brought by military organisation UNIT head Kate Lethbridge-Stewart to the National Gallery to investigate figures missing from three-dimensional paintings—a technology developed by the Doct…
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Komödie, children's film, comedy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In the Capital City Town Hall, a beagle on the police bomb squad sets off a false alarm. Ridiculed and rejected, the beagle leaves and is abducted by Cad Lackey, who takes him to the lab of mad scientist Simon Barsinister. Bitter that his …
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Adventure, Fantasy, adventure film, comedy film, speculative fiction film
Nemo is a young girl who lives in a lighthouse with her widowed father Peter, a lighthouse keeper. Every night, Peter tells her wild bedtime stories about his adventures with Flip, his old partner. One night during a storm, Peter heads out…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Japanese Animation Film, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, crossover fiction, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
An unknown entity, named "The Centre," is born from the Earth itself and witnesses the evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs, and human evolution. Due to humanity's capacity for war and violence, the Centre concludes that they must be …
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Action, Computeranimation, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Vandal Savage plans to start a new civilization by exterminating two thirds of the population and hires Mirror Master to hack into the Batcomputer and steal contingency plans devised by Batman to incapacitate his League teammates should th…
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Fantasy, action film, adventure film, family film, martial arts film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, teen film, tokusatsu
On the planet Liaria, a wizard named Lerigot is being hunted down by Divatox; an intergalactic space pirate, who seeks his golden key to traverse an inter-dimensional gateway and enter into matrimony with Maligore, an imprisoned demon who …
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Animalhorror, comedy film, disaster film, horror film, speculative fiction film
With the Earth completely devastated from the global sharknado swarm, Fin Shepard and his adult son Gil time travel to the Cretaceous period in a bid to change the future and undo the destruction. Gil vanishes upon arrival, and a hologram …
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Akademik Vladislav Volkov, a Russian research vessel in the South Pacific, communicates with the orbiting space station Mir. An energy source traveling through space strikes Mir, killing the cosmonauts and beaming itself down to Volkov. Th…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, children's film, comedy, family film, fantasy film, monster film, speculative fiction
The once-peaceful land of Malaria, driven into poverty by a never-ending storm, has saved itself through evil inventions: King Malbert encouraged the best and most wicked scientists to create doomsday devices and blackmail the rest of the …
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Horror, Sci-Fi, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Carly (Carly Pope) is a young woman who has fallen out of contact with her mother Angela (Nathalie Boltt). Angela is convicted of killing more than 20 people in a spree where she burned down a care home she worked at and poisoned a church.…
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Drama, Historie, Thriller, speculative fiction film
During a field battle of the English Civil War in Monmouthshire, alchemist's assistant and astrologer Whitehead flees from the violent Commander Trower. He is saved by soldier Cutler, who kills Trower. The two meet fellow army deserters Ja…
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Cartoon, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction
Superman and Lois Lane are romantically involved, but Lois is not happy with him not revealing his secret identity to her. While digging, workers from LexCorp unearth the spaceship of Doomsday, a genetically-engineered super-soldier that i…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In the near future, humanity lives in a technologically advanced, dystopian society. The government requires that everyone receive an ocular implant that records everything they see. The implant provides an augmented-reality head-up displa…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, family film, fantasy film, speculative fiction film
A opening sequence shows Malicia, daughter of a mayor, reads a book called “The Adventures of Mr. Bunnsy Has a Adventure” and it tells the story of Mr. Bunnsy, a rabbit who hops into a garden which is beside a house, his grand escape, and …
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Animalhorror, comedy television program, disaster film, horror film, science fiction, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In Washington, D.C., Fin Shepard attends an awards ceremony at the White House, where he is given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the President for his heroic actions during the 2013 and 2014 sharknadoes. When a tropical depression ap…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy film, disaster film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In the prologue, quotes from the Book of Genesis are shown and narrated, describing God's decision to wipe out humanity. Pilot David Randall flies top-secret photographs from South African astronomer Dr. Emery Bronson to Dr.
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Sci-Fi, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 1940, businessman John Cabal, living in the city of Everytown in Southern England, cannot enjoy Christmas Day as the news speaks of possible war. His guest, Harding, shares his worries, while another friend, the over-optimistic Pippa Pa…
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