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 8.
speculative fiction film
A new crime wave strikes Gotham City. On Halloween night, Solomon Grundy and Silver Banshee escape from Arkham Asylum and meet with Scarecrow, dodging Nightwing and Green Arrow along the way. Video game designer Gogo Shoto is kidnapped by …
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Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, speculative fiction film
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital in 2002 with no memory of the past two years. Dr. Newman informs him that he briefly died and is suffering from memory loss.
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Sci-Fi, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, End Times Road Movie, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
An angel nursing a large egg is sent to an irradiated earth by her older brother Jonathan, with orders to see if mankind can be saved. On earth, two surviving soldiers, Frank and Goose, scavenge for supplies, oxygen, and water. Goose finds…
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Damian, the new Robin, is upset after failing to stop the Joker the previous evening and being humiliated after he fell off a building and had to be saved by Batman, which was caught by a video blogger and posted on the Internet. Alfred Pe…
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Fantasy, Komödie, romantic comedy, speculative fiction film
Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) has a publishing business that's in trouble and a girlfriend (Polly Walker), who is also being pursued by a U.S. Senator (Sam Shepard). Stevenson buys a townhouse, for himself, which disappoints her.
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Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
An American astronomer obtains images of Mars suggesting large-scale environmental changes are occurring at a pace that can only be accomplished by intelligent beings with advanced technology. Scientist Chris Cronyn (Peter Graves) and his …
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Komödie, medieval film, speculative fiction, time-travel film
Scientist Vivien Morgan is zapped back to the medieval age and time of King Arthur and Camelot, when her scientific machine malfunctions. She is sent back along with many objects from her desk, including her laptop and boom box. As she is …
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Set in 1953 Vietnam during the First Indochinese War, the film tells the story of an orphaned country girl named Linh, who gets hired to be a housemaid at a haunted French rubber plantation. She unexpectedly falls in love with the French l…
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Foster Brenner, a successful film producer, is killed by a bomb hidden underneath the diving board of his swimming pool. A narration begins stated in city of Los Angeles, people think about the bright lights and glamour of Hollywood but in…
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Action, Sci-Fi, speculative fiction film
dystopian film, speculative fiction film
Allison Goldring, an upper-class, white college student, becomes pregnant from her boyfriend Jeremy Tanner. After discussing her options with both Tanner and her family, she makes the decision to travel abroad to terminate the pregnancy, a…
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Animalhorror, Horror, monster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
A team of environmentalists, including a reporter, her camera man, and an environmentalist's famous girlfriend charter a boat and with the captain, sail to a military island. They suspect the island is hosting to illegal activities. Upon a…
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Adventure, adventure film, children's film, speculative fiction film
Young Ivan Drago places first in a mail-in contest for board game inventors, only to be disappointed after receiving the grand prize of a temporary tattoo. However, he soon discovers his tattoo is permanent, prompting his father to reach o…
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Action, Fantasy, speculative fiction film
Action, Sci-Fi, speculative fiction film
Haunted by memories of the murder of his partner by anarchist terrorist Nassim, former policeman Nick James has become a debt-ridden shell of his former self, and works as a janitor for computer science firm Quantum. Quantum's top research…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, speculative fiction film
After an event which appears to have been World War III (the cause is not explained in the movie) Commander Eastern becomes the leader of a futuristic society in a post-apocalyptic world. The society is fascist and the citizens have a bar …
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Action, Horror, action film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
A mad albino scientist (Brion James) injects a substance into the water supply for the fictional town of Canyonland, an isolated town in rural Utah, with the help of a shadowy, unknown agency. Anybody who drinks the water eventually turns …
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Fantasy, Romantic Drama, speculative fiction film
A newly released prisoner, Peter Glahn, returns home to the land of Mandragora, where the sun never sets. Aboard the ship, Glahn has a romantic encounter with Juliana Kossel, then proceeds to the family ostrich farm, which is run by his si…
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Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction film, speculative fiction
A convicted murderer is being transported across the highway in a blizzard when the police wagon crashes into a tree. The officers and the prisoner, Jack, make their way through the blizzard to a small airport. In the restroom the officers…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
At the Federal Institute of Sciences, a device capable of visualizing parallel dimensions was created. Colonel Sam Synn receives Dr. Karen Fast, Josh Burke, Al Icia and Senator Jackson Crenshaw during the presentation.
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adventure film, animated film, comedy film, drama film, family film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
The cartoon begins with some gangsters asking directions to an oil refinery. After Herman gives them directions, the gasoline company president is seen bound and gagged in the back of the gangsters' car. Soon after a messenger bat arrives …
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horror film, speculative fiction film
A team of commandos take shelter in an abandoned research facility during an ion storm. They are attacked by a creature which is a hybrid of human and alien.
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