RoboCop (2014)
Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In a crime-ridden city, a fatally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him.
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Abbie Cornish, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Jackie Earle Haley, Jay Baruchel
Director: José Padilha
Android Cop / Hammond (2014)
Action | Sci-Fi
In this futuristic, action-packed thriller, a cop and his robotic partner enter the Zone, a forbidden section of the city inhabited by a diseased stricken populace. Together, they discover the real reason everyone is sick, and attempt to stop the illness – with the help of the machine's powerful technology and weaponry.
Starring: Michael Jai White, Morgan Benoit, Charles S. Dutton, Jay Gillespie, Kadeem Hardison
Director: Mark Atkins
Sobache serdtse / Heart of a Dog (1988)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
The film is set in Moscow not long after the October Revolution. A well-known surgeon Preobrazhensky happens to need a dog and lures the animal to his big home annex practice with a piece of sausage. The dog is named Sharik and well taken care of by the doctor's maids, but still wonders why he's there. He finds out too late he's needed as a test animal: the doctor implants a pituitary gland and testicles of a recently deceased alcoholic and petty criminal Klim Chugunkin into Sharik. Sharik proceeds to become more and more human during the next days. After his transition to human is complete, it turns out that he inherited all the negative traits of the donor – bad manners, aggressiveness, use of profanity, heavy drinking – but still hates cats. Eventually he turns the life in the professor's house into a nightmare…
Starring: Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Tolokonnikov, Boris Plotnikov, Roman Kartsev, Nina Ruslanova
Director: Vladimir Bortko
The Ice Pirates (1984)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps.
Starring: Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts, Anjelica Huston, John Matuszak, Ron Perlman
Director: Stewart Raffill
Survival Code / Borealis (2013)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Borealis is a peek into the future, set in a globally warmed north. The year is 2045 and the ice caps have melted, enabling the discovery of the last oil and gas reserve on the planet are in the Canadian North. It's a future we have all seen coming for years. Borealis is the "gold rush" town that springs up to give ya anything you need. For a price.
Starring: Ty Olsson, Patrick Gallagher, Michelle Harrison, Terry Chen
Director: David Frazee
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The Next Generation PatLabor Chapter 1 / The Next Generation: Patlabor (2014)
Action | Sci-Fi
In a world where giant robots are built and used for labor, a special police force of robots is created to handle crimes relating to these machines.
Starring: Erina Mano, Toshio Kakei, Seiji Fukushi, Rina Ohta, Shigeru Chiba, Yoshikazu Fujiki, Yoshinori Horimoto, Kohei Shiotsuka, Shigekazu Tajiri
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Poseidon Rex (2013)
Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A small, secluded island off the coast of Belize suddenly finds itself terrorized by a deadly predator from the planet's distant past when deep sea divers accidentally awaken an ancient evil.
Starring: Brian Krause, Anne McDaniels, Steven Helmkamp, Candice Nunes
Director: Mark L. Lester
I, Frankenstein (2014)
Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Many decades after his creation, Adam Frankenstein is still hunted through modern city streets, although now his pursuers are opposing clans of demons who want to uncover the secret of his longevity and use it to sustain their own immortality.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Miranda Otto, Yvonne Strahovski, Jai Courtney, Kevin Grevioux
Director: Stuart Beattie
Patema Inverted / Sakasama no Patema (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Patema is a Princess from a village in the underground world. The underground world is made through endlessly connecting mines. Patema is innocent and full of curiosity. She enjoys exploring danger zones that are prohibited. One day, Patema enters a danger zone. She then encounters something totally unexpected.
Starring: Yukiyo Fujii, Shinya Fukumatsu, Masayuki Katô, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Shintarô Oohata
Director: Yasuhiro Yoshiura
Die, Monster, Die! / The House at the End of the World / Monster of Terror (1965)
Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Stephen Reinhart travels to a remote English village to visit his girlfriend Susan Whitley. From the moment he arrives in the village, it's clear that no one will speak of the Whitleys or even give him directions to the Whitley estate. Susan is happy to see him when he finally makes it there but her father Nahum tells him he must leave immediately. Susan and her bedridden mother Letitia are happy to have him stay but it's clear that Nahum Whitley has a secret, one that Susan isn't aware of, but is kept in the cellar of the house…
Starring: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzan Farmer, Terence de Marney, Patrick Magee
Director: Daniel Haller
Batman: Gotham Knight / Batman Anime (2008)
Action | Animation | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Batman: Gotham Knight is a fresh and exciting new entry into the Batman mythos, spinning out of a 40-year history in animation including the Emmy-winning Batman: The Animated Series, widely considered a pivotal moment in American animation. A cross section of distinguished creators, award winning producers, and acclaimed writers weave six interlocking stories that reveal Bruce Wayne's journey to Dark Knight, each with stylish art from some of the world's most revered animation visionaries.
Starring: Kevin Conroy, Gary Dourdan, David McCallum, Parminder Nagra, Ana Ortiz, Brian George
Director: Yasuhiro Aoki, Futoshi Higashide, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Hiroshi Morioka, Shoujirou Nishimi
Superman/Doomsday / The Death of Superman (2007)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi
The most shocking showdown in Superman history! When Lexcorp accidentally unearths the intergalactic serial killer Doomsday, Superman battles the creature head on in the fight of his life…literally. The world collectively mourns their fallen hero; humanity realizes it will never feel truly safe again. Superman's enemies rejoice all but Lex Luthor, who grieves the loss in his own demented manner, setting off a chilling chain of events that even he couldn't have foreseen. Inspired by the bestselling graphic novel of all time, DC Comics' The Death of Superman, this feature-length animated adventure boasts exciting action sequences that rivals anything you've ever seen starring the Man of Steel!
Starring: Adam Baldwin, Anne Heche, James Marsters
Director: Lauren Montgomery, Bruce W. Timm, Brandon Vietti
Bah Humduck!: A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical | Sci-Fi
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Daffy Duck is the greedy proprietor of the Lucky Duck Mega-Mart and all he can think about is the money to be made during the holiday season. Disgruntled employees like Assistant Manager Porky Pig, Marvin Martian, Speedy Gonzales, and Elmer Fudd plead to Daffy Duck for small concessions like a day off on Christmas and discounted toys, but Daffy is relentless in his pursuit of the almighty dollar. It's up to last minute shopper Bugs Bunny; the ghosts of Christmases past (Tweety and Granny), present (Yosemite Sam) and future (Taz); and Porky Pig's young daughter Priscilla to make Daffy see the error of his ways and discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Starring: Joe Alaskey, Bob Bergen, Billy West, June Foray, Maurice LaMarche, Jim Cummings, Tara Strong
Director: Charles Visser
Remote Control (1988)
Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A video store clerk stumbles onto an alien plot to take over earth by brainwashing people with a bad '50s science fiction movie. He and his friends race to stop the aliens before the tapes can be distributed world-wide.
Starring: Kevin Dillon, Deborah Goodrich, Christopher Wynne, Jennifer Tilly, Bert Remsen
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Continuum (TV Series 2012-2015)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols), a Vancouver City Protective Services officer, is transported from the year 2077 to 2012 when eight ruthless terrorists, known as Liber8, attempt to escape execution through time travel. With the help of 17 year old tech genius Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen) and VPD officer Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster), Kiera must survive in our time period, and capture Liber8 before they can alter the course of history and change the future.
Starring: Rachel Nichols, Victor Webster, Erik Knudsen, Stephen Lobo, Omari Newton, Roger R. Cross, Luvia Petersen, Brian Markinson, Lexa Doig, Jennifer Spence, Richard Harmon, Terry Chen, Magda Apanowicz
Creator: Simon Barry
95ers: Time Runners / 95ers: Echoes (2013)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the distant future, millions have died in brutal wars leaving cities laying in ruins. The ultimate weapons become time machines which can insure victory by manipulating the past. In the not-distant future, FBI agent Sally Biggs is obsessed with investigating unsolved cases involving paranormal activities- especially the bizarre disappearance of her scientist husband. She suspects that the mysteries have something to do with the destabilization of time, since Sally herself has the power to rewind history. But she slowly learns that her power is connected to a cataclysmic war in the future, and that she, her husband, and their unborn child become important targets of soldiers travelling from the future. Hunted by assassins while her own timeline is unraveling, her only hope is to follow her husband's ghost to the awesome truth that ties all the mysteries together.
Starring: Alesandra Durham, Joel Bishop, Terence Goodman, Ian Paul Freeth, Chris Laird, Anne Sward, K. Danor Gerald, Alan Peterson, Alix Maria Taulbee, Christopher Robin Miller
Director: Thomas Gomez Durham
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Watchmen: The Motion Comic / Watchmen (TV Series 2008- )
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A 12 part motion comic available on iTunes based on the 1986 highly acclaimed graphic novel. "Watchmen" is set in 1985, in an alternate history United States where costumed adventurers are real and the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. It tells the story of a group of past and present superheroes and the events surrounding the mysterious murder of one of their own.
Starring: Tom Stechschulte
Creator: Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore
The Machine (2013)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
Two computer programmers fall in love as they create the first ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence, which is designed to help humanity. But things go wrong when the MoD steal their breakthrough and teach it to become a robotic weapon.
Starring: Caity Lotz, Toby Stephens, Denis Lawson
Director: Caradog W. James
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Apocalypse Kiss (2014)
Sci-Fi
In this futuristic science fiction thriller, government security agent Jerry Hipple has been unsuccessfully tracking the city's most infamous criminal The Red Harvest Killer. When two nomadic lovers, Katia and Gladys enter the city the death count rises and are being credited as Red Harvest killings. Obsessive compulsive Adrian, the actual Red Harvest Killer becomes furious that the sexy serial killing duo are grabbing media attention under his alias. Not only does Adrian attempt to reclaim his rightful reputation but he also decides to cleverly aid his detective counterpart through the case. All the while, killers and victims alike are unaware the world is about to reach an abrupt catastrophic ending.
Starring: D.C. Douglas, Tom Detrik, Carmela Hayslett, Tammy Jean, Tom Atkins, Michael Berryman, Lloyd Kaufman
Director: Christian Grillo
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The Faculty (1998)
Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Herrington High, Ohio, a small-town highschool. All of a sudden, the teachers start changing attitude. When Casey and Delilah have to hide in a closet in the teacher's lounge, they witness the strangulation of Nurse Harper by two of them. Shocked, they manage to flee. Only moments later, the nurse seems to be very alive, but also somehow changed, like all the teachers and most of the students. Only Casey, Delilah and four others seem to be suspicious. Proof of an alien infection is finally brought by the chemistry teacher, who also points out a way to kill the infected humans. The plan now is to get the queen, before the aliens can spread out over the whole country.
Starring: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Elijah Wood
Director: Robert Rodriguez
