Upstream Color (2013)
Drama | Sci-Fi
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Starring: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth
Director: Shane Carruth
Warning Sign (1985)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
In an ultra secret laboratory for the developing of biological weapons, covered as "Biotek", a research center for agriculture, a serious accident occurs, spreading a sinister bacteria in the laboratory. The security guard of the complex, closes and seals the building, with all the personnel inside, making very difficult the struggle for survival, not to mention the actions that the relatives of the enclosed people are thinking to do.
Starring: Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Dysart, G.W. Bailey, Jerry Hardin
Director: Hal Barwood
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Just after the end of the American Civil War a terrifying "Sea Monster" is destroying shipping at will, and a military expedition is created to track and kill the beast before more lives are lost. Famed oceanographer Professor Arronax and his assistant Conseil are on board when they are attacked by the creature far out at sea, it races towards them with a howling shriek, glowing eyes, and "breath like a furnace," tearing open their warship and sending it to the bottom with almost all hands. Adrift on the open ocean Arronax, Conseil, and a lone sailor, Ned Land, discover the "monster" at rest, but instead of a living creature they find a fantastical vessel, the Nautilus, its dedicated crew, and its commander, the driven and enigmatic Captain Nemo… now their adventure REALLY begins!!!
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Ted de Corsia
Director: Richard Fleischer
Amphibian Man / Chelovek-Amfibiya (1962)
Romance | Sci-Fi
It is an almost fable-like story based upon the eponymous novel by Alexander Beliaev. It focuses on a boy named Ichtyandr who was surgically altered to survive under the sea. The story is set in a seaside port, largely among a community of pearl fishers. The protagonist is the son of a doctor/scientist who was sometime in the past forced to save his son's life by implanting him with gills. Thus he is able to live under water, but must keep his secret from the world. The conflict arises from his falling in love with a pearl-fisher's beautiful daughter. His secret is discovered and the girl's stern father attempts to exploit Ichtyandr for his ability.
Starring: Vladimir Korenev, Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Mikhail Kozakov, Anatoliy Smiranin, Nikolai Simonov, Vladlen Davydov
Director: Vladimir Chebotaryov, Gennadi Kazansky
100 Degrees Below Zero (2013)
Action | Sci-Fi
After freak climate and weather events destroy the world around them, a group of rogue scientists attempt to reverse the deadly new ice age.
Starring: Marc McKevitt Ewins, Jeff Fahey, Judit Fekete, Andray Johnson, Lajos Kalmár, Iván Kamarás, John Rhys-Davies
Director: R.D. Braunstein
Evangelion 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo / Evangerion shin gekijôban: Kyu (2012)
Action | Animation | Drama | Sci-Fi
The third film in the four-part silver-screen remake of sci-fi anime classic Neon Genesis Evangelion, Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo is set 14 years after the events of You Can (Not) Advance. and continues to depart further from the known tome of previous installments with new storylines and characters. Now part of the organization Wille along with other Nerv staff, pilots Asuka and Mari are sent to outer space to recover Eva-01, where Shinji has been trapped all these years. Barely surviving an Angel attack, they return to Wille's base Wunder. Shinji finally emerges from Eva-01 but a different world of divided loyalties awaits him. A detonable collar is placed around his neck to prevent him from ever piloting again, but an Evangelion Mark.09 piloted by Rei comes to save him.
Starring: Megumi Ogata, Akira Ishida, Megumi Hayashibara, Yûko Miyamura, Kotono Mitsuishi, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Fumihiko Tachiki
Director: Hideaki Anno, Mahiro Maeda, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki
Pegasus vs. Chimera / The Blood of Pegasus (2012)
Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A father hunts with his son, slays a monstrous dragon and is confronted by a corrupt tyrant who forces them into battle.
Starring: Sebastian Roché, Nazneen Contractor, Rae Dawn Chong, James Kidnie, Mimi Kuzyk, Carlo Rota
Director: John Bradshaw
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Fringe (TV Series 2008-2013)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston. The team uses unorthodox "fringe" science and FBI investigative techniques to investigate a series of unexplained, often ghastly occurrences, which are related to mysteries surrounding a parallel universe.
Starring: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole
Creator: J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
Strange Days (1995)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Lenny Nero sells dreams and hustles nightmares, dealing in real-life experiences through a new technology that makes every sensation immediate. But on the eve of the new millennium, Lenny and his street-savvy friend and conscience, Mace, are suddenly caught in a deadly fantasy of conspiracy, murder and betrayal–plunging them into the bleak heart of the nightworld he has always inhabited.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
666 Park Avenue (TV Series 2012)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
666 Park Avenue tells the story of a young couple who accept an offer to manage one of the most historic apartment buildings in New York City, but soon begin to witness supernatural events.
Starring: Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Robert Buckley, Samantha Logan, Mercedes Masöhn, Erik Palladino, Helena Mattsson, Vanessa Williams, Terry O'Quinn, Misha Kuznetsov
Creator: Gabriella Pierce
Chillerama (2011)
Action | Comedy | Horror | Musical | Sci-Fi
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in the US and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on US soil until this very night! What could possibly go wrong?
Starring: Richard Riehle, Adam Rifkin, Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Tania Raymonde, Eric Roberts
Director: Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan
The Blob (1958)
Horror | Sci-Fi
A cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader.
Starring: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland, Stephen Chase
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Escape from New York / New York 1997 (1981)
Action | Sci-Fi
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world's most brutal inmates. And when the President of the United States crash lands inside, only one man can bring him back: Snake Plissken, a notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero who, in exchange for a full pardon, descends into the decayed city and wages a blistering war against the captors. But time is short: in 24 hours, an explosive charge planted inside Snake's body will end the mission — and his life — unless he succeeds.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau
Director: John Carpenter
The 25th Reich (2012)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
A WWII sci-fi adventure – full of time-travel, duplicitous Nazi robots, faulty spaceships and giant mega-fauna… Based on the classic novella, 50,000 Years Until Tomorrow by J.J. Solomon, and with a screenplay penned by Amis, David Richardson and Serge DeNardo, the movie is a homage to sci-fi and WWII movies of the 1940's and 50's.
Starring: Jim Knobeloch, Dan Balcaban, Jak Wyld, Serge De Nardo, Angelo Salamanca
Director: Stephen Amis
The Gerber Syndrome / The Gerber Syndrome: il contagio (2011)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi
The Gerber's Syndrome is an contagious viral disease that was discovered in Germany in 2008 and spread all over the world. It is extremely contagious, fast spreading, and deadly. This syndrome is very difficult to spot, because it's like a normal dose of the flu, with all the subsequent symptoms that most of us are familiar with; but later, the virus affects the brain cells causing serious damage to the central nervous system. A TV crew is making a documentary about the disease and the way society is coping with it by documenting the stories of three people who are dealing with Gerber's Syndrome: Melissa is a young girl that has been infected, Doctor Ricardi is the doctor who is following her and Luigi is a member of the CS, the security organization that has to deal with infected people. The TV crew follow the lives of this characters, becoming characters themselves since they are constantly in the action. We see how the syndrome progress in Melissa and the way her family and Doctor…
Starring: Valentina Bartolo, Elisabetta Fischer, Pia Lanciotti, Nicola Marchitiello, Anna Nevander, Ettore Nicoletti
Director: Maxì Dejoie
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Iron Man: Rise of Technovore (2013)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
The young and insane tech genius Ezekiel Stane has developed a new techno-organic armor that seemingly outclasses Iron Man. When Stane unleashes a terrorist attack during the launch of Tony Stark's newest satellite, Iron Man is blamed. Now he must evade S.H.I.E.L.D.'s man hunt and find a way to clear his name.
Starring: Norman Reedus, Matthew Mercer, Kate Higgins
Director: Hiroshi Hamazaki
Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion / Marudukku sukuranburu: Nenshou (2011)
Animation | Sci-Fi
Balot and a severely injured Oeufcoque seem to be at the mercy of an obsessed Boiled. Dr. Easter comes to the rescue and the group escapes to "Paradise" where many secrets of Mardock lie and where Balot will need to come to a decision herself about what she will and can do.
Starring: Megumi Hayashibara, Norito Yashima, Hiroki Touchi
Director: Susumu Kudo
Manborg (2011)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
A soldier, brought back to life as a cyborg, fights alongside a band of adventurers against demon hordes in a dystopian future.
Starring: Matthew Kennedy, Adam Brooks, Meredith Sweeney, Conor Sweeney, Ludwig Lee, Jeremy Gillespie, Andrea Karr
Director: Steven Kostanski
Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres / The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
Comedy | Crime | Sci-Fi
The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
Starring: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Maurice Risch, Guy Grosso, Jean-Pierre Rambal
Director: Jean Girault
12 Monkeys / Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The year is 2035 and humankind subsists in a desolate netherworld following the eradication of 99% of the Earth's population, a holocaust that makes the planet's surface uninhabitable, and mankind's destiny uncertain. A desperate group of scientists secure a reluctant volunteer, Cole, to embark on a dangerous mission back to the year 1996, where they hope he can help unravel this apocalyptic nightmare before it completely erases humanity from the planet. When Cole arrives in 1996, he meets Jeffrey Goines, the unstable son of a renowned scientist, and Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist and author whose initial alarm over his prophetic warnings of the world's fate soon turns to conviction, and she comes to believe that mankind may indeed be doomed. While also questioning his own sanity, Cole struggles with Railly to unravel the mystery with his only two clues: a haunting childhood memory and a series of puzzling symbols from a group known only as The Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, David Morse, Jon Seda
Director: Terry Gilliam
