Category: Sci-Fi
Posted on May 10, 2012 |
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children / Fainaru fantajî VII: Adobento chirudoren (2005)
Action | Animation | Anime | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
This computer animated film picks up where the Playstation Final Fantasy VII video game left off. Cloud, the hero of the game, has retired into seclusion, but when a mysterious and lethal disease known as Geostigma begins to spread across the planet, and three powerful, villainous children appear, he reluctantly emerges to face the new and mysterious threats. Featuring some of the most spectacularly lavish computer graphics ever created, 'Advent Children' continues the complex and compelling tradition that has made the Final Fantasy series one of the most popular games of all time.
Starring: Takahiro Sakurai, Ayumi Ito, Shotaro Morikubo, Maaya Sakamoto, Keiji Fujiwara, Taiten Kusunoki, Yûji Kishi, Kenji Nomura
Director: Tetsuya Nomura, Takeshi Nozue
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Tags: Ayumi Ito, Keiji Fujiwara, Kenji Nomura, Maaya Sakamoto, Shotaro Morikubo, Taiten Kusunoki, Takahiro Sakurai, Takeshi Nozue, Tetsuya Nomura, Yûji Kishi
Posted on May 8, 2012 |
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Appleseed / Appurushîdo (2004)
Action | Animation | Sci-Fi
Set in a post-apocalyptic 2131 A.D.A.D., girl mercenary Deunen Knute finds herself spirited away from the badlands to the gleaming utopian city of Olympus. There she's reunited with her ex-b.f. Briareos, now half-man, half-cyborg. Deunen learns from new handler Hitomi that Olympus' serenity is founded on the use of bioroids, genetically engineered clones who hold key positions in the city's government. Hitomi herself is one. Superpowerful computer Gaia monitors all, through the mediation of seven Yoda-esque elders. When a shadowy faction opposed to the bioroids' civic control start blowing stuff up, Deunen and Briareos team up to protect the city.
Starring: Ai Kobayashi, Jûrôta Kosugi, Yuki Matsuoka, Asumi Miwa, Akimoto Tsubasa
Director: Shinji Aramaki
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Tags: Ai Kobayashi, Akimoto Tsubasa, Asumi Miwa, Jûrôta Kosugi, Shinji Aramaki, Yuki Matsuoka
Posted on May 6, 2012 |
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Hell (2011)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The sun has become brighter, the earth, hotter and drier. What life remains must hide in shadow and scavenge for survival.Four travellers, in search for running water in the mountains, run into an ambush, where the younger of two sisters is captured.This post apocalyptic parable deals with the standard issues of trust, leadership, honour, hope, and of course survival.
Starring: Hannah Herzsprung, Lars Eidinger, Stipe Erceg
Director: Tim Fehlbaum
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Tags: Hannah Herzsprung, Lars Eidinger, Stipe Erceg, Tim Fehlbaum
Posted on May 1, 2012 |
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Time Bandits (1981)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A curious boy named Kevin is whisked away from his dreary English home by six mischievous dwarfs who have stolen/borrowed a map from the Supreme Being. The map reveals "time holes" that allow them to travel through history where they meet Robin Hood, King Agamemnon, and Napoleon and steal their treasures. However, the Supreme Being really wants his map back and continually interrupts Kevin and the time bandits as they rob their way through time.
Starring: Michael Palin, Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Tags: Ian Holm, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Terry Gilliam
Posted on April 29, 2012 |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind / CE3K (1977)
Drama | Sci-Fi
In the night skies near his Muncie, Indiana, home, power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) experiences something out of this world. His close encounter sets into action an amazing chain of events that leads to contact with benevolent aliens and their Mothership. This Blu-ray release includes the Original Theatrical Version, Special Edition and the Director's Cut of the movie.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Tags: Cary Guffey, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Richard Dreyfuss, Steven Spielberg, Teri Garr
Posted on April 29, 2012 |
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Men in Black II / MIIB (2002)
Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
When a renegade Kylothian monster disguised as a lingerie model threatens the survival of the human race, the boys of the MIB get the call to step up and get busy. With their headquarters under siege and time running out, Agents Kay and Jay enlist the help of Frank the Pug and a posse of hard-living worms to help them kick some seriously sexy alien butt!
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn, Lara Flynn Boyle, Johnny Knoxville
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Tags: Barry Sonnenfeld, Johnny Knoxville, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rip Torn, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith
Posted on April 29, 2012 |
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Men in Black / MIB (1997)
Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi
The adventures of J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones), two federal agents aka, The Men in Black, who are assigned to investigate all alien related phenomena. The agents uncover an intergalactic plot to assasinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies who happen to reside in New York City. Jay and Kay's mission is to foil the plot by tracking down the terrorist, thereby preventing the earth from being destroyed.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
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Tags: Barry Sonnenfeld, Linda Fiorentino, Rip Torn, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio, Will Smith
Posted on April 29, 2012 |
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The Host / Gwoemul (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Careless American military personnel dump chemicals into South Korea's Han River. Several years later, a creature emerges from the tainted waters and sinks its ravenous jaws into local residents. It abducts Hyun-seo (A-sung Ko) the daughter of Kang-du (Kang-ho Song), who works at a food-stand on the banks of the river. The government announces that the monstrous thing is the Host of an unidentified virus. Having feared the worst, Kang-du receives a phone call from his daughter who is frightened, but very much alive. Kang-du soon makes plans to infiltrate the forbidden zone near the Han River to rescue his daughter.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Hae-il Park, Doona Bae, Ah-sung Ko
Director: Joon-ho Bong
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Tags: Ah-sung Ko, Doona Bae, Hae-il Park, Hie-bong Byeon, Joon-ho Bong, Kang-ho Song
Posted on April 28, 2012 |
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Eva (2011)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Set in 2041, Alex Garel is a well-known robot programmer who after 10 years returns to his home town to work in his old university when his friend Julia offers him a job like programmer in a project to create a new line of robot child.
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Marta Etura, Alberto Ammann, Claudia Vega, Lluís Homar
Director: Kike Maíllo
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Tags: Alberto Ammann, Claudia Vega, Daniel Brühl, Kike Maíllo, Lluís Homar, Marta Etura
Posted on April 28, 2012 |
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
The Gremlins are back, and this time, they've taken total control over the building of a media mogul. In this follow-up feature to the cult hit Gremlins, Billy Peltzer and Kate Beringer move to New York City and meet up with their Mogwai friend, Gizmo, when a series of accidents creates a new generation of diverse gremlins. Billy, Kate, and Gizmo must once again use all their experience to prevent another catastrophe!
Starring: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Christopher Lee, Robert Prosky
Director: Joe Dante
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Tags: Christopher Lee, Joe Dante, John Glover, Phoebe Cates, Robert Prosky, Zach Galligan
Posted on April 27, 2012 |
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Perfect Sense (2011)
Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Susan, an epidemiologist, reemerges from an affair gone sour and encounters a peculiar patient — a truck driver who experienced a sudden, uncontrollable crying fit. Now he is calm, but he has lost his sense of smell. Susan soon learns there are hundreds of people across the globe beginning to suffer strange symptoms, affecting the emotions, then the senses.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen
Director: David Mackenzie
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Tags: Connie Nielsen, David Mackenzie, Eva Green, Ewan McGregor
Posted on April 26, 2012 |
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The Lazarus Papers / The Mercenary (2010)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Lonny Smith, a young man with a suitcase full of money, who might drop dead at any moment is searching for love with each dying breath even if he has to pay for it. One is an ex-assassin slave runner, who operates a mail order bride scam exploiting prostitutes infected by HIV. Another is a mysterious club owner named Kyo, who manages a cabaret show and finally, a vixen named Nana, the girl who will bring it all crashing down. They all will carve their way through the macabre alleys of a magical land buried in South East Asia, a city named Pali, the city of gold.
Starring: Danny Trejo, Gary Daniels, Krystal Vee, Bai Ling, Tommy Lister
Director: Jeremiah Hundley
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Tags: Bai Ling, Danny Trejo, Gary Daniels, Jeremiah Hundley, Krystal Vee, Tommy Lister
Posted on April 24, 2012 |
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Tale of the Mummy (1998)
Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Centuries ago, under the sands of ancient Egypt, a prince was buried and his tomb eternally curses so that no man would ever again suffer from his evil ways. But hundreds of years later on a greedy search for treasure, a group of archaeologists break the curses seal of the tomb. Every man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a log book – and a deadly warning of the legend of the bloodthursty TALOS. Fifty years later the log book ends up in the hands of the granddaughter of the head archaeologist, and she defiantly sets out to retrace his steps. Discovering the forbidden treasure, she recovers a sacred amulet and once again unleashes the savage power of the tomb.
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Sean Pertwee
Director: Russell Mulcahy
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Tags: Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Russell Mulcahy, Sean Pertwee
Posted on April 24, 2012 |
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Project X (1987)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious "Project X". Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, William Sadler
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
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Tags: Helen Hunt, Jonathan Kaplan, Matthew Broderick, William Sadler
Posted on April 23, 2012 |
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Dead Space: Downfall (2008)
Animation | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A feature-length prequel to the Electronic Arts' video game, this animated sci-fi horror adventure follows a group of space miners who uncover evidence of humankind's creators then unwittingly release a violent alien race from within a faraway planet. Now it's up to a special team of miners and space crew to stop the most ruthless, evil alien beings from wreaking havoc on the human race.
Starring: Nika Futterman, Bruce Boxleitner, Keith Szarabajka, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jim Cummings
Director: Chuck Patton
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Tags: Bruce Boxleitner, Chuck Patton, Jim Cummings, Keith Szarabajka, Kevin Michael Richardson, Nika Futterman
Posted on April 17, 2012 |
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Cargo (2009)
Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The ecosystem of Earth has been destroyed and mankind now lives in orbit. On a run-down space freighter on route to Station 42, a young medic Laura is the only one awake while the rest of the crew lie in sleep hibernation. During her daily patrols through the eerily empty ship, Laura starts to get the feeling that she is not alone.
Starring: Anna Katharina Schwabroh, Martin Rapold, Regula Grauwiller
Director: Ivan Engler, Ralph Etter
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Posted on April 17, 2012 |
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Mimic (1997)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Three years ago, two young scientists teamed up to save New York City from an roach-borne epidemic that was killing thousands of children. Their miracle of genetic engineering was the Judas Breed, an insect whose enzimes proved deadly to the disease-carrying roaches. However, their creation has come back to haunt them, altering the balance of nature and tipping the scales in favor of the insects. The thing created in the lab has changed, and now, out there in the city it has begun to mimic the most dangerous predator of all—humans.
Starring: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Alexander Goodwin
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Tags: Alexander Goodwin, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, Guillermo del Toro, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Mira Sorvino
Posted on April 17, 2012 |
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Steamboy / Suchîmubôi (2004)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Rei is a young inventor living in the U.K. in the middle of the 19th century. Shortly before the first ever World Expo, a marvelous invention called the "Steam Ball", behind which a menacing power is hidden, arrives at his door from his grandfather Roid in the U.S. Meanwhile the nefarious Ohara Foundation has sent men to acquire theSteam Ball so that they can use its power towards their own illicit ends.
Starring: Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, Alfred Molina, Anne Suzuki, Masane Tsukayama, Katsuo Nakamura, Manami Konishi
Director: Katsuhiro Ohtomo
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Tags: Alfred Molina, Anna Paquin, Anne Suzuki, Katsuhiro Ohtomo, Katsuo Nakamura, Manami Konishi, Masane Tsukayama, Patrick Stewart
Posted on April 14, 2012 |
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Metal Shifters / Iron Invader (2011)
Sci-Fi
Two brothers desperate to keep the family business afloat soon find their prayers answered when a Russian satellite dislodges from orbit and crashes into the middle of a nearby field. Unaware the satellite carries a mysterious alien substance; the brothers sell the satellite to a local artist who uses the wreckage in his giant sculpture. But soon the substance brings the giant sculpture to life, creating an iron monster whose only mission is to kill.
Starring: Kavan Smith, Colby Johannson, Nicole de Boer
Director: Paul Ziller
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Tags: Colby Johannson, Kavan Smith, Nicole de Boer, Paul Ziller
Posted on April 5, 2012 |
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The Darkest Hour (2011)
Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When aliens attack and swiftly conquer the world by frying our electronic grid and systematically hunting down the disorganized, pathetically under-defended survivors, a small band of tourists in Moscow combine to find a way to annihilate the aliens' powerful defenses.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor
Director: Chris Gorak
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