Contact (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars in this visionary drama based on Carl Sagan's novel about human kind's first encounter with extraterrestial life, directed by another Oscar winner, Robert Zemeckis.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, David Morse, Jena Malone
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Soldier (1998)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Galactic wars of the near-future are fought by soldiers trained as merciless, obedient warriors. But times change. New bioengineered combatants make veterans like Sgt. Todd obsolete. But don't expect to toss Todd on the scrap heap without a fight.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Alien vs. Ninja (2010)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Terrible creatures – the aliens – have come to Earth. But the ninjas have to realize that they can align with their martial arts. The aliens are waiting with incredible tricks, unexpected strength and speed. A fierce battle rages. The great Iga Ninja Yamata meets the challenge in the final battle against the Aliens.
Starring: Mika Hijii, Ben Hiura, Shûji Kashiwabara, Masanori Mimoto, Yûki Ogoe, Donpei Tsuchihira
Director: Seiji Chiba
The Invasion (2007)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
The mysterious crash of the space shuttle leads to the terrifying discovery that there is something alien within the wreckage. Those who come in contact with it are changing in ominous and inexplicable ways. Soon Washington, DC psychiatrist Carol Bennell and her friend, Dr. Ben Driscoll, learn the shocking truth about the growing extraterrestrial epidemic: it attacks its victims while they sleep, leaving them physically unchanged but strangely unfeeling and inhuman. As the infection spreads, more and more people are altered and it becomes impossible to know who can be trusted. Now Carol's only hope is to stay awake long enough to find her young son, who may hold the key to stopping the devastating invasion.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Knowing (2009)
Action | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A single father and chairman of his town's historical society is summoned when a time capsule buried behind an elementary school in 1958 is prematurely unearthed because of a water-main break. The man, whose son attends the school, sifts through the contents and finds drawings of what 1958 tykes predicted the modern world would be like. It's all flying cars and fantasy stuff, with the exception of one chilling entry. One child predicted some of the most horrible events in recent history, and there's one that hasn't yet occurred, which the man attempts to prevent.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, Lara Robinson
Director: Alex Proyas
Doomsday (2008)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the action-packed new thriller Doomsday, authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades — until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Starring: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, Alexander Siddig, David O'Hara
Director: Neil Marshall
The Boys From Brazil (1978)
Drama | Horror | Thriller | Sci-Fi
A battle of wits between Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele and Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman in which Mengele plans to harvest hundreds of young men in an attempt to replicate Hitler's genetic structure.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
The Dark Knight (2008)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), Batman (Christian Bale) has been making headway against local crime… until a rising criminal mastermind known as The Joker (Heath Ledger) unleashes a fresh reign of chaos across Gotham City. To stop this devious new menace — Batman's most personal and vicious enemy yet — he will have to use every high-tech weapon in his arsenal and confront everything he believes.
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaa, Morgan Freeman
Director: Christopher Nolan
Batman Begins (2005)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Batman Begins explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham. In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. He returns to Gotham and unveils his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses his strength, intellect and an array of high tech deceptions to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city.
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman
Director: Christopher Nolan
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
The Day The Earth Stood Still depicts the arrival of an alien dignitary, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who has come to earth with his deadly robot, Gort (Lock Martin), to deliver the message that earthlings must stop warring among themselves–or else. After being shot at by military guards, Klaatu is brought to a Washington, D.C. hospital, where he begs a sympathetic but frank Major White (Robert Osterloh) to gather all the world's leaders so he can tell them more specifically what he has come to warn them about. Losing patience, Klaatu slips into the human world, adapting a false identity and living at a boarding house where he meets a smart woman with a conscience and her inquisitive son. Both mother and son soon find themselves embroiled in the complex mystery of Klaatu, his message and the government's witch hunt for the alien.
Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Nea, Hugh Marlowe
Director: Robert Wise
Transmorphers: Fall of Man (2009)
Action | Sci-Fi
In this present day prequel, the robot invaders attack the Earth, forcing a small band of humans to seek refuge below the surface of the planet.
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner, Jennifer Rubin, Shane Van Dyke, Alana DiMaria
Director: Scott Wheeler
Street Fighter (1994)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When General M. Bison (Raul Julia) takes high-ranking hostages and demands $20 billion in ransom, he pushes an already incendiary crisis to the brink of global conflict. Meanwhile, Colonel William F. Guile's (Jean-Claude Van Damme) rescue mission remains stalled until the hostages' location can be determined. Guile and his British intelligence officer, Lieutenant Cammy (Kylie Minogue), must recruit two unlikely heroes, small-time hustlers Ken Masters (Damian Chapa) and Ryu Hoshi (Byron Mann), in an audacious plan to locate the sadistic general's futuristic secret fortress. But their entire plan is nearly derailed at the last moment when GNT news correspondent Chun-Li Zang (Ming-Na), who wants much more than a story, intervenes.
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue
Director: Steven E. de Souza
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
John Connor is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future that Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet's operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard
Director: McG
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A decade has passed since John Connor helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now 25, Connor lives "off the grid" – no home, no credit cards, no cell phone, no job and no record of his existence. No way Skynet – the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity, can trace him until, out of the future steps the T-X, Skynet's most sophisticated cyborg killing machine yet. Now Connor's only hope for survival is the Terminator, his mysterious former assassin. Together, they must triumph over the technologically superior T-X and forestall the looming threat of Judgment Day or face the apocalypse and the fall of civilization as we know it.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, Kristanna Loken
Director: Jonathan Mostow
The Terminator (1984)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the year 2029, the ruling super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) back in time to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) before she can fulfill her destiny and save mankind.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen
Director: James Cameron
Superhero Movie (2008)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Thriller | Sci-Fi
After being bitten by a genetically altered dragonfly, high school loser Rick Riker develop superhuman abilities like incredible strength and armored skin. Rick decides to use his new powers for good and becomes a costumed crime fighter known as "The Dragonfly." However, standing in the way of his destiny is the villainous Lou Landers. After an experiment gone wrong, Lou develops the power to steal a person's life force and in a dastardly quest for immortality becomes the supervillain, "The Hourglass." With unimaginable strength, unbelievable speed and deeply uncomfortable tights, will the Dragonfly be able to stop the sands of The Hourglass and save the world? More importantly, will we stop laughing long enough to notice?
Starring: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner
Director: Craig Mazin
Solaris / Solyaris (1972)
Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
The cosmonauts on a space station have strange hallucinations which seem to originate from the planet they are orbiting.
Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
Babylon A.D. (2008)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In the darkly futuristic world of Babylon A.D., the rules are simple: kill or be killed. Hard- hitting action superstar Vin Diesel (The Fast and the Furious, The Chronicles of Riddick), stars as Toorop, a ruthless mercenary hired to smuggle a mysterious young woman from the post- apocalyptic confines of Eastern Europe to the glittering megalopolis of New York City. Hunted at every turn, Toorop spirits his charge across a nightmarish wasteland only to uncover a shocking secret that will bring the entire world to its knees. Eye-popping action and mind-blowing science fiction clash head-on in this hard-edged thriller, where the only rule is survival.
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
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Red Eagle / Insee dang (2010)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Year 2016, Bangkok is a rotten capital infested with chaos and criminals. Widespread corruption by politicians has dipped the moral compass to a new low, and the government's hasty plan to construct a nuclear power plant has spread fears among villagers and enivironmental activists. Amidst the mood of despair, a hero emerges. He goes after filthy politicians and vile criminals, handing out his own brand of justice when the law fails to fuction. No one knows his true identity. Every time he kills, he leaves a name card which says: The Red Eagle. But Red Eagle is a hunter who's also being hunted. An assassin, called Black Devil, has been sent by a crime lord to kill him. As his past returns to haunt him, the tortured hero is facing a conflict that will decide not just his own destiny, but the destiny of his entire nation.
Starring: Ananda Everingham, Pornwut Sarasin
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
Red Planet (2000)
Sci-Fi | Action | Thriller | Adventure
In the mid-21st century, the nations of a dying Earth look starward for a solution and set out to colonize Mars. But something no one could have expected awaits. Houston, we have big trouble. Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss and Tom Sizemore star in this taut adventure about humankind's first mission to the mysterious Red Planet. Also on the mission is the multifunctional robo-assistant AMEE. In one mode, she's a as loyal as a puppy. But a malfunction has locked her into a far different mode: a killing machine bent on destroying the crew. Yet that's not the end of the expedition's perils. Because Mars may be barren, but it's not uninhabited.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt, Simon Baker
Director: Anthony Hoffman
