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Sci-Fi
 | | 12 Monkeys | |  | | Plot Summary
An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Terry Gilliam | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Bruce Willis, Madeline Stowe, Brad Pitt |
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|  | | 2046 | | | | Plot Summary
He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention.....to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure if it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back- except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Kar Wai Wong | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Li Gong, Ziyi Zhang, Maggie Cheung |
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|  | | Alien3 | | | | Plot Summary
After escaping from the alien planet, the ship carrying Ellen Ripley crashes onto a remote and inhabited ore refinery. While living in the ore refinery until she is rescued by her employers, Ripley discovers the horrifying reason for her crash: An alien stowaway. As the alien matures and begins to kill off the inhabitants, Ripley is unaware that her true enemy is more than just the killer alien.
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| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | David Fincher | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Avalon | | | | Plot Summary
In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality? |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Mamoru Oshii | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Barbarella Queen Of The Galaxy | | | | Plot Summary
The year is 40.000. Peacefully floating around in zero-gravity Barbarella (Jane Fonda) is suddenly interrupted by a call from the President of Earth. A young scientist, Duran-Duran, is threatening the ancient universal peace and Barbarella is the chosen one to find him and save the world. During her mission, Barbarella never finds herself in a situation where it isn't possible to lose at least part of her already minimal dressing. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Roger Vadim | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jane Fonda |
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|  | | Blade Runner | | | | In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when five replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Ridley Scott | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer , Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy |
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|  | | Casshern | | | | Plot Summary
In a world with an alternate history, a great war finally comes to an end leaving the earth diseased and polluted. The geneticist Dr. Azuma vies for support from the government for his neo-cell treatment that he claims can rejuvenate the body and regenerate humankind. The government leaders, guarding their own deeply entrenched powers, turn down the professor. Driven to complete his work, Dr. Azuma accepts a secret offer from a sinister faction of the powerful military. After an incident occurs in Dr. Azuma's lab, a race of mutant humans known as the Shinzo Ningen are unleashed upon the world. Now only the warrior known as Casshern, reincarnated with an invincible body, stands between the Shinzo Ningen and a world on the brink of annihilation. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Kazuaki Kiriya | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Chronicles of Riddick | | | | Plot Summary
Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. Colm Feore plays Lord Marshal, a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the tenth and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. Judi Dench is Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being who helps Riddick unearth his origins. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | David Twohy | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Vin Diesel , Thandie Newton , Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos |
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|  | | Dragonfly | | | | Plot Summary
Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner) lost his wife, Emily (Susanna Thompson), in a bus accident in South America. It's hard for him to accept her death, but when it seems that he could move on with his life, at least, something weird happen. Mysterious symbols starts appear around him all the time, and Joe sure that Emily is beyond all this, trying to contact him and to tell him something. He goes after the clues that the symbols left, which lead him to different places. His friends think he become nuts, but he is steady with his decision to find out what's behind the symbols. When the last symbol brings him to South America, he is about to be very very surprised |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Tom Shadyac | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Dune | | | | Plot Summary
In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world's ecology as one of his weapons. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | David Lynch | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Fifth Element | | | | Plot Summary
Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element (played by Milla Jovovich) can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is helped by ex-soldier, current-cab-driver, Corben Dallas (played by Bruce Willis), who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg (Gary Oldman), who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Luc Besson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Bruce Willis , Gary Oldman , Ian Holm , Milla Jovovich, Chris Tucker , Luke Perry |
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|  | | Flash Gordon | | | | Plot Summary
In this update of the 1930's comic strip, Flash is a football hero who is skyjacked aboard Dr. Zarkov's rocketship along with beautiful Dale Arden. The threesome are drawn into the influence of the planet Mongo, controlled by Ming the Merciless. Ming has been testing the Earth with unnatural disasters, and deeming it a threat to his rule, he plans to destroy it. He also intends to take Dale as his concubine. Flash must avoid the amorous attentions of Ming's daughter and unite the warring kingdoms of Mongo to rescue Dale and save our world. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Mike Hodges | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Max von Sydow , Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed , Richard O'Brien |
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|  | | Full Metal Alchemist | | | | Edward Elric and his younger brother Alphonse were living quite happily with their mother... until she died. So Edward and Alphonse decided to try to raise her from the dead. The resurrection failed, leaving Edward without an arm and a leg and Alphonse's soul attached to a suit of armor. Now they roam around the country trying to find a way to restore their bodies. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Gattaca | | | | Plot Summary
Gattaca Corp. is an aerospace firm in the future. During this time society analyzes your DNA and determines where you belong in life. Ethan Hawke's character was born with a congenital heart condition which would cast him out of getting a chance to travel in space. So in turn he assumes the identity of an athlete who has genes that would allow him to achieve his dream of space travel. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Andrew Niccol | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman , Jude Law |
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|  | | Hitchhiker's Guide ToThe Galaxy | | | | Plot Summary
Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast...but for a man named Arthur Dent, this goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth's impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is exploded to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that's not enough, throw in being wanted by the police, Earth II, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you've got the greatest adventure off Earth. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Garth Jennings | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Zooey Deschanel, Bill Bailey, Mos Def, Warwick Davis |
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|  | | i, Robot | | | | Plot Summary
Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of "robotophobic" Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner's (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there's nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe... they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), who specializes in the psyches of robots. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Alex Proyas | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Independence Day | | | | Plot Summary
On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day...
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| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Roland Emmerich | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell , Jeff Goldblum , Will Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Randy Quaid |
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|  | | Jurassic Park III | | | | Plot Summary
Eight years after the InGen incident, Dr. Alan Grant is happy with his life far from any dinosaurs other than fossilized. Unfortunately, he is extremely short in research money, and therefore accepts the offer of wealthy businessman Paul Kirby: A low flight over isolated Isla Sorna, where InGen's second research site was located, and Dr. Grant can fund his future research for a long time. What Dr. Grant didn't know is that Kirby just needs a dinosaur expert to help him and his wife find their 14-year-old son Eric, who crashed on the island while paragliding. What he did suspect, but never wanted to witness, is that the Velociraptors have evolved into a communicating species (and seemingly all along had the capability to do so), now being smarter than primates. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Joe Johnston | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | | | | Plot Summary
Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain (Connery) leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as "The Fantom." This "League" comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo (Shah), vampiress Mina Harker (Wilson), an invisible man named Rodney Skinner (Curran), American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (West), the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray (Townsend), and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Flemyng). |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Stephen Norrington | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Mars Attacks | | | | Plot Summary
The Martians decide to attack our planet and devastate everything. Why? Because it's fun!!! They enjoy killing people and destroy buildings; they even play bowling with the statues at Easter Isles and pose for photos in front of temples as they are blowing up. Will somebody find a way to stop them or will everyone die in the war with these short, big-brained aliens?
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| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Tim Burton | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito |
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|  | | Planet Of The Apes | | | | Plot Summary
It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a "routine" reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet's Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind's past - and the key to its future. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Tim Burton | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth , Helena Bonham Carter , Michael Clarke Duncan , Paul Giamatti, Estella Warren |
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|  | | Rollerball | | | | Plot Summary
Johnathan Cross, a lover of extreme sports, is recruited by Alexi Petrovich to star in his sportive invention, Rollerball. Johnathan accepts and learns the ropes of Rollerball: The players are on Rollerblades, trying to bring a heavy metal ball into a high goal. Also, there are motorcyclists around to bring momentum to the players. Oh yes, and there are no rules in the game. During his skyrocketing career, Johnathan has to experience what Alexi has found out: Blood brings more viewing pleasure to the audience. So, Alexi starts to bribe members of the different teams to cause more trouble than necessary on the field, and the viewers love it. Only a little later, Johnathan's life is already in extreme danger as well as those of his friends and teammates. In a final game, Johnathan and his team have to fight for mere survival against their real opponent - their boss Alexi Petrovich. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | John McTiernan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Star Trek Generations | | | | Plot Summary
In the late twenty-third century, the gala maiden voyage of the third Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) boasts such luminaries as Pavel Chekov, Montgomery Scott, and the legendary Captain James T. Kirk as guests. But the maiden voyage turns to disaster as the unprepared ship is forced to rescue two transport ships from a mysterious energy ribbon. The Enterprise manages to save a handful of he ships' passengers and barely makes it out intact...but at the cost of Captain Kirk's life. Seventy-eight years later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soren...who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soren's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years... |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | David Carson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Star Trek Nemesis | | | | Plot Summary
The crew of the Enterprise (Picard and company) find themselves on planet Romulus and eventually discover a threat to the Earth. At the same time, there are rumors that the Romulans are ready to begin peace talks with the Federation.
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| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Stuart Baird | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Star Wars III Revenge Of The Sith | | | | Plot Summary
It has been three long years since the Clone Wars have first begun, and Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) have fought as hard as they possibly could. When the capital planet of Coruscant becomes under attack by the Separatist droid armies and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) is kidnapped by the army leader, General Grievous (voiced by Matthew Wood), Anakin personal problems begin to develop, including his anger at the Jedi Council for not giving him the rank of Master, though he is on the council, and his plagued visions of his secret wife, Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman), dying in childbirth. He is determined to do anything to save her, no matter the cost. While Obi-Wan is sent to kill General Grievous on Utapau, Anakin is taken under Palpatine's wing, being subtly seduced by the Dark Side of the Force and convince that the Dark Side is power than can save his wife from death. Soon enough, a new, darker, ominous figure that would eventually be feared by the entire galaxy is formed: Lord Darth Vader. Obi-Wan, discovering Anakin's betrayal, sees no choice but to face his own apprentice in an attempt to bring back the young, loyal Jedi that had been like his own son, brother, and friend |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | George Lucas | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman , Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid , Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee |
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|  | | Starship Troopers | | | | Plot Summary
In the distant future high school kids are encouraged to become citizens by joining the military. What they don't know is that they'll soon be engaged in a full scale war against a planet of alien insects. The fight is on to ensure the safety of humanity. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Paul Verhoeven | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Casper Van Dien , Dina Meyer , Denise Richards, Neil Patrick Harris, Clancy Brown |
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|  | | Thirteenth Floor | | | | Plot Summary
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine... |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Josef Rusnak | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Craig Bierko , Vincent D'Onofrio , Dennis Haysbert |
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|  | | War of the Worlds | | | | Plot Summary
Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He's estranged from his family, his life isn't in order, and he's too caught up with himself. But the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come en masse to destroy Earth. As they plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must come to the defense of his children. As the world must fend for itself by a new and very advanced enemy not of this world, it's inhabitants must save humanity from a far greater force that threatens to destroy it. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Steven Spielberg | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning , Justin Chatwin , Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto |
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|  | | Waterworld | | | | Plot Summary
The polar ice caps have melted, and the earth is covered by water. The remaining people travel the seas, in search of survival. Several different societies exist. The Mariner falls from his customary and solitary existence into having to care for a woman and a young girl while being pursued by the evil forces of the Deacon.
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| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Kevin Reynolds | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn |
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|  | | Wild Zero | | | | Plot Summary
Aliens are invading the planet and turning humans into zombies. After saving his heros, Guitar Wolf, from their manager, and having the honour of becoming their blood brother, wannabe rocker Ace finds himself caught up in the carnage. He didn't think he'd need Guitar Wolf's help quite so soon. |
| Genre: | Sci-Fi | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Tetsuro Takeuchi | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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