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All cinema: Sci-Fi

Lost Horizon (1937)
Frank Capra

1935. As bloody revolution sweeps across China, British diplomat Robert Conway is charged with evacuating Westerners from the city of Baskul...   [More...]

Mad Max (1979)
George Miller

In the not too distant future, law and order has begun to breakdown amid a worldwide oil shortage. A gang of bike-riding psychopaths are terrorising south-east Australia, killing and looting with wild abandon...   [More...]

The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Alexander Mackendrick

Since graduating from Cambridge, Sidney Stratton has become obsessed with his idea of inventing an indestructible fibre, one which will revolutionise the clothes manufacturing industry...   [More...]

The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Nicolas Roeg

A hairless humanoid alien travels to Earth from a distant world on a mission to save his people, who are being wiped out by a catastrophic drought...   [More...]

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
John Frankenheimer

During the Korean War, a platoon of American soldiers are captured by Soviets and flown to Manchuria in Communist China. Several months later, the same soldiers return to their home country, to receive a hero's welcome...   [More...]

The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Charles Brabin

Just before he sets out on his next expedition to find the lost tomb of Genghis Khan the archaeologist Sir Lionel Barton is warned by Sir Denis Nayland Smith of the British Secret Service that the criminal mastermind Dr Fu Manchu is after the same treasure...   [More...]

Mauvais sang (1986)
Leos Carax

Paris, 1986. As Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth, the capital is experiencing an unprecedented heat wave...   [More...]

Metropolis (1927)
Fritz Lang

In the twenty-first century city of Metropolis, the wealthy elite live in luxury in sprawling tower complexes whilst millions of workers toil away in subterranean vaults, constantly serving the machines which keep the city alive...   [More...]

Le Monde tremblera (1939)
Richard Pottier

With capital supplied by the unscrupulous banker Emil Lasser, Dr Jean Durand succeeds in creating a machine that can predict, to the nearest minute, when an individual will die...   [More...]

Monkey Business (1952)
Howard Hawks

Dr Barnaby Fulton is a brilliant research chemist who, to his wife's dismay, has become obsessed with developing a drug that will throw the ageing process back into reverse...   [More...]

La Mort en direct (1980)
Bertrand Tavernier

Mindful of the need to drive up his network's viewing figures, television producer Vincent Ferriman has devised a new reality TV show named Death Watch in which he will beam into people's homes the last days of a terminally ill person...   [More...]

Mr. Nobody (2010)
Jaco Van Dormael

In 2093, Nemo is 118, the last surviving mortal in a world in which humanity has attained quasi-immortality. As everyone on the planet awaits his death in morbid anticipation, a scientist and a journalist try to get him to remember his past...   [More...]

Mysterious Island (1961)
Cy Endfield

During the American Civil War, a party of Union soldiers manage to escape from a Confederate prison via a hot air balloon...   [More...]

Night of the Living Dead (1968)
George A. Romero

Barbara and her brother Johnny drive out to a rural cemetery in Pennsylvania to put flowers on their father's grave. Barbara is not amused when her brother does his zombie act in a childish attempt to scare her...   [More...]

The Nutty Professor (1963)
Jerry Lewis

Professor Julius Kelp is an accident-prone and socially inept chemistry professor at an American university. When he is picked upon by one of his more muscular students, Kelp makes up his mind to build himself up, but his visits to the gym prove disastrous...   [More...]

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Blake Edwards

Charles Dreyfus, formerly Chief Inspector Dreyfus of the French National Police, is a changed man. He no longer harbours any homicidal feelings for Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the man who drove him insane and robbed him of his position...   [More...]

Planet of the Apes (1968)
Franklin J. Schaffner

Towards the end of the 20th Century, a party of astronauts, led by George Taylor, is sent into space to test Einstein's theory of time dilation...   [More...]

Quatermass 2 (1957)
Val Guest

Professor Bernard Quatermass's ambition to build a colony on the Moon appears to be thwarted as government funds are diverted to other projects...   [More...]

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Roy Ward Baker

Whilst workmen are building an extension to the London Underground, a prehistoric human skull is discovered. Palaeontologist Matthew Roney is called in and he concludes that the skull is over five million years old...   [More...]

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Val Guest

Professor Bernard Quatermass is both excited and concerned when a rocket that he designed and launched crash-lands in the south of England...   [More...]

The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Terence Fisher

Sentenced to death for his diabolical experiments, Baron Frankenstein narrowly escapes his execution and sets up a medical practice in another town, working under an assumed name, Dr Stein...   [More...]

Sapphire & Steel - Assignment Four [TV] (1981)
David Foster

Sapphire and Steel arrive at a seemingly deserted old building, the ground floor of which functions as a shop that buys and sells lost property...   [More...]

Sapphire & Steel - Assignment One [TV] (1979)
Shaun O'Riordan

In an old house that dates back to the 1700s, schoolboy Rob Jardine is doing his homework whilst his parents read nursery rhymes to his younger sister Helen...   [More...]

Sapphire & Steel - Assignment Two [TV] (1979)
Shaun O'Riordan

Sapphire and Steel arrive at a disused English railway station which is completely deserted apart from the presence of one George Tully, a 50-something investigator into the paranormal...   [More...]

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Five [TV] (1981)
Shaun O'Riordan

Successful businessman Lord Mulrine has organised a party at his house to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of his company...   [More...]

Sapphire & Steel: Assignment Six [TV] (1982)
David Foster

Sapphire and Steel arrive at a seemingly deserted service station in the early 1980s, a place where time appears to be standing still...   [More...]

Silent Running (1972)
Douglas Trumbull

At the beginning of the 21st Century, every species of plant on Earth has become extinct. The last remaining specimens of plant life are housed in large dome-like structures attached to space freighters orbiting Saturn...   [More...]

Sleeper (1973)
Woody Allen

In 1973, Miles Monroe, a jazz musician and proprietor of the Happy Carrot health food store, goes into hospital for routine treatment on an ulcer...   [More...]

Solaris (1972)
Andrey Tarkovskiy

For the past decade, a space station has been orbiting Solaris, an ocean planet in a distant galaxy. The success of the mission is under threat from an outbreak of emotional crises which are preventing the crew from carrying out their research duties...   [More...]

Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Rowland V. Lee

After many years, Baron Wolf von Frankenstein returns to his family estate, accompanied by his wife Elsa and young son Peter, to claim his father's inheritance...   [More...]



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