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American cinema: Sci-Fi

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick

Millions of years ago, a tribe of herbivorous apelike hominids discover a mysterious black monolith which immediately exerts a strange influence over them...   [More...]

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Stanley Kubrick

Alex DeLarge is a Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent who spends his evenings indulging in orgies of violence with his droogies...   [More...]

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Charles Barton

Chick Young and Wilbur Grey are baggage clerks who, one day, are asked to deliver two crates to a waxworks museum. According to the crates' owner, these contain the last remains of Dracula and Frankenstein's monster...   [More...]

Alien (1979)
Ridley Scott

Commercial space freighter Nostromo is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of precious mineral ore. When the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet, the crew - consisting of five men and two women - is revived from stasis and makes ready to investigate, in accordance with company procedure...   [More...]

Alien 3 (1992)
David Fincher

When a fire breaks out aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, an escape pod containing the surviving crew members is ejected into space...   [More...]

Aliens (1986)
James Cameron

57 years after her encounter with an alien being which wiped out her crew aboard the space freighter Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is picked up and taken back to Earth...   [More...]

The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Robert Wise

Returning to Earth after probing the dark reaches of space, a satellite drifts off course and crashes into Piedmont, a small town in New Mexico...   [More...]

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Eugène Lourié

In the aftermath of an atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle, physicist Tom Nesbitt catches a glimpse of a gigantic prehistoric reptile, which seems to have been released by the blast after being trapped in the ice for millions of years...   [More...]

Blade Runner (1982)
Ridley Scott

Los Angeles, 2019. Android technology has now become so sophisticated that robotic humans have become almost indistinguishable from real humans...   [More...]

Brazil (1985)
Terry Gilliam

Somewhere in the 20th century, Sam Lowry dutifully carries out his duties as a low-ranking government employee in the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information...   [More...]

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
James Whale

Prompted by Lord Byron and her husband one stormy night in 1817, Mary Shelley tells the second part of her story about Dr Frankenstein and his unearthly creation...   [More...]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Steven Spielberg

The scattered inhabitants of Muncie, a small rural community in Indiana, are visited by strange lights in the night sky. One evening, a mother watches in horror as her small child is abducted by a flying saucer...   [More...]

Dawn of the Dead (1978)
George A. Romero

The world is in the grip of an unexplained pandemic. The bodies of the dead have become reanimated and are preying on the flesh of the living, creating worldwide pandemonium...   [More...]

Day of the Dead (1985)
George A. Romero

Human civilization is virtually at an end, obliterated by a mysterious plague that is animating the dead, turning them into flesh-eating zombies with disgusting table manners...   [More...]

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Robert Wise

The world falls under a spell of expectant dread when a flying saucer appears in orbit above the Earth before landing in Washington D.C...   [More...]

The Devil Doll (1936)
Tod Browning

After spending seventeen years in an island prison for crimes he did not commit, disgraced banker Paul Lavond escapes with fellow convict Marcel and takes refuge at the latter's house...   [More...]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
John S. Robertson

Dr Henry Jekyll is a man of flawless repute, a philanthropist who divides his time between treating the sick poor of London and conducting scientific research in his laboratory...   [More...]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Rouben Mamoulian

Dr Henry Jekyll, a renowned medical practitioner and philanthropist, is anxious to marry the woman he loves, Muriel Carew, but the latter's father insists that he must wait awhile yet for decorum's sake...   [More...]

Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Stanley Kubrick

Convinced that the Communists are infiltrating his country, General Jack D. Ripper, the commander of a US military airbase, gives the order for a bomber wing to launch a first strike nuclear attack on the USSR...   [More...]

Duel (1971)
Steven Spielberg

David Mann is driving his red Plymouth Valiant through the California desert on his way to a business meeting. The only other vehicle on the otherwise empty highway is a lumbering tanker truck which is expelling noxious black exhaust fumes in his direction...   [More...]

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Irvin Kershner

The destruction of the Death Star by the Rebel Alliance is followed by a swift retaliation from the Galactic Empire, with Darth Vader leading the offensive...   [More...]

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Don Taylor

In the early 1970s, a spaceship lands off the coast of California. As a party of US marines watch in anticipation, three astronauts emerge...   [More...]

Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Richard Fleischer

American and Soviet scientists have both discovered how to miniaturise matter but the technique is of limited value since shrunken objects return to their full size within sixty minutes...   [More...]

The Fly (1958)
Kurt Neumann

One evening, François Delambre receives a telephone call from his sister-in-law, Hélène, who confesses to having just killed her husband, André...   [More...]

Forbidden Planet (1956)
Fred M. Wilcox

In the year 2200, a United Planets expedition led by Commander Adams arrives on Altair-4 to investigate the unexplained disappearance of an Earth colony...   [More...]

Frankenstein (1931)
James Whale

For years, the scientist Dr Henry Frankenstein has devoted himself to the creation of artificial life. With the help of his hunchback assistant Fritz, he has assembled a man-like creature from the body parts of corpses stolen from graveyards...   [More...]

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Jack Arnold

During a boating holiday with his wife Louise, Scott Carey is enveloped in a strange mist which causes his body to glisten mysteriously...   [More...]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Don Siegel

Dr Miles Bennell is attending a conference when anxious calls from his patients compel him to return to his home town of Santa Mira in California...   [More...]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Philip Kaufman

Government scientist Elizabeth Driscoll becomes concerned when her partner starts to behave strangely, doing odd things like getting up early and emptying the dustbins...   [More...]

The Invisible Man (1933)
James Whale

One winter's day, a stranger arrives at a small village inn and demands a room. His appearance causes consternation amongst the locals...   [More...]



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