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Greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Time
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This list Contains my Personal Favorite Sci-Fi Movies of all Time.
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Movie: A Clockwork Orange ( 1972 )
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
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Movie: The Terminator ( 1984 )
A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
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Movie: Alien ( 1979 )
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounter a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission.
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Movie: Blade Runner ( 1982 )
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope ( 1977 )
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back ( 1980 )
After the Rebels are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
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Movie: Back to the Future ( 1985 )
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi ( 1983 )
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
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Movie: Aliens ( 1986 )
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
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Movie: Back to the Future Part II ( 1989 )
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
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Movie: Predator ( 1987 )
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
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Movie: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( 1982 )
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
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Movie: The Thing ( 1982 )
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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Movie: RoboCop ( 1987 )
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.
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Movie: Mad Max ( 1979 )
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
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Movie: Brazil ( 1985 )
A bureaucrat, in a retro-future world, tries to correct an administrative error and becomes an enemy of the state.
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Movie: Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior ( 1981 )
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich community escape a horde of bandits.
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Movie: Spaceballs ( 1987 )
A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.
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Movie: Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977 )
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.
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Movie: Ghostbusters II ( 1989 )
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
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Movie: The Abyss ( 1989 )
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
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Movie: Superman ( 1978 )
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.
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Movie: The Fly ( 1986 )
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
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Movie: Akira ( 1988 )
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics.
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Movie: Starman ( 1984 )
An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.
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Movie: Beneath the Planet of the Apes ( 1970 )
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.
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Movie: Halloween III: Season of the Witch ( 1982 )
Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran.
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Movie: Sleeper ( 1973 )
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
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Movie: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace ( 1987 )
The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor's latest creation, Nuclear Man.
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Movie: Howard the Duck ( 1986 )
A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop a hellish alien invasion with the help of a nerdy scientist and a cute struggling female rock singer who fancies him.
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Movie: Enemy Mine ( 1985 )
At the height of the devastating intergalactic war between humans and the bipedal reptilian humanoids known as Dracs, the earthling single-seat fighter pilot, Willis Davidge, and the saurian pilot, Jeriba Shigan, engage in a furious dogfight. As both sworn enemies crash-land on the desolate, inhospitable planet, Fyrine IV, they will have to put aside their hatred for each other, share knowledge and experience to fight the forces of nature and, above all, work in unison to survive. Can their forced coexistence and uneasy camaraderie pave the way for a genuine inter-species friendship?
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Movie: Flight of the Navigator ( 1986 )
In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship.
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Movie: Bad Taste ( 1988 )
The population of a small town disappears and is replaced by aliens that chase human flesh for their intergalactic fast-food chain.
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Movie: Scanners ( 1981 )
A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.
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Movie: THX 1138 ( 1971 )
In the twenty-fifth century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly controlled society.
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Movie: Airplane II: The Sequel ( 1982 )
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?
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Movie: Westworld ( 1973 )
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.
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Movie: 2010: The Year We Make Contact ( 1984 )
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a joint American-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global tensions. Amongst the mysteries the expedition must explain, are the appearance of a huge black monolith in Jupiter's orbit and the fate of H.A.L.; the Discovery's A.I. computer. Based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1978 )
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade a small town, replicating the residents one body at a time.
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Movie: Flash Gordon ( 1980 )
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
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Movie: Logan's Run ( 1976 )
An idyllic science fiction future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of thirty.
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Movie: Innerspace ( 1987 )
A hapless store clerk must foil criminals to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him.
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Movie: Soylent Green ( 1973 )
In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.
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Movie: Cocoon ( 1985 )
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
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Movie: Short Circuit ( 1986 )
Number 5 of a group of experimental robots in a lab is electrocuted, suddenly becomes intelligent, and escapes.
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Movie: Explorers ( 1985 )
A boy obsessed with '50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what?
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Movie: From Beyond ( 1986 )
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
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Movie: The Fly II ( 1989 )
The almost-human son of "Brundlefly" searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father's experiments.
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Movie: Lifeforce ( 1985 )
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
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Movie: The Final Countdown ( 1980 )
A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Movie: Fantastic Planet ( 1973 )
Slaves and masters dominate the narrative of the faraway world of Ygam. Set around the lifespan of Terr, a minute human shaped Om slave, and pet, of the giant blue alien Draags. Escaping into the wilderness and with a device used for intellectual advancement of the Draags, Terr finds refuge and support from fellow Oms and using the learning tool, he finds that knowledge is power and then sets to use the new found knowledge to revolt against the Draag masters...
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Movie: The Black Hole ( 1979 )
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.
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Movie: Rollerball ( 1975 )
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
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Movie: Dark Star ( 1979 )
In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.
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Movie: The Man with Two Brains ( 1983 )
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
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Movie: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension ( 1984 )
Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.
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Movie: Short Circuit 2 ( 1988 )
Robot Johnny Five comes to the city and gets manipulated by criminals who want him for their own purposes.
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Movie: The Man Who Fell to Earth ( 1976 )
An alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications.
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Movie: Death Race 2000 ( 1975 )
In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill's brutality.
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Movie: The Quiet Earth ( 1985 )
A man named Zac Hobson awakens to find himself alone in the world. In a desperate attempt to search for others, he finds only two who have their own agenda.
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Movie: The Brood ( 1979 )
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
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Movie: Wizards ( 1977 )
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a wizard and his faire folk comrades fight an evil wizard who's using technology in his bid for conquest.
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Movie: The Ice Pirates ( 1984 )
In a distant future scarce of water, space pirates get caught after stealing ice from a spaceship. They are sold to a princess looking for her dad. He might have found a planet abundant with water.
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Movie: The Ewok Adventure ( 1984 )
Wicket the Ewok and his friends agree to help two shipwrecked human children, Mace and Cindel, on a quest to find their parents.
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Movie: Futureworld ( 1976 )
Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.
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Movie: Escape to Witch Mountain ( 1975 )
Two mysterious orphan children have extraordinary powers and are chased by a scheming millionaire. But where do these kids really call home?
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Movie: DeepStar Six ( 1989 )
At the bottom of the ocean, the DeepStar Six has just discovered a new and deadly alien menace.
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Movie: Alligator ( 1980 )
A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage.
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Movie: C.H.U.D. ( 1984 )
A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.
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Movie: Project X ( 1987 )
An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".
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Movie: Monkey Shines ( 1988 )
A quadriplegic man has a trained monkey help him with his paralysis, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master.
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Movie: The Crazies ( 1973 )
The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
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Movie: D.A.R.Y.L. ( 1985 )
A seemingly normal young boy turns out to be a top secret, military-created robot with superhuman abilities.
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Movie: The Medusa Touch ( 1978 )
Psychological thriller about a telekinetic novelist who causes disasters simply by thinking about them.
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Movie: The Manhattan Project ( 1986 )
A high school prodigy builds an atomic bomb with stolen plutonium to win the 45th National Science Fair and expose a nuclear weapons lab posing as nuclear medicine in Ithaca NY.
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Movie: TerrorVision ( 1986 )
A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
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Movie: Millennium ( 1989 )
An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.
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Movie: Inception ( 2010 )
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
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Movie: The Matrix ( 1999 )
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
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Movie: The Prestige ( 2006 )
After a tragic accident, two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.
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Movie: Avatar ( 2009 )
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
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Movie: WALL·E ( 2008 )
In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
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Movie: Terminator 2: Judgment Day ( 1991 )
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her 10-year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
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Movie: V for Vendetta ( 2006 )
In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
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Movie: The Truman Show ( 1998 )
An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
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Movie: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( 2004 )
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories for ever.
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Movie: Donnie Darko ( 2001 )
A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after he narrowly escapes a bizarre accident.
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Movie: Jurassic Park ( 1993 )
A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
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Movie: I Am Legend ( 2007 )
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
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Movie: District 9 ( 2009 )
An extraterrestrial race, forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth, suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
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Movie: Equilibrium ( 2002 )
In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state.
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Movie: Moon ( 2009 )
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
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Movie: Face/Off ( 1997 )
To foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent assumes the identity of the criminal who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.
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Movie: Terminator Salvation ( 2009 )
In 2018, a mysterious new weapon in the war against the machines, half-human and half-machine, comes to John Connor on the eve of a resistance attack on Skynet. But whose side is he on, and can he be trusted?
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Movie: Signs ( 2002 )
Preacher Graham Hess loses his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident. He lives with his children and brother in a farmhouse. Crop circles start to appear in their cornfields; Graham dismisses them as mischief by miscreants. After hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world, the family grows suspicious of alien activities. Now they must stick together as a family and believe, to survive and escape the ordeal.
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Movie: Men in Black II ( 2002 )
Agent J is sent to find Agent K and restore his memory after the re-appearance of a case from K's past.
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Movie: TRON: Legacy ( 2010 )
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
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Movie: 2012 ( 2009 )
A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.
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Movie: Unbreakable ( 2000 )
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
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Movie: Cloverfield ( 2008 )
A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.