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Starring Sam WorthingtonSigourney WeaverMichelle Rodriguez
By James Cameron, 2009.
In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture. .
- The Matrix
Starring Keanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne Moss
By Andy Wachowski, 1999.
In this complex story that aspires to mythology, a computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) searches for the truth behind the mysterious force known as the Matrix. He finds his answer with a group of strangers led by the charismatic Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne).
- Inception
Starring Leonardo DiCaprioEllen PageMarion Cotillard
By Christopher Nolan, 2010.
Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi action flick that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing...
- Men in Black
Starring Tommy Lee JonesWill SmithVincent D'Onofrio
By Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997.
On a top-secret mission, J (Will Smith), a charismatic New York City cop, teams up with K (Tommy Lee Jones), a seasoned government agent who monitors aliens on Earth, to stop intergalactic alien terrorist Edgar (Vincent D'Onofrio) from inciting an interstellar, humanity-destroying war.
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Starring Arnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonRobert Patrick
By James Cameron, 1991.
In this sequel, director James Cameron delivers scene after scene of action-packed thrills. A bigger, better Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is gunning for a shape-shifting T-1000 who's out to kill John Connor (Edward Furlong), the son of Sarah (Linda Hamilton), the original Terminator's nemesis.
- Jurassic Park
Starring Jeff GoldblumSam NeillLaura Dern
By Steven Spielberg, 1993.
Millionaire eccentric John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) has built a new theme park: a remote island where visitors can observe living dinosaurs, cloned using advanced DNA technology. But the dinos are loosed when a greedy employee tampers with the security system, forcing the park's visitors (Sam...
- Independence Day
Starring Will SmithBill PullmanJeff Goldblum
By Roland Emmerich, 1996.
When aliens in enormous spacecraft suddenly arrive in Earth's atmosphere and start blowing things up, it falls to a cocky pilot (Will Smith) and a goofy scientist (Jeff Goldblum) to save the planet from total destruction. With plenty of action, special effects sequences and pithy one-liners...
- Alien
Starring Sigourney WeaverTom Skerritt
By Ridley Scott, 1979.
Sigourney Weaver shines as the most stalwart crewmember of a space freighter that inadvertently takes on an unwanted visitor. As the bloodthirsty beast stalks the crew (including Tom Skerritt, John Hurt and Yaphet Kotto), they begin to realize they're pitted against a malevolent monster that's...
- The Terminator
Starring Arnold SchwarzeneggerMichael BiehnLinda Hamilton
By James Cameron, 1984.
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" (Arnold Schwarzenegger) back to 1984 to snuff Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony.
- District 9
Starring Jason CopeRobert HobbsSharlto Copley
By Neill Blomkamp, 2009.
When aliens land on Earth, global business conglomerate Multi-National United forces them into rigid containment zones where they are compelled to labor, even as MNU commandeers their otherworldly technology for profit. As tensions build between human and non-human races, a rogue agent leads a...
- Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Starring Carrie FisherKenny BakerHarrison Ford
By Irvin Kershner, 1980.
George Lucas's epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), in hopes of defeating the evil Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. While Luke trains, rebel leader Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), cocky Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are...
- Aliens
Starring Sigourney WeaverMichael Biehn
By James Cameron, 1986.
Sigourney Weaver returns as Lt. Ripley in this action-packed sequel to Alien. The only survivor from the first film, Ripley finds her horrific account of the alien and her crew's fate is met with skepticism -- until the mysterious disappearance of colonists on LV-426 prompts a team of high-tech...
- Tron: Legacy
Starring Garrett HedlundOlivia WildeJeff Bridges
By Joseph Kosinski, 2010.
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the same world of fierce programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant (Quorra, played by Olivia Wilde)...
- Star Trek: First Contact
Starring Patrick StewartBrent SpinerLe Var Burton
By Jonathan Frakes, 1996.
The Borg have returned, in another attempt to conquer Earth. Disregarding orders, Capt. Picard and the new Enterprise-E rush to save the Federation Home World, only to get sucked back in time with the Borg as they attempt to interfere with the course of human kind's evolution into a peaceful...
- Twelve Monkeys
Starring Joseph MelitoBruce WillisJon Seda
By Terry Gilliam, 1995.
In a future world devastated by a man-made disease, a convict (WIllis) is sent back in time to gather information about the super virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
- Tron
Starring Bruce BoxleitnerDavid WarnerJeff Bridges
By Steven Lisberger, 1982.
Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as the Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense landscapes of...
- RoboCop
Starring Ronny CoxNancy AllenKurtwood Smith
By Paul Verhoeven, 1987.
Director Paul Verhoeven made his name with this action film that packs lots of brains beneath its substantial brawn. The monolithic corporation controlling the futuristic, crime-riddled Detroit transforms a dead cop (Peter Weller) into a cybernetic law-enforcement unit called RoboCop.
- Total Recall
Starring Arnold SchwarzeneggerRachel TicotinSharon Stone
By Paul Verhoeven, 1990.
Life is mind-bending and chaotic in director Paul Verhoeven's violent, Oscar-winning sci-fi adventure based on a Philip K. Dick story. When construction worker Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip, he also discovers that his past...
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Starring William ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest Kelley
By Nicholas Meyer, 1982.
To escape his desk job, Adm. James T. Kirk (William Shatner) returns to the USS Enterprise, assisting Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in a training mission for Starfleet cadets. But the inexperienced crew is put to the test when escaped villain Khan (Ricardo Montalban) steals a powerful weapon and comes...
- Planet of the Apes
Starring Mark WahlbergTim RothHelena Bonham Carter
By Tim Burton, 2001.
This remake of the 1960s camp classic starring Charlton Heston (who makes an appearance here) is anything but monkey business. After flying through a space "worm hole," astronaut Mark Wahlberg crashes on a planet where simians rule over humans. Aided and abetted by a sympathetic chimpanzee (Helena...
- The Thing
Starring Kurt RussellRichard A. DysartRichard Masur
By John Carpenter, 1982.
Scientists working in Antarctica (led by Kurt Russell) are forced to abandon their research after a helicopter crashes near their camp, bringing a lone dog into their midst. But the plot thickens when the otherworldly canine changes form in the middle of the night.
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Starring William ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest Kelley
By Leonard Nimoy, 1986.
It's the 23rd century in director Leonard Nimoy's Oscar-nominated sci-fi adventure, and a mysterious power is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. To save mankind, Capt. Kirk (William Shatner), Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) and the rest of the Starship Enterprise...
- Brazil
Starring Jonathan PryceMichael PalinRobert De Niro
By Terry Gilliam, 1985.
The film centers on Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical)...
- Metropolis
Starring Alfred AbelGustav FrohlichBrigitte Helm
By Fritz Lang, 1927.
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
- Soylent Green
Starring Charlton HestonLeigh Taylor-YoungChuck Connors
By Richard Fleischer, 1973.
Set in a polluted, congested New York City in 2022, this sci-fi thriller stars Charlton Heston as Robert Thorn, a gumshoe looking into the murder of a corporate executive (Joseph Cotten) whose company makes a nutritious synthetic food called Soylent Green.
- Solaris
Starring George ClooneyNatascha McElhoneJeremy Davies
By Steven Soderbergh, 2002.
Love gets a second chance in this sci-fi thriller directed by the award-winning Steven Soderbergh. The film finds Dr. Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) aboard the space station Prometheus, whose crew had been investigating the planet Solaris and subsequently ceased all communications -- without...
- Primer
Starring Shane CarruthDavid SullivanCasey Gooden
By Shane Carruth, 2004.
Quite by accident, an engineer builds a machine that can transport the user back in time. But his discovery comes with an ominous caveat: At the heart of this puzzling device, nothing is as it seems on the surface. David Sullivan and Shane Carruth co-star in this Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury...
- Altered States
Starring Dori BrennerDrew BarrymoreBob Balaban
By Ken Russell, 1980.
Harvard scientist Eddie Jessup's (William Hurt) mind-altering experiments on himself, involving a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber, get out of control when his handiwork shuttles him back and forth on the evolutionary spectrum -- from human to ape-man.
- Videodrome
Starring James WoodsDeborah HarrySonja Smits
By David Cronenberg, 2004.
Love it or loathe it, David Cronenberg's 1983 horror film Videodrome is a movie to be reckoned with. Inviting extremes of response from disdain (critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the least entertaining films ever made") to academic euphoria, it's the kind of film that is simultaneously sickening...
- Sleeper
Starring Woody AllenDiane KeatonJohn Beck
By Woody Allen, 1973.
Health-food store owner Miles Monroe (Woody Allen, who also directs) bites the dust in 1973 and ends up cryogenically frozen, only to be defrosted in a dystopian future in which people pleasure themselves with an "orgasmatron" and dissidents' brains are "electronically simplified.
