Sci-Fi

Battle Royale

(2000)
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16 Dec 2000
? NOT RATED
114 min
Koushun Takami (novel), Kenta Fukasaku (screenplay)
7 wins & 8 nominations.
Forty-two students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale. A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die. The movie focuses on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mitsuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and his classmates to survive?

Battle Royale II

(2003)
05 Jul 2003
? NOT RATED
134 min
Kenta Fukasaku, Norio Kida, Koushun Takami (characters)
2 wins & 1 nomination.
Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.

Beyond Re-Animator

(2003)
25 Jul 2003
? R
96 min
José Manuel Gómez, H.P. Lovecraft, Miguel Tejada-Flores
1 win & 4 nominations
Left to rot in prison for the past thirteen years after the blood-drenched events in Re-Animator (1985) and Bride of Re-Animator (1990), the misunderstood virtuoso of mayhem, Dr Herbert West, finds an unexpected ally in the person of the young medical doctor, Howard Phillips. Behind the thick walls of the impenetrable Arkham State Penitentiary, the blasphemous duo of dreamers set up a secret laboratory to test an entirely new reanimating serum, which--when combined with West's original phosphorescent reagent--can work miracles on the prison's inmates. Now, the stage seems set for the ultimate experiment; however, once more, this is easier said than done. Can the good doctors escape from this concrete pit of death?

Black Sheep

(2006)
62
29 Mar 2007
? NOT RATED
87 min
Jonathan King
5 wins & 5 nominations.
An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

Blade II

(2002)
52
22 Mar 2002
? R
117 min
Marv Wolfman (character), Gene Colan (character), David S. Goyer
6 wins & 9 nominations.
Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reaper vampires who feed on vampires.

Blade Runner

(1982)
88
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25 Jun 1982
? R
117 min
Hampton Fancher (screenplay), David Webb Peoples (screenplay), Philip K. Dick (novel)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 16 nominations.
In the futuristic year of 2019, Los Angeles have become a dark and depressing metropolis, filled with urban decay. Rick Deckard, an ex-cop, is a "Blade Runner". Blade runners are people assigned to assassinate "replicants". The replicants are androids that look like real human beings. When four replicants committed a bloody mutiny on the Off World colony, Deckard is called out of retirement to track down the androids. As he track the replicants, eliminating them one by one, he soon comes across another replicant, Rachel, who evokes human emotion despite the fact that she's a replicant herself. As Deckard closes in on the leader of the replicant group, his true hatred toward artificial intelligence makes him question about his own identity in this future world including what's human and what's not human.

Blade Runner 2049

(2017)
81
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06 Oct 2017
? R
164 min
Hampton Fancher (screenplay by), Michael Green (screenplay by), Hampton Fancher (story by), Philip K. Dick (based on characters from the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by)
Won 2 Oscars. Another 95 wins & 154 nominations.
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Brazil

(1985)
88
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18 Dec 1985
? R
132 min
Terry Gilliam (screenplay), Tom Stoppard (screenplay), Charles McKeown (screenplay)
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 3 nominations.
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

Casshern

(2004)
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24 Apr 2004
? N/A
142 min
Kazuaki Kiriya (screenplay), Dai Satô, Shotaro Suga, Tatsuo Yoshida (characters)
1 nomination.
Live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name (Shinzo Ningen Casshân). Theme song by Utada Hikaru.

Cell

(2016)
38
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10 Jun 2016
? R
98 min
Stephen King (based on the novel by), Stephen King (screenplay by), Adam Alleca (screenplay by)
N/A
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

Children of Men

(2006)
84
05 Jan 2007
? R
109 min
Alfonso Cuarón (screenplay), Timothy J. Sexton (screenplay), David Arata (screenplay), Mark Fergus (screenplay), Hawk Ostby (screenplay), P.D. James (novel)
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 37 wins & 59 nominations.
The world's youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman and the desperate journey to deliver her to safety and restore faith for a future beyond those presently on Earth.

Chronicle

(2012)
69
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03 Feb 2012
? PG-13
84 min
Max Landis, Josh Trank
2 wins & 7 nominations
The shy, lonely and outcast teenager Andrew Detmer is bullied and has no friends at high-school and lives with his abusive and alcoholic father Richard Detmer and his terminally ill mother Karen. Andrew buys a camera to film his everyday life. His cousin Matt Garetty drives him to school and invites Andrew to go to a party at night. Nearby they find a tunnel and suddenly acquire telekinetic abilities and Andrew becomes the most powerful. But he easily loses his temper and becomes dangerous while Matt tries to control him. When his mother needs a medicine and Andrew does not have enough money to buy it, his darker side overwhelms him and he becomes a menace.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

(1977)
91
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25 Dec 1977
? PG
137 min
Steven Spielberg
Won 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 37 nominations.
After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Cloud Atlas

(2012)
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26 Oct 2012
? R
172 min
David Mitchell (novel), Lana Wachowski (written for the screen by), Tom Tykwer (written for the screen by), Andy Wachowski (written for the screen by)
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 15 wins & 69 nominations.
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Creature from the Black Lagoon

(1954)
68
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05 Mar 1954
? G
79 min
Harry Essex, Arthur A. Ross, Maurice Zimm
2 wins & 2 nominations
A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discovers a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks free. The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the lovely Kay, fiancée of one in the expedition, with whom he has fallen in love.

Cypher

(2002)
18 Jan 2003
? R
95 min
Brian King
5 wins & 3 nominations.
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.

Deja Vu

(2006)
59
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22 Nov 2006
? PG-13
126 min
Bill Marsilii, Terry Rossio
1 win & 5 nominations.
After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.

Doom

(2005)
34
21 Oct 2005
? R
105 min
Dave Callaham (screenplay), Wesley Strick (screenplay), Dave Callaham (story)
3 nominations.
Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.

Edge of Tomorrow

(2014)
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06 Jun 2014
? PG-13
113 min
Christopher McQuarrie (screenplay by), Jez Butterworth (screenplay by), John-Henry Butterworth (screenplay by)
11 wins & 37 nominations.
An alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again...and again. But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy!

Elysium

(2013)
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09 Aug 2013
? R
109 min
Neill Blomkamp
1 win & 9 nominations.
In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.