Category Archives: Sci-Fi
Deep Impact
Release 1998
Genre Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Mimi Leder
Writers: Bruce Joel Rubin, Michael Tolkin
Stars: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120647/
Unless a comet can be destroyed before colliding with Earth, only those allowed into shelters will survive. Which people will survive?
Cloverfield
Release 2008
Genre Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Matt Reeves
Writers: Drew Goddard
Stars: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/
Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people.
I Am Legend
Release 2007
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Director: Francis Lawrence
Writers: Mark Protosevich, Akiva Goldsman, Richard Matheson, John William Corrington, Joyce Hooper Corrington
Stars: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Willow Smith
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/
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.
War of the Worlds
Release 2005
Genre Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Josh Friedman, David Koepp, H.G. Wells
Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/
As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival.
Armageddon
Release 1998
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Michael Bay
Writers: Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, Tony Gilroy, Shane Salerno, Robert Roy Pool
Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/
After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.
The Day After Tomorrow
Release 2004
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Roland Emmerich
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek across America to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Release 2004
Genre Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Kerry Conran
Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon, Bai Ling
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346156/
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
Space Pirate Captain Harlock
Release 2013
Genre Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi
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Director: Shinji Aramaki
Writers: Leiji Matsumoto, Harutoshi Fukui, Kiyoto Takeuchi
Stars: Yû Aoi, Ayano Fukuda, Arata Furuta, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Haruma Miura
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2668134/
Space Pirate Captain Harlock and his fearless crew face off against the space invaders who seek to conquer the planet Earth.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Release 2001
Genre Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Brian Aldiss, Ian Watson, Steven Spielberg
Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas, Jude Law
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
The Purge
Release 2013
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: James DeMonaco
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane, Edwin Hodge
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/
In the future, a wealthy family is held hostage for harboring the target of a murderous syndicate during the Purge, a 12-hour period in which any and all crime is legalized.