| 2001 - A Space Odyssey - (1968) |
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| Director | Stanley Kubrick |
| Duration | 136 mins |
| Starring | Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter |
| Plot | 2001: A Space Odyssey is a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for the infinite. It is a dazzling, Academy Award®-winning visual achievement, a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion, a work so influential that Steven Spielberg likened it to the formative “Big Bang” of his filmmaking generation. It may be the masterwork of director Stanley Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke)… and it will likely excite, inspire and enthral for generations.
To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever conceived) into colonised space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted realms of space, perhaps even into immortality. “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Let the awe and mystery of a journey unlike any other begin. |
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| Abyss, The (special edition) - (1989) |
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| Director | James Cameron |
| Duration | 163 mins |
| Starring | Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio |
| Plot | A team of civilian divers working on a prototype underwater oil-drilling rig are coerced by the US Navy into helping them look for a lost nuclear submarine. Whilst in deep water the Navy supervisor has paranoid ideas about what they've found in the Abyss..... Special extended edition which includes an extra 24 minutes, plus 'The Making Of The Abyss Special Edition' and the reasons why director James Cameron released the uncut version. |
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| Akira - (1988) |
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| Director | Otomo Katsuhiro |
| Duration | 119 mins |
| Starring | Mitsuo Iwata .... Shôtarô Kaneda (voice)
Nozomu Sasaki .... Tetsuo Shima (voice)
Mami Koyama .... Kei (voice)
Tesshô Genda .... Ryûsaku (voice)
Hiroshi Ôtake .... Nezu (voice)
Kôichi Kitamura .... Priestess Miyako, Council A (voice)
Michihiro Ikemizu .... Inspector, Council I (voice)
Yuriko Fuchizaki .... Kaori (voice)
Masaaki Ôkura .... Yamagata (voice)
Tarô Arakawa .... Eiichi Watanabe, Council G, Army (voice)
Takeshi Kusao .... Kai (voice)
Kazumi Tanaka .... Army (voice)
Masayuki Katô (I) .... Engineer Sakiyama, Council D (voice)
Yôsuke Akimoto .... Harukiya Bartender (voice)
Masato Hirano .... Yûji Takeyama, Spy, Council F (voice) |
| Plot | Prepare to enter this astonishing nightmare of hyper-reality created by one of the world's leading animation directors, Otomo Katsuhiro. 2019. Neo-Tokyo is about to explode. Old gods return to do battle with Akira and something more than comic book ultra-violence is unleashed. |
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| Andromeda Strain, The - (1970) |
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| Director | Robert Wise |
| Duration | 125 mins |
| Starring | Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid |
| Plot | When a satellite falls to earth near a remote New Mexico village, it brings with it a lethal virus from space. This record of earth's first biological crisis is perhaps the most painstakingly authentic science-fiction thriller ever made. |
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| Barbarella - (1968) |
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| Director | Roger Vadim |
| Duration | 98 mins |
| Starring | Jane Fonda .... Barbarella
John Phillip Law .... Pygar
Anita Pallenberg .... The Great Tyrant
Milo O'Shea .... Durand Durand
Marcel Marceau .... Professor Ping
Claude Dauphin .... President of Earth |
| Plot | The year is 40.000. Peacefully floating around in zero-gravity Barbarella (Jane Fonda) is suddenly interrupted by a call from the President of Earth. A young scientist, Duran-Duran, is threatening the ancient universal peace and Barbarella is the chosen one to find him and save the world. During her mission, Barbarella never finds herself in a situation where it isn't possible to lose at least part of her already minimal dressing. |
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| Blade Runner (Director's Cut) - (1982) |
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| Director | Ridley Scott |
| Duration | 112 mins |
| Starring | Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Sean Young, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah |
| Plot | Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. The story of Blade Runner is familiar to countless fans. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Is Deckard a replicant? As with all things in the future, you must discover the answer for yourself. |
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| Citizen Kane - (1941) |
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| Director | Orson Welles |
| Duration | 119 mins |
| Starring | Joseph Cotten .... Jedediah Leland/Newsreel Reporter
Dorothy Comingore .... Susan Alexander Kane
Agnes Moorehead .... Mrs. Mary Kane
Ruth Warrick .... Emily Monroe Norton Kane
Ray Collins (I) .... Boss James 'Jim' W. Gettys
Erskine Sanford .... Herbert Carter, Inquirer Editor-in-Chief/Newsreel Reporter
Everett Sloane .... Mr. Bernstein, Kane's General Manager
William Alland .... Jerry Thompson/'News on the March' Narrator
Paul Stewart (I) .... Raymond, Kane's Butler
George Coulouris .... Walter Parks Thatcher
Fortunio Bonanova .... Signor Matiste, Susan's Opera Coach
Gus Schilling .... The Headwaiter
Philip Van Zandt .... Mr. Rawlston
Georgia Backus .... Bertha
Harry Shannon (I) .... Kane's Father |
| Plot | Multimillionaire newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his extravagant mansion, Xanadu, speaking a single word: "Rosebud". In an attempt to figure out the meaning of this word, a reporter tracks down the people who worked and lived with Kane; they tell their stories in a series of flashbacks that reveal much about Kane's life but not enough to unlock the riddle of his dying breath. |
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| Clockwork Orange - (1971) |
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| Director | Stanley Kubrick |
| Duration | 131 mins |
| Starring | Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin, David Prowse, John Savident |
| Plot | Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has his own way of having a good time. He has it all at the tragic expense of others. Alex’s journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick’s future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess’ novel. Unforgettable images, startling musical counterpoints, the fascinating amalgam of a language used by Alex and his pals - Kubrick shapes them into a shattering morality tale.
Hugely controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won the New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director honours and earned four Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture. The power of its art is such that it still entices, shocks and holds us in its grasp. |
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| Dark City - (1998) |
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| Director | Alex Proyas |
| Duration | 96 mins |
| Starring | Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien, Ian Richardson, William Hurt |
| Plot | John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. His memories have vanished and even his beautiful wife, Emma, has become estranged from him.
So begins a quest to unravel the mysteries of the past; a quest that will take him into a fiendish underworld where he is relentlessly pursued by the police and a group of shadow-like beings known as the Strangers and where only the sinsister Doctor Schreber is able to help him... |
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| Easy Rider - (1969) |
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| Director | Dennis Hopper |
| Duration | 94 mins |
| Starring | Peter Fonda .... Wyatt 'Captain America' Earp
Dennis Hopper .... Billy
Antonio Mendoza (II) .... Jesus
Phil Spector .... Connection
Mac Mashourian .... Bodyguard
Warren Finnerty .... Rancher
Tita Colorado .... Rancher's Wife
Luke Askew .... Stranger on Highway
Luana Anders .... Lisa
Sabrina Scharf .... Sarah
Robert Walker Jr. .... Jack (as Robert Walker)
Sandy Wyeth .... Joanne
Robert Ball (I) .... Mime#1
Carmen Phillips (I) .... Mime#2
Ellie Wood Walker .... Mime#3 (as Ellie Walker) |
| Plot | Two long-haired bikers from Los Angeles take off on a cross-country trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. On the way they meet several unusual characters. A rancher and his family, a hitchhiker and the hippie commune where he lives, hookers, red-necks, but most noticeably George Hansen played by Jack Nicholson. Mr. Nicholson gained national attention for his role as the "law'er with the ACLU". Dennis Hopper won "Best New Director" at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. |
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| Fahrenheit 451 - (1966) |
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| Director | Francois Truffaut |
| Duration | 109 mins |
| Starring | Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser, Alex Scott |
| Plot | Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut.
Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Truffaut's first English language production is an eerie fable where mankind becomes the ultimate evil. |
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| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - (1998) |
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| Director | Terry Gilliam |
| Duration | 118 mins |
| Starring | Johnny Depp .... Raoul Duke (Hunter S. Thompson)
Benicio Del Toro .... Dr. Gonzo (Oscar Zeta Acosta)
Tobey Maguire .... Hitchhiker
Ellen Barkin .... Waitress at North Star Cafe |
| Plot | An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out in the Red Shark. Encountering police, reporters, gamblers, racers, and hitchhikers; they search for some undefinable thing know only as the "American Dream" and find fear, loathing and hilarious adventures into the dementia of the modern American West. |
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| Fifth Element, The - (1997) |
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| Director | Luc Besson |
| Duration | 121 mins |
| Starring | Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm |
| Plot | In the year 2257, a planet-sized sphere of supreme evil is approaching the earth at relentless speed, threatening to exterminate every living organism unless four ancient stones, representing the elements of earth, wind, fire and water are united with the mysterious "fifth element".
From Luc Besson, the acclaimed director of 'Leon' and 'Nikita' comes a film that turns science fiction inside out. |
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| Fritz the Cat - (1972) |
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| Director | Ralph Bakshi |
| Duration | 78 mins |
| Starring | Skip Hinnant .... Fritz the Cat (voice)
Rosetta LeNoire .... (voice)
John McCurry (I) .... (voice)
Phil Seuling .... (voice) |
| Plot | A persiflage on the protest movements of the 60s. It's hero is the bold and sex-obsessed tom-cat Fritz the Cat, as created by the legendary underground artist Robert Crumb. Quitting university Fritz the Cat wanders through the hash, Black Panther and Hell's Angels scenes to find to himself. |
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| Gattaca - (1997) |
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| Director | Andrew Niccol |
| Duration | 101 mins |
| Starring | Ethan Hawke .... Vincent Freeman
Uma Thurman .... Irene Cassini
Jude Law .... Jerome Eugene Morrow
Gore Vidal .... Director Josef
Xander Berkeley .... Dr. Lamar |
| Plot | Vincent is one of the last "natural" babies born into a sterile, genetically-enhanced world, where life expectancy and disease likelihood are ascertained at birth. Myopic and due to die at 30, he has no chance of a career in a society that now discriminates against your genes, instead of your gender, race or religion. Going underground, he assumes the identity of Jerome, crippled in an accident, and achieves prominence in the Gattaca Corporation, where he is selected for his lifelong desire: a manned mission to Titan. Constantly passing gene tests by diligently using samples of Jerome's hair, skin, blood and urine, his now-perfect world is thrown into increasing desperation, his dream within reach, when the mission director is killed - and he carelessly loses an eyelash at the scene! Certain that they know the murderer's ID, but unable to track down the former Vincent, the police start to close in, with extra searches, and new gene tests. With the once-in-a-lifetime launch only days away, Vincent must avoid arousing suspicion, while passing the tests, evading the police, and not knowing whom he can trust... |
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| Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, The (TV film) - (1980) |
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| Director | Alan Bell |
| Duration | 180 mins |
| Starring | Simon Jones, David Dixon, Joe Melia, Martin Benson |
| Plot | It is the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty Three Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters - Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway? So that whingeing Earthling Arthur Dent should be very grateful he had a copy!
For after Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is let loose in the furthest recesses of the Galaxy armed only with the aforementioned mysterious but indispensable Guide. Follow Dent's cosmic adventures as he is joined by his pretty weird companions: Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, Trillian-the-Astrophysicist-he-met-at-a-party-in-Islington and Marvin the manically depressed Android. You never know, they may even find the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything! |
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| L.A. Confidential - (1997) |
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| Director | Curtis Hanson |
| Duration | 132 mins |
| Starring | Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Danny De Vito, James Cromwell, David Strathairn, Guy Pearce |
| Plot | L.A. Confidential is "tough, gorgeous and vastly entertaining", "a genuine masterpiece that will knock your socks off" and won the 1997 Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. Director Curtis Hanson and a terrific cast serve up a "ravishing, thrilling tale of police corruption and Hollywood glamour" in this film version of James Ellroy's novel. Three cops, a call girl, a mysterious millionaire, a tabloid journalist, and the Chief of Detectives fuel a labyrinthine plot rife with mystery, ambition, romance and humour. |
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| Logan's Run - (1976) |
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| Director | Michael Anderson |
| Duration | 113 mins |
| Starring | Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Farrah Fawcett, Peter Ustinov, Roscoe Lee Browne |
| Plot | Welcome to the 23rd century, a perfect world of total pleasure. The only thing you can't have is your 30th birthday. On Lastday, senior citizens must go through the ritual of 'renewal,' where a fiery carousel spins them into oblivion. 'Runners' are sceptics who seek to escape this ceremonial execution. Michael York is 20-year-old Sandman Logan, who goes AWOL from his job searching out and destroying runners, becoming one himself. He teams up with a young rebel for a flight to refuge from their hedonistic, automated world. Farrah Fawcett-Majors appears as a sexy nurse and Peter Ustinov gives a deliciously quirky performance as Old Man, living on the 'outside' in a gone-to-seed Washington DC. Distinguished by awesome spectacle, Logan's Run won an Oscar for Best Special Effects, which include the first film use of laser beam holography, and is a totally ingenious insight into tomorrow. |
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| Mad Max - (1979) |
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| Director | George Miller (II) |
| Duration | 93 mins |
| Starring | Mel Gibson .... 'Mad' Max Rockatansky
Joanne Samuel .... Jessie Rockatansky
Hugh Keays-Byrne .... Toecutter, Biker Gang Leader
Steve Bisley .... Jim Goose, Main Force Patrol Officer (Bronze)
Tim Burns (I) .... Johnny the Boy, Toecutter Gang
Roger Ward (I) .... Fifi Macaffee
Lisa Aldenhoven .... Nurse
David Bracks .... Mudguts, Toecutter Gang
Bertrand Cadart .... Clunk
David Cameron (IV) .... Barry, MFP Garage Mechanic
Robina Chaffey .... Singer at Sugartown Nightclub
Stephen Clark (I) .... Sarse
Mathew Constantine .... Toddler
Jerry Day .... Ziggy
Reg Evans .... Station Master |
| Plot | In an Australian dystopia of decaying order and violent highways, a police pursuit driver is drawn into a path of vengeance after a motorcycle gang targets him for the death of their former leader. In the U.S. the Aussie accents were dubbed over. The sequel to _Mad Max_ was originally titled _The Road Warrior_ but is now known as _Mad Max 2_. |
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| Matrix, The - (1999) |
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| Director | Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski |
| Duration | 136 mins |
| Starring | Keanu Reeves .... Thomas A. Anderson/Neo
Laurence Fishburne .... Morpheus
Carrie-Anne Moss .... Trinity
Hugo Weaving .... Agent Smith
Gloria Foster .... Oracle
Joe Pantoliano .... Cypher/Mr. Reagan
Marcus Chong .... Tank
Julian Arahanga .... Apoc
Matt Doran .... Mouse
Belinda McClory .... Switch
Anthony Ray Parker .... Dozer
Paul Goddard (I) .... Agent Brown
Robert Taylor (VII) .... Agent Jones
David Aston (I) .... Rhineheart
Marc Gray .... Choi |
| Plot | Computer hacker Thomas Anderson has lived a relatively ordinary life--in what he thinks is the year 1999--until he is contacted by the enigmatic Morpheus who leads him into the real world. In reality, it is 200 years later, and the world has been laid waste and taken over by advanced artificial intelligence machines. The computers have created a false version of 20th-century life--the "Matrix"--to keep the human slaves satisfied, while the AI machines draw power from the humans. Anderson, pursued constantly by "Agents" (computers who take on human form and infiltrate the Matrix), is hailed as "The One" who will lead the humans to overthrow the machines and reclaim the Earth. |
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| Metropolis (Animated) - (2001) |
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| Director | Rintaro |
| Duration | 104 mins |
| Starring | n/a |
| Plot | Brace yourself for a totally new experience in cutting-edge animation. Based on the classic comic created by Osamu Tezuka, written by Japanese anime legend Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) and directed by Rintaro (Galaxy Express 999), Metropolis is a spectacular film featuring stunning imagery and unforgettable characters.
In the industrial, tri-level world of Metropolis, Duke Red is a powerful leader with plans to unveil a highly advanced robot named Tima. But Duke Red's violent son Rock distrusts robots, and intends to find and destroy Tima. Lost in the confusing labyrinth beneath Metropolis, Tima is beginning a friendship with the nephew of a Japanese detective. But when Duke Red separates the two innocents, Tima's life - and the fate of the universe - is dangerously at stake. |
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| Minority Report - (2002) |
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| Director | Steven Spielberg |
| Duration | 142 mins |
| Starring | Tom Cruise, Samantha Morton, Colin J. Farrell, Max Von Sydow, Peter Stormare, Steve Harris, Mike Binder, Daniel London |
| Plot | n this kinetic futuristic thriller from Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise plays John Anderton, the head of Washington's Pre-Crime bureau, an experimental government agency that uses precognitive humans to predict murders. Finding himself accused of a future homicide, Anderton goes on the run and tries to stay one step ahead of his jet pack-assisted colleagues and an ambitious Federal agent (Colin Farrell). Adapted from a short story by Philip K. Dick, Minority Report is one of Spielberg's most sheerly entertaining and deliriously imaginative movies. |
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| Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, The - (1974) |
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| Director | Robert Taylor (III) |
| Duration | 77 mins |
| Starring | Skip Hinnant .... Fritz (voice)
Reva Rose .... Fritz' Old Lady (voice)
Bob Holt .... (voice)
Robert Ridgely .... (voice)
Fred Smoot .... (voice)
'Sweet' Dick Whittington .... (voice)
Luke Walker (I) .... (voice)
Peter Leeds .... (voice) |
| Plot | Fritz, now married and with a son, is desperate to escape from the domestic hell he now finds himself in. Lighting up a joint, he begins to dream about his eight other lives, hoping to find one that will provide a pleasant distraction. The drug-induced journeys he takes include spells as an astronaut, Hitler's psychiatrist, a courier travelling in hostile territory during a race war, and as a pupil of an Indian guru living in the sewers of New York. |
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| Omega Man, The (Special Collector's Edition) - (1971) |
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| Director | Boris Sagal |
| Duration | 94 mins |
| Starring | Charlton Heston, Anthony Zerbe, Rosalind Cash |
| Plot | In a world where mankind has been wiped out by germ warfare, Los Angeles is the desolate playground of the sole survivor of the tragedy. Robert Neville spends his sunny L.A. days gunning his convertible around town foraging for supplies, but at night he flees to the safety of his barricaded penthouse, high above the streets... and the other "survivors".
After sunset the streets belong to the "Family", nocturnal, plague-ravaged victims of the germ war, out to destroy all things modern - and that includes Neville. When Neville encounters other healthy survivors his life changes completely. At last, there is hope, but not if the Family can help it. Charlton Heston's unforgettable performance as the last man alive makes The Omega Man a true Science Fiction classic - at once tragic, chilling and utterly compelling. |
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| Postman, The - (1997) |
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| Director | Kevin Costner |
| Duration | 170 mins |
| Starring | Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Olivia Williams, James Russo, Tom Petty |
| Plot | In 2013 there are no highways and no dreams of a better tomorrow - only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this apocalytic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope. |
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| Quiet Earth - (1984) |
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| Director | Geoff Murphy |
| Duration | 87 mins |
| Starring | Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Peter Smith |
| Plot | Zac awakes one morning to discover he is alone in the world - the global top-secret energy experiment he has been working on has gone horrifically wrong and wiped out the whole of humanity, or so it seems. He starts to live out his fantasies in his own exclusive kingdom, but he soon realizes the emptiness and loneliness of his nightmare situation and embarks on a frantic search for other survivors. He stumbles across two other desperate characters and together they struggle for survival. The dangerous energy forces of his unstable universe will surely kill them unless they reverse the catastrophe caused by man's interference with nature |
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| Rollerball - (1975) |
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| Director | Norman Jewison |
| Duration | 120 mins |
| Starring | James Caan .... Jonathan E.
John Houseman .... Bartholomew
Maud Adams .... Ella
John Beck (II) .... Moonpie
Moses Gunn .... Cletus
Pamela Hensley .... Mackie
Barbara Trentham .... Daphne
John Normington
Shane Rimmer .... Team Executive
Burt Kwouk .... Japanese doctor
Nancy Bleier .... Girl in Library
Richard LeParmentier .... Bartholomew's Aide
Robert Ito .... Strategy coach for Houston team
Ralph Richardson .... Librarian |
| Plot | The year is 2018. There is no crime and there are no more wars. Corporations are now the leaders of the world, as well as the controllers of the people. A violent futuristic game known as Rollerball is now the recreational sport of the world, with teams representing various areas competing for the title of champion. The defending championship team, the Houston team led by the determined ten-year veteran Johnathan E., are looking to repeat as champions. However, Bartholomew, the sinister corporate head, wants Johnathan to retire, even though he is the most respected athlete of his time. Johnathan's rebellious quest will not come out with complications, both for him and his teammates, after he decides to continue playing despite Bartholomew's threats. |
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| Running Man, The - (1987) |
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| Director | Paul Michael Glaser |
| Duration | 97 mins |
| Starring | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto, Richard Dawson |
| Plot | In the year 2019. An innocent man accused of a crime has a choice – Hard Time or Prime Time. He must pay or play The Running Man – the highest rated television show in history. It's a game between life and death but tonight the game is going to be different. Arnold Schwarzenegger is The Running Man. He's playing for a prize – the prize is his life. From now on the rules are going to change... forever. Based on the story by Stephen King. |
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| Soylent green - (1973) |
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| Director | Richard Fleischer |
| Duration | 93 mins |
| Starring | Charlton Heston .... Detective Robert Thorn
Leigh Taylor-Young .... Shirl
Chuck Connors (I) .... Tab Fielding
Joseph Cotten .... William R. Simonson
Brock Peters .... Lt. Hatcher, Chief of Detectives
Paula Kelly (I) .... Martha Phillips
Edward G. Robinson .... Sol Roth
Stephen Young (I) .... Gilbert
Mike Henry .... Sgt. Kulozik
Lincoln Kilpatrick .... Father Paul
Roy Jenson (I) .... State Security Chief Donovan
Leonard Stone .... Superintendent Charles
Whit Bissell .... Governor Santini
Celia Lovsky .... Exchange Leader
Dick Van Patten .... Usher #1 |
| Plot | In the year 2022, the starving masses depend upon the government manufactured food item Soylent Green to exist. But in the midst of a murder investigation, a cop named Thorn (Charlton Heston) uncovers the chilling source of the product. |
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| Stephen King's The Stand - (1994) |
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| Director | Mick Garris |
| Duration | 345 mins |
| Starring | Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Miguel Ferrer, Corin Nemec, Matt Frewer, Adam Storke, Ray Walston, Rob Lowe |
| Plot | A deadly virus is unleashed by a top-secret military lab, wiping out virtually the entire planet's population. The few lonely and terrified individuals who have somehow managed to escape the terrible pestilence, start out on a desperate quest to find other survivors. On their journey, they find themselves drawn by two powerful forces - the soothing and benevolent Mother Abigail, who embodies all that is good, and the satanic Randall Hagg, the personification of evil and corruption. |
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| Strange Days - (1995) |
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| Director | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Duration | 139 mins |
| Starring | Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis |
| Plot | 30 December 1999... Is it the end of the world or the beginning of a new one? Lenny Nero stalks the streets of Los Angeles, a street hustler, an ex-cop, a seller of stolen dreams. Lenny deals in “clips”, digital recordings of real-life experiences packaged for a vicarious thrill. He doesn't deal in “blackjacks” – recordings of death – but when a ruthless killer murders a close associate, Lenny gets drawn into a sleazy and psychotic world of wealth, power and paranoia. Trying to protect his ex-love Faith, Lenny is aided by the only two people he can trust, personal security expert Mace and ex-cop and former colleague Max, as he tries to stay alive to see the next millennium. |
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| Thirteenth Floor, The - (1999) |
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| Director | Josef Rusnak |
| Duration | 96 mins |
| Starring | Craig Bierko .... Douglas Hall/John Ferguson/David
Armin Mueller-Stahl .... Hannon Fuller/Grierson
Gretchen Mol .... Jane Fuller/Natasha Molinaro
Vincent D'Onofrio .... Jason Whitney/Jerry Ashton
Dennis Haysbert .... Detective Larry McBain
Steven Schub .... Zev Bernstein
Jeremy Roberts (I) .... Tom Jones
Rif Hutton .... Joe
Leon Rippy .... Jane's Lawyer
Janet MacLachlan .... Ellen
Brad Henke .... Cop #1
Burt Bulos .... Bellhop
Venessia Valentino .... Concierge
Howard S. Miller .... Chauffeur
Tia Texada .... Natasha's Roomate |
| Plot | Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our "real" world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine... |
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| Tron - (1982) |
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| Director | Steven Lisberger |
| Duration | 92 mins |
| Starring | Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan |
| Plot | A masterpiece of breakthrough CGI ingenuity, Tron is a dazzling film, produced at the flashpoint of a continuing revolution in its genre. When Flynn (Jeff Bridges) hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer to prove his work was stolen by another executive, he finds himself on a much bigger adventure. Beamed inside by a power-hungry Master Control Program (MCP), he joins computer gladiators on a deadly game grid, complete with high velocity light cycles and Tron (Bruce Boxleitner), a specialised security program. Together they fight the ultimate battle with the MCP to decide the fate of both electronic world and the real world. Tron is an epic digital adventure where the action is measured in microseconds... |
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| Twelve Monkeys - (1995) |
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| Director | Terry Gilliam |
| Duration | 124 mins |
| Starring | Madeline Stowe, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, Frank Gorshin, John Seda, Lisa Gay Hamilton |
| Plot | Between the past and the future, sanity and madness, dreams and reality, lies the mystery of the Twelve Monkeys...
The year is 2035 and humankind subsists in a desolate netherworld following the eradication of 99% of the Earth's population, a holocaust that makes the planet's surface uninhabitable and mankind's destiny uncertain. |
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| War of the worlds, The - (1953) |
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| Director | Byron Haskin |
| Duration | 85 mins |
| Starring | Gene Barry .... Dr. Clayton Forrester
Ann Robinson (I) .... Sylvia Van Buren
Les Tremayne .... Major General Mann
Robert Cornthwaite .... Dr. Pryor (as Bob Cornthwaite)
Lewis Martin (I) .... Pastor Dr. Matthew Collins
Sandro Giglio .... Dr. Bilderbeck
William Phipps .... Wash Perry (as Bill Phipps)
Jack Kruschen .... Salvatore
Vernon Rich .... Col. Ralph Heffner
Houseley Stevenson Jr. .... Aide to General Mann
Paul Frees .... Radio Reporter
Henry Brandon .... Cop at Crash Site |
| Plot | H.G. Well's classic novel is brought to life is this tale of alien invasion. The resisdents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. Thier joy is tempered some what when they discover it has passengers who are not very friendly. The movie itself is understood better when you consider it was made at the height of the Cold War - just replace Martian with Russian... |
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| Westworld - (1973) |
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| Director | Michael Crichton |
| Duration | 85 mins |
| Starring | Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin |
| Plot | A amusement park for rich vacationers. The park provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want. Two of the vacationers choose a wild west adventure. However, after a computer breakdown, they find that they are now being stalked by a rogue robot gun-slinger. |
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| Where Have All the People Gone? (TV movie) - (1974) |
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| Director | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| Duration | 74 mins |
| Starring | Peter Graves (I) .... Steven Anders
Verna Bloom .... Jenny
George O'Hanlon Jr. .... David Anders
Kathleen Quinlan .... Deborah Anders
Michael-James Wixted .... Michael
Noble Willingham .... Jim Clancy
Doug Chapin (I) .... Tom Clancy
Jay W. MacIntosh .... Barbara Anders
Dan Barrows .... Man with Gun
Ken Sansom .... Jack McFadden |
| Plot | A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth. |
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