Science Fiction
see all genres ›With other-worldly realities that have been built on sometimes crumbling foundations of scientific “fact,” science fiction often puts familiar characters in novel circumstances. They subtly (or not so subtly) tweak the known world or invent extraterrestrial environments, testing human morals in the face of astonishing challenges and calamities.
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Genres / Science Fiction
SUB-GENRES · Alternate Universe · Extraterrestrial Invasion · Kaiju eiga · Other World · Post-Apocalypse · Reanimation · Space Travel · Time Travel · Utopia/Dystopia
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The Last of England
An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's dizzying THE LAST OF ENGLAND is a lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. One of Jarman's most experimental and overwhelming works, he has Tilda Swinton stalk through the remnants of industrial England, encountering visions of...Start your free trial to watch -
Let the Wind Blow
At the height of nuclear tensions between India and Pakistan, Arjun and his best friend, Chabia, weigh their options for the future against the reality of life on the streets of Mumbai. Enticed by the promise of wealth and opportunity in the Persian Gulf, Chabia is eager to leave his job as a mechanic. But...Start your free trial to watch -
The Man from Beyond
Two scientists on an Arctic expedition uncover a frozen man who’s been preserved in ice for a century. The "man from beyond" is none other than Harry Houdini, who punches up a gothic melodrama with escape acts and a dashing rescue above Niagara Falls. His character encounters the same woman he left behind...Start your free trial to watch
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Mazinkaizer SKL
Behind a gravity curtain waits Kikaijima, a colossal island left over from the last world war. It's a lawless wasteland of robot superweapons from a forgotten age of military might. Receiving word that the unstable island's reactors will explode and vaporize the world in just a few days, the Japanese government awakens the...Start your free trial to watch -
Metropolis
Incorporating more than twenty-five minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score, the film’s dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever....Start your free trial to watch
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Metropolis
In 1984, Academy Award®-winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic METROPOLIS to a new generation of moviegoers. Working in collaboration with film archives around the world, he supervised a special reconstruction of the film, with color tinting, fewer inter-titles and newly restored...Start your free trial to watch -
Mock Up on Mu
A radical hybrid of multiple genres, Craig Baldwin's MOCK UP ON MU cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction...Start your free trial to watch -
Monster from the Ocean Floor
Reports that a Mexican fishing village is being terrorized by a creature that lives in the cove, draws the attention of a scientist (Stuart Wade) with a one-man submarine and a beautiful tourist (Anne Kimbell), who descend into the dark waters to investigate. Hollywood's legendary maverick Roger Corman...Start your free trial to watch
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Onechanbara
In the year 20XX, a swarm of engineered super-zombies have covered the entire world. But even this cannot deter Aya's determination to track down her father's killer. With sword in hand and wearing nothing but her trademark bikini and cowboy hat, she sets off to settle the score. Aya is joined on her path to vengeance by the...Start your free trial to watch -
Onésime, Clock-maker
Goofy Onésime hatches a bright idea when he discovers that he'll only receive his inheritance after twenty years have passed: why not just change the gears of Paris’s regulating clock and speed up his waiting time? Jean Duran’s brilliantly choreographed fast motion cinematography shows a city in overdrive,...Start your free trial to watch -
Oppai Chanbara
Lili is the inheritor of Sayama Hashin-ryu martial arts, an unbeatable sword style that only reaches its full potential when implemented in a life or death struggle for survival by a female practitioner. As part of her initiation ceremony, Lili is sent back to the age of ronin and ninjas to protect a small town from a gang of...Start your free trial to watch
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Le orme
A fascinating, little-known, beautifully enigmatic European mix of giallo psychological suspense and science fiction. The excellent Florinda Bolkan plays Alice, a neurotic, sexually repressed career woman who travels to a picturesque yet somehow disturbing historic Italian village for reasons she refuses to make entirely...Start your free trial to watch -
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES is the breathtakingly beautiful and long-awaited second feature from Stephen and Timothy Quay. On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by a malevolent Dr. Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to...Start your free trial to watch -
Punishment Park
The war in Vietnam is escalating. There is massive public protest in the United States and elsewhere. President Nixon declares a state of national emergency and the federal authorities are given the power to detain persons judged to be "a risk to internal security." In a desert zone in southwest California, a civilian...Start your free trial to watch
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Puzzlehead
In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, “Puzzlehead.” Jealousy erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter has longed for. The resulting Sci-Fi love triangle is a Frankensteinian fable that traps...Start your free trial to watch -
Racing Daylight
Told as three short movies, RACING DAYLIGHT is the story of Sadie Stokes (Melissa Leo) who's returned to the family farm to care for her catatonic Grandma (Leclanche Durand ). There have always been Stokes in Cedarsville. Sadie and Grandma are the last. Sadie's life has been pretty colorless until the man appears in the...Start your free trial to watch




