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Films with the genre "Science fiction", sorted by production date
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Alien Terror (1971)
, 1h30Directed by Jack Hill
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Boris Karloff, Enrique Guzmán, Christa Linder, Tito Novaro, Arturo Fernández
Lady Frankenstein (1971)
, 1h34Directed by Mel Welles
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Joseph Cotten, Herbert Fux, Rosalba Neri, Mickey Hargitay, Andrea Aureli, Marino Masè
The films opens with a trio of grave robbers (led by a man named Lynch) delivering a corpse to Baron Frankenstein (Cotten) and his assistant Dr. Marshall (Müller), for obvious reanimation purposes.
Out of the Darkness (1971)
, 2h20Directed by HSH Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Sorapong Chatree
Astronomer Professor Thongchai and his assistant Sek observe some meteorites falling and determine they struck somewhere in Southern Thailand. They head for Ranong Province where they start their investigation at a potash mine owned by Luang Kosit. When they arrive, they find the place under siege by some gunmen. Sek pitches in to help out, and to return the favor, Luang Kosit brings Thongchai and Sek to his home and offers them a place to stay.
Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971)
, 1h30Directed by Reginald Mills
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Children's films
Actors Joan Benham
L'histoire nous est présentée par son auteure, Beatrix Potter (interprétée à l'écran par l'actrice Niamh Cusack). A ses côtés se trouve Pierre, un jeune lapin qu'elle a transformé en héros des aventures qu'elle a écrites. On découvre à chaque épisode tout l’univers enchanteur de Pierre Lapin, de Tom Chaton, de Rebondi Cochonnet et de bien d’autres animaux encore au travers de 9 contes qui nous montrent la vie animale avec ses joies et ses malheurs.
You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
, 1h37Directed by Václav Vorlíček
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Iva Janžurová, Jiří Sovák, Olga Schoberová, František Filipovský, Čestmír Řanda, Otto Šimánek
Après qu'un soldat ait coupé le bras du cousin du roi, celui-ci décide de désactiver l'armée. Bien entendu, les généraux n'apprécient pas du tout cette décision et tentent de tuer le roi. L'assassin doit être un corps artificiel ayant la forme de l'actrice Evelina Keleti et le cerveau de la tueuse en série psychotique Fany Stubová. Ils parviennent également à tuer l'astrologue du roi, Stuart Hample, qui met en garde le roi. Par accident, le cerveau de Hample est implanté dans le corps de l'assassin, l'actrice Keleti est tuée et le chaos commence.
Zaat (1971)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
The film begins with Nazi mad scientist Dr. Kurt Leopold in his lab, where he has lived alone for about 20 years (it is revealed later in the film that he graduated cum laude from MIT in 1934). He is contemplating his former colleagues' laughter at his formula, which is described as "ZaAt" (read Z-sub-A, A-sub-T, but which he simply calls "Zaat"). His formula can turn a man into a walking catfish. He injects himself with the serum and emerges from a tank as a giant fish-like creature.
200 Motels (1971)
, 1h38Directed by Frank Zappa, Tony Palmer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Documentary, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Theodore Bikel, Ringo Starr, Frank Zappa, Pamela Des Barres, Howard Kaylan
In 200 Motels, the film attempts to portray the craziness of life on the road as a rock musician, and as such consists of a series of unconnected nonsense vignettes interspersed with concert footage of the Mothers of Invention. Ostensibly, while on tour The Mothers of Invention go crazy in the small fictional town of Centerville ("a real nice place to raise your kids up"), wander around, and get beaten up in "Redneck Eats", a cowboy bar. In a long cartoon interlude bassist "Jeff", tired of playing what he refers to as "Zappa's comedy music", is persuaded by his bad conscience to quit the group, as did his real-life counterpart Jeff Simmons, who was fired for insubordination before the film began shooting. Simmons was replaced by Martin Lickert (who was Ringo's chauffeur) for the film. Almost every scene is drenched with video special effects (double and triple exposures, solarisation, false color, speed changes, etc.) which were innovative in 1971. The film has been dubbed a "surrealistic documentary".
Glen and Randa (1971)
, 1h33Directed by Jim McBride
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Actors Shelley Plimpton, Garry Goodrow, Woodrow Chambliss
Decades after a nuclear war has devastated the earth and left the survivors as scavengers, a young couple named Glen and Randa who come from a close knit tribe in a rural area, set out to discover the remains of the world that came before them. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in some old comic books and he and Randa set out to find this city.
The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
, 1h30Directed by Walon Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Documentary
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Documentaire animalier, Documentary films about environmental issues, Films about insects, Documentary films about nature
Actors Lawrence Pressman
A fictitious scientist called Dr. Nils Hellstrom (played by Lawrence Pressman) guides viewers throughout the film. He claims, on the basis of scientific-sounding theories, that insects will ultimately win the fight for survival on planet Earth because of their adaptability and ability to reproduce rapidly, and that the human race will lose this fight largely because of excessive individualism. The film combines short clips from horror and science fiction movies with extraordinary camera sequences of butterflies, locusts, wasps, termites, ants, mayflies, other insects rarely seen before on film and insectivorous plants/insects.
I, Monster (1971)
, 1h15Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Hurndall, George Merritt, Susan Jameson, Marjie Lawrence
Psychologist Charles Marlowe (Lee) invents a drug which will release his patients' inhibitions. When he tests it on himself, he becomes the evil Edward Blake, who descends into crime and eventually murder. Utterson (Cushing), Marlowe's lawyer, believes that Blake is blackmailing his friend until he discovers the truth.
, 1h27Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Bruce Dern, Pat Priest, Casey Kasem, John Bloom, Berry Kroeger
Dr. Roger Girard (Bruce Dern) is a rich scientist experimenting with head transplantation. His caretaker has a son, Danny (John Bloom), who is an extremely strong full-grown man, but he has the mind of a child. In an unusual turn of events, Manuel Cass (Albert Cole), a maniacal killer, has murdered Dr. Girard's caretaker and is badly injured himself. Dr. Girard decides to transplant the murderer's head onto Danny's body. The new creature, with one head of a murderer and the other with the mental capacity of an eight-year old attached to an extremely powerful body, begins wreaking havoc.
Paper Man (1971)
, 1h15Directed by Walter Grauman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about computing
Actors Dean Stockwell, Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, James Olson, Jason Wingreen, Dan Barton
Four college students (Dean Stockwell, Stefanie Powers, James Stacy, and Tina Chen) who take advantage of a credit card mistakenly issued to someone who does not even exist, then use their university's computer to counterfeit an entire identity and erase the charges they run up on it. None of them count on the computer seeming to have some ideas of its own, or on it commencing to murder them.
Willard (1971)
, 1h35Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Dante, Sondra Locke, Joan Shawlee
Willard is a meek social misfit who later develops a strange affinity for rats. He lives in a large Victorian home, with only his cranky and decrepit mother for company. On his 27th birthday, he is humiliated to come home to a birthday party thrown by his mother, where all of the attendees are her own aging friends. After having left the party in embarrassment, he notices a rat in his backyard and tosses it pieces of his birthday cake. Later, his mother gets upset with him for leaving the party and she scolds him later while also discussing how badly the house is falling apart. The next morning he goes out and feeds another rat (this one has babies with it) while imitating their squeaks. His mother starts telling him that he needs to kill the rats that have been running around their yard, which Willard refuses to do.
Brain of Blood (1971)
Directed by Al Adamson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Grant Williams, Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol, Angelo Rossitto, Reed Hadley, John Bloom
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope in transplanting his brain into another body. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton, having unwisely put off body acquisition until the last minute, transplants Amir's brain into the body of the disfigured simpleton assistant who failed in said chore. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the woman chained in the basement. It's up to Amir's friend Bob and wife Tracey to try to salvage this tale.