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The Lost World (1992)
, 1h39Directed by Timothy Bond
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors John Rhys-Davies, Eric McCormack, David Warner, Tamara Gorski
Set in 1912, the film opens on Edward Malone, a junior reporter looking for an adventurous assignment. Malone is sent to interview Professor Challenger, an explorer and researcher who believes he is on the trail of the "lost world," a mysterious place in Central Africa. Challenger has a picture of a cliff and a strange beast resembling a pterodactyl that is his only proof of the place.
The Sixth Column (1970)
, 1h14Directed by George McCowan
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Actors Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson, Harry Basch, Daniel J. Travanti, Byron Foulger, Pepper Martin
Two warring planets choose to settle their conflict over which of them will take over the planet Earth, each sending a trio of soldiers to Earth to fight to the death. The combatants, disguised as human beings, can only identify each other by using special visors.
The Machine (2013)
, 1h31Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Robot films
Actors Caitlin Marie Lotz, Toby Stephens, Samuel Hazeldine, Denis Lawson, Pooneh Hajimohammadi, Siwan Morris
In the future, amid a cold war with China, scientists employed by Britain's Ministry of Defence produce a cybernetic implant that allows brain-damaged soldiers to regain lost functions. Scientist Vincent McCarthy sets up a cognitive test for soldier Paul Dawson, a recipient of the cybernetic implant. Upset with Dawson's apparent solipsism and lack of empathy, McCarthy ignores Dawson's requests to see his mother. Dawson turns hostile, kills a scientist and wounds McCarthy, before apologizing and being shot. Afterwards, Dawson's mother regularly protests at the base, though McCarthy denies that her son was ever there.
Shyness Machine Girl (2009)
, 22minutesDirected by Noboru Iguchi
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Horror
Actors Noriko Kijima, Honoka, Minase Yashiro, Asami Sugiura
Yoshie's friend, Ami, was murdered and desecrated by the Kimura Gang (in the first movie). She was saved and, like Ami in the previous film, received modifications from the same mechanics. Remembering her past, Yoshie decides to avenge herself and Ami.
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
, 1h5Directed by James Patrick Hogan
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Vampires in film
Actors George Zucco, David Bruce, Evelyn Ankers, Robert Armstrong, Turhan Bey, Milburn Stone
Dr. Alfred Morris (Zucco) is curious about the effects of an ancient nerve gas, used by the Mayans during rituals of human dissection to appease their gods. He takes medical student Ted Allison (David Bruce) under his wing to assist him with his experiments in using the gas on modern animals. However, despite Ted's enthusiasm for the success of their effort to revive Morris' dead monkey Choco (who was earlier exposed to the gas and died) by using a fluid from the heart of another creature, Ted also has on his mind his girlfriend Isabel Lewis (Evelyn Ankers), of whom Morris has also become enamored.
The Mad Monster (1942)
, 1h17Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Musical films
Actors Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Reginald Barlow, Glenn Strange, Gordon De Main
The plot involves a scientist who has been discredited by his peers. He attempts to kill them off after he develops a secret formula that transforms his gardener into a murderous wolfman.
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
, 1h16Directed by Curt Siodmak, Herbert L. Strock
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Richard Carlson, King Donovan, Jean Byron, Leo Britt, Leonard Mudie, Byron Foulger
A pair of agents from the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) are sent to investigate a local appliance store, where all of the clocks have stopped at the same time, and metal items in the store have been magnetized. The source of this is traced to an office located directly above the store, where scientific equipment is found, along with a dead body. There are also signs of radioactivity, but the cause of the difficulties itself is clearly no longer in the room, or the immediate area.
The Man from the Future (2011)
, 1h46Origin Bresil
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Time travel films
Actors Wagner Moura, Alinne Moraes, Gabriel Braga Nunes, Maria Luísa Mendonça, Lívia de Bueno, Jean-Pierre Noher
In 2011, João "Zero" (Moura), a bitter but brilliant physicist, spends his days brooding over a fateful night 20 years before when he was publicly betrayed and humiliated at a college party by his girlfriend. He now heads one of the largest scientific projects in Brazil, but his eccentricities and tantrums have brought him to the verge of being fired by his former college roommate and current sponsor, Sandra.
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
, 1h4Directed by Nick Grinde, Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor, Roger Pryor, Don Beddoe
Dr. Savaard is obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. A young medical student offers his services to him, but before he can bring him back to life, Savaard is arrested, convicted, and sentenced to hang. He vows revenge on the judge and the jury before his hanging. His assistant claims his body and revives him by using his technique. The vengeful Savaard goes on a killing spree.
, 1h22Directed by Zoltan Korda, Lothar Mendes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Roland Young, Joan Gardner, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Ernest Thesiger, Laurence Hanray
The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957)
, 1h11Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Victor Jory, William Hudson, Jean Willes, Ann Doran, Paul Cavanagh, Victor Varconi
Two hundred years ago, a group of doctors learned to extended their lives by draining the vitality of others. Without such tranfusions, they begin to petrify. They become the staff doctors of a girls' reform school, assuring a supply of vital young bodies. However, outsiders sent to the school, Dr. Jess Rogers and social worker Carol Adams, become suspicious of the unusual number of otherwise healthy inmates dying of heart failure or suicide.
The Man Who Wasn't There (1983)
Directed by Bruce Malmuth
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Steve Guttenberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Art Hindle, Lisa Langlois, William Forsythe, Bruce Malmuth
When he accidentally takes possession of a top-secret invisibility potion while en route to his wedding, government bureaucrat Sam Cooper (Steve Guttenberg) finds himself engulfed in a madcap free-for-all as Russians and other bad guys try to get the substance. To elude the Reds, his own State Department bosses and his livid fiancée, Cooper takes the vanishing juice himself—which only makes matters worse.
The Man with the Magic Box (2017)
, 1h43Directed by Bodo Kox
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Romance
Actors Olga Bołądź, Agata Buzek, Arkadiusz Jakubik
Mystère de voyage dans le temps rétro-futuriste.
The Man Without a Body (1957)
, 1h20Directed by Charles Saunders, W. Lee Wilder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Robert Hutton, George Coulouris, Julia Arnall, Peter Copley, Michael Golden, Nadja Regin
A financier secures the embalmed head of sixteenth-century French seer Nostradamus and persuades an esteemed surgeon to restore its tissues and substitute the brain for his own which is threatened by tumour. The financier being avaricious, also desires the seer to give him the power of prediction in business.
The Mangler Reborn (2005)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Aimee Brooks, Jeff Burr, Reggie Bannister, Juliana Dever
The movie takes place after the events in the first film and follows Hadley (Weston Blakesley), a repairman that purchases the possessed machine from the first movie and becomes obsessed with the machine. Hadley awakens the machine with his blood and after being "eaten" by it, is forced to feed it new blood to stop his corpse from rotting.