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Mars Needs Moms (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Martians suddenly abduct his mom, mischievous Milo rushes to the rescue and discovers why all moms are so special.
Style: touching, 3d animation, sentimental, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, preschool
Plot: martian, alien abduction, mars, children, space and aliens, parents and children, alien, ufo, alien invasion, young heroes, boy, guilt ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: indiana
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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two ...
Style: suspense, serious, rough, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, alien invasion, gory, evil alien, survival, monster, predator, small town, space, creature, space and aliens, extraterrestrial ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 2004 ...
Place: colorado, usa
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 7.0
 51K
Starman (1984)
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.
Style: road movie, touching, spiritual, anamorphic, suspense ...
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: alien, alien invasion, space, on the road, road trip, ufo, friendly alien, chase, resurrection, desert, time travel, supernatural ...
Time: 80s, future, year 1984, 20th century
Place: usa, las vegas, arizona, washington d.c., wisconsin
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 8.0
 98K
Solaris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, scientist, space travel, space and aliens, dream, metaphysics, space station, space, astronaut, loneliness, insanity, science ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, future, distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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 4.9
 7K
The Beyond (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered wormhole known as the Void. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency races to discover ...
Style: futuristic, enigmatic, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: space exploration, found footage, trapped in space, space travel, alien invasion, robot, space mission, human in outer space, hi-tech, space program, discovery, advanced technology ...
Time: future, near future
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, psychedelic, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: space travel, astronaut, outer space, space, artificial intelligence, moon, scientist, computer, trippy, space opera, human versus computer, space station ...
Time: future, year 2001, 20th century, stone age, year 1968 ...
Place: persia
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 2.5
 15K
Cosmic Sin (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Bruce Willis and Frank Grillo star in the new epic sci-fi adventure set in the year 2524, four hundred years after humans started colonizing the outer planets. Retired Military General James Ford (Willis) is called back into service after soldiers ...
Style: captivating, tense, futuristic, disgusting, anamorphic
Plot: future war, space battle, space wars, alien, space and aliens, alien contact, evil alien, alien encounter, portal, alien space craft, battles, alien creature ...
Time: future
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 8.5
 1.4M
The Prestige (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, clever, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot: twists and turns, obsession, plot twist, magic, magician, secret, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, magic trick, illusionist, illusion, deception ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 2006, edwardian era, future ...
Place: london, colorado, britain, peru, los angeles ...
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 7.6
 579K
Watchmen (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited ...
Style: neo noir, visually stunning, visually appealing, stylized, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens, adult
Plot: superhero, alternate reality, vigilante, anti hero, distopia, good versus evil, moral dilemma, mars, masked vigilante, cold war, alternate history, conspiracy ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 2000s, 1940s, future ...
Place: usa, new york, america, washington d.c., los angeles ...
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 7.4
 177K
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show - now scraping a living through re-runs and sci-fi conventions - are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast's heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, laugh out loud, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: alien, mistaken identity, actor, space, time travel, space exploration, space opera, alien invasion, monster, space travel, benign alien, spaceship ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
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 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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 4.4
 11K
400 Days (2015)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 4 would be astronauts spend 400 days in a land locked space simulator to test the psychological effects of deep space travel but, when something goes terribly wrong and they are forced to leave the simulation, they discover that everything on earth ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, harsh, smart ...
Plot: parallel universe, space, trapped in space, experiment, space travel, astronaut, end of the world, insanity, isolation, catastrophe, paranoia, destiny ...
Time: future
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 7.7
 582K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style: psychological, futuristic, philosophical, twist ending, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, existentialism, technology, cyberpunk, isolation, cyborgs, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, psychology ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 2016 ...
Place: england
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 8.7
 2.1M
Interstellar (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: space travel, time travel, outer space, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, space, survival, end of the world, distopia, natural disaster, apocalypse ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, colorado
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Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The giant, man-eating Graboids are back and even deadlier than before, terrorizing the inhabitants of a South African wildlife reserve as they attack from below-and above.
Style: suspense, scary, psychotronic, natural horror, horror comedy ...
Plot: creature, mad scientist, monster, death, storytelling, brutality, fantasy world, creature feature, kaiju, giant monster, mutant, epidemic ...
Time: 2010s
Place: africa, south africa
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Village of the Damned (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, serious, tense ...
Plot: creepy child, alien, space and aliens, pregnancy, small town, mother daughter relationship, genetics, mind game, supernatural ability, babies and infants, danger, evil child ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
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 7.6
 581K
Minority Report (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Style: futuristic, suspense, neo noir, cerebral, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: cyberpunk, murder, dystopian future, foreknowledge, precognition, time loop, distopia, psychic, dystopia, frame up, law enforcer, consciousness ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, distant future, year 2002 ...
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa
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 6.4
 242K
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy ...
Style: parody, spoof, dark comedy, humorous, absurd ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: mars, ufo, alien invasion, alien, space and aliens, evil alien, disaster, save the world, dark humor, outer space, flying saucer, invasion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, future, year 1996
Place: washington d.c., usa, las vegas, kentucky, kansas ...
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final ...
Style: thought provoking, philosophical, sentimental, fairy tale, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, androids and robots, adoption, androids, robot, distopia, imagination, boy, dystopian future, outer space, destiny ...
Time: future, year 2001, distant future, 2000s, near future ...
Place: new york, persia, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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 6.6
 533K
Venom (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego "Venom" to save his life.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, epic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: superhero, anti hero, alien, alien life-form, experiment, supernatural power, alien monster, super villain, alien race, super powers, experiment gone awry, good versus evil ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, los angeles, malaysia, california
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 6.6
 253K
Ender's Game (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
Style: futuristic, serious, exciting, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: alien, chosen one, invasion, space wars, training, battles, space travel, young heroes, space and aliens, genius, prodigy, child prodigy ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013, near future
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 6.9
 297K
The World's End (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Style: witty, absurd, humorous, funny, parody ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, robot, beer, end of the world, alcoholic, fight scenes, violence, small town, british, satire, obsessive quest ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 1990, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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 7.0
 366K
Super 8 (2011)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, entertaining, apocalyptic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: childhood, monster, ufo, alien, small town, creature, train crash, young heroes, friendship, youth, boy, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, year 1979, future, year 2011 ...
Place: ohio, usa
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 7.5
 547K
Source Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, clever, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, memory, twists and turns, save the day, destiny, changing the past or future, bomb, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
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The Fourth Kind (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, mockumentary ...
Plot: ufo, alien abduction, hypnosis, found footage, alien encounter, space and aliens, paranormal activity, alien invasion, investigation, disappearance, space, alien ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa, california
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 6.6
 31K
Silent Running (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, philosophical, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Plot: space travel, robot, dystopia, distopia, environmental, space opera, loneliness, spaceship, post apocalypse, space and aliens, androids, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1972
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its ...
Style: computer animated, anime, adult animation, exciting, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, space station, post apocalypse, alien invasion, dystopia, space, battles, cyberpunk, scientist, military, space travel, save the world ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, arizona, tucson arizona
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 6.3
 172K
Dune (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 137 min.
Story: In the year 10,191, the world is at war for control of the desert planet Dune – the only place where the time-travel substance 'Spice' can be found. But when one leader gives up control, it's only so he can stage a coup with some ...
Style: atmospheric, futuristic, epic, visual, psychedelic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: desert, space travel, messiah, prophecy, space opera, space, dystopia, chosen one, future war, desert planet, dune, space wars ...
Time: future, distant future, 20th century, year 1984
Place: south pole, space western
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Starship Troopers (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, bloody, exciting, allegory ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: military, alien invasion, creature, alien, space travel, monster, soldier, space and aliens, space wars, outer space, fictional war, evil alien ...
Time: future, 23rd century, 90s, year 1997, jurassic ...
Place: buenos aires argentina, space western
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 6.2
 38K
The Arrival (1996)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, conspiracy, evil alien, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, investigation, disguise, alien, space, supernatural, ufo, black hole ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, future
Place: mexico, latin america, central america
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