Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "suspended-animation"

51. Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

Approved | 79 min | Sci-Fi, Horror

Lonely, deranged puppet-master designs a machine that shrinks people.

Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney, Michael Mark

Votes: 2,898

52. Buck Rogers (1939)

Approved | 237 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.

Directors: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall

Votes: 1,004

53. The Black Scorpion (1957)

Approved | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Volcanic activity frees giant scorpions from the earth who wreak havoc in the rural countryside and eventually threaten Mexico City.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Richard Denning, Mara Corday, Carlos Rivas, Mario Navarro

Votes: 3,426

54. The Oblong Box (1969)

R | 96 min | Horror

Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Sir Edward occasionally escapes and causes havoc around the town.

Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Vincent Price, Alister Williamson, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies

Votes: 3,941

55. Terminus (2015)

R | 94 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Following a near-fatal accident, David Chamberlain makes an unprecedented discovery that will not only determine the fate of his family, but of mankind.

Director: Marc Furmie | Stars: Jai Koutrae, Todd Lasance, Kendra Appleton, Katherine Hicks

Votes: 6,224

56. Magellan (2017)

103 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

After NASA picks up a trio of mysterious signals from within our own solar system, astronaut Roger Nelson is dispatched on a multi-year solo mission aboard the Magellan spacecraft to investigate the sources.

Director: Rob York | Stars: Brandon Ray Olive, K. Danor Gerald, Whitney Palmer, Matthew Mercer

Votes: 1,878

57. The Mad Doctor of Market Street (1942)

Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A mad scientist is forced to leave San Francisco when his experiments become known. He lands on a tropical island, takes control and terrorizes the local populace. The survivor of a ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Una Merkel, Lionel Atwill, Nat Pendleton, Claire Dodd

Votes: 556

58. JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time (2014 Video)

TV-Y7 | 52 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

Lex Luthor is frozen during a battle with the Justice League. He thaws out in the 31st century, discovers Time Trapper and prevents Superman's arrival to Earth as a baby. Future teen heroes Karate Kid and Dawnstar must stop him.

Director: Giancarlo Volpe | Stars: Diedrich Bader, Laura Bailey, Dante Basco, Corey Burton

Votes: 4,415

59. Giant from the Unknown (1958)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Horror

A very large, degenerate, Spanish conqueror is freed from suspended animation by lightning and goes on a killing spree in a small town.

Director: Richard E. Cunha | Stars: Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Bob Steele, Morris Ankrum

Votes: 967

60. Lily C.A.T. (1987 Video)

TV-14 | 67 min | Animation, Action, Horror

The expendable crew of a corporate space vessel must stop a murderous shape-shifting alien organism that somehow got on board.

Director: Hisayuki Toriumi | Stars: Hiroyuki Okita, Masako Katsuki, Osamu Saka, Chikao Ôtsuka

Votes: 1,214

61. Superman: The Arctic Giant (1942)

Not Rated | 9 min | Animation, Short, Action

Superman versus a thawed-out Tyrannosaurus.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa

Votes: 1,161

62. Captain America (1966)

TV-G | 18 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The patriotic sole recipient of a revolutionary body enhancement project battles evil as the star spangled defender of America.

Stars: Bernard Cowan, Don Mason, Jack Creley, Claude Rae

Votes: 1,045

63. The Frozen Ghost (1945)

Unrated | 61 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance

A stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death and a discredited plastic surgeon are among the assorted characters involved in mysterious goings-on in an eerie wax museum.

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille

Votes: 1,141

64. The Second Hundred Years (1967–1968)

30 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The misadventures of a man who is revived out of decades of accidental suspended animation and is still physically half the age of his own son and matches the age of his grandson.

Stars: Monte Markham, Arthur O'Connell, Frank Maxwell, Bridget Hanley

Votes: 201

65. The Order of the Black Eagle (1987)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A James Bondish spy and his female assistant infiltrate a group of South American Nazis who have kept Hitler alive until they take over the... using the ultimate weapon. In HD.

Director: Worth Keeter | Stars: Ian Hunter, C.K. Bibby, William Hicks, Anna Rapagna

Votes: 509

66. Strange New World (1975 TV Movie)

100 min | Sci-Fi

In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.

Director: Robert Butler | Stars: John Saxon, Kathleen Miller, Keene Curtis, James Olson

Votes: 392

67. Mostly Ghostly: One Night in Doom House (2016 Video)

PG | 88 min | Family, Fantasy, Horror

From best-selling author R.L. Stine comes the next spooktacular chapter in the Mostly Ghostly series. Max Doyle must find an enchanted gem to stop an invasion of evil spirits.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Corey Fogelmanis, Sophie Reynolds, Jamie Kennedy, Andrew Herr

Votes: 603

68. Secret Agent Super Dragon (1966)

95 min | Thriller, Mystery

A series of murders in Michigan lead an American secret agent to Amsterdam, where he uncovers a plot to imperil the world with a potent new drug.

Director: Giorgio Ferroni | Stars: Ray Danton, Margaret Lee, Carlo D'Angelo, Jess Hahn

Votes: 1,130

69. Zombies on Broadway (1945)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Two bumbling press agents must search for a zombie to fulfill a commitment to their ex-gangster boss's new nightclub or face the consequences.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Bela Lugosi, Anne Jeffreys

Votes: 879

70. Retrograde (2004)

R | 93 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Two time travelers with opposing views are sent back to the present aboard a research ship in the Antarctic to prevent a global biological disaster from occuring.

Director: Christopher Kulikowski | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Silvia De Santis, Joe Montana, Gary Daniels

Votes: 1,768

71. The Frozen Dead (1966)

Unrated | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A crazed scientist (Dana Andrews) keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.

Director: Herbert J. Leder | Stars: Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert, Kathleen Breck

Votes: 1,065

72. Superargo and the Faceless Giants (1968)

G | 80 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

A masked wrestler/superhero goes up against a madman and his army of robots.

Director: Paolo Bianchini | Stars: Giovanni Cianfriglia, Guy Madison, Luisa Baratto, Diana Lorys

Votes: 423

73. Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, Edward Ashley

Votes: 1,923

74. The Hidden Hand (1942)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Willie Best

Votes: 681

75. The Man with Nine Lives (1940)

Approved | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive.

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown

Votes: 1,111

76. Planet Outlaws (1953)

Approved | 69 min | Action, Family, Sci-Fi

A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.

Directors: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall

Votes: 467

77. Cro (1993–1994)

TV-Y | Animation, Short, Adventure

Dr. Cecilia and her assistant Mike discover a mammoth frozen in a glacier. After being defrosted, Phil narrates the tales of Cro, a cave boy who uses simple engineering and physics concepts to solve everyday problems.

Stars: Jim Cummings, April Ortiz, Max Casella, Frank Welker

Votes: 319

78. Pulsar (2018)

17 min | Short, Drama, Horror

A Peacemaker, who rejects his final mission to save an endangered planet, is believed to be cursed when a solar storm hits his spaceship.

Director: Aurora Fearnley | Stars: Jessie Buckley, David Gyasi, Tahirah Sharif, Anna Koval

Votes: 243

79. Secret Service in Darkest Africa (1943)

Approved | 243 min | Action, Adventure, War

An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a German spy ring.

Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Rod Cameron, Joan Marsh, Duncan Renaldo, Lionel Royce

Votes: 114

80. The Mysteries of Myra (1916)

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Myra Maynard, is plagued by a wide variety of metaphysical assaults by the corrupt Black Order, a secret organization which uses magic, curses and any supernatural means possible to achieve its ends.

Directors: Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton | Stars: Jean Sothern, Howard Estabrook, Allan Murnane, M.W. Rale

Votes: 32

81. Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space (1965)

Unrated | 65 min | Sci-Fi

A spaceship crewman plots a mutiny against the stern leader taking a group of people to settle on a new planet from Earth.

Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Bill Williams, Kathleen Breck, John Cairney, Donald Churchill

Votes: 268

82. At 3:25 (1925)

Unrated | 59 min | Sci-Fi

A scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility.

Director: René Clair | Stars: Charles Martinelli, Louis Pré Fils, Albert Préjean, Madeleine Rodrigue

Votes: 1,977

83. The Strange Mr. Gregory (1945)

63 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Famed magician Mr. Gregory is visited back stage one night by an amateur magician and his wife. Immediately smitten with Ellen Randall, Gregory plots to win her over.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Jean Rogers, Donald Douglas, Marjorie Hoshelle

Votes: 249

84. Artifact (2013)

Action, Adventure, Drama

Human's struggle to obtain ancient Artifacts that have been scattered throughout space.

Stars: Cesar D' La Torre, Rich Finley, Ksenia Valenti, Daniel Begus

Votes: 56

85. Backstreet Boys: Larger Than Life (1999 Music Video)

5 min | Music, Musical, Sci-Fi

Backstreet Boys' official music video for 'Larger Than Life'.

Director: Joseph Kahn | Stars: Backstreet Boys, Patricia D. Adams, Nick Carter, Howie Dorough

Votes: 211

86. Buck Rogers (1977)

Not Rated | 90 min | Family, Romance, Sci-Fi

A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.

Directors: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall

Votes: 278

87. Martian 2 (2011 Video)

7 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi

Captain Courageous joins the team to battle a space dragon.

Director: Brandon Hex | Stars: Ben Maclaine, Wally Wingert, Nilsa Castro, Deanna Rashell

Votes: 269

88. Goldilocks (2016)

19 min | Short, Sci-Fi

Ray Ashford, an astronaut on the Goldilocks Missions, searches the stars for a new home, when a circuit failure in his ship threatens to jeopardize the mission and put in danger the lives of those he loves.

Director: Blake Simon | Stars: Curtis Bechdholt, Krista Chandlee, Daniel Van Thomas, Paul Statman

Votes: 44

89. Forever Sleep (2022)

5 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

A man decides to take his future into his own hands by entering a forever sleep pod. Once activated his life flashes before his eyes, reliving every moment, the good, the bad, and the ... See full summary »

Director: Zac Stracener | Stars: Kevin Clayette, Alivia Levie, Geoff Rosenthal, Hope Schwing

Votes: 24

90. Cranium Intel (2016)

70 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The President wants a military/scientist named Micheal W. Logan dead, after he discovers the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is actually a portal to the Planet X.

Director: Aeneas Middleton | Stars: Jayson Koko Bridges, Aeneas Middleton, Denise Moreno, David Masterson

Votes: 106

91. Realities Around the World (1969)

69 min | Documentary

Mutant mondo, discarding any attempt at making things look "real". The film's concept suggests that all stories are based on authentic news headlines. Fact or fiction, this is a fun, dumb ... See full summary »

Director: Gianni Proia | Stars: Elio Crovetto, Liù Bosisio, Ugo Fangareggi, Luigi Zerbinati

Votes: 12

92. Martian (2010 Video)

Animation, Short

Martian and Terra discover a lifeless Jovian freighter is not abandoned.

Director: Brandon Hex | Stars: Ben Maclaine, Deanna Rashell, Mark Starks, Alex Mathias

Votes: 22

93. Leo (2006 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy

A murderous community of heirs is looking forward to big money too soon.

Director: Vivian Naefe | Stars: Gisela Schneeberger, Elmar Wepper, August Zirner, Matthias Brandt

Votes: 69

94. Black Dragon of Manzanar (1966 TV Movie)

Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The 1943 serial, G-Men vs. The Black Dragon (1943), which was original 15 episodes, re-edited into a feature film for television distribution.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Rod Cameron, Roland Got, Constance Worth, Nino Pipitone

Votes: 8

95. Aperture: Lab Ratt (2012)

15 min | Short, Sci-Fi

Adaptation of the 'Portal 2: Lab Rat' comic that takes place during and after the events of the game Portal, explaining the events that led to Portal 2 as seen through the eyes of the schizophrenic scientist Doug Rattmann.

Director: Ryan Anthony Martin | Stars: Scott Bellot, Nick Celentano, Norma Celentano, Josh Work

Votes: 21

96. Meet Edward! (2017)

Animation, Short, Adventure

After losing his job with a Fortune 500 company, hyperventilating Edward tries to cool down and think of a master plan while visiting his lake house for the night.

Director: Aeneas Middleton | Star: Aeneas Middleton

97. Return (IV) (2010)

6 min | Short, Sci-Fi

Daniel, a NASA astronaut, was supposed to spend 60 days in suspended animation. Instead he wakes up 60 years later to find the life he once knew is gone.

Director: Maury Shessel | Stars: Angela Brown, Anne Popolizio, Jonathan Tabler, Robert Van

98. Ark II (1976)
Episode: The Cryogenic Man (1976)

23 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

The ARK crew unwittingly opens a Pandora's Box of pollution when they revive a 20th Century business tycoon determined to kick-start production of his trademark toxic chemical fertilizer.

Director: Ted Post | Stars: Terry Lester, Jean Marie Hon, José Flores, Moochie

Votes: 23

99. Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995)
Episode: Deep Freeze (1994)

Unrated | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

An elderly amusement park owner breaks Mr. Freeze out of jail, hoping to be "frozen" like him in order to achieve immortality.

Director: Kevin Altieri | Stars: Kevin Conroy, Loren Lester, Michael Ansara, Pat Fraley

Votes: 1,517

100. Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979)
Episode: Greetings from Earth (1979)

TV-PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Apollo and Starbuck come across a vessel they think may have come from Earth and take it aboard the Galactica. On board are two adults and four children in a state of suspended animation. ... See full summary »

Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson Jr.

Votes: 434