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1. Signs (2002)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 385,259 | Gross: $227.97M
2. Capricorn One (1977)
PG | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston
Votes: 24,664
3. Critters (1986)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of small but vicious alien creatures called Crites escape from an alien prison transport vessel and land near a small farm town on earth, pursued by two shape-shifting bounty hunters.
Director: Stephen Herek | Stars: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes
Votes: 39,259 | Gross: $13.17M
4. Escape from L.A. (1996)
R | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Stacy Keach, A.J. Langer
Votes: 80,472 | Gross: $25.48M
5. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
Director: Kerry Conran | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi
Votes: 87,415 | Gross: $37.76M
6. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
PG | 98 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
As the Clone Wars sweep the galaxy, Anakin Skywalker and his new Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, embark on a mission to rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt. The renegade Count Dooku, however, is determined to ensure that they fail.
Director: Dave Filoni | Stars: Matt Lanter, Nika Futterman, Tom Kane, Ashley Eckstein
Votes: 72,966 | Gross: $35.16M
7. Pontypool (2008)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
Director: Bruce McDonald | Stars: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak
Votes: 35,428
8. My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A creature from another planet tries to seduce a shy Earth physicist to gain control over his researches. The result of this important mission much exceeded her expectations.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan
Votes: 27,714 | Gross: $13.85M
9. 97 Minutes (2023)
93 min | Thriller
A ticking clock scenario unfolds as a hijacked 767 airplane faces imminent disaster when its fuel supply dwindles, with just 97 minutes remaining.
Director: Timo Vuorensola | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Alec Baldwin, MyAnna Buring, Jo Martin
Votes: 8,713
10. The Colony (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Director: Jeff Renfroe | Stars: Kevin Zegers, Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton, Charlotte Sullivan
Votes: 47,095
11. The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
Approved | 131 min | Action, Drama, History
Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave
Votes: 8,052
12. Love (I) (2011)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
A man spends years alone on a space station orbiting Earth after losing communication with Houston/Earth. He spends time on maintenance, exercise, watching old messages, and reading a journal by a soldier in the American Civil War.
Director: William Eubank | Stars: Gunner Wright, Corey Richardson, Bradley Horne, Nancy Stelle
Votes: 8,962
13.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Columbo Goes to the Guillotine
(1989)
Unrated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An egocentric psychic murders his old mentor, a magician charged to expose him as fraud, by beheading him while he's rehearsing his guillotine trick.
Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Peter Falk, Anthony Andrews, Karen Austin, James Greene
Votes: 2,276
14. Lazer Team (2015)
PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Four losers are thrust into the position of saving the world when they stumble upon a UFO crash site and become genetically equipped to the battle suit on board.
Director: Matt Hullum | Stars: Burnie Burns, Gavin Free, Michael Jones, Colton Dunn
Votes: 9,556 | Gross: $1.15M
15. 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: 1,865
16. The Astronauts (2020–2021)
TV-PG | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a group of kids are accidentally launched into space, they embark on an adventure of a lifetime to get back home.
Stars: Miya Cech, Bryce Gheisar, Keith L. Williams, Kayden Grace Swan
Votes: 2,343
17. The Hebrew Hammer (2003)
R | 85 min | Comedy
An orthodox Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus' evil son.
Director: Jonathan Kesselman | Stars: Adam Goldberg, Andy Dick, Judy Greer, Mario Van Peebles
Votes: 5,082 | Gross: $0.02M
18. Deep Shock (2003 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A mysterious trench has formed on the ocean floor, and a deadly species of creature emerges from the depths.
Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: David Keith, Simmone Mackinnon, Mark Sheppard, Sean Whalen
Votes: 1,077
19. Contaminated Man (2000)
R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1986, David Whitman came home, contaminated his wife and child, and watched them die. Years later, he leads a hazmat team investigating an industrial accident near Budapest. One ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Hickox | Stars: William Hurt, Natascha McElhone, Peter Weller, Katja Woywood
Votes: 1,192
20. Wuhan Wuhan (2021)
90 min | Documentary
In a time when the world needs greater cross-cultural understanding, WUHAN WUHAN is an invaluable depiction of a metropolis joining together to overcome a crisis.
Director: Yung Chang | Stars: Chuning Yin, Xingli Xu, Xiannian Zheng, Guiqing Zhang
Votes: 79
21. Vanquish (2010 Video Game)
M | Action, Sci-Fi
In the near future, Sam Gideon and a team of soldiers are hired by the president of the United States to recover a space station that's been taken over by a Russian ultra nationalist.
Directors: Shinji Mikami, Olivier Deslandes, Orine Fukushima, Scott Martin Gershin, Michael Hülsmann, Guillermo Reinlein, Alessandro Ricci, Shinobu Shindo, Chris Southall, Mitsuru Toda | Stars: Ken'ichirô Matsuda, Chieko Honda, Teruyuki Tanzawa, Hitoshi Bifu
Votes: 829
22. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Paul Askedall, Nicholas Winand, Kyle Abraham, Scott Thompson
Votes: 1,315
23. Daytona USA (1994 Video Game)
K-A | Sport
One of the highest grossing arcade games of all time, Daytona puts the player behind the wheel of a stock car. The player's objectives are to outrun the competing cars, and complete the race before time runs out.
Directors: Toshihiro Nagoshi, Yoshiaki Koizumi | Star: David Leytze
Votes: 145
24. All Flowers in Time (2010)
Not Rated | 13 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A guided tour through the shattered remains of memory and identity.
Director: Jonathan Caouette | Stars: Chloë Sevigny, Chandler Frantz, Carolyn Taylor Bosco, Joshua Caouette
Votes: 137
25. The Genius and the Boys (2009 TV Movie)
Documentary, Biography
The documentary investigates late American Nobel laureate Carleton Gajdusek's enigmatic discoveries. Gajdusek discovered mad cow disease on Papua New Guinea in the fifties, as well as ... See full summary »
Director: Bosse Lindquist | Stars: Michael Alpers, Warwick Anderson, Sena Anua, Carleton Gajdusek
Votes: 65
26. Space Pirates (1992 Video Game)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The player is a star ranger who must save a starship from space pirates and collect the scattered parts of the mighty Star-Splitter Cannon to finally destroy the pirates' starship Black Dragon and stop their raygunslinging captain Talon.
Director: Barry Kirk | Stars: Mike Fleming, Jane E. Goold, Ben Zeller, Adrienne Bailey
Votes: 23
27. Those Who Come, Will Hear (2018)
77 min | Documentary
"Those Who Come, Will Hear" proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous languages of Quebec. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung tongues through ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Plouffe | Stars: Margie Hoff, Jean-Paul Echaquan, Joseph Guanish, Philip Einish
Votes: 10
28. The Boy & the Chess Player (2012)
22 min | Short, Drama, Family
Leonard, a shy and troubled young boy raised in a Antisemitic family in New York, meets a mysterious old chess player in a park, who will teach him a great lesson.
Director: Jordan Goldnadel | Stars: Micheal Deacutis, Lew Gardner, Kelley J. Jackson, Tom Martin
Votes: 10
29. Morphine (I) (2023)
28 min | Short, Drama
Director: Caroline Hallier | Stars: Ava Baya, Romaric de la Simone, Véronique Frumy, Olivier Renaty
30. Devil's Life (2020)
125 min | Biography, Crime, Fantasy
4 avengers of the apocalypse are trying to save the world paralyzed by a mysterious virus.
Director: Nick Peterson | Stars: Alex Hall, Old-Nick, Vincent X. Hall, John Waterhouse
31. Transmission 7 (1999 Video)
60 min | Sport
Directors: Ty Evans, Jon Holland | Stars: Jason Dill, Cairo Foster, Tony Hawk, Marc Johnson
Votes: 17
32. Tout devient silencieux (2014)
52 min | Documentary
The life of beekeepers is intimately linked to the life of the bees, or it is precisely this ancient rhythm that has been disrupted for two decades now. The testimonies gathered here cover ... See full summary »
Directors: Corneliu Dragomirescu, Simon Jourdan, Amandine Marty
33. Yollotl (Coeur) (2022 Video)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Fernando Colin Roque | Stars: Corazon Diaz, Fernando Colin Roque
35. Last Chance (III) (2017)
7 min | Short
Student filmmakers shoot one last message before the end of the world.
Director: Ronit Jadhav | Stars: Ronit Jadhav, Darshil Gandhi, Zishan Zaffar, Ishaan Trivedi
Votes: 8
37. Innocence on Ice (2004)
3 min | Short, Sport
A tribute to the movement and talent of figure skater Petra Burka.
Director: Astra Burka | Star: Petra Burka
38. Sur les traces de Pichon-Rivière (2009)
58 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Author of "The Group Process" (1971), "Psychiatry, a New Perspective" (From Psychoanalysis to Social Psychology) (Part. I. in 1971) (Part. II in 1976), "Conversations with Enrique Pichon ... See full synopsis »
Director: Frederic Eger | Stars: Armando Bauleo, Pierre Benghozi, André Carel, Alberto Eger
39. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1985 Video Game)
Action, Sci-Fi
A Star Wars game for the Atari 2600.
Votes: 243
40. Fil Rouge (2008)
17 min | Short, Drama
Secrets from the past of Achille Lambert, a wine-maker in Bordeaux, are brought back by the aromas and tastes of four wines served to him by his daughter Roxane.
Director: Luc Plissonneau | Stars: Anne Cazenave, Olivier Cazenave, Christophe Dardenne, Bernard Gadrat
41. Flick of the Switch (1963)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Geoffrey Scoresby Shepherd | Star: Alec Macaskill
42. Secrets d'Anciens - La Haute-Savoie (2022)
Documentary
Passionate about humans, ancestral stories and discoveries, Lionel Cuveiller sets out to meet the "elders" to discover Haute-Savoie from a new perspective - their perspective, to share an ... See full synopsis »
Star: Lionel Cuveiller
45.
Andromeda (2000–2005)
Episode:
Harper 2.0
(2001)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After Harper's attacked by a dying Perseid, he gains a level of intelligence much greater than usual. A bounty hunter arrives for the dead Perseid, and Dylan looks into why the Persed was ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Flower | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Lisa Ryder, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Laura Bertram
Votes: 269
46.
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (1987–1988)
Episode:
Shattered
(1987)
Not Rated | 22 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Captain Power receives a transmission from Athena, an old flame from before the invasion. Entering the ruins of San Francisco to meet her, he finds the reunion less than friendly.
Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Tim Dunigan, Peter MacNeill, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Maurice Dean Wint
Votes: 44
47.
Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode:
Room with a View/The Little Black Bag/The Nature of the Enemy
(1970)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Jacob Bauman's nurse figures in his plan to end his wife's infidelity. / A medical bag from the future may improve the fortunes of two bums. / Aghast NASA mission control sees what caused the disappearance of their astronauts on the Moon.
Directors: Jerrold Freedman, Allen Reisner, Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Joseph Wiseman, Diane Keaton, Angel Tompkins, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 573
48.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
Summit
(1999)
TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A planet of genetically engineering humanoids that are mining resources for Earth are demanding their independence from human oppression.
Director: James Head | Stars: Marcia Cross, Michael Ironside, Andrew Airlie, Jonathan Walker
Votes: 236
49.
Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode:
Fire in the Sky
(2002)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Pacific Northwest, 1398: A native American sees lights descending from the sky. 2002: Sydney is lecturing about said natives who faced a mysterious cataclysm 600 years earlier. A native brings her a relic from that era. What is its secret?
Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Tanja Reichert, Tom Jackson
Votes: 86
50.
Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
Episode:
Breakaway
(1975)
TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Commander John Koenig, the new commander of Moonbase Alpha, leads the investigation of a mysterious disease at the station and uncovers evidence of a far greater looming disaster.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Roy Dotrice
Votes: 644