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1) Appleseed
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"After the devastation of World War III, the scattered governments of the world construct the perfect city administered by perfect Biodroids, artificially created half-human half-robots. Life in Olympus is carefully controlled and monitored, and some of its human population have had enough. A dedicated band of terrorists plot to destroy Gaia, the central computer, and restore freedom to mankind"--Container.
5) Virus
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A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction.
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"Why do SF movies matter? What do they tell us about the interests of storytellers and the changing tastes of cinema-goers? How have sci-fi movies evolved with filmmaking technology over the past 110 years? The Geek's Guide To SF Cinema: 30 Key Films That Changed that Changed the Genre provides an entertaining and in-depth history of the science fiction genre's pivotal and most influential movies. From the pioneering films of Georges Méliès to such...
8) Unbreakable
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The sole survivor of terrible train wreck, David Dunn, a security guard, is contacted by Elijah Price, a mysterious stranger who tries to convince David that he has a special gift.
10) Them
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An FBI official and an entomologist attempt to save the world from rampaging hordes of giant radiation-mutated ants created by man's atomic testing in the New Mexico desert.
11) Minority report
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Washington, D.C. has been murder-free thanks to astounding technology which identifies killers before they commit their crimes. But when the chief of the Pre-crime unit is himself accused of a future murder, he has just 36 hours to discover who sets him up.
12) Dreamscape
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A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.
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They came from beyond space: focuses on a group of unlucky aliens who have crashed their spaceship on the moon who attempt mind control to coerce a team of scientists from earth to make the necessary repairs, but one scientist has a steel plate in his head and is immune to their efforts. Based on the science fiction novel The Gods Hate Kansas.
Warning from space: the citizens of Tokyo panic when they see UFOs in the sky. The aliens are benign, however,...
14) Mammoth
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When a meteor smashes into a local museum the fury of a partially frozen, 40,000 year old mammoth is unleashed on a small country town.
15) Stranded
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A group of astronauts are stranded on a moonbase and discover that the rogue meteor storm they are being bombarded by harbors alien spores.
16) Gantz
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Kei Kurono and his childhood friend Masaru Kato attempt to save a man who has fallen onto the train tracks but are run down by an oncoming train. However, rather than finding themselves dead, they are transported to a strange apartment in which they find a mysterious black orb known as 'GANTZ.' Along with others there, they are provided weaponry and sent on missions to battle alien beings. Is this world, which tests your will to survive, a game or...
18) Redline
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When a man is murdered by his crime partner, experimental bionic research brings him back to life. He then sets out to find his murderers in the underworld of the future's seedy cyber-slums.
19) The Giver
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The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
20) Short Circuit
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Number Five, a robot, designed by the Defense Department, is short-circuited by an electrical storm. He escapes to the "real world" believing he is human. Sought by his designer because of the destructive weapons Number Five carries, he is hidden and protected by a young woman, who teaches him a gentler way to "live."
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