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1) Vesper
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Set after the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem, VESPER follows the titular headstrong 13-year-old girl (Raffiella Chapman), who uses her survival skills to subsist in the remnants of a strange and dangerous world with her ailing father, Darius (Richard Brake). When Vesper finds a mysterious woman, Camellia (Rosy McEwen), alone and disoriented after an aerial crash, she agrees to help find her missing companion in exchange for safe passage to the...
3) The Matrix
Description
The day-in, day world is the real world is merely perception. In reality it is a hoax perpetrated by an all-powerful artificial intelligence that control us. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct, and is now fighting for the future of the human race.
4) Total recall
Description
In the year 2084 a worker leaves Earth for the mind-bending nightmarish reality of a Martian mining colony ruled over by a dictator who can alter reality to suit his whims.
5) Synchronic
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When New Orleans paramedics and longtime best friends Steve and Dennis are called to a series of bizarre and gruesome accidents, they chalk it up to a mysterious new drug found at the scene. But after Dennis's oldest daughter disappears, Steve stumbles upon a terrifying truth about the supposed psychedelic that will challenge everything he knows about reality, and the flow of time itself.
Description
Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, dinosaurs have secretly survived on a nearby island and roam free. Now there is a more ominous threat--a plan to capture and bring the dinosaurs to the mainland. John Hammond sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition to reach the island before the mercenary team gets there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
10) The one
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Parallel universes collide when a rogue agent assigned to monitor these universes begins eliminating versions of himself in each alternate reality. Assuming more energy and power with each version he destroys, he must finally confront the one man standing between himself and his ultimate goal…to be THE ONE. THE ONE stars Jet Li as both predator and prey in an innovative, action-packed sci-fi thriller.
11) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the "uplifting" finale.
13) Rashomon
Series
Criterion collection volume 138
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife. This eloquent masterwork and international sensation revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema, and a commanding new star.
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Formats
Description
When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Alien (116 min., 1979): Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left.
Predator (107 min., 1987): Science fiction adventure about an alien who hunts humans for sport.
17) Prospect
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon; aiming to strike it rich. They've secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moons toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness, and the job quickly devolves into a fight to survive. Forced to contend not only with the forests other ruthless inhabitants; but with her own father's, greed-addled judgment; the girl finds she must...
18) Stargate
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
A secret military mission takes a group of men through an Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate to an ancient civilization on the other side of the universe. Once there, they must battle the astoundingly powerful sun god, Ra, before they can find their way home.
19) The giver
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
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) After Yang
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When his young daughter’s beloved A.I companion malfunctions, Jake uncovers details of the robot’s previously unknown life hidden in the android's interior core. A secret stash of video memories suddenly leads Jake to surprising discoveries about himself and his family in this mysterious and haunting sci-fi film. Scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto in one of his final films & based on the short story "Saying Goodbye to Yang" by Alexander Weinstein.
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