Sci-Fi

  • Christian Duguay – Screamers (1995) (HD)

    1991-2000CanadaChristian DuguaySci-FiThriller

    (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only — to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But man’s greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission: to obliterate all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Bloc’s decimated forces. But to do so, he will have to cross a treacherous wasteland where the deadliest threat comes from the very weapons he helped to create.Read More »

  • Jens Ravn – Manden der tænkte ting AKA The Man Who Thought Life (1969)

    1961-1970DenmarkHorrorJens RavnSci-Fi

    The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. Read More »

  • Johannes Schaaf – Traumstadt AKA Dream City (1973)

    1971-1980GermanyHorrorJohannes SchaafSci-Fi

    TRAUMSTADT concerns a remote town where people from all over can indulge in their wildest dreams. Per Oscarsson and Rosemarie Fendel play an unhappy couple who hope that a trip to this magic town will patch up their relationship. Instead, they find themselves fighting for their lives when several of the wackier fantasies get out of hand. Based on Albert Kubin’s novel The Other Side.Read More »

  • Peter Fleischmann – Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein AKA Hard to Be a God (1989)

    1981-1990AdventureGermanyPeter FleischmannSci-Fi

    Synopsis:
    Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society – a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible…Read More »

  • Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Hitomi no naka no houmonsha AKA Blackjack AKA The Visitor in the Eye (1977)

    1971-1980AsianJapanNobuhiko ObayashiSci-Fi

    Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student, however one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidently. She is taken to hospital but it advised that she will never regain the sight in her eye. Her coach knows of a mysterious doctor ‘Blackjack’ who lives in a secluded house, who might be able to help. ‘Blackjack’ agrees to do the operation, but for a ‘substantial reward’! Her sight is regained, but now she starts to see a mysterious man that is invisible to those around her…..Read More »

  • Léo Richard – Les idées s’améliorent AKA The Plagiarist (2018)

    2011-2020ArthouseFranceLéo RichardSci-Fi

    On Entrevues Belfort website :
    “Ideas improve. The meaning of words plays a role in that improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress depends on it. It sticks close to an author’s phrasing, exploits his expressions, deletes a false idea, replaces it with the right one.”Read More »

  • Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Nerawareta gakuen AKA School in the Crosshairs (1981)

    1981-1990AsianJapanNobuhiko ObayashiSci-Fi

    Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student… Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka’s powers to the ultimate test!Read More »

  • Neil Breen – Twisted Pair (2018)

    2011-2020DramaNeil BreenSci-FiUSA

    Identical twin brothers become hybrid A.I (artificial intelligence) entities, yet torn in different directions to achieve justice for humanity.Read More »

  • Jean Girault – La soupe aux choux AKA The Cabbage Soup (1981)

    1981-1990ComedyFranceJean GiraultSci-Fi

    Synopsis:
    One evening, two old French farmers, Le Glaude (Louis de Funès) and Cicisse (Jean Carmet), start a farting contest which seems to provoke a lighting storm. What actually happens is that they send a signal to aliens and one (Jacques Villeret) arrives to change their lives.Read More »

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