Sci-Fi

  • Shane Carruth – Upstream Color (2013) (HD)

    Drama2011-2020Sci-FiShane CarruthUSA

    A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.Read More »

  • Jack Arnold – The Space Children (1958)

    1951-1960Jack ArnoldSci-FiThrillerUSA

    From legendary Sci-Fi director Jack Arnold (The Incredible Shrinking Man, Creature From the Black Lagoon)… a glowing brain-like extra terrestrial communicates telepathically with the children of top-secret Air Force base in California. Dave Brewster (Adam Williams), an electronic technician arrives in town for a new job at the base with his wife, Anne (Peggy Webber) and their two children Bud (Michel Ray) and Ken (Johnny Crawford). The boys are drawn, along with the other children from the base to a lonely cave near the beach, where the kids start doing the alien’s bidding as the adults try to figure out what’s happening with their unruly offspring. The cast includes former child star Jackie Coogan (Chaplin’s The Kid), Ty Hardin (TV’s Bronco) and Russell Johnson (The Professor from Gilligan’s Island).Read More »

  • Helmut Herbst – Die Kathedrale der neuen Gefühle AKA The Cathedral of New Emotions (2006)

    2001-2010AnimationGermanyHelmut HerbstSci-Fi

    On a shortlist with Eiichi Yamamoto’s BELLADONNA OF SADNESS and René Laloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET as one of the most surreal, psychedelic and truly cosmic animated features ever made, German director Helmut Herbst’s utterly insane THE CATHEDRAL OF NEW EMOTIONS follows a commune of Berlin stoners and intellectuals who get set adrift in space in 1972 in a packing container clutched in a giant flying hand. Various space flotsam smashes into the windshield – enormous insects, Mighty Mouse, a Bird Man from “Flash Gordon” – while hypnotic Krautrock drones in the background moaning “Where am I??”, and a naked man bounces up and down off a massive red pepper. Read More »

  • Annabel Jankel & Rocky Morton – Super Mario Bros. [The Morton Jankel Cut] (1993)

    1991-2000Annabel JankelCultRocky MortonSci-FiUSA

    Brooklyn plumbers Mario and Luigi (the Mario Bros) get the shock of their lives when they discover a parallel world populated by the intelligent descendants of dinosaurs. It seems they weren’t destroyed by a meteor millions of years ago but hurled into another dimension and, now, the evil King Koopa has plans to rule our world. It’s up to our unlikely heroes to battle Koopa and his Goomba guards, free the plucky archaeologist Princess Daisy and save mankind in this adventure of a lifetime.Read More »

  • Vittorio Cottafavi – A come Andromeda (1972)

    1971-1980ItalySci-FiTVVittorio Cottafavi

    A come Andromeda is an Italian TV miniseries in five hour-long parts, broadcast in 1972 on RAI, the Italian state broadcaster. It was directed by Vittorio Cottafavi and adapted by Inisero Cremaschi from the book by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot, itself adapted from the BBC’s 1961 series A for Andromeda by the same authors, which is now mostly lost. It stars Luigi Vannucchi, Paola Pitagora, Tino Carraro and Nicoletta Rizzi, with performances from Arturo Dominici, Mario Piave, Claudio Cassinelli, Gabriella Giacobbe, Enzo Tarascio, Giampiero Albertini, Sandro Tuminelli and others.Read More »

  • Jacinto Esteva – Metamorfosis AKA Metamorphosis (1970)

    1961-1970DramaJacinto EstevaSci-FiSpainSpanish cinema under Franco

    A group of scientists transform a type of strange animal into a very beautiful woman programmed to behave in silence. The conditioning that the consumer society imposes on the individual, the slavery of bodies and spirits, and the ruthless lack of sensitivity of humans are condensed in this film shot in natural scenarios.Read More »

  • Vittorio Cottafavi – Ai poeti non si spara (1965)

    1961-1970ItalySci-FiTVVittorio Cottafavi

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    Cheese holder Kerr is in turmoil because of a serious decline on his sales. In order to get out of the crisis an electronic brain of the latest generation is acquired: gordon i. The new computer, equipped with free will, comes into conflict with the employees of the company.Read More »

  • Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Yocho AKA Foreboding (2017)

    2011-2020JapanKiyoshi KurosawaSci-Fi

    SYNOPSIS
    Something‘s wrong and Etsuko is one of the first to notice. It‘s not just the sky that looks different, Etsuko suddenly begins hearing strange noises and an increasing number of inexplicable things are happening around her: mirror surfaces are distorting and people‘s behaviour is changing. They keep dropping things and their arms seem to be aching. When Miyuki thinks she sees a ghost in her father and newscasters begin predicting incessant rain on a global scale, all the signs seem to indicate that the end of the world is nigh.Read More »

  • George Moorse – H.P. Lovecraft: Schatten aus der Zeit (1975)

    1971-1980George MoorseGermanyHorrorSci-Fi

    Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family deserts him. He gathers knowledge of things outsRead More »

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