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Formats
Description
"The unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the stunning rise--and suddenly uncertain reign--of the most transformative cultural phenomenon of our time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales,...
2) Tremors
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
Sci-fi comedy about two country handymen who are about to leave their desolate Nevada town when they discover the town is infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live below the ground.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
They call themselves the Borg--a half-organic, half-machine collective with a sole purpose: to conquer and assimilate all races. Led by their seductive and sadistic queen, the Borg are headed to earth with a devious plan to alter history. Picard's last encounter with the Borg almost killed him. Now, he wants vengeance.
Publisher
[Alpha Video]
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
In the Year 2889: A retired Navy captain and his daughter survive a nuclear holocaust due to their sheltered location in a remote canyon. Before long, other survivors show up looking for food and shelter.
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet: In 2020 scientists land on Venus and find it populated with such alien creatures as tentacled carnivorous plants, lizard men, and dinosaurs.
6) 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.
8) Metropolis
Publisher
Madacy Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
An expressionistic drama about authoritarianism and revolt in an industrialized metropolis of the 21st century.
9) Men in black
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer. The mission is to locate and exterminate the bug before it destroys the planet.
10) Stargate
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.
11) Lost in space
Publisher
New Line Home Video Inc
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
The year is 2058. With the Earth's resources severely depleted human survival depends upon "The Jupiter Mission." This daring plan will launch an entire family-- the Robinsons-- into the farthest reaches of hyperspace to colonize "Alpha Prime," the only other habitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space, facing alien invaders, time- warp wonders and non-stop...
12) 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.
13) Barbarella
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1999, 1968
Description
An erotic science fiction fantasy in which a female adventurer travels through space vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters and rewarding the men who assist her.
14) The 6th day
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Adam is an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An evil corporation illegally cloned him, and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence. Torn from his beloved family and faced with a shocking exact duplicate of himself, Adam races against time to reclaim his life and save the world from the underground cloning movement.
15) 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...
16) Short circuit
Publisher
Image Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
After a short circuit during an electrical storm, a military robot escapes and finds a home with a young woman.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Independence day (1996, 153 min.): Mysterious and powerful aliens launch an all-out invasion against the human race.
I, robot (2004, 114 min.): When a preeminent scientist is found dead, robophobic detective Del Spooner suspects an advanced robot committed the murder.
18) 12 monkeys
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
A killer virus has devastated the world's population and survivors must live underground. Cole travels into the past to obtain a sample of the pure virus, in order to help develop a cure. He encounters a psychiatrist, a mental patient, and a radical group linked to the disease.
19) 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.
20) The predator
Formats
Description
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe's most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter, and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race.