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Rating: ★★★★½

A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) (2001)

29 June 20019 January 2021

Android Boy’s Quest

Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

6 July 199914 October 2022

Virus from Space/Michael Crichton Adaptation

Director: Robert Wise
Actors: James Olson, Arthur Hill, Kate Reid, David Wayne, …
Category: Science Fiction

Anna M. (2007)

8 March 20084 July 2025

Female Stalker

Director: Michel Spinosa
Actors: Isabelle Carré, Gilbert Melki, Pascal Bongard, Samir Guesmi, …
Category: Horror

The Birds (1963)

6 March 200024 May 2025

Birds Attack Humanity

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, …
Category: Horror

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

6 January 201817 April 2024

Cyberpunk Future/Androids

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Sylvia Hoeks, Jared Leto, …
Category: Science Fiction

Cape Fear (1962)

2 February 200014 October 2022

Ex-Con’s Revenge Thriller

Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Martin Balsam, …
Category: Horror

Carnival of Souls (1962)

20 December 200014 October 2022

Haunting/Deathdream

Director: Herk Harvey
Actors: Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey
Category: Horror

Cat People (1942)

3 May 200114 October 2022

Human-Feline Transformation/Psychological Ambiguity

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Kent Smith
Category: Horror

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

3 May 200124 July 2021

Future Thugs/Brainwashing

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Warren Clarke, Michael Bates, …
Category: Science Fiction

Code 46 (2003)

24 June 200725 April 2020

Dystopian Future

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Actors: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Nina Wadia, …
Category: Science Fiction

Cosmopolis (2012)

11 July 201210 May 2024

Vision of Near-Future Social Collapse

Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Gadon, Kevin Durand, …
Category: Science Fiction

Creator (1985)

27 October 200120 May 2020

Cloning and the Meaning of Life

Director: Ivan Passer
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Vincent Spano, Mariel Hemingway, David Ogden Stiers, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Creator (2023)

25 November 202329 June 2025

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Director: Gareth Edwards
Actors: John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, …
Category: Science Fiction

Day of the Dead (1985)

9 March 20015 December 2021

Zombies

Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Lori Cardille, Joe Pilato, Richard Liberty, Howard Sherman, …
Category: Horror

The Day of the Triffids (1981)

3 July 200718 June 2025

The Downfall of Civilisation/Lethal Plants Amok

Director: Ken Hannam
Actors: John Duttine, Emma Relph, Maurice Colbourne, Stephen Yardley, …
Category: Science Fiction

Don’t Look Now (1973)

27 March 200117 April 2022

Precognition

Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason, Massimo Serato
Category: Horror

Eraserhead (1977)

9 March 200125 October 2022

Surrealist Weirdness

Director: David Lynch
Actors: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates
Category: Fantasy

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)

20 September 201214 March 2024

Jules Verne Adaptation/Steampunk

Director: Karel Zeman
Category: Science Fiction

Faraway, So Close! (1993)

21 November 200112 November 2020

Angels

Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Otto Sander, Willem Dafoe, Nastassja Kinski, Horst Buccholz, …
Category: Fantasy

The Fisher King (1991)

14 September 200215 December 2020

Modern-Day Grail Quest

Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer
Category: Fantasy

Forbidden Planet (1956)

20 June 20025 March 2025

Alien Artefacts/Monster from the Subconscious

Director: Fred McLeod Wilcox
Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Warren Stevens, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947)

12 April 200329 June 2024

Ghost-Mortal Friendship

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Vanessa Brown, …
Category: Fantasy

Halloween (1978)

6 December 200226 September 2024

Slasher Film

Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, …
Category: Horror

Ichi the Killer (2001)

7 January 200627 October 2021

Sadism and Ultra-Violence

Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Shun Sugata, …
Category: Horror

The Innocents (1961)

20 August 200311 October 2020

Psychological Ghost Story

Director: Jack Clayton
Actors: Deborah Kerr, Pamela Franklin, Martin Stephens, Megs Jenkins, …
Category: Horror

Interstellar (2014)

8 November 201417 December 2024

Space Expedition

Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, …
Category: Science Fiction

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

25 June 201030 March 2022

Alien Duplication and Takeover

Director: Philip Kaufman
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, …
Category: Science Fiction

Mad Max 2 (1981)

10 June 20024 July 2024

Post-Holocaust Action

Director: George Miller
Actors: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Mike Preston
Category: Science Fiction

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

16 May 20156 July 2024

Post-Holocaust Action

Director: George Miller
Actors: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, …
Category: Science Fiction

Midnight Mass (2021)

9 October 20217 June 2025

Vampires and Religion

Director: Mike Flanagan
Actors: Kate Siegel, Hamish Linklater, Zach Gilford, Henry Thomas, …
Category: Horror

Mighty Joe Young (1949)

11 June 200014 November 2023

Giant Ape

Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack
Actors: Robert Armstrong, Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Frank McHugh
Category: Fantasy

Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind (1984)

12 December 200513 January 2025

Anime/Post-Holocaust Environmentalism

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Science Fiction

NEKRomantik (1987)

26 June 199916 January 2025

Necrophilia

Director: Jörg Buttgereit
Actors: Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice M.
Category: Horror

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

1 December 200026 October 2024

Zombies

Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Keith Wayne, …
Category: Horror

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

1 July 200110 March 2020

Disfigured Madman Beneath the Opera House

Director: Rupert Julian
Actors: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Category: Horror

Poltergeist (1982)

5 September 200226 May 2020

Haunting

Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Zelda Rubinstein, Heather O'Rourke, …
Category: Horror

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

6 August 20017 September 2023

Tomb Raiding Adventures

Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies, …
Category: Fantasy

Sea of Love (1989)

11 May 20017 March 2025

Psycho-Thriller/Romance

Director: Harold Becker
Actors: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Richard Jenkins, …
Category: Horror

The Sixth Sense (1999)

14 August 19993 September 2024

Child Medium

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, …
Category: Horror

Strings (2004)

15 December 200519 August 2024

World of Puppets

Director: Anders Rønnow-Klarlund
Actors: James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Derek Jacobi, David Harewood, …
Category: Fantasy

Superman (1978)

16 December 200027 August 2024

Comic-Book Superhero

Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Tree of Life (2011)

4 June 201112 April 2025

Lost American Childhood/The Evolution of Life on Earth

Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Tye Sheridan, …
Category: Fantasy

Twin Peaks (1990)

5 May 200314 December 2023

Smalltown Weirdness/Murder Mystery

Director: David Lynch
Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Michael Ontkean, …
Category: Horror

Ultraviolet (1998)

2 September 199910 September 2020

Vampire Hunters

Director: Joe Ahearne
Actors: Jack Davenport, Susannah Harker, Idris Elba, Philip Quast, …
Category: Horror

Up (2009)

12 September 200916 November 2024

Pixar Animation/Old Man Goes on an Adventure

Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Actors: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson, …
Category: Fantasy

Vampyr (1932)

6 January 200528 May 2025

Vampire/Uncanny Dread

Director: Carl Dreyer
Category: Horror

The Vanishing (1988)

23 May 201027 September 2019

Psycho-Thriller/Unexplained Disappearance

Director: George Sluizer
Actors: Gene Bervoets, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Johanna Ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus
Category: Horror

Videodrome (1983)

31 August 20002 November 2023

Reality-Manipulating TV

Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: James Woods, Deborah Harry, Peter Dvorsky, Les Carlson
Category: Science Fiction

Wall-E (2008)

9 October 20085 June 2025

Pixar Animation/Lonely Robot

Director: Andrew Stanton
Actors: Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy
Category: Science Fiction

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Theme Essays

  • Films About Atlantis
  • Werewolf Films
  • Virtual Reality
  • Imprisonment Thrillers
  • Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program
  • Human Bloodsports and Death Games
  • Animals Attack Films
  • Films About Plague and Pandemic
  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns
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