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Rating: ★★★★★

A Masterpiece

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

26 April 200123 February 2020

Stargate/Amok AI/Human Evolution/Space Mission

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rains
Category: Science Fiction

Akira (1988)

2 August 199920 April 2020

Anime/Psychic Powers Amok

Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Category: Science Fiction

Alice (1988)

6 August 199910 August 2019

Surreal Claymation Alice in Wonderland Adaptation

Director: Jan Svankmajer
Actors: Kristyna Kohoutova, Camilla Power
Category: Fantasy

Alien (1979)

2 May 199920 October 2020

Alien Nasty on a Spaceship

Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Yaphet Kotto, …
Category: Science Fiction

Aliens (1986)

1 June 199921 January 2020

Alien Sequel

Director: James Cameron
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, …
Category: Science Fiction

Angels in America (2003)

6 January 200525 August 2019

Surreal AIDS Drama/Angelic Visitations

Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Justin Kirk, …
Category: Fantasy

Arrival (2016)

11 December 201617 August 2020

First Contact with Aliens

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, …
Category: Science Fiction

Audition (1999)

6 October 199918 November 2019

Twisted Love Story/Sadism and Torture

Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
Category: Horror

Avatar (2009)

20 December 200921 January 2020

War Between Human Colonists and Aliens

Director: James Cameron
Actors: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, …
Category: Science Fiction

Babe (1995)

16 September 200514 August 2020

Talking Animals

Director: Chris Noonan
Actors: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, …
Category: Fantasy

Bambi (1942)

26 June 199925 October 2019

Disney Animation/Talking Animals

Director: David C. Hand
Category: Fantasy

Batman (1989)

26 March 200019 May 2020

Comic-Book Superhero

Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, …
Category: Fantasy

Batman Returns (1992)

26 December 200019 May 2020

Comic-Book Superhero

Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken, …
Category: Fantasy

Beauty and the Beast (1946)

26 August 20037 November 2019

Fairy-Tale

Director: Jean Cocteau
Actors: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre, Michel Auclair, …
Category: Fantasy

Beloved (1998)

14 May 200010 November 2019

African-American Ghost Story

Director: Jonathan Demme
Actors: Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Kimberly Elise, …
Category: Fantasy

Blade Runner (1982)

8 January 200029 January 2020

Cyberpunk Future/Hunt for Escaped Androids

Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, …
Category: Science Fiction

Breaking the Waves (1996)

13 December 19996 March 2020

Religion and Miracles

Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Adrian Rawlins, …
Category: Fantasy

A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)

3 April 200118 April 2020

Hong Kong Supernatural Fantasy/Ghost Romance

Director: Ching Siu-Tung
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Ma
Category: Fantasy

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

4 November 200023 February 2020

UFOs/Alien Contact

Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, …
Category: Science Fiction

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)

13 January 201123 May 2020

Alternate History/The South Wins

Director: Kevin Willmott
Category: Science Fiction

Dark City (1998)

7 June 199916 February 2021

Reality Manipulation

Director: Alex Proyas
Actors: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Dark Knight (2008)

18 July 200819 May 2020

Comic-Book Superhero

Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Gary Oldman, …
Category: Fantasy

Dead Ringers (1988)

22 January 200229 June 2020

Disturbed Twin Psychology

Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Category: Horror

Devs (2020)

2 May 20204 April 2021

Computer That Can Predict the Future

Director: Alex Garland
Actors: Sonoya Mizuno, Nick Offerman, Jin Ha, Alison Pill, …
Category: Science Fiction

Les Diaboliques (1955)

9 April 200214 January 2021

Psycho-Thriller

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Actors: Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Michel Serrault
Category: Horror

Dr Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

16 November 200120 August 2020

Nuclear War Black Comedy

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, …
Category: Science Fiction

Dreams (1990)

12 March 20016 October 2020

Japanese Ghost Story Anthology

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Akira Terao, Martin Scorcese
Category: Fantasy

Duel (1971)

28 June 200211 February 2021

Murderous Truck

Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Dennis Weaver
Category: Horror

Dumbo (1941)

20 November 200128 September 2020

Disney Animation/Flying Elephant

Director: Ben Sharpsteen
Category: Fantasy

E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

16 December 200115 October 2020

Cute Alien

Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote
Category: Science Fiction

Edge of Darkness (1985)

1 February 200830 September 2020

Nuclear Power/Environmental Thriller

Director: Martin Campbell
Actors: Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, Joanne Whalley, Charles Kay, …
Category: Science Fiction

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

15 June 200411 September 2020

Memory Erasure/Reality Bender

Director: Michel Gondry
Actors: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, …
Category: Science Fiction

Excalibur (1981)

28 June 20023 November 2020

Arthurian Legends

Director: John Boorman
Actors: Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, …
Category: Fantasy

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

29 July 20029 May 2020

Family Saga/Ghosts

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ewa Froling, Jan Malmsjo, Jalle Kulle, Pernilla Wallgren, …
Category: Fantasy

Fantasia (1940)

15 July 200212 November 2020

Disney Animation and Music Anthology

Director: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe, Norman Ferguson, …
Category: Fantasy

Faust (1926)

4 July 200028 May 2020

Pact with the Devil

Director: F.W. Murnau
Actors: Emil Jannings
Category: Fantasy

Field of Dreams (1989)

15 February 200223 June 2020

Mystical Baseball Field with Ghost Players

Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Actors: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan, Timothy Busfield, …
Category: Fantasy

Fight Club (1999)

20 October 199927 February 2020

Brawling Clubs/Anarchist Revolution/Split Personality

Director: David Fincher
Actors: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, …
Category: Fantasy

A Ghost Story (2017)

30 September 20179 March 2020

Man Becomes a Ghost

Director: David Lowery
Actors: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara
Category: Fantasy

Gravity (2013)

5 October 201312 December 2019

Astronaut Stranded in Orbit

Director: Alfonso Cuaron
Actors: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
Category: Science Fiction

The Haunting (1963)

3 November 19999 June 2020

Haunted House

Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn, …
Category: Horror

Her (2013)

11 January 20144 December 2020

Human-A.I. Romance

Director: Spike Jonze
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, …
Category: Science Fiction

Hero (2003)

25 July 200416 May 2020

Flying Swordsmen Fantasy

Director: Zhang Yimou
Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, …
Category: Fantasy

The Hitcher (1986)

17 February 20036 November 2020

Psycho Hitchhiker

Director: Robert Harmon
Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Category: Horror

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

1 January 201022 January 2020

Deformity/Historical Romance

Director: William S. Dieterle
Actors: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Edmond O'Brien
Category: Horror

Inception (2010)

23 September 20105 December 2020

Dream Espionage

Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Leonard DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

17 April 20035 December 2019

Miniaturised Man

Director: Jack Arnold
Actors: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, William Schallert
Category: Science Fiction

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

19 June 20014 November 2019

Alien Duplication and Takeover

Director: Donald Siegel
Actors: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Invisible Man (1933)

2 August 200028 March 2020

Invisibility

Director: James Whale
Actors: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor, …
Category: Science Fiction

It Happened Here (1965)

29 May 200123 May 2020

Alternate History/England Under Nazi Rule

Director: Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo
Actors: Pauline Murray, Sebastian Shaw
Category: Science Fiction

Jaws (1975)

15 February 200124 September 2020

Killer Shark

Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Murray Hamilton, …
Category: Horror

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)

23 February 200823 January 2020

Anime/Young Witch’s Adventures

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

King Kong (1933)

12 November 20009 April 2021

Giant Ape

Director: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsak
Actors: Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong, Frank Reicher
Category: Science Fiction

King Kong (2005)

15 December 200510 April 2021

Giant Ape

Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, …
Category: Science Fiction

Lady and the Tramp (1955)

1 November 199918 November 2019

Disney Animation/Talking Animals

Director: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
Actors: Verna Felton, Peggy Lee
Category: Fantasy

Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)

31 October 200830 September 2020

Anime/Lost Floating City

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Science Fiction

Last Year in Marienbad (1961)

6 December 200320 April 2021

French New Wave/Time and Memory

Director: Alain Resnais
Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff
Category: Fantasy

Legend (1985)

27 April 200328 September 2020

Adult Fairytale

Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, …
Category: Fantasy

Man Facing Southeast (1986)

8 May 199912 November 2018

Christ-like Alien Visitor in a Psychiatric Institution

Director: Eliseo Subiela
Actors: Lorenzo Quinteros, Hugo Sato, Ines Vernengo
Category: Science Fiction

Martin (1976)

11 March 200110 March 2020

Deconstructed Vampire

Director: George A. Romero
Actors: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Tom Savini, Christine Forrest, …
Category: Horror

The Matrix (1999)

11 May 199925 September 2020

Virtual Reality

Director: The Wachowskis
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, …
Category: Science Fiction

Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (1979)

15 July 200212 July 2020

Accidental Messiah Absurdist Comedy

Director: Terry Jones
Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, …
Category: Fantasy

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

18 October 20041 March 2020

Anime/Children Befriend Mysterious Creature

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

6 January 200113 June 2019

Children Pursued by Psycho Preacher

Director: Charles Laughton
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce, …
Category: Horror

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

8 February 200423 April 2020

Halloween Denizens Take Over Christmas/Stop-Motion Animation

Director: Henry Selick
Actors: Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, …
Category: Fantasy

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

8 May 200224 December 2018

Dystopia

Director: Michael Radford
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, …
Category: Science Fiction

Nosferatu (1922)

2 September 19994 January 2020

Silent Dracula Adaptation

Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Actors: Max Schreck, Gustav von Waggenheim
Category: Horror

The Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

5 February 200117 February 2019

Unexplained Disappearance

Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, John Jarratt, Anne Lambert, …
Category: Fantasy

Pinocchio (1940)

8 July 20059 June 2020

Disney Animation/Living Puppet Boy

Director: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Category: Fantasy

The Plague Dogs (1982)

13 March 201116 April 2019

Animation/Talking Escaped Lab Animals

Director: Martin Rosen
Actors: John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin, James Bolam
Category: Fantasy

Princess Mononoke (1997)

30 November 199912 February 2021

Anime/Epic Fantasy

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Gillian Anderson, …
Category: Fantasy

Psycho (1960)

6 February 200120 April 2021

Psycho-Thriller

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, …
Category: Horror

Rashomon (1950)

1 November 200228 February 2021

The Subjectivity of Perception

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Category: Fantasy

Repulsion (1965)

21 October 20034 January 2020

Portrait of Madness

Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Category: Horror

Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

1 April 200320 April 2020

Satanic Impregnation

Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Maurice Evans, …
Category: Horror

Salo or 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

19 April 200113 May 2020

Sadism, Torture and Depravity

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Category: Horror

Saw (2004)

16 November 200426 January 2020

Killer’s Sadistic Games

Director: James Wan
Actors: Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Leigh Whannell, Michael Emerson, …
Category: Horror

Se7en (1995)

15 February 200119 June 2020

Serial Killer Thriller

Director: David Fincher
Actors: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Gwyneth Paltrow, …
Category: Horror

The Seventh Seal (1957)

20 January 20019 May 2020

Death Incarnate

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Bibi Andersson, Åke Fridell, …
Category: Fantasy

Sin City (2005)

20 August 200515 July 2019

Graphic Novel Adaptation/Ultra-Violent Film Noir Tales

Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Hartnett, …
Category: Horror

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

19 October 200211 January 2020

Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale

Director: David Hand
Actors: Adriana Caselotti
Category: Fantasy

Solaris (1972)

14 June 20022 October 2020

Enigmatic Alien Planet/Ghosts of Memory

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Donatis Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk
Category: Science Fiction

The Spirit of the Beehive (1974)

2 June 20151 March 2020

Spanish Childhood/Ghost of the Frankenstein Monster

Director: Victor Erice
Actors: Ana Torent, Isabel Telleria, Fernan Gomez, Tersea Gimpera, …
Category: Fantasy

Spirited Away (2001)

12 April 200212 February 2021

Anime/Afterlife Bathhouse

Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Category: Fantasy

Star Wars (1977)

16 December 20005 October 2020

Space Opera

Director: George Lucas
Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, …
Category: Science Fiction

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

4 April 200116 July 2019

Space Opera

Director: Irvin Kershner
Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse, …
Category: Science Fiction

Swiss Army Man (2016)

1 October 201623 April 2020

Castaway Befriends a Talking Corpse

Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheniert
Actors: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Richard Gross, …
Category: Fantasy

Taxi Driver (1976)

14 June 200210 June 2020

Urban Psychosis

Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, …
Category: Horror

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

5 November 200026 January 2020

Man-Machine Fusion

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Actors: Tomoroh Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto
Category: Science Fiction

The Thing (1982)

11 January 200226 May 2020

Shapechanging Alien Nasty

Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, David Clennon, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Truman Show (1998)

1 April 19998 October 2020

Man’s Life as a TV Show

Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, …
Category: Science Fiction

The War Game (1965)

16 December 200930 August 2018

Nuclear War Mockumentary

Director: Peter Watkins
Actors: Michael Aspel, Dick Graham
Category: Science Fiction

War of the Planet of the Apes (2017)

14 October 201719 September 2020

Planet of the Apes Sequel

Director: Matt Reeves
Actors: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, …
Category: Science Fiction

Watership Down (1978)

7 April 200316 April 2019

Animation/Talking Rabbit Quest

Director: Martin Rosen
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham-Cox, Zero Mostel, …
Category: Fantasy

The Well (1997)

2 March 201130 August 2018

Body in the Well/Psychological Horror

Director: Samantha Lang
Actors: Pamela Rabe, Miranda Otto, Paul Chubb, Frank Wilson
Category: Horror

Wild at Heart (1990)

22 May 200126 January 2020

Surreal Disturbed Road Movie

Director: David Lynch
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, …
Category: Fantasy

Wings of Desire (1987)

5 December 20149 August 2020

Angels

Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Otto Sander
Category: Fantasy

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