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Theme: Scientific Breakthrough

2067 (2020)

6 December 20206 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Time Portal

Director: Seth Larney
Actors: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ryan Kwanten, Aaron Glenane, Deborah Mailman, …
Category: Science Fiction

The 4D Man (1959)

8 April 200017 December 2020

Rating: ★★★

Incorporeal Man

Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr
Actors: Robert Lansing, Lee Merriwether, Robert Strauss, Edgar Stehli
Category: Science Fiction

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)

9 April 19991 June 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Anti-Gravity Rubber/Disney Comedy

Director: Robert Stevenson
Actors: Fred MacMurray, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk, Nancy Olson, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Airship Destroyer (1909)

24 August 201116 June 2019

Rating: ★★

Predictions of Aerial Warfare

Director: Walter R. Booth
Category: Science Fiction

Altered States (1980)

8 December 19992 August 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Drug Trips & The Meaning of Life/Reversion to Caveman

Director: Ken Russell
Actors: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid
Category: Science Fiction

Amelia 2.0 (2017)

10 July 201910 July 2019

Rating: ★½

Mind Upload Into an Android Body

Director: Adam Orton
Actors: Ed Begley Jr, Angela Billman, Ben Whitehair, Kate Vernon, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

6 July 19992 August 2020

Rating: ★★★★½

Virus from Space/Michael Crichton Adaptation

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

The Andromeda Strain (2008)

15 June 200821 August 2019

Rating: ★★

Virus from Space/Michael Crichton Adaptation

Director: Mikael Salomon
Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Ricky Schroder, Eric McCormack, Christa Miller, …
Category: Science Fiction

Ant-Man (2015)

18 July 20156 August 2019

Rating: ★★★

Marvel Comics Miniature Superhero

Director: Peyton Reed
Actors: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Ape (1940)

7 February 20016 September 2019

Rating: ★★

Mad Scientist

Director: William Nigh
Actors: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Henry Hall, Gene O'Donnell, …
Category: Horror

ARQ (2016)

20 October 201718 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Timeloop

Director: Tony Elliott
Actors: Robbie Amell, Rachael Taylor, Shaun Benson, Gray Powell, …
Category: Science Fiction

Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (2012)

9 April 201326 September 2019

Rating: ★

Libertarian Political Fantasy/Ayn Rand Adaptation

Director: John Putch
Actors: Samantha Mathis, Jason Beghe, Patrick Fabian, Esai Morales, …
Category: Science Fiction

Atomica (2017)

29 May 202029 May 2020

Rating: ½

Mystery at a Future Nuclear Waste Recycling Plant

Director: Dagen Merrill
Actors: Sarah Habel, Dominic Monaghan, Tom Sizemore
Category: Science Fiction

The Bank (2001)

7 June 200226 October 2019

Rating: ★★★

Stockmarket Prediction Formula

Director: Robert Connolly
Actors: David Wenham, Anthony LaPaglia, Sibylla Budd, Steve Rodgers, …
Category: Science Fiction

Brainstorm (1983)

28 March 20184 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Memory Recording Device

Director: Douglas Trumbull
Actors: Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher, Cliff Robertson, …
Category: Science Fiction

BrainWaves (1982)

8 March 20012 August 2020

Rating: ★★½

Experimental Neurosurgery/Transplanted Memories

Director: Ulli Lommel
Actors: Keir Dullea, Tony Curtis, Suzanna Love, Nicholas Love, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Breakthrough (1994)

20 June 20006 March 2020

Rating: ★

Scientifically Exploring the Afterlife

Director: Piers Haggard
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mimi Kuzyk, Corin Nemec, Vlasta Vrana, …
Category: Science Fiction

Charly (1968)

8 August 200012 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

Experiment Turns Intellectually Handicapped Man Into a Genius

Director: Ralph Nelson
Actors: Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala, Leon Janney, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Clone Master (1978)

2 July 20208 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Scientist Creates Clones of Himself

Director: Don Medford
Actors: Art Hindle, Robyn Douglass, Ralph Bellamy, Ed Lauter, …
Category: Science Fiction

Contact (1997)

25 May 200910 May 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Communications from Space

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, James Woods, …
Category: Science Fiction

Destination Moon (1950)

1 April 200327 July 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Expedition to the Moon

Director: Irving Pichel
Actors: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Dick Wesson, Tom Powers
Category: Science Fiction

Devs (2020)

2 May 20202 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Computer That Can Predict the Future

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

The Discovery (2017)

30 October 201730 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Scientific Proof of the Afterlife

Director: Charlie McDowell
Actors: Jason Segel, Robert Redford, Rooney Mara, Jesse Plemons, …
Category: Science Fiction

Einstein’s God Model (2016)

12 June 201912 June 2019

Rating: ★★★

Scientific Experiment in Contacting the Dead

Director: Philip T. Johnson
Actors: Aaron Graham, Kenneth Hughes, Brad Norman, Kirby O’Connell, …
Category: Science Fiction

Errors of the Human Body (2012)

18 May 201330 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Rogue Scientific Experiments

Director: Eron Sheean
Actors: Michael Eklund, Karoline Herfuth, Tomas Lemarquis, Rik Mayall, …
Category: Science Fiction

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

16 December 200012 November 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Submarine Journey Through the Human Body

Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Donald Pleasence, Arthur Kennedy, …
Category: Science Fiction

The First Men in the Moon (1964)

5 September 200224 October 2019

Rating: ★★

Victorian Lunar Expedition/H.G. Wells Adaptation

Director: Nathan Juran
Actors: Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd, Martha Hyer
Category: Science Fiction

The First Men in the Moon (2010)

28 January 201117 January 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Victorian Lunar Expedition/H.G. Wells Adaptation

Director: Damon Thomas
Actors: Mark Gatiss, Rory Kinnear, Philip Jackson
Category: Science Fiction

Flowers for Algernon (2000)

3 February 200815 December 2020

Rating: ★★

Experiment Turns Intellectually Handicapped Man Into a Genius

Director: Jeff Bleckner
Actors: Matthew Modine, Kelli Williams, Ron Rifkin, Richard Fitzpatrick, …
Category: Science Fiction

Flubber (1997)

1 January 200016 October 2019

Rating: ★★

Absent-Minded Professor Remake

Director: Les Mayfield
Actors: Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Jodi Benson, Christopher McDonald, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Formula (1980)

23 April 201417 December 2020

Rating: ★★

International Thriller/Hunt for a Nazi Fuel Substitute

Director: John G. Avildsen
Actors: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller, John Van Dreelen, …
Category: Science Fiction

Four Sided Triangle (1953)

23 January 202023 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Matter Duplication Device

Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Barbara Payton, James Hayter, John Van Eyssen
Category: Science Fiction

From the Earth to the Moon (1958)

17 January 200117 July 2019

Rating: ★★

Victorian Moon Expedition/Jules Verne Adaptation

Director: Byron Haskin
Actors: Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Don Dubbins, …
Category: Science Fiction

Gold (1934)

7 July 201616 June 2019

Rating: ★★

Discovery of a Process to Turn Lead Into Gold

Director: Karl Hartl
Actors: Brigitte Helm, Hans Albers, Michael Bohnen, Eberhard Leithoff, …
Category: Science Fiction

Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)

16 August 201030 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Giant Baby

Director: Randal Kleiser
Actors: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri, Daniel Shalikar, …
Category: Science Fiction

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)

15 February 200118 February 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Miniaturised Backyard Adventures

Director: Joe Johnston
Actors: Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Thomas Brown, Amy O'Neill, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin (1965)

10 July 20145 January 2021

Rating: ★★★

Soviet Science-Fiction/Death Ray Invention

Director: Alexander Gintsburg
Actors: Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Vsevolod Safonov, Mikhail Astangov, Natalya Klimova, …
Category: Science Fiction

I Origins (2014)

28 July 201412 December 2018

Rating: ★★★

Scientific Research/Discovery of Unusual Connections

Director: Mike Cahill
Actors: Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Kashish, …
Category: Science Fiction

I’ll Follow You Down (2013)

30 June 201419 November 2020

Rating: ★

Time Travel

Director: Richie Mehta
Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Gillian Anderson, Victor Garber, Rufus Sewell, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Illusionauts (2012)

5 June 201430 August 2018

Rating: ★½

Animation/Adventures Inside an Author’s Imagination

Director: Eduardo Schuldt
Category: Science Fiction

An Impossible Voyage (1904)

23 September 201110 March 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Train Journey Into Space

Director: Georges Melies
Category: Science Fiction

International House (1933)

19 January 201530 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Screwball Comedy/TV Invention

Director: Edward Sutherland
Actors: W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, George Burns, Gracie Allen, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Invisible Man (2020)

28 March 202031 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Invisible Stalker

Director: Leigh Whannell
Actors: Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Harriet Dyer, Storm Reid, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Invisible Monster (1950)

3 November 201016 December 2020

Rating: ★

Serial/Invisible Villain

Director: Fred C. Brannon
Actors: Richard Webb, Aline Towne, Stanley Price
Category: Science Fiction

The Invisible Ray (1936)

23 November 201230 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Radioactive Mad Scientist’s Revenge

Director: Lambert Hillyer
Actors: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Francis Drake, Frank Lawton, …
Category: Science Fiction

Junior (1994)

16 August 20004 April 2019

Rating: ★★½

Pregnant Man Comedy

Director: Ivan Reitman
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Emma Thompson, Frank Langella, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Man in the White Suit (1951)

1 December 200330 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

Imperishable Suit Invention Comedy

Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Actors: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, …
Category: Science Fiction

Medicine Man (1992)

1 September 200130 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Cancer Cure in the Amazon Rainforest

Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, Jose Wilker, Rodolfo De Alexandre
Category: Science Fiction

Mouse on the Moon (1963)

17 February 20035 March 2019

Rating: ★★★

World’s Smallest Country Launches a Moon Mission

Director: Richard Lester
Actors: Ron Moody, Terry-Thomas, Bernard Cribbins, David Kossof, …
Category: Science Fiction

Murder By Television (1935)

11 December 201811 December 2018

Rating: ★

Murder Mystery Set Around the Invention of a Television

Director: Clifford Sanforth
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Henry Mowbray, June Collyer, Huntly Gordon, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Mysterious Island (1929)

5 July 20168 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Underwater Adventures/City of Merpeople

Director: Lucien Hubbard, Benjamin Christensen
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Montagu Love
Category: Science Fiction

Percy (1971)

8 July 200521 November 2019

Rating: ★

Penis Transplant Comedy

Director: Ralph Thomas
Actors: Hywel Bennett, Janet Key, Denholm Elliott, Patrick Mower, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Phoenix Project (2015)

31 August 201730 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Experiments in the Resurrection of the Dead

Director: Tyler Graham Pavey
Actors: Corey Rieger, Andrew Simpson, David Pesta, Orson Ossman
Category: Science Fiction

Primer (2003)

31 December 200330 August 2018

Rating: ★★★★

Mysterious Scientific Experiment/Time Travel

Director: Shane Carruth
Actors: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Carrie Crawford, Casey Gooden, …
Category: Science Fiction

Project Almanac (2015)

31 January 201510 October 2018

Rating: ★★★

Found Footage Time Travel Film

Director: Dean Isrsaelite
Actors: Jonny Weston, Sofia Black D'Elia, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, …
Category: Science Fiction

Rememory (2017)

18 September 201728 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Memory Recording Device

Director: Mark Palansky
Actors: Peter Dinklage, Julia Ormond, Martin Donovan, Anton Yelchin, …
Category: Science Fiction

Repli-Kate (2002)

15 April 202016 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Cloning Comedy

Director: Frank Longo
Actors: Ali Landry, James Roday, Desmond Askew, Eugene Levy, …
Category: Science Fiction

Riders to the Stars (1954)

2 May 20002 October 2018

Rating: ★★½

Space Launch

Director: Richard Carlson
Actors: William Lundigan, Richard Carlson, Martha Hyer, Herbert Marshall, …
Category: Science Fiction

Secret of the Telegian (1960)

10 April 201818 June 2020

Rating: ★★½

Teleporting Super-Villain

Director: Jun Fukuda
Actors: Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Yoshifumi Tajima, Sachio Sakai, …
Category: Science Fiction

Son of Flubber (1963)

1 June 201525 January 2020

Rating: ★★

Absent-Minded Professor Sequel

Director: Robert Stevenson
Actors: Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Keenan Wynn, Nancy Olson, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Sound Barrier (1952)

1 March 201130 August 2018

Rating: ★★★

The Quest to Break the Sound Barrier

Director: David Lean
Actors: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick, John Justin, …
Category: Science Fiction

Splice (2010)

22 May 201029 October 2019

Rating: ★★★

Genetically-Engineered Creature

Director: Vincenzo Natali
Actors: Sarah Polley, Adrien Brody, Delphine Chaneac, David Hewlett, …
Category: Science Fiction

Stereo (1969)

15 March 20136 May 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Psychic Powers Experiments

Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Ronald Mlodzik, Iain Ewing, Jack Messinger
Category: Science Fiction

Tenet (2020)

5 December 202011 December 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Time Travel Action/Temporal Weaponry

Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Branagh, Elizabeth Debicki, …
Category: Science Fiction

Threshold (1981)

30 June 201530 August 2018

Rating: ★★½

World’s First Artificial Heart

Director: Richard Pearce
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Mare Winningham, Michael Lerner, …
Category: Science Fiction

Time Freak (2018)

14 September 202014 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Time Travel

Director: Andrew Bowler
Actors: Asa Butterfield, Sophie Turner, Skyler Gisondo, Will Peltz, …
Category: Science Fiction

Time Lapse (2014)

5 September 201526 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

Camera That Photographs the Future

Director: Bradley King
Actors: Matt O'Leary, Danielle Panabaker, George Finn, Jason Spisak, …
Category: Science Fiction

Trans-Atlantic Tunnel (1935)

8 January 201515 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Massive Engineering Project

Director: Maurice Elvey
Actors: Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Helen Vinson, C. Aubrey Smith, …
Category: Science Fiction

Twister (1996)

6 December 20025 April 2019

Rating: ★★★

Tornado Chasers

Director: Jan De Bont
Actors: Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, …
Category: Science Fiction

Woman in the Moon (1929)

20 December 20003 April 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Expedition to the Moon

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Marcus, Gustav von Waggenheim, Fritz Rasp, …
Category: Science Fiction

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