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Theme: Intelligence

Baby Geniuses (1999)

1 April 199917 December 2020

Rating: ★

Intelligent Baby Conspiracy

Director: Bob Clark
Actors: Kim Cattrall, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Peter MacNicol, …
Category: Science Fiction

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)

14 May 20005 October 2020

Rating: 0­

Earth Under Alien Rule/L. Ron Hubbard Adaptation

Director: Roger Christian
Actors: John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, …
Category: Science Fiction

Bug! (1975)

11 April 199910 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Intelligent Firestarting Insects

Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Actors: Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Alan Fudge, Patty McCormack
Category: Horror, 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 Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)

5 November 20029 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Teen With a Computer Brain/Disney Comedy

Director: Robert Butler
Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, William Schallert, Cesar Romero, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Day of the Dolphin (1973)

7 September 200127 June 2020

Rating: ★★

Talking Dolphins

Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: George C. Scott, Trish van der Vere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver, …
Category: Science Fiction

Evil Alien Conquerors (2003)

7 November 20133 November 2020

Rating: ★★★

Stupid Alien Invaders Comedy

Director: Chris Matheson
Actors: Diedrich Bader, Michael Weston, Chris Parnell, Tyler Labine, …
Category: Science Fiction

Fantastic Planet (1973)

23 February 20049 September 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Bizarre Alien Planet/Animation

Director: Rene Laloux
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

Forbidden Planet (1956)

20 June 200211 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★½

Alien Artefacts/Monster from the Subconscious

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

The Frankenstein Syndrome (2010)

15 October 201824 September 2019

Rating: ★★½

Modernised Frankenstein Film

Director: Sean Tretta
Actors: Tiffany Shepis, Scott Anthony Leet, Louis Mandylor, Patti Tindall, …
Category: Horror

Harrison Bergeron (1995)

1 May 20101 July 2021

Rating: ★★

Future Where Everybody Must Be Average/Kurt Vonnegut Adaptation

Director: Bruce Pittman
Actors: Sean Astin, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Bennett, Matthew Ferguson, …
Category: Science Fiction

Headspace (2005)

19 April 200723 August 2021

Rating: ★★★

Expanded Mental Powers and Demons

Director: Andrew van den Houten
Actors: Christopher Denham, Olivia Hussey, William Atherton, Dee Wallace, …
Category: Horror

Help! I’m a Fish (2000)

20 January 20047 July 2021

Rating: ★★½

Animation/Children Transformed Into Talking Fish

Director: Stefan Fjeldmark, Michael Hegner
Actors: Jeff Pace, Alan Rickman, Aaron Paul, Terry Jones, …
Category: Fantasy

Idiocracy (2006)

28 August 201013 October 2020

Rating: ★★★

Future Ruled by Stupid People

Director: Mike Judge
Actors: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

3 December 200017 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Virtual Reality/Enhanced Intelligence

Director: Brett Leonard
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Jeff Fahey, Jenny Wright, Geoffrey Lewis, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Lazarus Effect (2015)

28 February 201516 January 2021

Rating: ★

Experiments in the Resurrection of the Dead

Director: David Gelb
Actors: Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Sarah Bolger, Evan Peters, …
Category: Horror

Limitless (2011)

27 March 20113 May 2021

Rating: ★★

Intelligence Expanding Drug

Director: Neil Burger
Actors: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, …
Category: Science Fiction

Lucy (2014)

27 July 201418 September 2019

Rating: ★★★

Drug Grants Enhanced Intelligence and Superpowers/Action Film

Director: Luc Besson
Actors: Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Min-sik Choi, Amr Waked, …
Category: Science Fiction

Matilda (1996)

5 May 20038 August 2019

Rating: ★★

Gifted Child/Roald Dahl Adaptation

Director: Danny DeVito
Actors: Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris, Danny DeVito, …
Category: Fantasy

Mom and Dad Save the World (1992)

24 August 20102 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Adventures on a Planet of Stupid People Comedy

Director: Greg Beeman
Actors: Jeffrey Jones, Teri Garr, Jon Lovitz, Dwier Brown, …
Category: Science Fiction

Morons from Outer Space (1985)

2 February 200320 February 2020

Rating: ★★

Idiotic Alien Visitors/Genre Spoof

Director: Mike Hodges
Actors: Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones, Jimmy Nail, Dinsdale Landen, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)

30 July 200020 May 2020

Rating: ★★½

Rejuvenation Formula Comedy

Director: Peter Segal
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales, …
Category: Science Fiction

Phenomenon (1996)

12 April 200314 January 2019

Rating: ★★

Man Gains Expanded Mental Powers

Director: Jon Turteltaub
Actors: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, …
Category: Science Fiction

Powder (1995)

31 December 199530 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Psychically Gifted Alienated Teenager

Director: Victor Salva
Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, …
Category: Fantasy

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

12 August 201118 September 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Planet of the Apes Prequel

Director: Rupert Wyatt
Actors: James Franco, Frieda Pinto, John Lithgow, Tom Felton, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Secret of N.I.M.H. (1982)

4 December 200226 September 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Animation/Talking Animal Quest

Director: Don Bluth
Actors: Elizabeth Hartman, Dom de Luise, Derek Jacobi, Hermione Baddely, …
Category: Fantasy

Slapstick of Another Kind (1982)

12 February 20052 April 2019

Rating: ★

Alien Twin Geniuses/Kurt Vonnegut Adaptation

Director: Steven Paul
Actors: Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, John Abbott, …
Category: Science Fiction

Watchers (1988)

31 May 200116 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Intelligent Dog/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation

Director: Jon Hess
Actors: Corey Haim, Michael Ironside, Barbara Williams, Lala Sloatman, …
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993)

20 January 200124 June 2021

Rating: ★★

Animation/Talking Dinosaurs

Director: Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells, Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag
Actors: John Goodman, Yeardley Smith, Kenneth Mars, Walter Cronkite, …
Category: Fantasy

Wolfen (1981)

19 August 200131 January 2019

Rating: ★★

Intelligent Wolves

Director: Michael Wadleigh
Actors: Albert Finney, Gregory Hines, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, …
Category: Horror

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