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Theme: Mind Control

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Push (2009)

30 July 201113 September 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Psychic Powers

Director: Paul McGuigan
Actors: Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou, …
Category: Science Fiction

Remote Control (1988)

5 November 200028 March 2025

Rating: ★

Alien Mind-Control Video

Director: Jeff Lieberman
Actors: Kevin Dillon, Jennifer Tilly, Deborah Goodrich, Michael Pniewski, …
Category: Science Fiction

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

21 September 201021 September 2024

Rating: ★

Videogame Adaptation/Post-Holocaust Zombies

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Actors: Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Wentworth Miller, Boris Kodjoe, …
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

24 September 201216 October 2021

Rating: ★★

Videogame Adaptation/Complex of Zombies and Mutants

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Actors: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Sienna Guillory, Li Bingbing, …
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

Return from Witch Mountain (1978)

11 February 19994 June 2024

Rating: ★

Psi-Powered Alien Children/Disney Film

Director: John Hough
Actors: Christopher Lee, Bette Davis, Ike Eisenmann, Kim Richards, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Return of Chandu (1934)

26 June 202426 June 2024

Rating: ★★

Serial/Mystical Superhero

Director: Ray Taylor
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba, Clara Kimball Young, Josef Swickard
Category: Fantasy

The Return of Dr Mabuse (1961)

28 October 202428 October 2024

Rating: ★★★

Criminal Mastermind

Director: Harald Reinl
Actors: Gert Frobe, Lex Barker, Daliah Lavi, Werner Peters, …
Category: Fantasy

Santo vs Frankenstein’s Daughter (1972)

12 February 202027 June 2022

Rating: ★★★

Mexican Wrestler Superhero vs Frankenstein’s Daughter

Director: Miguel M. Delgado
Actors: Santo, Gina Romand, Carlos Agosti
Category: Horror

Seconds Apart (2011)

18 August 201214 March 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Evil Psychic Twins

Director: Antonio Negret
Actors: Orlando Jones, Edmund Entin, Gary Entin, Louis Herthum, …
Category: Horror

The Shadow (1994)

20 January 20012 February 2021

Rating: ★★★

Mystical Superhero

Director: Russell Mulcahy
Actors: Alec Baldwin, Jone Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, …
Category: Fantasy

Shin Kamen Rider (2023)

30 March 202530 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

Japanese Superhero Reboot

Director: Hideaki Anno
Actors: Sosuke Ikematsu, Minami Hamabe, Tasuku Emoto, Shinya Tsukamoto, …
Category: Science Fiction

Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)

1 January 200110 December 2020

Rating: 0­

Arabian Nights Adventure

Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Actors: Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Roland Wybenga, Haruhiko Yamanouchi, …
Category: Fantasy

Sole Survivor (2000)

19 March 201013 March 2024

Rating: ★★

Mysterious Plane Crash/Psychic Powers/Dean R. Koontz Adaptation

Director: Mikael Salomon
Actors: Billy Zane, John C. McGinley, Gloria Reuben, Isabella Hoffman, …
Category: Horror

Some Girls Do (1969)

8 January 202028 June 2023

Rating: ★★

Spy Film

Director: Ralph Thomas
Actors: Richard Johnson, James Villiers, Daliah Lavi, Robert Morley, …
Category: Science Fiction

Spider-Man (1977)

29 March 20013 December 2021

Rating: ★

Comic-Book Superhero

Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Actors: Nicholas Hammond, Thayer David, David White, Michael Pataki, …
Category: Science Fiction

Spiderhead (2022)

19 November 202223 August 2024

Rating: ★★½

Illicit Behaviour Modifying Pharmaceutical Experiments

Director: Joseph Kosinski
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Ragulo, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004)

27 September 201728 April 2023

Rating: ★★★

TV Series Spinoff/Gonzo Animation

Director: Stephen Hillenburg
Actors: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Jeffrey Tambor, Scarlett Johansson, …
Category: Fantasy

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

31 August 20028 February 2025

Rating: ★★★★

Intergalactic Adventures

Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: William Shatner, Ricardo Montalban, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, …
Category: Science Fiction

Starship Invasions (1977)

1 October 200122 September 2022

Rating: ★★★

UFO Invasion

Director: Ed Hunt
Actors: Christopher Lee, Robert Vaughn, Daniel Pilon, Helen Shaver
Category: Science Fiction

The Stepford Wives (2004)

18 October 200423 December 2023

Rating: ★★

Android Housewife Replacements Comedy

Director: Frank Oz
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick, Glenn Close, …
Category: Science Fiction

Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers (1990)

4 June 20204 June 2020

Rating: ½

Alien Invader Televangelists

Director: Daniel Boyd
Category: Science Fiction

Subliminal Seduction (1996)

24 March 20107 September 2022

Rating: ★½

Sinister Brainwashing Plot

Director: Andrew Stevens
Actors: Ian Ziering, Dee Wallace, Andrew Stevens, Griffin Drew
Category: Science Fiction

Submerged (2005)

29 March 200819 January 2024

Rating: ★★

Action Film/Mind Control

Director: Anthony Hickox
Actors: Steven Seagal, Vinnie Jones, Nick Brimble, William Hope, …
Category: Science Fiction

Suicide Club (2002)

17 July 200324 August 2021

Rating: ★★

Programmed Mass Suicides

Director: Shion Sono
Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Akaji Maro, Rolly, …
Category: Horror

The Suicide Squad (2021)

14 August 202122 November 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Team-Up of DC Comics Super-Villains

Director: James Gunn
Actors: Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, Joel Kinnaman, John Cena, …
Category: Fantasy

Superman: Red Son (2020)

6 March 202021 March 2023

Rating: ★★★

Comic-Book Superhero/Alternate History/Animation

Director: Sam Liu
Actors: Jason Isaacs, Diedrich Bader, Amy Acker, Vanessa Marshall, …
Category: Science Fiction

Target Earth (1998)

1 September 200710 December 2020

Rating: ★

Alien Invasion

Director: Peter Markle
Actors: Christopher Meloni, John C. McGinley, Marcia Cross, Dabney Coleman, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1933)

19 October 200229 April 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Mind-Controlling Criminal Mastermind

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Otto Wernicke, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Oscar Beregi, Theodor Loos
Category: Fantasy

They Cloned Tyrone (2023)

4 August 202313 April 2024

Rating: ★★★½

Illicit Experiments in the Ghetto

Director: Juel Taylor
Actors: John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris, Kiefer Sutherland, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Tripods [Season 1] (1984)

7 December 20217 December 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Earth After an Alien Invasion

Director: Christopher Barry, Graham Theakston
Actors: John Shackley, Jim Baker, Ceri Seel, Charlotte Long, …
Category: Science Fiction

Universal Soldier (1992)

19 November 20007 April 2022

Rating: ★★

Undead Super-Soldiers/Action

Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross, …
Category: Science Fiction

Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms (1998)

14 August 20045 April 2023

Rating: ★

Undead Super-Soldiers/Action

Director: Jeff Woolnough
Actors: Matt Battaglia, Gary Busey, Chandra West, Jeff Wincott, …
Category: Science Fiction

Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business (1998)

5 September 20045 April 2023

Rating: ★½

Undead Super-Soldiers/Action

Director: Jeff Woolnough
Actors: Matt Battaglia, Burt Reynolds, Chandra West, Richard McMillan, …
Category: Science Fiction

Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)

15 August 201029 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Undead Super-Soldiers/Action

Director: John Hyams
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Andrei The Pit Bull Arlovski, Kerry Shale, …
Category: Science Fiction

Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)

17 August 201016 May 2025

Rating: 0­

Undead Super-Soldiers/Action

Director: Mic Rodgers
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Jai White, Bill Goldberg, Daniel Von Bargen, …
Category: Science Fiction

Vengeance (1962)

3 May 200112 August 2019

Rating: ★

Evil Disembodied Brain

Director: Freddie Francis
Actors: Peter van Eyck, Anne Heywood, Bernard Lee, Cecil Parker, …
Category: Science Fiction, Horror

Village of the Damned (1960)

12 March 200031 July 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Telepathic Alien Children

Director: Wolf Rilla
Actors: George Sanders, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn, Barbara Shelley, …
Category: Science Fiction

Village of the Damned (1995)

22 June 200231 July 2022

Rating: ★★

Telepathic Alien Children

Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Lindsey Haun, …
Category: Science Fiction

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