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Science Fiction Movies
Great GeekFest is out of this world, and so are these movies! Enjoy these sci-fi movie recommendations.
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- Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating…
- With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
- In the first chapter of the terrifying Alien saga, the crew of the spaceship Nostromo answers a distress signal from a desolate planet, only to discover a deadly life form that breeds within human hosts. Now the crew members must fight not only for…
- Jurassic Park is an an amazing theme park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the earth and five people must battle to survive among the prehistoric predators.
- An old-school father and his plugged-in daughter struggle to relate as their family embarks on a roaed trip to her new college. Their drive is interrupted by a tech uprising: the electronic devices people love decide it's time to take over. With the…
- A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.
- Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstances of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to his job: to die for a living.
- When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team including linguist Louise Banks is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she…
- Qohen Leth is a computer genius plagued with existential angst. Eccentric and reclusive, he lives in a burnt-out church, toiling on a top-secret project personally assigned by Management--to discover the meaning of life. If there is one.
- Lena, a biologist and former soldier, is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a…
- In a remake of the original 1968 film, after an astronaut crash-lands on an uncharted planet, he finds himself at odds with a society in which apes are the rulers and humans are little more than slaves.
- During the U.S. presidential election of 1988, a teen named Donnie sleepwalks out of his house one night and sees a giant, demonic-looking rabbit named Frank who tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. He returns…
E.T.
the Extra-terrestrial
Relive the adventure and magic in one of the most beloved motion pictures of all-time, from Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg. Captivating audiences of all ages, this timeless story follows the unforgettable journey of a lost alien and…- The day-in, day-out world is the real world is merely perception. In reality it is a hoax perpetrated by an all-powerful artificial intelligence that control us. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct, and is now fighting for…
- New York City is being threatened by a villainous bug who has inhabited the body of a farmer. The mission is to locate and exterminate the bug before it destroys the planet.
- In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and tests Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.
- "A man whose mind and body are controlled by the government ... makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime."
- During a manned mission to Mars, American astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind by his crew. But Watney is still alive, and he must now find a way to contact Earth-and survive on a barren planet with meager supplies--in hope that an…
- Marcus Reed sets out to remake a cursed horror film in Transylvania, but while on set, a fierce supernatural force rips open a window of terror, summoning the wrath of evil spirits.
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