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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Stanley Kubrick

Millions of years ago, a tribe of herbivorous apelike hominids discover a mysterious black monolith which immediately exerts a strange influence over them. They learn how to kill other animals, to fashion bones into weapons and to assert their control over the world around them. Cut to the year 2001 AD, and Dr Heywood Floyd arrives at an American base on the moon where a remarkable discovery has been made... [More...]

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Stanley Kubrick

Alex DeLarge is a Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent who spends his evenings indulging in orgies of violence with his droogies. This involves beating up rival gangs, breaking into houses and generally having a good time before heading back to the Korova Milk Bar for some nourishing lactose-based refreshment... [More...]

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Charles Barton

Chick Young and Wilbur Grey are baggage clerks who, one day, are asked to deliver two crates to a waxworks museum. According to the crates’ owner, these contain the last remains of Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster. Sure enough, as Chick and Wilbur are unpacking the crates, the two horror fiends are revived... [More...]

Alien (1979)

Ridley Scott

Commercial space freighter Nostromo is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of precious mineral ore. When the ship receives a distress call from a nearby planet, the crew - consisting of five men and two women – is revived from stasis and makes ready to investigate, in accordance with company procedure... [More...]

Alien 3 (1992)

David Fincher

When a fire breaks out aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco, an escape pod containing the surviving crew members is ejected into space. The pod crashlands on Fiorina 161, a maximum security penal planet inhabited by some of the most dangerous criminals in the galaxy. The prison’s population is entirely male, mostly pathologically hostile to women, and is employed in operating a large metal foundry... [More...]

Alien: Resurrection (1997)

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

It has been 200 years since Ellen Ripley sacrificed herself to destroy the Alien queen that was growing within her. Scientists on a United Systems Military spaceship have succeeded in creating a clone of Ripley and were then able to allow the Alien in her body to be born. With the Alien locked in a secure area, they conduct experiments on it, believing that it has great commercial value... [More...]

Aliens (1986)

James Cameron

57 years after her encounter with an alien being which wiped out her crew aboard the space freighter Nostromo, Ellen Ripley is picked up and taken back to Earth. Revived from hypersleep, she is put before a panel of Company executives, who listen to her story with incredulity. Ripley is appalled when Company representative Carter Burke tells her that a terraforming outfit has been sent to LV-426, the planet on which the alien eggs were found by her crew, to establish a colony... [More...]

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Robert Wise

Returning to Earth after probing the dark reaches of space, a satellite drifts off course and crashes into Piedmont, a small town in New Mexico. The team who are sent to recover the satellite find the town strewn with dead bodies. The only survivors are a drunken old man and a baby. Everyone else has died from a mysterious blood-clotting condition... [More...]

Babylon A.D. (2008)

Mathieu Kassovitz

One of the battle-scarred survivors of the wars that ravaged the world in the early years of the Twenty-First Century, Tooroop has become a hardened mercenary, living alone in the wastes of New Siberia. One day, he is contacted by Gorsky, the head of the local Mafia, and given a mission that he cannot turn down... [More...]

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

J. Lee Thompson

In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear conflict, some time towards the end of the 20th Century, apes have supplanted humans as the dominant life-form on planet Earth. The ape leader, a chimpanzee named Caesar, is determined that his species will live in peaceful coexistence with the few remaining humans, but the gorilla General Aldo has other ideas and plots to overthrow his king... [More...]

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)

Ted Post

Two astronauts crash-land on a seemingly deserted planet. They are Brent and Maddox, on a rescue mission to discover what happened to the crew of another spaceship led by a man named Taylor. When Maddox dies from his injuries, Brent sets off to explore and meets up with a young woman on a horse. She is dressed in animal skins and cannot speak, but around her neck she wears Taylor’s identification tag... [More...]

Blade Runner (1982)

Ridley Scott

Los Angeles, 2019. One-time cop Rick Deckard is lured out of his voluntary retirement by his former boss, Bryant, and recruited as a so-called Blade Runner. His mission: to track down and kill four rogue replicants, highly advanced androids which are indistinguishable from humans except in their emotional responses... [More...]

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

James Whale

Prompted by Lord Byron and her husband one stormy night in 1817, Mary Shelley tells the second part of her story about Dr Frankenstein and his unearthly creation. Surviving the conflagration at the windmill, the monster goes on a rampage across the Bavarian countryside. He encounters a blind hermit, who gives him food and shelter, and teaches him the rudiments of speech... [More...]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Steven Spielberg

The scattered inhabitants of Muncie, a small rural community in Indiana, are visited by strange lights in the night sky. One evening, a mother watches in horror as her small child is abducted by a flying saucer. Electrical linesman Roy Neary is on his way to deal with a power blackout when his vehicle stalls and he is bathed in a blinding white light... [More...]

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

J. Lee Thompson

In 1991, North America is run by an oppressively fascist regime. Eight years previously, a plague wiped out all domestic animals, and householders replaced these with apes. Over time, these apes became adept at performing manual chores and are now treated as slaves, to be beaten and whipped if ever they turn aggressive... [More...]

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Jack Arnold

A party of geologists is exploring a region of the Amazon when they make a remarkable discovery: the fossilised hand of a creature that appears to be half-fish, half-man. Excited by this finding, the expedition leader, Dr Maia, persuades his friend, Dr Reed, an expert in marine biology, to help him in his research... [More...]

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

George A. Romero

The world is in the grip of an unexplained pandemic. The bodies of the dead have become reanimated and are preying on the flesh of the living, creating worldwide pandemonium. Believing that this zombie threat is confined to the United States, Stephen, an employee at a television studio in Philadelphia decides to escape to Canada in a helicopter with his girlfriend Francine... [More...]

Day of the Dead (1985)

George A. Romero

Human civilization is virtually at an end, obliterated by a mysterious plague that is animating the dead, turning them into flesh-eating zombies with disgusting table manners. A small group of scientists and military men are holed up in a former missile silo, hoping to come up with a way to defeat the zombies and save the world... [More...]

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Robert Wise

The world falls under a spell of expectant dread when a flying saucer appears in orbit above the Earth before landing in Washington D.C. Before an assembled mass of onlookers, a space-suited humanoid emerges from the alien craft. He is Klaatu, a representative from another world who has come to deliver an ultimatum to the people of Earth... [More...]

Destination Moon (1950)

Irving Pichel

A team of scientists persuade a consortium of wealthy businessmen to back their project to send a manned rocket to the moon. On the day of the launch, one of the four astronauts is taken ill and has to be replaced, by engineer Joe Sweeney. The rocket takes off as planned and accomplishes a successful landing on the lunar surface... [More...]

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