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1) Last Words
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
What if the last five people on earth in 2085 found joy and delight? Last Words is a story of astonishing human tenderness and creativity in the face of ecological catastrophe.
2) After Yang
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his young daughter's beloved A.I companion malfunctions, Jake uncovers details of the robot's previously unknown life hidden in the android's interior core. A secret stash of video memories suddenly leads Jake to surprising discoveries about himself and his family in this mysterious and haunting sci-fi film. Scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto in one of his final films & based on the short story "Saying Goodbye to Yang" by Alexander Weinstein.
3) Settlers
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a remote homestead on the Martian frontier, a refugee family from Earth clings to hope for a better life. But when strangers appear in the surrounding hills and attempt to run them off, nine-year-old Remmy (Brooklyn Prince) is faced with the desperate reality her mother (Sofia Boutella) and father (Jonny Lee Miller) have tried so hard to keep from her.
4) Mad Max
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max (Mel Gibson). And when the bikers brutalize Max's best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only one thing left in the world to live for - revenge!
5) Jules
Language
English
Formats
Description
JULES follows Milton (Kingsley) who lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard. Before long, Milton develops a close relationship with the extra-terrestrial he calls "Jules." Things become complicated when two neighbors (Harris and Curtin) discover Jules and the government quickly closes in. What follows is a funny, wildly inventive...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own-they're infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora, a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear. As Preble works his way through Bella's archive of the...
7) Robots
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charles is a womanizer while Elaine is a gold digger. The duo learn humanity when forced to team up and pursue robot doubles of themselves. Based on the short story "The Robot Who Looked Like Me" by Robert Sheckley
9) Hellboy
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born in the flames of hell sixty years ago during World War II, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) was brought to Earth by evil madman Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden) to perpetrate evil. Destined to be a harbinger of the apocalypse, Hellboy was instead rescued by Allied Forces led by Professor Broom (John Hurt), founder of the clandestine B.P.R.D. (Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense), who raised him like a son and developed his extraordinary paranormal...
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the not-too-distant future, humankind is adapting to its toxic environment via mutation or surgery. Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux) present his mutations as performance artists, while Timlin (Kristen Stewart), a government investigator, tracks their movements. Saul's notoriety incites a mysterious group to unveil the next phase of human evolution.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman wakes up after a terrible accident to find that she's locked in a cellar with a doomsday prepper, who insists that he saved her life and that the world outside is uninhabitable following an apocalyptic catastrophe. Uncertain what to believe, the woman soon determines that she must escape at any cost.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an interdimensional rupture threatens to unravel reality, the fate of the world is suddenly in the hands of a most unlikely hero: Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), a flustered immigrant mother. As bizarre and bewildering dangers emerge from the many possible worlds, she must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight her way through the splintering timelines to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure through...
Publisher
[Distributed by] Shout Factory
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
20th Anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the seventh season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike and his robot friends add their comments to the film Laserblast. In the film itself, a teenager stumbles across an abandoned alien weapon that provides him with the ultimate weapon of revenge against the bullies who have tormented him. But the weapon's power source begins to mutate his mind and body.
14) Vesper
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set after the collapse of the Earth's ecosystem, VESPER follows the titular headstrong 13-year-old girl (Raffiella Chapman), who uses her survival skills to subsist in the remnants of a strange and dangerous world with her ailing father, Darius (Richard Brake). When Vesper finds a mysterious woman, Camellia (Rosy McEwen), alone and disoriented after an aerial crash, she agrees to help find her missing companion in exchange for safe passage to the...
15) X-Men collection
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 237 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
X-Men: A war is brewing between people with special powers (mutants) and the rest of humanity-- and the only ones who can save the humans from certain destruction are a special group of mutants: the X-Men.
X2 : X-Men united: A new war between humans and mutants begins after an assassination attempt is made on the life of the president of the United States. Now, every mutant needs to fight together against a common enemy: General William Stryker,...
16) Stargate
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999, 1994
Edition
Special [widescreen] ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A secret military mission takes a group of men through an Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate to an ancient civilization on the other side of the universe. Once there, they must battle the astoundingly powerful sun god, Ra, before they can find their way home.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy disappears and then returns with knowledge about the universe. He pilots a fantastic flying machine with the help of a robot commander named Max.
19) Last sentinel
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the near future, a skeleton crew of soldiers is stranded at sea on an abandoned military outpost awaiting the arrival of reinforcements or an enemy invasion, whichever comes first.
Series
Publisher
Toho Scope
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min. Japenese language ; 85 min. English language) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
The planet Earth is attacked by a creature from outer space and the combined forces of Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan are needed to combat it.
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