Subgenre Sampler
Science Fiction > Futurism: 133 Films to Buy & Rent
- Zardoz (1974)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling
- Sean Connery stars in this enigmatic, garish space odyssey about a group of eternally young intellectuals in the year 2293. The bizarre visual…
- Sleeper (1973)
- Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
- Woody Allen plays a health–food shop owner who is frozen and awakened 200 years later in a fascist state. His campy version of the future…
- Soylent Green (1973)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young
- Charlton Heston reprises his brusque persona from PLANET OF THE APES for this post–nuke, sardine–jammed New York story of 2022.…
- Westworld (1973)
- Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
- A theme–park where one experiences violent fantasies in perfect safety gradually goes haywire. Inspired idea would strike the big time for…
- Silent Running (1971)
- Dir. Douglas Trumball
Feat. Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin…
- Environmental parable stars Bruce Dern as a space–station botanist who defies authority to preserve final samples of Earth's vegetation. A…
- City Beneath the Sea (1970)
- Dir. Irwin Allen
Feat. Robert Wagner, Joseph Cotton, Richard Basehart…
- Originally a TV–Movie, this concerns a future oceanic metropolis populated by the likes of Robert Wagner, Joseph Cotton, Richard Basehart and…
- THX-1138 (1970)
- Dir. George Lucas
Feat. Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
- The man behind STAR WARS and, yep, THX digital sound, made his feature debut with this stark sci–fi chamber piece, most remembered for its…
- Illustrated Man, The (1969)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom
- Bizarrely conceived encounter with an embittered Rod Steiger, who tells a stranger of his all–over body tattoos, which then mysteriously induce…
- Fahrenheit 451 (1967)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack…
- Adaptation of Ray Bradbury's sci–fi novel, set in a book–burning 'utopian' future, has naïve fireman Oskar Werner questioning the…
- Terror from the Year 5,000 (1958)
- Dir. Robert J. Gurney
Feat. Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, Frederic Downs
- In a future contaminated with radioactivity, bizarre experiments with a time machine materialise with a terrifying she devil from 3000 years in the…