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Rental > Science Fiction: 1542 Films to Rent
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (Doppelganger) (1969)
- Dir. Robert Parish
Feat. Roy Thinnes, Lynn Loring, Herbert Lom
- Venturing behind the sun to a planet that turns out to be the mirror opposite of Earth, Roy Thinnes heads the space crew that come face to face with…
Marooned (Space Travelers) (1969)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna, Gregory Peck…
- An excellent outer space thriller which proffers an APOLLO 13–like situation of NASA astronauts being stuck in orbit, while the Earthbound…
Moon Zero Two (1969)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. James Olson, Catherina Von Schell, Warren Mitchell…
- Low–budget science fiction foray from Hammer Films, billed as the first moon "western" and released very soon after the first moon landing in…
Secret Service, The (TV Series) (1969)
- Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's (THUNDERBIRDS) final excursion into "supermarionation", this gadget–laden spy series concerns a priest (voiced by…
U.F.O. (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Gabrielle Drake
- Supermarionator Gerry Anderson pulls the strings on this live–action sci–fi series, full of the same secret agencies, evil empires and…
Valley of Gwangi, The (1969)
- Dir. James O'Connelly
Feat. James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson…
- Ray Harryhausen's stop–motion stuff animates this monster–mash about Wild West drifters who try to cash in on the prehistoric creature…
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
- Stanley Kubrick's milestone sci–fi film is a magnificent visual wonder.
Based on the short story 'The Sentinal' by Arthur C. Clarke, this…
Barbarella (1968)
- Dir. Roger Vadim
Feat. Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Milo O'Shea…
- Camp fantasy film starring Jane Fonda as an innocent space vixen who adventures through lands of drooling men and phallic spaceships. Funny, crazy…
Countdown (1968)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. James Caan, Robert Duvall, Joanna Moore…
- An early and unusual space–travel drama from dir. Altman, in which American astronaut Caan must undergo tough training with instructor Duvall…
Destroy All Monsters! (1968)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi
- All–star monstrosity from Japan's Toho studios, who did for giant rubber–suits what Hammer did for fangs. Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan et al…