Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction: 1535 Films to Rent
- Buck Rogers- Original Complete Series (1939)
- Feat. Henry Brandon, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall…
- Beloved classic series about a heroic pilot and his young passenger who crash–land on a mountaintop where a mysterious gas puts them into a…
- Things to Come (1936)
- Dir. William Cameron Menzies
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman
- Mind–boggling visualisation of a 21st century utopia, with ant–like humans inhabiting monolithic structures on towering, ten–acre…
- Phantom Empire, The (1935)
- Feat. Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Smiley Burnette
- Oddball children's serial from the thirties has singing cowboy Autry discovering the last remaining inhabitants of the lost continent of Mu living…
- She (1935)
- Dir. Irving Pichel, Lansing C. Holden
Feat. Randolph Scott, Helen Gahagan, Helen Mack…
- Influential, special effects laden fantasy from KING KONG producer Merian C. Cooper about a beguiling, 500–year–old woman as ruler of a…
- Vanishing Shadow, The (1934)
- Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Onslow Stevens, Walter Miller, Ada Ince…
- 12–episode sci–fi serial about an electrical engineer and a mad scientist who attempt to take down a corrupt politician with a device…
- Invisible Man, The (1933)
- Dir. James Whale
Feat. Claude Rains
- Engrossing fantasy about a scientist who becomes invisible, thus leaving ego unchecked to gain advantage and wreak havoc. A memorable,…
- Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Willy Fritsch, Fritz Rasp, Gerda Maurus…
- Silent–era sci–fi from director Fritz Lang. Based on the 1928 novel "The Rocket to the Moon" by his collaborator (and wife at the time)…
- Metropolis (1926)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge…
- Fritz Lang's masterpiece is a magnificent marriage of pure cinema innovation and startlingly ambitious set design.
Set around the year 2000, a…
- Metropolis (1984 Version) (1926)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
- Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece retains its magnificence in spite of the slashed running time and the rock bombast of Georgio Moroder's contemporary…
- Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924)
- Dir. Yakov Protazanov
Feat. Nikolai Tseretelli, Valentina Kuindzhi
- Russian silent science–fiction film based on Alexei Tolstoy's novel about a young man in post–war Soviet Union given the chance to travel…