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      Rental > Science Fiction: 1546 Films to Rent
	  		 
	        
Flash Gordon Serial (Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) (1940) 
- Dir. Ford Beebe
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton 
- One of the early Flash Gordon serials, which enthralled audiences in the 1940s. Here Flash must battle Ming the Merciless who has unleashed the…
 
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…