Subgenre Sampler
Science Fiction > Futurism: 133 Films to Buy & Rent
- Puzzlehead (2005)
- Dir. James Bai
Feat. Stephen Galaida, Robbie Shapiro
- Grungy sci–fi set in a desolate future in which a lonely scientist creates a self–aware android and unwittingly a love rival. Shot on a…
- V for Vendetta (2005)
- Dir. James McTeigue
Feat. Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea…
- Set in the year 2020, this dystopian thriller adapts Alan Moore's graphic novel about a world where deadly viruses have wiped out most of America and…
- Casshern (2004)
- Dir. Kazuaki Kiriya
Feat. Yusuke Iseya, Kumiko Aso, Akira Terao
- Set in a ravaged, post–nuclear war future, ruled by a fascist clique, this rearranges some familiar elements with a visually charged, epic…
- Final Cut, The (2004)
- Dir. Omar Naim
Feat. Robin Williams, Mira Sorvino, Jim Caviezel…
- Pertinent in an age where everything is over–recorded, and continuing a wave of films that play with memory, this sci–fi speculation from…
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
- Dir. Mamoru Oshii
- Visually emphatic, conceptually flummoxing sequel to Mamoru Oshii's cyberpunk touchstone GHOST IN THE SHELL.
Cybernetic detective Batou returns to…
- I, Robot (2004)
- Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood…
- Standard model adaptation of Isaac Asimov's 1950s sci–fi speculations about the dystopian possibilities of a robot–riddled…
- One Point 0 (1.0) (2004)
- Dir. Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson
Feat. Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Kara Unger, Udo Kier…
- An inventive science–fiction speculation, set in a delapidated future world in which a computer programmer (Sisto) begins to get mysterious…
- Starship Troopers 2 (Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation) (2004)
- Dir. Phil Tippett
Feat. Richard Burgi, Lawrence Monoson, Colleen Porch
- Sequel to Paul Verhoeven's satirical futuristic sci–fi, which achieves much of the same thing on a fraction of the budget. The plot this time…
- Code 46 (2003)
- Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton
- A cerebral, provocative 'future shock' thriller in which Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton try to conduct a forbidden affair in a politically…
- Equilibrium (2003)
- Dir. Kurt Wimmer
Feat. Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Emily Watson
- Modest, but intelligent sci–fi thriller, where a policeman misses his daily dose of emotion–lowering drug Prozium and realises the…