Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction: 1546 Films to Rent
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
- Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
- Yet another miraculous animated odyssey from Hayao Miyazaki, who finds a perfect vehicle in the English fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones, about a…
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…
Immortal (Immortel Ad Vitam) (2004)
- Dir. Enki Bilal
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Thomas Kretschmann
- Adapted from the astounding 'Nikopol Trilogy' comicbook, this futuristic parable is set in New York in 2095, where an Egyptian god hovers above the…
Lost (TV Series) - Season 1 (2004)
- Feat. Dominic Monaghan, Naveen Andrews, Harold Perrineau, Jr.…
- One of the more daring, offbeat and addictive TV Series of recent years, this concerns the survivors of a plane–crash who find themselves…
Naruto - The Movie(s) (2004-2014)
- Dir. Tensai Okamura
- The NARUTO series concerns its titular hero and his companions protecting the world from bands of rogue ninjas and other dangers in wait.
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Night Watch (Nochnoi Dozor, aka. Nightwatch) (2004)
- Dir. Timur Bekmambetov
Feat. Konstantin Khabensky, Maria Poroshina, Dima Martinov
- A mega–hit in its native Russia, this sci–fi–horror–action cocktail concerns a running battle on the mean streets of…
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…
Otogi Zoshi (2004)
- Dir. Mizuho Nishikubo
- A historical fiction series from the I.G. Anime production house (makers of NINJA SCROLL and KAI DOH MARU) that achieves a good balance of action,…
Paranoia Agent (TV Series) (Mousou dairinin) (2004)
- Dir. Satoshi Kon
- Beautifully animated and conceptually ambitious 'anime' TV series from the dir. of PERFECT BLUE, set in a present–day metropolis of social…
Place Promised in Our Early Days, The (2004)
- Dir. Makoto Shinkai
- Evocative and measured anime, which bases its sci–fi storyline around a future Japan divided by civil war into two islands separated by…