Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction: 1540 Films to Rent
Serial Experiments Lain (TV Series) (1998)
- Dir. Various
- A uniquely thoughtful Manga TV–Series concerning an introspective teenage girl who starts receiving emails from a deceased classmate and is…
Six-String Samurai (1998)
- Dir. Lance Mungia
- Armed with an excellent grasp of all the genres it cheekily adopts, this indie concerns the journey of its Buddy Holly–lookalike hero across a…
Soldier (1998)
- Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Kurt Russell, Gary Busey, Jason Scott Lee
- Military sci–fi adventure wherein Kurt Russell utters terse words as an out–moded fighting machine grasping at a few straws of humanity…
Sphere (1998)
- Dir. Barry Levinson
Feat. Sharon Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson
- Back in the ocean depths, a 300yr–old alien spacecraft lies silently waiting for the team to investigate. Michael Crichton's story unavoidably…
Trigun (TV Series) (1998)
- The $60,000,000,000 Man – Vash the Stampede is a wanted man with a habit of turning entire towns into rubble. The price on his head is a…
Truman Show, The (1998)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Natascha McElhone…
- A brilliantly conceived script by expat–Kiwi whizz–kid Andrew Niccol (GATTACA) finds consummate direction in the hands of esteemed…
X-Files Movie, The (1998)
- Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson
- Following the STAR TREK model, the '90s TV phenomenon, featuring terminally–perturbed FBI agents Mulder and Scully, beams up onto the big…
Alien Resurrection (1997)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman
- Sigourney is back from the dead in part four of the continuing Alien saga, this time in the hands of the French DELICATESSEN helmer who sneaks in as…
Anaconda (1997)
- Dir. Luis Llosa
Feat. Jennifer Lopez, Ice-Cube, Jon Voight…
- Riverboat excursion through the Amazon proves treacherous for a bunch of wholly unsympathetic stock characters. Among giant man–eating snakes,…
Batman and Robin (1997)
- Dir. Joel Schumacher
Feat. George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Arnold Schwarzenegger…
- It's George Clooney's turn in the batsuit, with Chris O'Donnell, Arnold, Uma and Alicia all able to indulge the designer fetish–wear, too. A…