Movie Title | Year | Starring | Plot |
Alien | 1979 | Sigourney Weaver | Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver battle a horrendous creature that boards their spaceship and does great ugly |
Alien 3 | 1992 | Sigourney Weaver Charles Dance | Lt. Ripley crash lands on a prison planet and soon discovers an alien is aboard her craft. Mutilated bodies pile up, but this time she has no weapons to fight the creature. |
Aliens | 1986 | Sigourney Weaver Michael Biehn | After surviving her first encounter with the fearsome aliens, Ripley goes back to recover survivors and have some more mayhem with the monsters. |
Altered States | 1980 | William Hurt Drew Barrymore | sci-fi spectacle tells the incredible story of a research scientist who experiments with altered states of human consciousness |
Avalon | 2001 | Malgorzata Foremniak Wladyslaw Kowalski | In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. |
Barb Wire | 1996 | Pamela Anderson Lee Temuera Morrison | tale of a futuristic bar owner who accepts mercenary jobs on the side in the only non-dictator-controlled city in the nation. This high-tech thriller, based on a popular underground comic book |
Black Moon Rising | 1986 | Tommy Lee Jones Linda Hamilton | Quint, has hidden a computer disc containing vital evidence in a sleek race car, Black Moon. The car is stolen by Nina, the sultry leader of a sophisticated car theft ring. A covert government agent, puts pressure on Quint to find the disc. |
Blade Runner | 1982 | Harrison Ford Rutger Hauer Daryl Hannah | Harrison Ford is a cop in future L.A., where he tracks down replicants passing as people and tries to kill them for fitting in. |
Blood of Heroes | 1989 | Rutger Hauer Joan Chen | In the futuristic sport of jugging, the way to victory is to maim and kill. A winning jugger team leader takes on a promising female apprentice and prepares for the final match against the team that expelled him years earlier. |
Brazil | 1984 | Jonathan Pryce Robert De Niro | In a nightmarish futureworld, a man's life is ruined when the all-powerful but none-too-efficient bureaucracy confuses him with a miscreant |
Cherry 2000 | 1988 | Melanie Griffith David Andrews | The year is 2017, romance is a thing of the past having been replaced by robotic playmates. When Sam's Cherry 2000 Robot short circuits, he enlists the help of a woman tracker to help him find the scarce parts to resurrect her. |
Code Hunter | 2002 | Nick Cornish Adrian Paul Vanessa Marcil | America's best player is being pulled in to the ultimate cyber-terror. The game's AI has put him on the FBI's Most Wanted List, and is blackmailing him to take a part in a twisted plan of world destruction. |
Cube | 1997 | Nicole deBoer David Hewlett Wayne Robson | Four people end up in a world created by Salvador Dali or M.C. Escher and need to contrive a way out before they kill each other in spasms of paranoia. |
Cyber Bandits | 1995 | Martin Kemp Adam Ant Grace Jones | When a navigator is forced to transport vital data in a tattoo on his back, everyone wants his hide in this futuristic thriller |
Cyber Seeker | 1995 | In 2020 the Earth wallows in the clutches of viruses which have destroyed or altered nearly the entire population. A surviving ranger uncovers a plot to destroy New Los Angeles with bacteria | |
Cybercity | 1999 | C. Thomas Howell Roddy Piper David Carradine | After being driven into underground cities, various cults have risen up to "win" souls with the assistance of assassins called shepherds. |
Cyborg | 1989 | Jean-Claude Van Damme Vincent Klyn | The America of the future is a wasteland of anarchy and incurable disease |
Deadlock | 1991 | Rutger Hauer Mimi Rogers | Camp Holiday is a prison of the future. Each inmate has a "Wedlock" collar that matches the collar of another inmate, but no one knows their partner. |
Death Machine | 1995 | Brad Dourif Ely Pouget | In the year 2003, the new head of a weapons plant provokes the ire of the company's most brilliant scientist by cancelling his secret project and firing him. Now he's unleashing his fear-sensing killing machine and it's trained directly on her. |
Deathrace 2000 | 1975 | Sylvester Stallone David Carradine | Outrageous tongue-in-cheek action film about futuristic society where no-holds-barred auto race is the national sport, and points scored by running down pedestrians |
Demolition Man | 1993 | Sylvester Stallone Wesley Snipes Sandra Bullock | San Angeles, a megalopolis stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego, is the futuristic utopia of the politically correct. John Spartan, a 20th century cop revived to chase down a 20th century terrorist on the loose in this sterile paradise. |
Escape from LA | 1996 | Kurt Russell Stacy Keach Bruce Campbell | Kurt Russell travels to the futuristic penal colony that L.A. becomes and cracks wise as he kills lots of people |
Escape from NY | 1981 | Kurt Russell Ernest Borgnine | Snake Plissken has 24 hours to rescue the President from New York, which has been converted into a massive prison to accommodate the millions of deviants throughout the US. |
Feardotcom | 2002 | Stephen Dorff Natascha McElhone | Cyberhorror. A police detective joins with DoH researcher to find the answers behind the deaths of four people who died 48 hours after logging on to the Internet site Feardotcom.com. |
Freejack | 1992 | Emilio Estevez Mick Jagger Rene Russo | In 2009, the world is polluted, the hole in the Ozone layer and the financial gulf between society's "haves" and "have nots" is so large that the rich must search the past to find healthy young bodies to replace their own. |
Future Sport | 1997 | Wesley Snipes Dean Cain | In this futuristic drama, a combination of rollerblading and skateboarding is the most popular sport, and one of its top stars must use his athletic skills to save the world from terrorists. |
Futureworld | 1976 | Yul Brynner Peter Fonda | a fantasy future where everyone can have a robot servant/ friend/lover (for a price). Naturally the robots try to take over. |
Hardware | 1990 | Dylan Mcdermott Stacy Travis Iggy Pop | Sometime in the future, a man picks up some pieces of an android for his metal sculpting girlfriend. The android was once a machine designed to destroy humans. In the night it reassembles itself and resumes its mission in this politically pretentious film |
Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man | 1991 | Mickey Rourke Don Johnson Daniel Baldwin | A lawless world of two renegades who rob a bank to help save their friend and favorite hangout, which is about to be repossessed. When they learn they stole drugs instead of money, they find themselves fighting the corp who owned the drugs. |
I, Robot | 2004 | Will Smith Bridget Moynahan | In the year 2035 a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity. |
Johnny 2.0 | 1997 | Jeff Fahey Michael Ironside John Neville | A scientist becomes a target of the ruthless corporation where he perfected human cloning |
Johnny Mnemonic | 1995 | Keanu Reeves Ice-T Dolph Lundgren | Keanu Reeves plays a messenger in the future who's brain uploaded scads of data that people want to kill him for in this movie directed by artist Robert Longo. |
Judge Dredd | 1995 | Sylvester Stallone Armand Assante | Loud, ugly adaptation of the comic book set in a future world of urban chaos where new-age police are empowered to ``judge''--and kill, if need be--on the spot |
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace | 1996 | Patrick Bergin Matt Frewer | a madman at the helm of an about-to-be-launched virtual-reality network hopes to use it to control the world |
Mad Max | 1979 | Mel Gibson Joanne Samuel | Mad Max, the brutal avenger in a grubby desert where he tracks and whacks the bikers who killed his family |
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome | 1985 | Mel Gibson Tina Turner Bruce Spence | In this third installment in the "Mad Max" series, Max battles the crafty ruler of Bartertown, Aunty Entity (Tina Turner). |
Mad Max: The Road Warrior | 1981 | Mel Gibson Bruce Spence | In post-apocalyptic Australia, a former highway cop sides with an oil-producing community against sadistic nomads |
Menno's Mind | 1996 | Bill Campbell Corbin Bernsen Stephanie Romanov | Menno is a computer programmer at The Resort, an enormous funhouse where people can live out their fantasies in virtual reality?but not is all that it seems |
Metropolis | 1926 | Brigitte Helm Alfred Abel | In a futuristic time and place, an above-ground city of lightness, culture and respectability is kept going only by the enslaved proletariat laboring beneath in the underground city; a nightmarish, cruel and dark place. (B/W, Silent) |
New Crime City - Los Angeles 2020 | 1994 | Sherrie Rose Rick Rossovich Stacey Keach | A convicted felon is executed and then revived and offered a choice--go into the most violent prison in the world to steal a biomedical weapon or face death again... And again...And again |
New Rose Hotel | 1999 | Christopher Walken Willem Dafoe | Two industrial spies await reprisal after their plan to lure a Japanese scientist away from a rival company backfires |
New World Disorder | 1999 | Rutger Hauer Andrew McCarthy | Cyber -thriller. An old-fashioned homicide detective gets a crash course on the bits and bytes of the computer criminal world. |
Nirvana | 1997 | Christopher Lambert Diego Abatantuono | A game designer agrees to destroy a new virtual-reality program after one of its characters becomes sentient |
No Escape | 1994 | Ray Liotta Lance Henriksen | In a bleak future, a Marine Captain is sentenced to a remote prison island on which two factions of prisoners, one of builders and the other of looters, are at war. While the looters plot a final attack, the Captain searches for a means of escape |
Omega Doom | 1996 | Rutger Hauer Anna Katarina | a picaresque cybernetic hero happens upon a mini-civilization amidst the torched remains of a theme park. Warring factions vie for control of the area's resources. |
Outland | 1981 | Sean Connery Peter Boyle | A federal marshal on an outer-space mining colony uncovers a hideous secret that threatens the sanity of miners working in the depths of an outer planet. |
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank | 1985 | Raul Julia Linda Griffiths | The mind of a computer programmer is removed by a totalitarian government and accidentally put into a virtual reality simulation. |
Postman | 1997 | Kevin Costner Tom Petty Will Patton | a post-apocalyptic loner defeats the armies of darkness after re-uniting America by delivering the mail |
Prayer of the Rollerboys | 1991 | Corey Haim Patricia Arquette | Los Angeles, sometime in the near future. The economy is bankrupt and the city has been overwhelmed by violence, drugs and gang warfare. Out of the chaos arises a para-military gang of young toughs on rollerblades with their own violent final solution. |
Redline | 1997 | Rutger Hauer Mark Dacascos | After he is brought back to life, a smuggler scours Moscow for the former business partner who killed him |
Repo Man | 1984 | Emilio Estevez Harry Dean Stanton | A young Los Angeles punker becomes the protege of a crusty car repossessor and soon matches his mentor in skill. They compete for a bizarre repo prize - a '64 Chevy Malibu driven by a lobotomized nuclear scientist. |
Robocop | 1987 | Peter Weller Nancy Allen | Crime-ridden cities of the future are policed by private companies that use half robots like Peter Weller to keep the scum in line. |
Robocop 2 | 1990 | Peter Weller Nancy Allen | The cyborg Robocop is back to rid Detroit of the menace of a designer drug, Nuke. The company that produced him has designed another cyborg using his brain as a model. |
Robocop 3 | 1993 | Robert John Burke Nancy Allen | The big bad company has bought Detroit out and sends gangs of ruthless mercenaries out into the streets to throw residents out of their homes. |
Rollerball | 1975 | James Caan | Violence and crime have been totally eliminated from society and given outlet in the brutal blood sport of rollerball, a high-velocity sport sponsored by multinational corporations that now control the world following the collapse of traditional politics |
Runaway | 1984 | Tom Selleck Cynthia Rhodes Gene Simmons | A tough cop is assigned the dangerous task of discovering who is responsible for a rash of killings perpetrated by robots. |
Running Man | 1987 | Arnold Schwarzenegger Jesse Ventura Richard Dawson | It's another bleak future in Los Angeles, and Arnold plays an accused mass murderer who can go free if he can make it through a death-dealing obstacle course. |
Silent running | 1972 | Bruce Dern | Space-age (2008) ecology tale of botanist's fight on space station to keep Earth's final vegetation samples from being destroyed. |
Sixth Day | 2000 | Arnold Schwarzenegger Robert Duvall | In Tomorrowland, cloning pets is cool, but humans are off-limits--though some bad folks do it on the sly. |
Soylent Green | 1973 | Charlton Heston Edward G. Robinson | In the year 2022, Manhattan has become an overcrowded hellhole; cop Heston, investigating murder of bigwig, stumbles onto explosive government secret |
Split Second | 1992 | Rutger Hauer Kim Cattrall | The year is 2008 and London is in the midst of ecological disaster. A killer is on the loose stalking innocent people and Harley Stone, a cop living on the edge, vows to track him down after he brutally murdered his partner, and left Stone for dead |
Strange Days | 1995 | Ralph Fiennes Angela Bassett | Virtual-reality experiences replace drugs in this cyberian look at the near future, and pushers and junkies provide crime-thriller fodder. |
Tank Girl | 1995 | Lori Petty Ice-T Iggy Pop | In the year 2033, an evil dictator hoards water in the Australian desert until a spunky, punky girl steals a tank and joins up with an army of mutant kangaroo men to restore justice. |
Terminator | 1984 | Arnold Schwarzenegger Michael Biehn Linda Hamilton | Because of her significance to world history, a special mom is marked for death by a cyborg sent back from the future. |
Terminator 2: Judgement Day | 1991 | Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda Hamilton Robert Patrick | A buffed-out Linda Hamilton and her son aren't safe from those pesky cyborgs from the future until the Terminator comes to the rescue. |
The Cell | 2000 | Jennifer Lopez Colton James | Enter The Mind Of A Killer? A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim. |
The Lawnmower Man | 1992 | Jeff Fahey Pierce Brosnan | A not-very-bright yard guy is transformed by a genius into an evil spirit. |
The Matrix | 1999 | Keanu Reeves Laurence Fishburne Carrie-Anne Moss | A computer hacker discovers that life on earth is just a facade created by evil cyberintelligence (aka "the Matrix"), so he joins a resistance movement to save humanity |
The Net | 1995 | Sandra Bullock Jeremy Northam | Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage. |
Thirteenth Floor | 1999 | Craig Bierko Armin Mueller-Stahl | The reality of computer-simulated universes materializes on a 13th floor that doesn't exist. Craig Bierko is accused of murdering his boss, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and he must enter through the 13th floor to find the truth |
Total Recall | 1990 | Arnold Schwarzenegger Sharon Stone Michael Ironside | Arnold Schwarzenegger's the future construction worker who signs up for a virtual adventure vacation and then finds himself killing space spies on Mars |
Tron | 1982 | Jeff Bridges Bruce Boxleitner | When you're playing a video game and slip inside the box, you just gotta play your tail off. |
Videodrome | 1983 | James Woods Deborah Harry | After a cable TV programmer adds a strange new show called "Videodrome" to the network's line-up, bizarre events begin to occur. |
Virtual Assassin | 1995 | Michael Dudikoff Suki Kaiser | After developing a virus that will inoculate the Internet, a cyber-scientist and her father become the targets of a gang of murderous, high-tech bandits. |
Virtuosity | 1995 | Denzel Washington Russell Crowe Kelly Lynch | an imprisoned ex-cop is given one last shot at redemption when he's turned loose to track down a virtual killer who has escaped the confines of cyberspace. |
Virus | 1999 | Jamie Lee Curtis William Baldwin Donald Sutherland | An unfortunate tugboat crew discovers an unfriendly alien virus on a Russian vessel. |
Waterworld | 1995 | Kevin Costner Dennis Hopper Jeanne Tripplehorn | A future where the ice caps have melted, making the planet a landless ocean. To their credit, mankind has survived, in limited numbers, on man-made atolls and on various boats and ships. |
Webmaster | 1999 | Lars Bom Puk Scharbau | Set in the future, in a world run by artificial intelligence, a young hacker is given 35 hours to track down and terminate an intruder who he has never met. If he can't find them in the cyber empire, he will be terminated himself. |
Westworld | 1973 | Yul Brynner James Brolin | A fantasyland of life-like robotic cowboys would have provided a great vacation if they hadn't started shooting for real |