On the One People's Roundtable Discussion, Lisa and I have talked about a whole shitload of movies and TV series that have some very interesting content and messages. We'd promised for a couple of weeks to try and compile all of them.... and failed miserably, lol.
So last week I asked the Amazing people in the UnFucker United Facebook group to give us their favorites. Little did I know that the list would grow and grow to take on a life of it's own!!
My Awesome Wolfie friend spent the time necessary to organize the list into alphabetical order, and put a brief description beside each entry. Nice work Darlin'!! And a HUGE Thank you to all the UnFuckers who Helped put this huge list together!!
I will Pin this to the menu bar above so that it's easy to find for future reference as well.
Love d
So last week I asked the Amazing people in the UnFucker United Facebook group to give us their favorites. Little did I know that the list would grow and grow to take on a life of it's own!!
My Awesome Wolfie friend spent the time necessary to organize the list into alphabetical order, and put a brief description beside each entry. Nice work Darlin'!! And a HUGE Thank you to all the UnFuckers who Helped put this huge list together!!
I will Pin this to the menu bar above so that it's easy to find for future reference as well.
Love d
- 4 Minutes (Film - 2006)
An elderly piano teacher trains a
young convict at a women's penitentiary.
- 9 (Film - 2009)
A rag doll that awakens in a
postapocalyptic future holds the key to humanity's salvation.
- 12 Monkeys (Film - 1995)
In a future world devastated by
disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about
the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the
planet.
(TV Series - 2015 - ?)
Follows the journey of a time traveler
from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a
mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that
will nearly destroy the human race.
- 41 (Film - 2012)
A young man discovers a hole in the
floor of a local motel that leads to yesterday.
- 100, The (TV Series - 2014 -?)
Set 97 years after a nuclear war has
destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing
humanity's lone survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to
Earth in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet.
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Film - 1968)
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously
artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the
intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
- 2012 (Film - 2009)
A frustrated writer struggles to keep
his family alive when a series of global catastrophes
threatens to annihilate mankind.
- 4400, The (TV Series - 2004-2007)
As the reappearance
of 4,400 missing persons on a single day confounds the global
community, federal agents on the case slowly discover the ways in
which the victims have been changed.
- Adjustment Bureau, The (Film - 2011)
The affair between
a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping
the lovers apart.
- Alien (Film - 1979)
The commercial vessel Nostromo
receives a distress call from an unexplored planet. After searching
for survivors, the crew heads home only to realize that a deadly
bioform has joined them.
- American Horror Story: Asylum (TV Series - 2012)
The second season of the anthology
horror series; set in a mental institution in the early 60s,
revolving around a Nazi war criminal, a demon-possessed nun and alien
abduction.
- American Ultra (Film - 2015)
A stoner - who is in fact a government
agent - is marked as a liability and targeted for extermination. But
he's too well-trained and too high for them to handle.
- Angel (TV Series - 1999-2004)
Spin-off and companion series to Buffy
The Vampire Slayer. The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to
Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while
questing for his own redemption.
- Animal Farm (Film - 1954)
A successful farmyard revolution by
the resident animals vs. the farmer goes horribly wrong as the
victors create a new tyranny among themselves.
- Animatrix, The (Film - 2003)
The Animatrix is a collection of
several animated short films, detailing the backstory of the "Matrix"
universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to
the creation of the Matrix.
- Armageddon (Film - 1998)
After discovering that an asteroid the
size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A.
recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.
- Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (Film - 2001)
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to
become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human
mother.
- Ascension (TV Mini-series - 2014)
A young woman's murder causes the
subjects of a century-long mission to populate a new world to
question the true nature of the project as they approach the point of
no return.
- Avatar (Film - 2009)
A paraplegic marine dispatched to the
moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his
orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
- Back to the Future (Film - 1985)
A young man is accidentally sent 30
years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his
friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age
parents unite in order to save his own existence.
- Black Mirror (TV Series - 2011-?)
A television anthology series that
shows the dark side of life and technology.
- Blacklist, The (TV Series - 2013-?)
Elizabeth 'Liz' Keen, a new FBI
profiler has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal,
Raymond Reddington, on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List turns
himself in and insists on speaking to her.
- Blade Runner (Film - 1982)
A blade runner must pursue and try to
terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned
to Earth to find their creator.
- Bourne Identity, The (Film - 2002)
A man is picked up by a fishing boat,
bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude
assassins and regain his memory.
- Branded (Film - 2012)
In future Moscow, where corporate
brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to
unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle
with hidden forces that control the world.
- Brave New World (TV Movie - 1980)
In a future society based on pleasure
without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual sex, now called
'engaging', is strongly encouraged. Everyone is kept happy with a
legal drug, soma. People are hatched and cloned on conveyor belts to
meet the requirements of five different social classes, from ruling
Alphas to robot-like Epsilons.
- Bridge of Spies (Film - 2015)
An American lawyer is recruited by the
CIA during the Cold War to help rescue a pilot detained in the Soviet
Union.
- Brotherhood of the Bell, The (TV Movie - 1970)
A successful professor has his life
disrupted by a secret from his past - in his college days he became a
member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job
for him.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series - 1997-2003)
A young girl, destined to slay
vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life
fighting evil, with the help of her friends.
- Butterfly Effect, The (Film - 2004)
A young man blocks out harmful
memories of significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds
a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter
his life.
- Cabin in the Woods, The (Film - 2012)
Five friends go for a break at a
remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained
for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the
woods.
- Capricorn One (Film - 1977)
A NASA Mars mission won't work, and
its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once.
But then they have to keep the secret…
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Film - 2014)
As Steve Rogers struggles to embrace
his role in the modern world, he teams up with another super soldier,
the Black Widow, to battle a new threat from history: an assassin
known as the Winter Soldier.
- Chappie (Film - 2015)
In the near future, crime is patrolled
by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is
stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the
ability to think and feel for himself.
- Children of Men, The (Film - 2006)
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which
women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help
transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.
- City of Lost Children, The (Film - 1995)
A scientist in a surrealist society
kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his
aging process.
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Film - 1977)
After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a
line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the
wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
- Cloud Atlas (Film - 2012)
An exploration of how the actions of
individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future,
as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of
kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
- Coherence (Film - 2013)
Strange things begin to happen when a
group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet
is passing overhead.
- Communion (Film - 1989)
Whitley Strieber goes with his family
and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. Whitley is
abducted and then faces a horrible dilemma.
- Conspiracy Theory (Film - 1997)
A man obsessed with conspiracy
theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be
true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out
which theory it is.
- Contact (Film - 1997)
Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of
searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who
send plans for a mysterious machine.
- Continuum (TV Series - 2012-2015)
A detective from the year 2077 finds
herself trapped in present day Vancouver and searching for ruthless
criminals from the future.
- Control Factor (TV Movie - 2003)
An average everyman discovers he's the
unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on
mind control.
- Dark Angel (TV Series - 2000-2002)
A group of genetically-enhanced
children escape from a lab project. Years later we meet Max, one of
the escapees who now works for a messenger service in the
post-apocalyptic Pacific Northwest.
- Dark City (Film - 1998)
A man struggles with memories of his
past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world
with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the
souls of humans.
- Dark Crystal, The (Film -1982)
On another planet in the distant past,
a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical
crystal, and so restore order to his world.
- Dark Matter (TV Series - 2015-?)
The six-person crew of a derelict
spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their
memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or
how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo
bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that
is about to become a war zone.
- Dark Skies (TV Series -1996-1997)
In 1960s America, a young couple
struggle to expose the truth about a hidden alien invasion, while a
secret government organization follows its own agenda in dealing with
the threat.
- Day After Tomorrow, The (Film - 2004)
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must
make a daring trek across America to reach his son, trapped in the
cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet
into a new Ice Age.
- Defiance (TV Series - 2013-?)
In the year 2046, it's a new Earth -
with new rules. Over thirty years after various alien races arrived
on Earth, the landscape is completely altered, terraformed nearly
beyond recognition.
- Deja Vu (Film - 2006)
After a ferry is bombed in New
Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using
experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon
finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims.
- District 9 (Film - 2009)
An extraterrestrial race forced to
live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit
in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
- Divergent (Film - 2014)
In a world divided by factions based
on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she
discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four
must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
- Doctor Who (TV Series - 1963-?)
Time and Space traveling adventures of
a Gallifreyan Time Lord only known as the Doctor and his companions,
traveling through time and space.
- Dollhouse (TV Series - 2009-2010)
A futuristic laboratory assigns
different tasks to its various residents, who then have their
memories erased upon the completion of their assignments.
- Dragnet (Film - 1987)
The equally-straight-laced and "by
the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back
partner to solve a mystery.
- Dreamscape (Film - 1984)
A young psychic on the run from
himself is recruited by the government to save the US president whose
mind is trapped inside the dreamworld.
- Dune (Film - 1984)
A Duke's son leads desert warriors
against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they
assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's
rule.
- Elysium (Film - 2013)
In the year 2154, the very wealthy
live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population
resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring
equality to the polarized worlds.
- Equilibrium (Film - 2002)
In a Fascist future where all forms of
feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to
overthrow the system.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Film - 2004)
When their relationship turns sour, a
couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their
memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they
discover what they had to begin with.
- Eureka (TV Series - 2006-2012)
The best minds in the US are tucked
away in a remote town where they build futuristic inventions for the
government's benefit.
- Event, The (TV Series - 2010-?)
When a man goes looking for his
missing girlfriend, he stumbles upon a government conspiracy that is
bigger than the president himself.
- Ex Machina (Film - 2015)
A young programmer is selected to
participate in a ground-breaking experiment in artificial
intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking
female A.I.
- eXistenZ (Film - 1999)
A game designer on the run from
assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a
marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
- Extant (TV series - 2014-?)
An astronaut struggles to learn how
she became pregnant while on a 13-month-long solo space mission.
- Eyes Wide Shut (Film - 1999)
A New York City doctor, who is married
to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous
night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife
admits that she once almost cheated on him.
- Fahrenheit 451 (Film - 1966)
In an oppressive future, a fireman
whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
- Fallen (TV Movie - 2006)
Aaron Corbett is a high school jock
with a promising future but on his 18th birthday, his life forever
changes when his incredible powers emerge, revealing the terrifying
truth of his identity. As The Redeemer, a half-angel, half-man who
can return fallen angels to heaven, Aaron holds the entire world's
destiny in his young hands. He must battle warrior seraphs and
confront the fallen angel who has sparked his nightmares.
- Falling Skies (TV Series - 2011-2015)
Survivors of an alien attack on earth
gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
- Farscape (TV Series - 1999-2003)
Thrown into a distant part of the
universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien
starship crew.
- Fifth Element, The (Film - 1997)
In the colorful future, a cab driver
unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary
cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.
- Fight Club (Film - 1999)
An insomniac office worker, looking
for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care
soap maker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into
something much, much more...
- Final Cut, The (Film - 2004)
Set in a world with memory implants,
Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit
over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that
puts him in danger.
- Forgotten, The (Film - 2004)
After being told that their children
never existed, a man and woman soon discover there is a much bigger
enemy at work.
- Fourth Kind, The (Film - 2009)
A thriller involving an ongoing
unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary
number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and
there are accusations of a federal cover up.
- Frame, The (Film - 2014)
Two strangers find their lives
colliding in an impossible way. Alex is a methodical cargo thief
working for a dangerous cartel. Sam is a determined paramedic trying
to save the world while running from her past.
- Frequency (Film - 2000)
An accidental cross-time radio link
connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his
father's life, but then must fix the consequences.
- Fringe (TV Series - 2008-2013)
A female FBI agent is forced to work
with an institutionalized scientist and his son in order to
rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena.
- From Hell (Film - 2001)
In Victorian Era London, a troubled
clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The
Ripper.
- Gattaca (Film - 1997)
A genetically inferior man assumes the
identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of
space travel.
- Giver, The (Film - 2014)
In a seemingly perfect community,
without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is
chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure
of the "real" world.
- Golden Compass, The (Film - 2007)
In a parallel universe, young Lyra
Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other
kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious
organization.
- Guardians of the Galaxy (Film - 2014)
A group of intergalactic criminals are
forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking
control of the universe.
- Habitat (Film - 1997)
In a future world, a brilliant but
obsessed scientist, Hank Symes uses illegally obtained biological
materials for an experiment that he hopes will save the world. In the
course of his work, a terrible accident occurs, transforming him into
a fantastic otherworldly lifeform and changing his house into a huge
living entity which threatens all who enter.
- Hackers (Film - 1995)
A young boy is arrested by the U.S.
Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using
a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found
friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but
they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being
pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the
virus.
- Harodim (Film - 2012)
A naval intelligence officer trained
in black ops is tracking the most wanted terrorist in the world.
- Harold and Maude (Film - 1971)
Young, rich, and obsessed with death,
Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively
septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
- Haven (TV Series - 2010-?)
She has no past. She has no family.
She was raised in an orphanage. So, she lives for what she does best:
be an FBI agent. That's why Audrey Parker is sent to a distant Maine
village called Haven, to investigate the crime of a prison fugitive.
- Helix (TV Series - 2014-?)
A team of scientists are thrust into a
potentially life-or-death situation in this thriller, which begins
with the group being deployed to the Arctic to secretly investigate
what could be a disease outbreak.
- Hellboy (Film - 2004)
A demon, raised from infancy after
being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a
defender against the forces of darkness.
- Heroes (TV Series - 2006-2010)
The lives of common people, who
discover they have superpowers, intertwine in order to save the world
from different threats.
- Heroes Reborn (TV Series - 2015-?)
A year ago, a terrorist attack in
Odessa, Texas, left the city decimated. Blamed for the tragic event,
those with extraordinary abilities are in hiding or on the run from
those with nefarious motives.
- Highlander (Film - 1986)
An immortal Scottish swordsman must
confront the last of his immortal opponent, a murderously brutal
barbarian who lusts for the fabled "Prize".
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The (Film - 2005)
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be
demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is
swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning
a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
- Humans (TV Show - 2015-?)
In a parallel present where the latest
must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a
highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human
it's transforming the way we live.
- Hunger Games, The (Film - 2012)
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her
younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised competition
in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are
chosen at random to fight to the death.
- I Am Legend (Film - 2007)
Years after a plague kills most of
humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in
New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
- I, Robot (Film - 2004)
In 2035 a technophobic cop
investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which
leads to a larger threat to humanity.
- Idiocracy (Film - 2006)
Private Joe Bauers, the definition of
"average American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the
guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes
five centuries in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly
dumbed down that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
- In The Blink of an Eye (TV Movie - 1996)
Hamel portrays director Dickoff who
suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison
for quite some time in connection with a murder.
- Inception (Film - 2010)
A thief who steals corporate secrets
through use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of
planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.
- Incredible Shrinking Woman, The (Film - 1981)
When an ordinary woman is exposed to a
unique mix of chemicals, she begins to uncontrollably physically
shrink.
- Independence Day (Film - 1996)
The aliens are coming and their goal
is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology,
mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.
- Ink (Film - 2009)
A mysterious creature, known as Ink,
steals a child's soul in hopes of using it as a bargaining chip to
join the Incubi - the group of supernatural beings responsible for
creating nightmares.
- Insurgent (Film - 2015)
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner
demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which
threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her
side.
- Interstellar (Film - 2014)
A team of explorers travel through a
wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
- Intruders (Film - 2011)
Two children living in different
countries are visited nightly by a faceless being who wants to take
possession of them.
- Iron Man 3 (Film - 2013)
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart
by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey
of rebuilding and retribution.
- Island, The (Film - 2005)
Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a
seemingly Utopian but contained facility in the year 2019. Like all
of the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment, Lincoln
hopes to be chosen to go to the "The Island" - reportedly
the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon
discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
- Jericho (TV Series 2006-2008)
A small town in Kansas is literally
left in the dark after seeing a mushroom cloud over near-by Denver,
Colorado. The townspeople struggle to find answers about the blast
and solutions on how to survive.
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (Film - 1959)
An Edinburgh professor and assorted
colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic
volcano to the earth's center.
- Jupiter Ascending (Film - 2015)
A young woman discovers her destiny as
an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the
inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.
- Knowing (Film - 2009)
M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a
mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future
disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
- La Belle Verte (Film - 1996)
As part of an intergalactic coalition,
a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of
self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected
by all her peers as incorrigible--Earth...
- Langoliers, The (TV Mini-series - 1995)
Most of the passengers on an airplane
disappear, and the remainder land the plane in a mysteriously barren
airport.
- Last Airbender, The (Film - 2010)
Follows the adventures of Aang, a
young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must master all four
elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and
the Earth Kingdom.
- Lawnmower Man, The (Film - 1992)
A simple man is turned into a genius
through the application of computer science.
- Lego Movie, The (Film - 2014)
An ordinary Lego construction worker,
thought to be the prophesied 'Special', is recruited to join a quest
to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal
stasis.
- Librarians, The (TV Series - 2014-?)
A group of librarians set off on
adventures in an effort to save mysterious, ancient artifacts.
- Logan’s Run - (Film - 1976)
An idyllic sci-fi future has one major
drawback: life must end at 30.
- Lone Gunmen, The (TV Series - 2001)
Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the
trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone
Gunmen. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and
government intrigue, the threesome play like a misguided Mission
Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that
simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude.
- Looper (Film - 2012)
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid
of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun
awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to
'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
- LOST (TV Series - 2004-2010)
The survivors of a plane crash are
forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted
tropical island.
- Lost Girl (TV Series - 2010-?)
Lost Girl focuses on the gorgeous and
charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on
the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to
embrace her supernatural clan system and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a
renegade who takes up the fight for the underdog while searching for
the truth about her own mysterious origins.
- Lost Highway (Film - 1997)
After a bizarre encounter at a party,
a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to
prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins
leading a new life.
- Lucifer (TV Series - 2015-?)
Satan takes up residence in Los
Angeles.
- Lucy (Film - 2014)
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark
deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless
warrior evolved beyond human logic.
- Man in the High Castle, The (TV Series - 2015-?)
A glimpse into an alternate history of
North America. What life after WWII may have been like if the Nazis
had won the war.
- Manchurian Candidate, The (Film - 1962)
A former Korean War POW is brainwashed
by Communists into becoming a political assassin. But another former
prisoner may know how to save him.
- Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV Series - 2013-?)
The missions of the Strategic Homeland
Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.
- Matrix, The (Film - 1999)
A computer hacker learns from
mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role
in the war against its controllers.
- Maze Runner, The (Film - 2014)
Thomas is deposited in a community of
boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in
a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners"
for a shot at escape.
- Meetings With Remarkable Men (Film - 1979)
G.I. Gurdjieff
is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study,
developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
- Melancholia (Film - 2011)
Two sisters find their already
strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens
to collide with Earth.
- Men In Black (Film - 1997)
A police officer joins a secret
organization that polices and monitors extra terrestrial interactions
on planet earth.
- Men Who Stare at Goats, The (Film - 2009)
A reporter in Iraq might just have the
story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be
a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that
employs paranormal powers in their missions.
- Metropolis (Film - 1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided
between the working class and the city planners, the son of the
city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who
predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
- Minority Report (Film - 2002)
In a future where a special police
unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an
officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
(TV Series - 2015-?)
10 years after the end of Precrime in
Washington DC one of the three PreCogs attempts to lead on a normal
life while still suffering from visions of the future. Will they be
able to hold it together or mentally breakdown and give up?
- Mission Impossible (Film - 1996)
An American agent, under false
suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy
without the help of his organization.
- Monsters Inc. (Film - 2001)
In order to power the city, monsters
have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are
toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, two monsters
realize things may not be what they think.
- Mr. Nobody (Film - 2009)
A boy stands on a station platform as
a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with
his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long
as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.
- Mr. Robot (TV Series - 2015-?)
Follows a young computer programmer
who suffers from social anxiety disorder and forms connections
through hacking. He's recruited by a mysterious anarchist, who calls
himself Mr. Robot.
- My Dinner With Andre (Film - 1981)
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory,
apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of
an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New
York, is the more talkative of the pair. He relates to Shawn his
tales of dropping out, traveling around the world, and experiencing
the variety of ways people live, such as a monk who could balance his
entire weight on his fingertips. Shawn listens avidly, but questions
the value of Gregory's seeming abandonment of the pragmatic aspects
of life.
- Nines, The (Film - 2007)
A troubled actor, a television show
runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives
intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
- Once Upon A Time (TV Series - 2011-?)
A woman with a troubled past is drawn
to a town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed.
- Orphan Black (TV Series - 2013-?)
A streetwise hustler is pulled into a
compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who
looks just like her.
- Outer Limits, The (TV Series - 1963-1965)
An anthology series of insightful
science fiction tales.
- Peaceful Warrior (Film - 2006)
A chance encounter with a stranger
changes the life of a college gymnast.
- Person of Interest (TV Series - 2011-?)
An ex-assassin and a wealthy
programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the
identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the
details of the crimes--including the civilians' roles--are left a
mystery.
- Phenomenon (Film - 1996)
An ordinary man sees a bright light
descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and
telekinesis.
- Pink Floyd The Wall (Film - 1982)
A confined but troubled rock star
descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social
isolation from everyone.
- Planet of the Apes (Film - 1968)
An astronaut crew crash lands on a
planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the
dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
- Powder (Film - 1995)
A young bald albino boy with unique
powers shakes up the rural community he lives in.
- Predator (Film - 1987)
A team of commandos on a mission in a
Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an
extra-terrestrial warrior.
- Princess Mononoke (Film - 1997)
On a journey to find the cure for a
Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war
between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he
also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
- Prisoner, The (TV Series - 1967-1968)
After resigning, a secret agent is
abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is
really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives
them nothing, but only tries to escape.
- Prometheus (Film - 2012)
Following clues to the origin of
mankind a team journey across the universe and find a structure on a
distant planet containing a monolithic statue of a humanoid head and
stone cylinders of alien blood but they soon find they are not alone.
- Push (Film - 2009)
Two young Americans with special
abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy
government organization called Division does.
- Revolution (TV Series - 2012-2014)
Fifteen years after a permanent global
blackout, a group of revolutionaries seeks to drive out an occupying
force posing as the United States Government.
- Revolver (Film - 2005)
Gambler Jake Green enters into a game
with potentially deadly consequences.
- Rewind (TV Movie - 2013)
Revolves around a team of military
field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested
technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to
change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack.
- Rewind (TV Series - 2015-?)
A young photographer suddenly gains
the ability to rewind time. With his childhood best friend, he soon
finds himself investigating the nefarious goings-on in the nearby
woods as he struggles to control his new power.
- Roswell (TV Series - 1999-2002
Living among the citizens of the
infamous New Mexico city of Roswell are some who are not there by
choice. They are there to follow a destiny given to them by the
members of their dying race, a race that they are someday destined to
save.
- Running Man, The (Film - 1987)
A wrongly convicted man must try to
survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.
- Sanctuary (TV Series - 2008-?)
Stem cells, gene therapy, transplants,
and cloning have changed the definition of "humanity" in
the modern world, but the darker side contains monsters that only few
are brave enough to face, because the future lies in their hands.
- Scandal (TV Show - 2012-?)
A former White House Communications
Director starts her own crisis management firm only to realize her
clients are not the only ones with secrets.
scanner darkly
- Sense8 (TV Show - 2015-?)
A group of people around the world are
suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted
by those who see them as a threat to the world's order.
- Sherlock Holmes (Film - 2009)
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his
stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a
nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.
- Shutter Island (Film - 2010)
A U.S Marshal investigates the
disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the
criminally insane.
- Signal, The (Film - 2014)
On a road trip, Nic and two friends
are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything
suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness - only to find himself
in a waking nightmare.
- Signs (Film - 2002)
A family living on a farm finds
mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more
frightening to come.
- Sleep Dealer (Film - 2008)
The near future. Like tomorrow. In a
world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global
computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break
through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.
- Sleeper (Film - 1973)
A nerdish store owner is revived out
of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
- Sleepy Hollow (TV Show - 2013-?)
Ichabod Crane is resurrected and
pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery
that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.
- Sphere (Film - 1998)
A spaceship is discovered under three
hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.
- Solaris (Film - 2002)
A troubled psychologist is sent to
investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a
bizarre planet.
- Source Code (Film - 2011)
A soldier wakes up in someone else's
body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to
find the bomber of a commuter train. A mission he has only 8 minutes
to complete.
- Soylent Green (Film - 1973)
With the world ravaged by the
greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates
the murder of a CEO with ties to the world's main food supply.
- Spirited Away (Film - 2001)
During her family's move to the
suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by
gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
- Spy (Film - 2015)
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to
go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and
prevent diabolical global disaster.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series - 1987-1994)
Set decades after Captain James T.
Kirk's 5-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers in a
new Enterprise set off on their own mission to go where no one has
gone before.
- Star Wars (Film - 1977)
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a
Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a wookiee and two droids to save the
universe from the Empire's world-destroying battle-station, while
also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader.
- Stargate (Film - 1994)
An interstellar teleportation device,
found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient
Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
- Stargate Atlantis (TV Series - 2004-2009)
An international team of scientists
and military personnel discover a Stargate network in the Pegasus
Galaxy and come face-to-face with a new, powerful enemy, The Wraith.
- Stargate SG1 (TV Series - 1997-2007)
A secret military team, SG-1, is
formed to explore the recently discovered Stargates.
- Sunshine (Film - 2007)
A team of international astronauts is
sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear
fission bomb in 2057.
- Super 8 (Film - 2011)
During the summer of 1979, a group of
friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained
events in their small town.
- Super Mario Bros. (Film - 1993)
Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi
must go to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil
dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world.
- Surrogates, The (Film - 2009)
Set in a futuristic world where humans
live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is
forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to
investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
- They Live (Film - 1988)
A drifter discovers a pair of
sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have
taken over the Earth.
- Thirteenth Floor, The (Film - 1999)
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has
discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the
discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is
after him, the old man leaves a letter in the computer generated
parallel world his company has created (which looks like the 30's
with seemingly real people with real emotions).
- THX 1138 (Film - 1971)
Set in the 25th century, the story
centers around a man and a woman who rebel against their rigidly
controlled society.
- Time Machine, The (Film - 1960)
A man's vision for an utopian society
is disillusioned when travelling forward into time reveals a dark and
dangerous society.
- Tomorrowland (Film - 2015)
Bound by a shared destiny, a teen
bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor
embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in
time and space that exists in their collective memory.
- Torchwood (TV Series - 2006-2011)
The members of the Torchwood
Institute, a secret organization founded by the British Crown, fight
to protect the Earth from extraterrestrial and supernatural threats.
- Total Recall (Film - 1990)
When a man goes for virtual vacation
memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of
events forces him to go to the planet for real, or does he?
- Toys (Film - 1992)
When a military general inherits a toy
making company and begins making war toys, his employees band
together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.
- True Detective Season 1 (TV Series - 2014)
An anthology series in which police
investigations unearth the personal and professional secrets of those
involved, both within and outside the law.
- Truman Show (Film - 1998)
An insurance salesman/adjuster
discovers his entire life is actually a T.V. show.
- Under The Dome (TV Series - 2013-2015)
An invisible and mysterious force
field descends upon a small fictional town of Chester's Mill, Maine,
USA, trapping residents inside, cut off from the rest of
civilization. The trapped townsfolk must discover the secrets and
purpose of the "dome" and its origins, while coming to
learn more than they ever knew about each other.
- V For Vendetta (Film - 2005)
In a future British tyranny, a shadowy
freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to
overthrow it with the help of a young woman.
- Vanilla Sky (Film - 2001)
A self-indulgent and vain publishing
magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident
with a resentful lover.
- Wag The Dog (Film - 1997)
Shortly before an election, a
spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war
in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.
- Waking Life (Film - 2001)
A man shuffles through a dream meeting
various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the
universe.
- Walking Dead, The (TV Series - 2010-?)
Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes leads a
group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.
- War of the Worlds (Film - 2005)
As Earth is invaded by alien tripod
fighting machines, one family fights for survival.
- Warehouse 13 (TV Series - 2009-2014)
After saving the life of the President
in Washington D.C., a pair of U.S Secret Service agents are whisked
away to a covert location in South Dakota that houses supernatural
objects that the Regents, an Authority above and outside any
government, have collected over the centuries.
- Watchmen, The (Film - 2009)
In an alternate 1985 where former
superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante
Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something
that could completely change the course of history as we know it.
- Wayward Pines (TV Series - 2015)
A Secret Service agent goes to Wayward
Pines, Idaho, in search of two federal agents who have gone missing
in the bucolic town. He soon learns that he may never get out of
Wayward Pines alive.
- What Dreams May Come (FIlm - 1998)
After dying in a car crash a man
searches the afterlife for his wife.
- Whispers, The (TV Show - 2015-?)
An unseen force is manipulating
society's most innocent-our children-to act in favor of its cause. As
the kids unwittingly help this unknown enemy, the clock counts down
in this suspenseful race to save humanity.
- Wizard of Oz, The (Film - 1939)
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a
magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard
who can help her return home.
- World on a Wire (TV Movie - 1973)
Somewhere in the future there is a
computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a
full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer
dies. His successor Dr. Fred Stiller experiences odd phenomena. A
good friend, Guenther Lause, disappears in the middle of a
conversation and a week later nobody has ever heard of him. And those
fits of dizzyness - Stiller cannot believe himself to be fool. There
has to be an explanation for all this. Could Simulacron have
something to do with it?
- The X Files (TV Show - 1993-2002)
Two FBI agents, Fox Mulder the
believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and
unexplained while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.
- X-Men (Film - 2000)
Two mutants come to a private academy
for their kind whose resident superhero team must oppose a terrorist
organization with similar powers.
- Zero Theorem, The (Film - 2013)
A hugely talented but socially
isolated computer operator is tasked by Management to prove the Zero
Theorem: that the universe ends as nothing, rendering life
meaningless. But meaning is what he already craves.
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