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1) The Matrix
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
The day-in, day world is the real world is merely perception. In reality it is a hoax perpetrated by an all-powerful artificial intelligence that control us. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct, and is now fighting for the future of the human race.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
Language
English
Description
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
4) Elysium
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
5) The giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
This third Planet of the apes film finds Cornelius, Zira and Dr. Milo, three apes from the future, escaping from their planet as it is being destroyed and landing on 20th century Earth, where they are taken to the Los Angeles Zoo for examination. When Zira reveals their ability to speak to a psychologist, the apes are treated as curiosities. However, when the U.S. government begins to believe their story that the Earth will eventually be inherited...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In the fourth installment of the Planet of the apes series, a plague has wiped out all of the cats and dogs in the near future. As a result, apes begin to be kept as pets and eventually slaves. One ape, Caesar, son of talking apes from the future, leads a revolution to free the apes and take over the planet.
8) Insurgent
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris₂s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama series returns with a second season shaped by Offred's pregnancy and her ongoing fight to free her future child from the dystopian horrors of Gilead. In season two, Offred and all our characters will fight against or succumb to this dark truth.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In the fifth and final of the Planet of the apes films, it is 2670 A.D., and a group of human mutants and a band of militant gorillas threaten to break the peace of the ape tribe and overthrow the leadership of the benevolent Caesar.
12) The Circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
[DVD version].
Language
English
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Katniss realizes the stakes are no longer just for survival; they are for the future. With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends; including Gale, Finnick and Peeta; Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to liberate the citizens of Panem, and stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become...
14) Logan
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Language
English
Description
In 2029, a weary Logan earns a living as a chauffeur while caring for the ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to escape from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant girl with extraordinary fighting prowess requires his help to outrun sinister figures working for a powerful corporation.
15) Clone
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
When humanity starts dying out due to radiation after World War III, the head of a military academy seeks a man he knows is capable of creating clones to ensure the survival of the human race.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
In this second Planet of the apes film, an astronaut gets thrown through a portal and into the future. When he lands on the ape planet, he finds a subterranean world where highly advanced humans live in New York City's former subway system in fear of militaristic gorillas and worship a weapon capable of detroying the entire planet.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Edition
Second-disc collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2707, war rages between Earth's four giant corporations as they battle over the planet's dwindling resources. Amid heavy combat, an errant shell shatters an ancient buried seal, releasing a horrific mutant army from its eternal prison deep within the Earth to fulfill the ages-old prophesy and save mankind.
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