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1) X-Men
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Because of unique genetic mutations, children with extraordinary and dangerous powers are born into a world filled with prejudice. Under the tutelage of Professior Xavier, these and other outcasts learn to harness their powers for the good of mankind.
Publisher
New Line Home Video; SVS Triumph
Language
English
Description
Shep Ramsey, a galactic warrior temporarily stranded on earth while fleeing his evil nemesis, takes refuge with a mild-mannered architect, his wife and two children. Shep's efforts to adapt to suburban life are hilariously unsuccessful, but when his enemy tracks him down, he needs all the help from earthlings he can get.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Edition
Special ed.; 50th anniversary.
Language
English
Description
"The original 20th century landmark science fiction thriller that played on the paranoia and Communist threat invading Atomic Age America in the 1950s. A young boy is awakened during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in the field behind his home. No one will believe his story as, one by one, the townspeople are captured and put under the control of sinister forces from the planet Mars"--Container.
5) Supernova
Publisher
MGM
Language
English
Description
A disabled deep-space medical vessel must figure out the secret behind a mysterious rescuee and a strange alien artifact before a nearby star goes supernova.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Edition
Widescreen ed. ; Director's ed.; [DVD version].
Language
English
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Description
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew return to the newly-transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to stop the alien intruder on its flight toward Earth.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
20th anniversary ed.
Language
English
Description
Ripley is recovering from her first encounter with the deadly alien. Her account of that event is received with skepticism, but transmissions from a colony later established on the Alien's planet abruptly cease. Burke, an up-and-coming company man, talks Ripley into going back with a squad of colonial marines. Of course the Marines do not take her warnings seriously either, until they come face-to-face with the awesome alien spawn.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Language
English
Description
Volume XXIV presents four of cinema's transplants from other countries that just didn't quite make it. Perhaps there was a good reason for that, but you can be the judge along with Joel, Mike, and their robot brothers Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot.
Fugitive alien: "Ken becomes a fugitive from the planet Valnastar after accidentally killing his friend. He joins up with an Earth starship, the Bacchus 3, but his troubles have only just begun"--Container.
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13) Frequency
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
John discovers the ability to talk to his father.. who's been dead for 30 years. His attempts to change the past go awry as they set in motion a string of brutal, unsolved murders. Now they're fighting to find a way to stop the crime that could destroy the future for both of them.
14) Man of steel
Language
English
Description
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
16) Stargate
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Edition
Ultimate ed., director's cut, widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Professor Daniel Jackson, a specialist in Egyptian hieroglyphics joins an Air Force team in deciphering the symbols on a mysterious artifact which allows travel to another planet.
17) THE ABYSS
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Full screen ed. Special ed.
Language
English
Description
A nuclear sub is lost in a deep chasm, and the Navy commandeers the civilian crew of an experimental deep sea oil rig to help in the search and rescue.
18) Contact
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Radio telescopes on Earth receive a signal indicating the existence of life twenty-six light-years away in the vicinity of the star Vega. A brilliant scientist, Ellie Arroway, is instrumental in responding to the message.
19) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert "blade runner," must identify and execute four replicants, (genetically engineered beings virtually identical to humans) which have illegally returned to earth from their off-world slave duty.
20) The sci-fi boys
Publisher
Universal
Edition
Full Screen Edition
Language
English
Description
Legendary sci-fi directors Jackson, Lucas, Spielberg, etc, started out as kids making amateur movies inspired by Famous Monsters magazine. They grew up to take Hollywood by storm, inventing the art and technology for filming anything the mind can dream.
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