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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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4) Man of steel
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) The abyss
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, the Navy commandeers the crew of a civilian deep sea oil rig to help in the rescue operation. This perilous mission becomes a wondrous odyssey into the unknown as forces from the ocean's deepest region begin to make contact with the divers.
7) Contact
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
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.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Edition
Fullscreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Visions of a future full of astonishing android technology. David, an advanced android, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to discover the secret of his own identity. Believing in the story of Pinocchio, David dreams of becoming a real boy.
9) Looker
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen Edition
Language
English
Description
While trying to protect one of his patients from a murderer, a plastic surgeon discovers that the patient is connected with a research facility that plans to use her image on TV as part of a mind control experiment.
10) The road warrior
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen and standard versions.
Language
English
Description
In a post-nuclear war world, Gibson plays Max, a lone adventurer who drives the roads of outback Australia in an endless search for gasoline. His opponents include Lord Humungus, and they battle over a tiny band of civilized survivors and their horde of fuel.
11) Akira
Series
Publisher
Geneon Entertainment USA
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons lying dormant within his subconscious.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Evelyn Wang, a flustered immigrant mother, is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. The unlikely hero must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight through the splintering timelines of the multiverse to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure.
Publisher
Marvel
Edition
[DVD version]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Special ed. ; Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
It's the mid-80's, and Marty McFly is your average 17-year-old slacker who happens to be friends with an inventor, Doc Brown. Doc's latest invention is a time machine, that ends up transporting Marty back to 1955 where he must bring his parents together so that he will exist when he gets back to his own time.
19) The quiet Earth
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
At exactly 6:12 a.m., government research scientist Zac Hubson awakens to discover that he may be the last man on Earth. Homes, highways and entire cities are deserted. He soon learns down the road that he isn't alone, a woman and a trucker are still there.
20) Paycheck
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when successfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing and has little time to work it out. Before his memory...
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