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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
Appears on list
Formats
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.
10) 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.
11) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
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.
12) 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.
13) Short Circuit
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
When a lightning bolt strikes a top secret experimental military robot, it comes to life and escapes to the home of a woman who tries to keep it from being "repaired" by its computer-genius creator.
14) Spider-Man
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being bitten by a radioactive spider on a school field trip, Peter Parker finds himself gaining spider-like qualities. Adopting the name Spider-Man, Peter first uses his new skills to make money, but when the Green Goblin, another altered super-human, kills Peter's uncle, he swears to use his "spider-skills" to fight evil. Along the way he has to juggle a new job as a local reporter, and a budding romance with a beautiful former-classmate, MJ....
18) Alien
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left.
19) Galaxy Quest
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector set off on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space ... and then their series was cancelled. Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beamed up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.
20) Serenity
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Edition
2-disc collector's ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
River Tam and her brother Simon are hiding out from the totalitarian government that experimented with River's brain aboard a space-freighter. Captained by a down on his luck soldier, the crew of Serenity must take jobs, whether they are legal or not, while trying to avoid the Alliance, and keeping the Tams safe. Then things get out of control and the true extent of River's powers becomes known. At the same time, the Alliance sends a new Operative...
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