Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Scanners
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Revok hasn’t, and converts him to their cause – to destroy the underground movement.
Playtime: 103 minutes
Production country / language: Canada / English
Production year: 1981
Director(s): David Cronenberg
Producer(s): Claude Héroux
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cast: Michael Ironside, Jennifer O’Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan
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Eclipse, The
In a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts.
Playtime: 88 minutes
Production country / language: Ireland / English
Production year: 2009
Director(s): Conor McPherson
Producer(s): Robert Walpole
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Cast: Ciarán Hinds, Iben Hjejle, Aidan Quinn
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Christmas Story
Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year – at Christmas – Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas’s former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki’s trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today.
Playtime: 83 minutes
Production country / language: Finland / Finnish
Production year: 2007
Director(s): Juha Wuolijoki
Producer(s): Juha Wuolijoki, Roland Schmidt, Laura Salonen, Aleksi Hyvärinen
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Cast: Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Otto Gustavsson, Jonas Rinne
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Brood, The
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist’s therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Playtime: 92 minutes
Production country / language: Canada / English
Production year: 1979
Director(s): David Cronenberg
Producer(s): Claude Héroux, Pierre David, Victor Solnicki
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Cast: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle
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Bieffekterna aka Origin
Ambitious science student Julia and programmer Rebecca are trying to make cells age slower. They are about to break new ground when they find out that Julia’s boyfriend Erik has a terminal illness. As he gets worse and worse, they see no other option than to break moral boundaries. In secret they build a lab in their apartment and start experimenting – with Erik as a human guinea pig. At first they seem to have found a cure, but they soon discover that his cells show signs of unexpected side effects. They have managed to enhance the body’s properties. But what at first seems like something fun and exciting turns out to be far more dangerous than they ever had imagined. A story about love, ambition and the perils of blind experimentation.
Playtime: 93 minutes
Production country / language: Sweden / Swedish
Production year: 2016
Director(s): Andreas Climent, André Hedetoft
Producer(s): Andreas Climent, André Hedetoft, Michel Cardoso Teixeira
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cast: Rikard Björk, Emelia Hansson, Rafael Pettersson
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Bad Johnson
A charismatic womanizer receives his comeuppance after his penis mysteriously leaves his body and takes human form.
Playtime: 88 minutes
Production country / language: USA / English
Production year: 2014
Director(s): Huck Botko
Producer(s): Reid Brody, Danny Roman, Bill Ryan
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Cast: Cam Gigandet, Jamie Chung, Katherine Cunningham
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Revolt
The story of humankind’s last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. In the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they search for refuge across a crumbling world.
Playtime: 87 minutes
Production country / language : UK
Production year: 2017
Director(s): Joe Miale
Producer(s): Rory Aitken, Nicolas Chartier, Zev Foreman, James Harris, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Ben Pugh
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, War
Cast: Lee Pace, Bérénice Marlohe, Jason Flemyng
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