Popular Science Fiction Movies on Kanopy - Page 18

Timestalker

2024

Timestalker

2024
5.1
A karmic journey that sees the hapless heroine Agnes reincarnated every time she makes the same mistake: falling in love with the wrong man.
The Final Countdown

1980

The Final Countdown

1980
6.6
During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Blackenstein

1973

Blackenstein

1973
3.1
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately, an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiancée) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
4:44 Last Day on Earth

2012

4:44 Last Day on Earth

2012
4.7
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
Speed of Life

2020

Speed of Life

2020
4
The film follows a woman who has a chance to reflect on her life when a wormhole opens upon David Bowie’s death.
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space

2002

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space

2002
6.3
Tamala is a cat living on Planet Cat Earth in the Feline Galaxy. In attempt to leave the Feline Galaxy, which is practically owned by a mega corporation called Catty & Co., she crashes on the violence-ridden Planet Q where she meets Michelangelo. Together they have fun, while Tamala seaches for her connections to Catty & Co. and her mysterious homeworld Orion.
For People in Trouble

2023

For People in Trouble

2023
3.2
When two people meet one night in London, their relationship blossoms and fractures, intertwined with impending societal collapse.
The Black Hole

2006

The Black Hole

2006
4.5
It's 2 A.M. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and an explosion shakes the city. A scientific team investigates, clashing with an intergalactic, voltage-devouring creature that vaporizes them.
Molly

2017

Molly

2017
5.2
A girl living alone in a post apocalyptic wasteland finds herself hunted down by marauders who want her to fight in their fighting pit for their entertainment.
Tuvalu

1999

Tuvalu

1999
6.1
Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts of Anton, a clueless dreamer who yearns to sail the world, and Martha, the button obsessed cashier, to maintain the illusion for Anton's blind father that business is thriving. Working to sabotage their efforts is Gregor - Anton's brother - an amoral developer who is determined to raze the entire town and construct a sprawling condominium complex. Gregor engineers an accident that seems certain to doom the business and in the process steals away Eva, the beautiful woman of Anton's dreams. Will Gregor's dastardly plan succeed?
One Day Like Rain

2007

One Day Like Rain

2007
4.3
A teenage girl living in California suburbia devises a metaphysical experiment designed to save the world from what she sees as an impending doom...but the results of such an experiment prove to be both beneficial and destructive.
Galaxy Quest

1999

Galaxy Quest

1999
7.1
For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space ... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam 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.
Aelita: Queen of Mars

1924

Aelita: Queen of Mars

1924
5.9
A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Harmony

2022

Harmony

2022
4
Sophia, a wounded soldier, suspects the medical facility the military placed her in isn't really for her recovery, but something far more devious. Codenamed Harmony, the facility is in fact a government program to create telepathy.
The Replacement

2018

The Replacement

2018
6
Human clones are beginning to take over the globe after the election of the first clone president.
RoboCop 3

1993

RoboCop 3

1993
4.9
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of the company. To this end, OCP have decided to force them to leave by employing a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An underground resistance begins and in this fight, RoboCop must decide where his loyalties lie.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1920

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1920
6.7
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
Infinitum: Subject Unknown

2021

Infinitum: Subject Unknown

2021
5.4
Jane is the subject of a twisted science experiment where she is placed in a parallel world and is forced to find a way to either alter her reality or be stuck in a time-loop, destined to repeat the same test over and over again, with no memory of her doing it before. But with each 'reset' she starts to retain fragments of memory. With clues pointing to the mysterious Wytness Quantum Research Centre, she tries to find a way out. (The film was shot entirely on an iPhone during the UK’s first lockdown.)
The Boys from Brazil

1978

The Boys from Brazil

1978
6.7
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
Big Ass Spider!

2013

Big Ass Spider!

2013
5.6
When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the entire city is destroyed.