Popular Science Fiction Movies on Kanopy - Page 21

The Human Hibernation

2024

The Human Hibernation

2024
5
A brother and sister are hibernating. Only the sister wakes up. Human hibernation blurs the boundary between people and animals. A thought experiment equal parts sci-fi and meditation shot in searing images.
Wyrm

2017

Wyrm

2017
6.6
Wyrm is falling behind. His twin sister, Myrcella, has become a woman after she and the Norwegian foreign exchange student did fingering at the cinemas. She wants Wyrm to move into their dead brother Dylan's room so she can have privacy and space for her personal items. Wyrm has two days to complete his Level 1 Sexuality Requirement or he'll be held back as part of the School District's No Child Left Alone program and forced to continue wearing his My.E.Q. Electronic Emotional Remote Monitoring Collar.
Youth

2016

Youth

2016
Wasted on the young? A sci-fi film about growing old in a world of perpetual youth.
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.
Let's Be Evil

2016

Let's Be Evil

2016
4.2
A woman enters an underground bunker where gifted children use augmented reality technology to wreak havoc.
Kamikaze '89

1982

Kamikaze '89

1982
5.3
In a futuristic, totalitarian society wherein the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings and uncovers more than he bargained for.
ABCs of Death 2 1/2

2016

ABCs of Death 2 1/2

2016
4.6
An anthology of 26 fan entries submitted for inclusion in ABCs of Death 2, each offering various takes on the letter "M".
Matta and Matto

2023

Matta and Matto

2023
5.3
In a dystopian world where touch is forbidden, Matta and Matto offer refuge to the lonely at Hotel Vaip. In the deceptive labyrinth of mind-bending rooms at their transient hotel, deepest desires are fulfilled and surpassed, but this comes at a price.
The Asphyx

1972

The Asphyx

1972
6
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
Fetch

2021

Fetch

2021
On an isolated space station, when a man loses the will to live, his big hearted dog overcomes his own anxieties to save them both.
The Beyond

2018

The Beyond

2018
5.5
Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered wormhole known as the Void. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency races to discover what the astronauts encountered on their first of its kind interstellar space journey.
Australiens

2015

Australiens

2015
5.8
At the age of 10, Australian-born Andi Gibson had what she describes as a close encounter with a flying saucer. Naturally, everyone assumed she was bonkers. That is until one notable evening, 17 years later, when an airborne extra-terrestrial armada launches a nation-wide assault on Andi's home country and at the same time, for unspecified reasons, kidnaps her mother. To add to the debacle, it seems the other nations of the world are far too insulted by their exclusion from the attack to come to Australia's aid. Now it is up to Andi, her hypochondriac brother Elliot, retired boxer cousin Keith and documentary filmmaker friend Cam to stop the attack and rescue Andi's mum. Enlisting the help of Andi's equal-parts mysterious and cringeworthy father, the gang must battle car-chasing spaceships, martial-arts aliens, giant killer robots and, perhaps most frighteningly, a deluge of family secrets in their fight to save Australia. Bloody hell, this is gonna be a long night
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

1964

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

1964
3
Martians fear their children have become lazy and joyless due to their newfound obsession with Earth TV shows. After ancient Martian leader Chochem suggests that the children of Mars need more fun—including their own Santa Claus—supreme leader Lord Kimar assembles an expedition to Earth. Once there, they kidnap two children who lead them to the North Pole, then capture the real Santa Claus, taking all three back to Mars in an attempt to bring the Martian children happiness.
Nova

2018

Nova

2018
NOVA is a film that investigates the building of genetically modified and scientifically improve human and its ethical impact. Jin, an ailing old geneticist and biochemist, created the heroin of the story Nova to serve his personal need, a daughter to love him.
The Giant Gila Monster

1959

The Giant Gila Monster

1959
4.2
A small town in Texas finds itself under attack from a hungry, fifty-foot-long gila monster. No longer content to forage in the desert, the giant lizard begins chomping on motorists and train passengers before descending upon the town itself. Only Chase Winstead, a quick-thinking mechanic, can save the town from being wiped out.
The Blood Beast Terror

1968

The Blood Beast Terror

1968
5.5
A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Following a gruesome trail of dead bodies, Scotland Yard investigators must scramble to halt its ravenous rampage.
Quantum Cowboys

2023

Quantum Cowboys

2023
9
Two hapless drifters, Frank and Bruno, team up with Linde to recover her land and trek across 1870's Southern Arizona to find an elusive frontier musician.
The Devil Bat

1940

The Devil Bat

1940
5.3
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
Red 11

2019

Red 11

2019
5.2
A human lab rat in a sinister medical research facility tries to buy his way out of debt to the company while under the influence of experimental psychoactive drugs.
Dead End Drive-In

1986

Dead End Drive-In

1986
5.6
In the future, a health nut and his tag-along girlfriend become trapped in a drive-in theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths.