Popular Science Fiction Movies on Plex - Page 44

The Ape

1940

The Ape

1940
4.8
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
First Man into Space

1959

First Man into Space

1959
5
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...
Contagion

2002

Contagion

2002
4
In the 21st Century, terrorists have developed a new way to strike: disease. Not only have they created a deadly Level Four Ebola virus, their first victim is the President of the United States. The virus is particularly contagious and is spreading. If a cure cannot be found, the only chance for saving the world from epidemic is for the army to destroy the hospital and the town where the victims, including the President, are currently contained. The clock is ticking. As doctors search for a cure the military seeks to annihilate them all in a race to stop the deadly path of the contagion. Can the spread be stopped before its too late?
Patrick

2013

Patrick

2013
5
Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.
Alien Conquest

2021

Alien Conquest

2021
2.7
Sibling astronomers join forces with the military when hostile aliens attack Earth.
Gangland

2001

Gangland

2001
4.1
In post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, an evil pack of outlaws is systematically turning civilians into prisoners and slaves. Worse yet, the spread of a terrifying deadly flesh-eating virus threatens to destroy all of humanity. As good and evil ferociously battle for power and control, three heroes race against time to find the cure for the virus... before it's too late.
Dead Fire

1997

Dead Fire

1997
3.8
A convict and his gang seize a space station in 2064, with plans to annihilate Earth's population in order to start anew with an entirely new society.
The Magnetic Telescope

1942

The Magnetic Telescope

1942
6.9
When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop.
Perfect

2019

Perfect

2019
4.3
A young man with a violent past enters a mysterious clinic where the patients wildly transform their bodies and minds using genetic engineering.
Solar Flare

2008

Solar Flare

2008
3.7
A young math genius discovers a huge solar storm on the verge of destroying the Earth's power grid and he must alert the world before a powerful businessman stops him.
The Return

1980

The Return

1980
5.9
Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters become worse when the cattle mutilations are joined by human murders and mutilations.
The Rift

2016

The Rift

2016
3.6
The satellite has vanished and the only clue is a trail leading to a small village nestled on the outskirts of forest line. As the team begins to investigate they quickly discover that something else came back from space, something not of this world. As their time runs out, the team must battle to unlock the terrifying truth behind the ill-fated mission.
Komodo vs. Cobra

2005

Komodo vs. Cobra

2005
4
A team of environmentalists, including a reporter, her camera man, and an environmentalist's famous girlfriend charter a boat and with the captain, sail to a military island. They suspect the island is hosting to illegal activities. Upon arrival, however, they find no one. They finally reach a deserted house, where they find Dr. Susan Richardson, who tells them that everyone on the island is dead, including her father. Richardson's team were working on a compound that could make edible plants grow to super size, however the military intervened with plans of their own. They wanted to test the compound's effects on animals, and proceeded to feed it to several komodo dragons and cobras.
Return of the Killer Tomatoes!

1988

Return of the Killer Tomatoes!

1988
5.6
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
Arctic Apocalypse

2019

Arctic Apocalypse

2019
6.1
A massive influx of glacial melting triggers a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere, forcing a family to make their way across the ice-covered landscape before they are frozen out for good.
Oceans Rising

2017

Oceans Rising

2017
4.7
A scientist readies a boat after his warnings of an Earth-destroying flood are ignored. However, after the disasters reach a peak level of destruction those who maligned the scientist now turn to him in desperation, as he and other refugees look to save the world and stop the disaster using the two Supercolliders on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
Slipstream

1989

Slipstream

1989
4.3
In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Hangar 18

1980

Hangar 18

1980
5.1
During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret Hangar 18 and the accident is blamed on the incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.
Alien Presence

2009

Alien Presence

2009
3
An alien teenager is apparently kept in a coma at a government compound with handsome medical students, but strange disturbances start to occur.
The Land That Time Forgot

2009

The Land That Time Forgot

2009
3.7
Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.