A broad genre of fiction and movies, sci-fi explores imaginary but non-supernatural ideas such as future settings, the impact of a technology, space flight and alien worlds and creatures.
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Identify this movie: man's wife turns back into a monster when he talks about it
I'd say it's a movie from the 80's or 90's.
At one point the main character sees a monster in the street (I'd say at night, in an alley). It's quite a big monster and the monster can talk. They ...
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What is the name of this SF-movie with (intelligent?) ants?
I try to remember a movie I saw long time ago on TV. It must be at the beginning of the 90s, possibly the end of the 80s. The movie might be older though. It was something about a scientist ...
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Help to Identify early Nickelodeon show
I'm looking for a show that was on during the early years of Nickelodeon. It was live action and as far as I can remember it had maybe Jonathan Harris (Old English-like actor) playing a frail wizard. ...
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Science Fiction Movie that may have never actually existed
In the 1980s Genesis spin off group "Mike and the Mechanics" released a song called, "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)." The video (a copy on youtube) is the subject of a question I've been trying ...
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What was that movie where the bad guys are trapped in a 2d plane in space
I'm trying to remember what movie this was. The bad guys, like 2 or 3, were trapped in a 2 dimensional plane that flew out into space. Family guy did a short parody once I think. I asked a few people ...
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Seeking a circa 50s/60s science fiction movie with a Portal
I was recently watching Schoolhouse Rock with my son and the cartoon for "Nouns" came on. There is a rectangular portal that acts like a giant television that the animated girl watches and at one ...
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Identify Movie: Sci Fi , chip implants in humans
I remember some scene when someone connects to a computer and put on some glasses and gets some 3d interface or something like that.
I think I remember some kind of cube that he tries to open as some ...
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1980s sci-fi show about a family transported through a pyramid?
I saw part of a show sometime in the 80s (early or late, I couldn't say) that I have been trying to remember for some time. Figured I never would, because no Google search I ever tried had ever ...
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One-eyed, tentacled aliens that disguise themselves as humans
I saw this when I was very young, so my memories are spotty.
I cannot recall if this is a movie or a TV episode (older), nor whether it was color or black and white (though my memories include ...
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Movie where a little boy and an alien outrun the police in a spacecraft?
I remember watching this movie on the Disney Channel around 1998, but even then it seemed old and out of date. The flying saucer was reflects like polished chrome or like a mirror and a ramp opened ...
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Would a psychopath create a false positive Voight-Kampff test result?
The Voight-Kampff test (the so-called "empathy test") in the film has been bothering me for some time...
It is acknowledged in the film that the test can give a false negative - Rachael would have ...
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Movie in which time is money
I saw this movie on an American PBS station, I think in the late '70s or early '80s. The premise was very similar to the Justin Timberlake film "In Time". Time is used as currency, and people die ...
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Upcoming movie about an android
At some point in the last year, I saw a preview for a movie at the theater. What I remember is a person dressed in a hoodie walking into a private bathroom at a gas station or something. The ...
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Strange and haunting Science Fiction Film
What is the name of this movie:
Possibly filmed in the 70's or 80's, sort of like the movie Silent Running in that it has a greenhouse filled with lots of plants. I only remember the ending of the ...
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Seeking a sci-fi movie with a laser pistol and an amulet
I'm looking for a movie (Circa early 80s, maybe late 70s) about a teenager who finds a laser pistol and succumbs to "Power corrupts" eventually going on a killing spree. I remember that the gun ...
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Seeking a 1960s Sci-Fi movie about a female humanoid robot
I've only a vague recollection of this science fiction movie, probably released between 1965 and 1972, which features two humanoid alien men on Earth, hunting for a female alien, who has disguised ...
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Miniseries featuring an upside down ziggurat-shaped spaceship
An American made for TV movie shown over several nights in, I think, the 90's, that featured a spaceship resembling an upside down ziggurat hovering just above ground that was later discovered to have ...
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Sci-Fi Martial Arts Action Movie with androids and a female lead
Looking for an older most likely 1990's science fiction movie that has a female lead who learns martial arts from an android. I remember the movie was set in post apocalyptic world and had a bit of a ...
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1990s sci-fi tv show with invading humanoids and dull crosshatched eyes
I am remembering a sci fi tv show from probably around the 90s in which the enemies had strange eyes. The eyes were dull and had either a cross or a line through them.
Weaponry was like assault ...
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The first human robot?
Can anyone find an example of the first human appearing robot? The earliest I can think of is in the 1973 film Westworld. I'm looking for the first cinematic android that was created not to replace a ...
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Can anyone help me identify this Sci-Fi movie?
I saw this movie in 1999 or 2000 on TV (when they wouldn't even display names during the movie). It was a futuristic Govt + Army against REBELS kind of a movie with a female central character. I ...
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Help identifying science fiction movie with rocks that kill people
I watched a Black & White movie on TV. It looked like it could be from 60's.
There were some black rock killing people. I only remember one or two scenes. One where a scientist is running some ...
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Identify this alien invasion movie with invisible aliens
There was a movie that came out about 1-3 years ago at most that was about an alien race that invaded Earth and they hid in plain sight, and would literally snuff people right out of thin air. I think ...
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Can SciFi gadget be considered prior art?
Patents are received when there is no prior art. That is, you cannot patent things that are already in the public domain.
So, take the iPad, I'd swear that Star Trek Next Generation uses iPads. Its ...
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Childrens/Teens Sci-Fi film?
I'm hoping someone can help me identify the following film that I would have seen in the early 90's or late 80's. It is a film in the era of Weird Science / Flight Of The Navigator and The Explorers.
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Black and white science fiction movie with aliens and dome
I saw this science fiction a long time ago. I recall a light plane having to land. The pilot and a woman struggling to survive in a town that has had some kind of dome placed over it. I recall ...
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Identification an old sci fi movie
I've been remembering parts of an older scifi movie for awhile now but can't remember the name or find it. It's been driving me crazy today. It's an older movie, I remember it from tv and that was ...
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Please help me identify Sci Fi Movie
When I was kid, I remember vaguely channel surfing at my friends house. There was a sci-fi movie it seemed maybe out of space.
Premise: there were these woman, unclothed maybe they were aliens or ...
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Sci-fi Movie Identification?
I am looking for a movie/TV movie or maybe an episode of a series.... I don't know when it's from, probably 1997-2006. Sorry that's the best I've got. My guess is it's in the sci-fi genre. All I ...
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Movie depicting aliens physically connected into group-mind
I think this was a made-for-TV movie, and I think I saw it in the late '80s or early '90s.
A small group of humans are fleeing on a spaceship from a bad guy,
also human, on another spaceship.
The ...
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What 70s/80s sci-fi movie took place on a space station where the oxygen is running out?
Need to identify a sci-fi movie from the 70s/80s. It involved a woman on a space station of some sort who was slowly dying due to lack of oxygen. She has a photo of her kids on her desk when she ...
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Movie with cursing priest in tank [closed]
Saw this late 80's early 90's on Cinimax. Futuristic Mad Max'ish. Starts with a man and women fighting in an arena. All books and magazines outlawed, everything is highly censored. Renegades search ...
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What 70s or 80s scifi movies had cyborgs?
I've been looking for a movie that I saw when I was growing up. What I remember from it was there was a cyborg and I think he was supposed to be bad but he was helping out the good guys or something ...
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1980s or 1990s sci fi video game tv show (live action)
This is really bugging me: I remember a TV show about a teenager who warps into video games and has to defeat the boss of that level or something to that effect. It might not have been a video game ...
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What does the end scene in Aurora (Lithuania, 2012) mean?
In Aurora (a.k.a. Vanishing Waves), what is the meaning of the final scene, when they are running on the beach and he finally overtakes her?
