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Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) IMDb WikiData
Dr. Who and the Daleks
director: Gordon Flemyng actor: Peter Cushing / Roy Castle
other title: Dr. Who: Krig på Skaro / Dr. Who und die Daleks
Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Who, his two granddaughters Barbara and Susan, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race of Thals are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the robotic mutant Daleks.
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
The Quatermass Xperiment
director: Val Guest actor: Brian Donlevy / Richard Wordsworth
other title: L'astronave atomica del dottor Quatermass / Terror Que Mata
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
4D Man (1959) Douban IMDb WikiData
4D Man
director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. actor: Robert Lansing / Lee Meriwether
other title: Delitto in quarta dimensione / Demônio Enfurecido
Two brothers, scientists Scott and Tony Nelson, develop an amplifier which enables a person to enter a 4th dimensional state, allowing him to pass through any object. Scott experiments on himself and discovers that each time he passes through something he ages rapidly. He begins killing people, sucking out their life energies and regaining his youth as a result.
Programmed to Kill (1987) TMDB WikiData IMDb
Programmed to Kill
director: Allan Holzman actor: Robert Ginty / Sandahl Bergman
other title: Projeto Sibertron: Programada para Morrer / Retaliator
A middle eastern female terrorist is captured by the CIA in Greece, after an attack on a marketplace. Transported back to the USA, the terrorist undergoes an operation where she is transformed into a cybernetic killing machine. Now the CIA have a secret weapon to send back to the Middle East, but how long can they control her?
Star Slammer (1986) IMDb WikiData
Star Slammer
director: Fred Olen Ray actor: Sandy Brooke / Susan Stokey
other title: Gefangene im Weltraum / Star Slammer : La prison des étoiles
Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with unhinged guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.
Lockout (2012) Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
Lockout
director: Stephen St. Leger / James Mather actor: Guy Pearce / Maggie Grace
other title: Lockout - Máxima Segurança / Lock Out
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security prison.
Spoiler (1998) IMDb WikiData
Spoiler
director: Jeff Burr actor: Gary Daniels / Meg Foster
other title: Spoiler - Verdammt im Eis / Spoiler – Verdammt im Eis
Roger Mason is a prisoner locked away in a futuristic fortress of a jail. Desperate to escape and see his daughter, he keeps making attempt after attempt to break free, but each one is foiled just as he's about to gain his freedom. As his punishments include being frozen in suspended animation for years at a time, he stays the same age while his daughter grows older. As more time keeps being added to his sentence, he despairs of ever getting out.
Fortress (1992) IMDb WikiData
Fortress
director: Stuart Gordon actor: Christopher Lambert / Kurtwood Smith
other title: 2013 - La fortezza / Fangeborgen
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
No Escape (1994) IMDb WikiData
No Escape
director: Martin Campbell actor: Ray Liotta / Lance Henriksen
other title: Fuga da Absolom / Flugten fra Absolom
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
Wedlock (1991) IMDb WikiData
Wedlock
director: Lewis Teague actor: Rutger Hauer / Mimi Rogers
other title: Sotto massima sorveglianza / Peligrosamente unidos
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot, electronically attached to a female prisoner.
Millennium (1989) IMDb WikiData
Millennium
director: Michael Anderson actor: Kris Kristofferson / Cheryl Ladd
other title: Milénio / Millennium - Die 4. Dimension
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
Assassin (1986) IMDb WikiData
Assassin
director: Sandor Stern actor: Robert Conrad / Karen Austin
other title: Special Terminator C.I.A. / Asesino
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) NeoDB Douban Douban TMDB IMDb
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
6.4 (7 ratings) director: David Slade actor: Fionn Whitehead / Craig Parkinson
other title: Black Mirror - Bandersnatch / Black Mirror : Bandersnatch
In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
Screamers (1995) NeoDB WikiData TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb Douban
Screamers
director: Christian Duguay actor: Peter Weller / Jennifer Rubin
other title: Screamers - Urla dallo spazio / Screamers - Tödliche Schreie
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
Species III (2005) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Species III
director: Brad Turner actor: Robin Dunne / Robert Knepper
other title: Species III - Specie mortale III / Species 3
After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But Sara is also savage and leaves a trail of deaths in her wake. This carnage makes chemistry student Dean question whether to help her race or not.
Species II (1998) IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban
Species II
director: Peter Medak actor: Michael Madsen / Natasha Henstridge
other title: Species II - Specie mortale II / Espécie Mortal II
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
Species (1995) IMDb Douban TMDB NeoDB WikiData
Species
director: Roger Donaldson actor: Natasha Henstridge / Ben Kingsley
other title: Specie mortale / Espécie Mortal
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
DNA (1997) IMDb WikiData
DNA
director: William Mesa actor: Mark Dacascos / Jürgen Prochnow
other title: DNA. Una storia che non deve accadere / D.N.A. Genetic Code - Dem Grauen ausgeliefert
A mad scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life, and only his former assistant Ash Mattley and CIA operative Claire Sommers can stop it.
Mars Attacks! (1996) Douban NeoDB WikiData TMDB IMDb
Mars Attacks!
7.3 (7 ratings) director: Tim Burton actor: Jack Nicholson / Glenn Close
other title: Marte Ataca!
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Jan. 19, 2026 watched
People slag it off, and sure it has issues, but I always enjoy it!

TIL it was Alex Cox (Repo Man) who came up with the idea.

Rewatched (for the 7th? 8th? time) in #MonsterMiru watch party on Mastodon (after #Monsterdon).
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U Are the Universe (2025) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ти – Космос
director: Pavlo Ostrikov actor: Volodymyr Kravchuk / Leonid Popadko
other title: U are the universe / Ти – Космос
After the explosion of the Earth, the Ukrainian space trucker Andriy becomes the only human in the Universe until French woman Catherine calls him from the faraway space station. Andriy decides to see her despite all the obstacles.
Jan. 16, 2026 to watch Trigger:
https://united24media.com/culture/ukraines-sci-fi-gem-u-are-the-universe-strikes-a-chord-with-wartime-audiences-14986
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