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Brazil (2 disc set)
(1985) [M]

BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an...  More

I, Robot
(2004) [M]

In 2035 A.D., robots are programmed to live in harmony with humans and are part of every day life. When a brilliant scientist at the U.S. Robotics Corporation is found dead, Chicago detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) is called in to investigate. Aided by robot psychologist Dr Susan Calvin...  More

The Thing (AKA: The Thing From Another World)
(1951) [PG]

Ned Scott is a reporter banging around Alaska, looking for a story. When he meets Captain Patrick Hendry and his flight crew, he joins them on a trip to an arctic research base where numerous scientists are camped. It seems their scientific gear has detected the crash of an unknown aircraft - and...  More

Time of the Wolf
(2003) [MA]

On the heels of his award-winning, emotionally devastating 2001 drama The Piano Teacher, German filmmaker Michael Haneke weaves this disturbing tale of a family forced into a harrowing confrontation with a group of strangers set against the backdrop of a global apocalypse. In the aftermath of an...  More

Fahrenheit 451
(1966) [PG]

Ray Bradbury's best-selling science fiction masterpiece about a future without books takes on a chillingly realistic dimension in this film classic directed by one of the most important innovators of all time, the late Francois Truffaut. Montag (Oskar Werner), a regimented fireman in charge of...  More

Red Planet
(2000) [M]

In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanity's only hope. A team of American astronauts, each a specialist in a different field, is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities, backgrounds...  More

Frequency
(2000) [M]

A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is...  More

Outland
(1981) [M]

A marshal in outer space assigned to a remote mining colony refuses to look the other way when miners begin dying from a deadly narcotic designed to increase their productivity in this film patterned on High Noon (1952). Separated from his family, the marshal finds few allies in the...  More

2010: The Year We Make Contact
(1984) [PG]

Something wonderful is about to happen... Date... 2010 Personnel... Joint venture with American and Soviet scientists mission... To rendezvous with abandoned U.S. spaceship Discovery to make contact with Black Monolith orbiting in space composition unknown. Age – Uncertain, Purpose –...  More

Predator
(1987) [M]

Dutch and a small group of commandos and sent by the CIA to a Central American Jungle, to rescue capture airmen from Guerillas. But it's not the armed terrorists which are the problem. Something hidden in the jungle, something invisible to the naked eye, something not of this earth is the...  More