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| Alien: Collector's Edition | - | 2003-12-02 | - |
Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic stars Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, a warrant officer who stares down one of the most terrifying movie monsters of all time: a bloodthirsty alien that stalks and eviscerates its prey aboard the spacecraft Nostramo.
| a.k.a. | Alien, el octavo pasajero |
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Ridley Scott (Director),
Derek Vanlint (Cinematographer)
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| Aliens: Collector's Edition | - | 2003-12-02 | - |
In this acclaimed sequel, the only survivor from the first film, Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), finds her horrific account of her crew's fate is met with skepticism -- until the disappearance of colonists on LV-426 prompts a team of high-tech Marines to investigate. Ripley travels with the team as an advisor, only to find that her biggest fear has come true. Weaver was Oscar nominated for Best Actress, while James Horner's chilling score also got a nod.
| a.k.a. | Aliens - Scontro finale |
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James Cameron (Director),
Adrian Biddle (Cinematographer)
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| The Thing | 2008-09-30 | 1998-09-08 | 2012-09-01 |
Scientists working in Antarctica are forced to abandon their research after a helicopter crashes near their camp, bringing a lone dog into their midst. But the plot thickens when the otherworldly canine changes form in the middle of the night. As it turns out, the dog is a shape-shifting alien that can attack animals -- and unsuspecting humans. Kurt Russell stars in this creepy John Carpenter-directed remake of the 1950s classic.
| a.k.a. |
Das Ding La Cosa |
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John Carpenter (Director),
Dean Cundey (Cinematographer)
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| Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition | 2007-11-13 | - | - |
When Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) encounters a UFO, he's left with a sunburned face, a skeptical family and a shaken psyche. In an attempt to make sense of what he saw, Roy starts seeking out others who've had similar "visions." Among those he finds are a woman (Melinda Dillon) who's lost her son to the aliens, and a researcher (Francois Truffaut) preparing for Earth's first contact with extraterrestrials.
| a.k.a. |
Die Unheimliche Begegnung der Dritten Art Incontri ravvicinati del terzo tipo Rencontres du troisième type |
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Steven Spielberg (Director),
Vilmos Zsigmond (Cinematographer)
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| Dark City: Director's Cut | 2008-07-29 | 2008-07-29 | - |
Alex Proyas directs this shadowy sci-fi masterpiece about a man (Rufus Sewell) who awakens to find himself accused of murder in a strange city. Now, he must untangle his jumbled memories while eluding both the police and a woman claiming to be his wife (Jennifer Connelly). This special edition director's cut boasts 11 minutes of new footage, plus commentary from Proyas, film critic Roger Ebert and screenwriters Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer.
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Alex Proyas (Director),
Dariusz Wolski (Cinematographer)
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| The Day the Earth Stood Still | 2008-12-02 | 2003-03-04 | 2014-01-01 |
A humanoid envoy from another world lands in Washington, D.C., with a warning to Earth's people to cease their violent behavior. But panic erupts when a nervous soldier shoots the messenger, and his robot companion tries to destroy the capital.
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Der Tag, an dem die Erde stillstand Le Jour où la Terre s'arrêta Ultimátum a la Tierra Ultimatum alla Terra |
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Robert Wise (Director),
Leo Tover (Cinematographer)
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| Fantastic Planet | - | 2007-10-23 | - |
A band of humans -- known as Oms -- are kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue humanoid giants called Traags in director Rene La Loux's animated sci-fi classic, said to be based on the Soviet occupation of the Czech Republic. The story centers on an Om named Terr, who escapes his subjugation with a Traag learning device and eventually uses it to educate other Oms and incite them to revolt. The film nabbed the Grand Prix at Cannes.
| a.k.a. | La Planète sauvage |
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René Laloux (Director),
Boris Baromykin (Cinematographer),
Lubomir Rejthar (Cinematographer)
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| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | 2009-05-12 | 2000-07-11 | 2013-01-01 |
To escape his desk job, Adm. James T. Kirk (William Shatner) returns to the USS Enterprise, assisting Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in a training mission for Starfleet cadets. But the inexperienced crew is put to the test when escaped villain Khan (Ricardo Montalban) steals a powerful weapon and comes after the admiral seeking revenge. Now, Kirk must use all his wiles and whip the cadets into shape if they hope to defeat Khan's deadly traps.
| a.k.a. | Star Trek 2 |
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Nicholas Meyer (Director)
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| District 9 | 2009-12-22 | 2009-12-22 | - |
When aliens land on Earth, a global conglomerate forces them into rigid containment zones where they are compelled to labor, even as their otherworldly technology is exploited for profit. As tensions build, a rogue agent leads a resistance movement.
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Neill Blomkamp (Director),
Trent Opaloch (Cinematographer)
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| They Live | - | 1998-01-07 |
2011-05-01 2012-06-01 |
In this consumer culture parody, professional wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper plays an unemployed working stiff who inadvertently finds a pair of sunglasses that allow him to see the world as it truly is. Billboards carry subliminal messages such as "Submit to Authority," and yuppies are actually aliens who are bent on subduing the human race. Before you can say, "Die, yuppie scum!" Piper grabs a gun and starts blasting.
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John Carpenter (Director),
Gary B. Kibbe (Cinematographer)
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