Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction: 1542 Films to Rent
Thing, The (The Thing From Another World) (1951)
- Dir. Christian Nyby
Feat. Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite
- Howard Hawksian macho men in leather tussle it out with men in cardies over how to protect themselves from the abomidable alien outside in the snow.…
When Worlds Collide (1951)
- Dir. Rudolph Mate
Feat. Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hansen…
- When Earth faces imminent and total destruction from an errant star, scientists must organise an evacuation in time to save the human race. Thrilling…
Destination Moon (1950)
- Dir. Irving Pichel
Feat. John Archer, Warner Anderson, Dick Wesson…
- Prescient sci–fi film that deals with the practical scientific and engineering challenges of space travel and to speculate on what a manned…
Rocketship X-M (1950)
- Dir. Kurt Neumann
Feat. Lloyd Bridges
- Lloyd Bridges leads a bunch of wisecracking astronauts to the moon, only they get diverted to Mars! Prototype sci–fi cheapie rolls out the…
Purple Monster Strikes, The (1946)
- Dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet, Fred C. Brannon
Feat. Dennis Moore, Roy Barcroft, Linda Stirling…
- Charmingly hokey serial with a shape–shifting martian out to steal our best scientific secrets setting the stage for an alien invasion.
Superman (TV Series) (1941-1943)
- After being invented by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, then debuting as an 'Action Comics' superhero, Superman went on to become an animated movie…
Flash Gordon Serial (Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe) (1940)
- Dir. Ford Beebe
Feat. Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton
- One of the early Flash Gordon serials, which enthralled audiences in the 1940s. Here Flash must battle Ming the Merciless who has unleashed the…
Buck Rogers- Original Complete Series (1939)
- Feat. Henry Brandon, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall…
- Beloved classic series about a heroic pilot and his young passenger who crash–land on a mountaintop where a mysterious gas puts them into a…
Things to Come (1936)
- Dir. William Cameron Menzies
Feat. Ralph Richardson, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman
- Mind–boggling visualisation of a 21st century utopia, with ant–like humans inhabiting monolithic structures on towering, ten–acre…
Phantom Empire, The (1935)
- Feat. Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Smiley Burnette
- Oddball children's serial from the thirties has singing cowboy Autry discovering the last remaining inhabitants of the lost continent of Mu living…