Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction: 1542 Films to Rent
Listening, The (2006)
- Dir. Giacomo Martelli
Feat. Michael Parks
- Visually fetching spy thriller centred on a NSA officer on a mission to disable spy technology that enables the U.S. government to use phones as live…
Lost (TV Series) - Season 2 (2006)
- Feat. Dominic Monaghan, Naveen Andrews, Harold Perrineau, Jr.…
- The mysterious consequences of the downing of Oceanic Flight 815 continue in this excellent followup season.
Season 2 (24 episodes) over 7 discs.
Maddigan's Quest (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Michael Hurst, Timothy Balme, Danielle Cormack
- Nicely–produced local series for children – adapted from Margaret Mahy's bestseller – set in a post–technological future…
Origin: Spirits of the Past (2006)
- Dir. Keiichi Sugiyama
- Thoughtful, cautionary tale of biological engineering gone awry. Like Miyazaki, this concerns itself with environmental matters through a…
Paprika (2006)
- Dir. Satoshi Kon
- Mind–altering extravaganza of stolen dream technology from the anime trailblazer behind PERFECT BLUE, forged from the dir’s pet themes of…
Perfect Creature (2006)
- Dir. Glenn Standring
Feat. Saffron Burrows, Dougray Scott, Leo Gregory…
- Ambitious, well–appointed Gothica set in a retro–alternate Aotearoa, where humans and their highly–evolved vampire colleagues…
Prehistoric Park (TV Series) (2006)
- Interesting documentary speculation pitched to children has naturalist Nigel Marvin 'rescue' dinosaurs and prehistoric animals, hypothetically…
Renaissance (2006)
- Dir. Christian Volckman
Feat. Daniel Craig, Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm…
- Painting a typically bleak, oppressive view of the not–to–distant future, this French animation conception realises its dystopian malaise…
Scanner Darkly, A (2006)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jnr., Woody Harrelson…
- Richard Linklater’s latest ‘rotoscope’ animation adapts Philip K. Dick's sci–fi novel into a dystopian proxy for the near future, where…
Sinking of Japan, The (Nihon chinbotsu) (2006)
- Dir. Shinji Higuchi
Feat. Ko Shibasaki, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
- Japan is posited as a submerging island nation in this cloying, ultra–earnest disaster movie, based on the (oft–told) theory that seismic…