Subgenre Sampler
Science Fiction: 1571 Films to Buy & Rent
Escaflowne: The Movie (2000)
- Dir. Kazuki Akane
- Lavish, if much darker theatrical version of the popular anime TV series, reinventing its beloved heroine as a disenchanted high school girl…
Frequency (2000)
- Dir. Gregory Hoblit
Feat. John Caviezel, Dennis Quaid
- Time–travel thriller tuned to an interesting premise – a NYPD cop speaks to his dead father via a ham radio.
Features some…
Gen 13 (2000)
- Dir. Kevin Altieri
- An at times violent, futuristic animation centred around a group of unwittingly super–powered army recruits who rebel against their military…
Godzilla Vs. Megaguiris (2000)
- Dir. Masaaki Tezuka
Feat. Shosuke Tanihara
- The 25th film in the Godzilla franchise and the second film in the Millennium series. While the film uses the Godzilla suit from Godzilla 2000, it is…
Gospel According to Philip K. Dick, The (2000)
- Dir. Mark Steensland
- A loosely–assembled scan through the unusual life and mind of influential sci–fi writer Philip K. Dick, whose twisting literary…
Hollow Man (2000)
- Dir. Paul Verhoeven
Feat. Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, James Brolin…
- Unpleasant, one–dimensional sci–fi thriller that lavishes astonishing, groundbreaking special effects on a script that doesn't deserve…
Metropolis (2000)
- Dir. Rinataro
- Visually splendid ‘future–noir’ set in a teeming, multi–leveled city, inhabited by several storylines: a detective quest, the…
Mission to Mars (2000)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle
- A loop–ily solemn mission to the red planet in the year 2020 with Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and Don Cheadle, that threatens at times to overcome…
Pitch Black (2000)
- Dir. David Twohy
Feat. Radha Mitchell, Vin Diesel
- A gang of space travellers crash land on a foreign planet (in a blistering opening sequence) where they confront infighting, a volatile prisoner and…
Possible Worlds (2000)
- Dir. Robert Lepage
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Tom McCamus, Sean McCann
- A bittersweet sci–fi reflection on the possibility of a love when an individual exists in simultaneous parallel worlds.
Constructed around…