Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction: 1542 Films to Rent
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…
Red Planet (2000)
- Dir. Anthony Hoffman
Feat. Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore…
- Attempting to colonise Mars in 2050, Val Kilmer, Carrie–Ann Moss, Tom Sizemore and a pesky robot helper suffer the NASA–jinx and…
Requiem From The Darkness (TV Series) (Kurayami no rekuiemu) (2000)
- A supernatural anime series set in the Edo period, in which an aspiring writer, Momosuke, sets out into the troubled land to collect 100 ghost…
Sixth Day, The (2000)
- Dir. Roger Spottiswoode
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tony Goldwyn, Robert Duvall
- Topical, intriguing premise about cloning is levelled out into being just another vehicle for the ailing star of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As an…
Space Cowboys (2000)
- Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland…
- Director Clint Eastwood plays a specially trained astronaut who takes three of his retirement–age buddies into space on a mission to repair a…
Spriggan (2000)
- Dir. Hirotsugu Kawasaki
- Spectacular ‘anime’ produced by Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA) that springs an elaborate futuristic plot, centred round the search for a…
Todd McFarlane - The Devil You Know (2000)
- Dir. Kenton Vaughan
- A straightforward look at the life of comicbook 'wunderkind' Todd McFarlane, who got his start at Marvel comics drawing Spider–Man, and later…