Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Science Fiction > Suspense/Crime: 108 Films to Rent
- Minority Report (2002)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow…
- An exhilarating science fiction thriller that lavishly realizes (and embellishes) a Philip K. Dick short story with the corporate muscle and…
- Reign of Fire (2002)
- Dir. Rob Bowman
Feat. Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey
- Fire–breathing dragons are woken from their millennial slumbers by repairmen in the London Underground, and begin laying waste to the earth in…
- Vanilla Sky (2001)
- Dir. Cameron Crowe
Feat. Tom Cruise, Jason Lee, Cameron Diaz…
- A straight Hollywood remake of the Spanish sci–fi thriller OPEN YOUR EYES by the director of ALMOST FAMOUS – the result of which plays like…
- 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…
- 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…
- Xchange (2000)
- Dir. Allan Moyle
Feat. Kyle MacLachlan, Stephen Baldwin
- With more than a few IQ points, this MATRIX–like thriller centres round the concept of body–swapping, in which one changes bodies to cut…
- Roswell (TV Series) (1999)
- Feat. Brendan Fehr, Katherine Heigl, Colin Hanks
- A unique melding of science fiction, rites–of–passage drama and teen comedy, this television series, like BUFFY, developed a similiar…
- Thirteenth Floor, The (1999)
- Dir. Josef Rusnak
Feat. Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Armin Mueller-Stahl
- Handsomely designed but meandering virtual reality thriller with a now second–hand premise that flits between 1937 and 1999 and ultimately…
- Cube (1998)
- Dir. Vincenzo Natali
Feat. Nicole De Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett…
- More than meets the eye of this enthralling dark–horse B–movie from Canada.
Five strangers find themselves thrown together in a…
- Dark City (1998)
- Dir. Alex Proyas
Feat. Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly…
- Advancing on earlier efforts like THE CROW, director Alex Proyas, fabricates a shadowy urban jungle, replete with echoes of earlier sci–fi…