In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Director : François Truffaut Writers : François Truffaut (screenplay) Jean-Louis Richard (screenplay) Ray Bradbury (novel) Stars : Oskar Werner Julie Christie Cyril Cusack
An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
Director : Robert Wise
Writers : Edmund H. North (screen play) Harry Bates (based on a story by)
Stars : Michael Rennie Patricia Neal Hugh Marlowe
Three interconnected tales of technology run amok during the Christmas season are told by two men at a remote outpost in a frozen wilderness.
Director : Carl Tibbetts
Writer : Charlie Brooker
Stars : Jon Hamm Rafe Spall Oona Chaplin
After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.
Director : Ridley Scott
Writers : Dan O'Bannon (screenplay by) Ronald Shusett (story by)
Stars : Sigourney Weaver Tom Skerritt John Hurt
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
Director : Steven Spielberg
Writers : Philip K. Dick (short story) Scott Frank (screenplay) Jon Cohen (screenplay)
Stars : Tom Cruise Colin Farrell Samantha Morton
Documents the famous Milgram experiment, which measured the willingness of test subjects to obey authority in ways contrary to their own judgment and conscience.
Director : Stanley Milgram
Stars : John T. Williams James J. McDonough
A deadly virus, released in 1996, wipes out almost all of humanity, forcing survivors to live underground. A group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to have released the virus.
12 Monkeys is a 1995 American science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, inspired by Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetée, starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt, with Christopher Plummer and David Morse in supporting roles.
Describes the constant, bewildering barrage of new technologies and all the resulting societal changes those technologies bring about.
Director: Alexander Grasshoff (as Alex Grasshoff)
Writers: Ken Rosen, Alvin Toffler (book)
Stars: Orson Welles, John Bray, Verlin Cobb
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Directors : Marc Caro Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writers : Gilles Adrien (dialogue) Jean-Pierre Jeunet(additional dialogue) Marc Caro
Stars : Ron Perlman Daniel Emilfork Judith Vittet