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1.
Mad Max
(1979)
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang. (88 mins.)
Director: George Miller
2.
The Road Warrior
(1981)
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits. (95 mins.)
Director: George Miller
3.
Edge of Tomorrow
(2014)
A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies. (113 mins.)
Director: Doug Liman
4.
Iron Man
(2008)
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil. (126 mins.)
Director: Jon Favreau
5.
Stargate
(1994)
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra. (116 mins.)
Director: Roland Emmerich
6.
Fortress
(1992)
A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control... (95 mins.)
Director: Stuart Gordon
7.
The Matrix
(1999)
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. (136 mins.)
Director: The Wachowski Brothers, The Wachowski Brothers
8.
Mimic
(1997)
Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind. (105 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
9.
Back to the Future
(1985)
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown. (116 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
10.
Back to the Future Part II
(1989)
After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip. (108 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
11.
Back to the Future Part III
(1990)
Enjoying a peaceable existence in 1885, Doctor Emmet Brown is about to be killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend. (118 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
12.
Inception
(2010)
A thief, who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology, is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO. (148 mins.)
Director: Christopher Nolan
13.
Resident Evil
(2002)
A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. (100 mins.)
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
14.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
(2004)
Alice awakes in Raccoon City, only to find it has become infested with zombies and monsters. With the help of Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera, Alice must find a way out of the city before it is destroyed by a nuclear missile. (94 mins.)
Director: Alexander Witt
15.
Resident Evil: Extinction
(2007)
Survivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp. (94 mins.)
Director: Russell Mulcahy
16.
Resident Evil: Afterlife
(2010)
While still out to destroy the evil Umbrella Corporation, Alice joins a group of survivors living in a prison surrounded by the infected who also want to relocate to the mysterious but supposedly unharmed safe haven known only as Arcadia. (97 mins.)
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
18.
Jurassic Park
(1993)
During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok. (127 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
19.
No Escape
(1994)
A soldier convicted for murdering his commanding officer is dumped and left to die on a prison island inhabited by two camps of convicts. (118 mins.)
Director: Martin Campbell
20.
Blade
(1998)
A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires. (120 mins.)
Director: Stephen Norrington
21.
Blade II
(2002)
Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires. (117 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
22.
Firestarter
(1984)
A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telekinetic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic. (114 mins.)
Director: Mark L. Lester
23.
RoboCop
(1987)
In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories. (102 mins.)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
24.
RoboCop 2
(1990)
Cyborg law enforcer RoboCop returns to protect the citizens of old Detroit but faces a deadly challenge when a rogue OCP member secretly creates a new, evil RoboCop 2. (117 mins.)
Director: Irvin Kershner
25.
RoboCop 3
(1993)
Robocop saves the day once more. This time the half man/half robot takes on ruthless developers who want to evict some people on "their" land. (104 mins.)
Director: Fred Dekker
26.
Phenomenon
(1996)
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis. (123 mins.)
Director: Jon Turteltaub
27.
Darkman
(1990)
A brilliant scientist left for dead returns to exact revenge on the people who burned him alive. (96 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
28.
Alien
(1979)
After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as distress call, their landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious lifeform. Continuing their journey back to Earth with the attacked crew having recovered and the critter deceased, they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
29.
Aliens
(1986)
The moon from Alien has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough? (137 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
30.
Alien³
(1992)
After her last encounter, Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina Fury 161, a maximum security prison. When a series of strange and deadly events occur shortly after her arrival, Ripley realizes that she brought along an unwelcome visitor. (114 mins.)
Director: David Fincher
31.
Alien: Resurrection
(1997)
Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the aliens. (109 mins.)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
32.
Equilibrium
(2002)
In a fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system. (107 mins.)
Director: Kurt Wimmer
33.
The Butterfly Effect
(2004)
Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal. (113 mins.)
Director: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
34.
I Come in Peace
(1990)
Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed... (91 mins.)
Director: Craig R. Baxley
35.
The Abyss
(1989)
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species. (145 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
36.
Biggles: Adventures in Time
(1986)
Daring British WWI fighter pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth and 1980s low-level business executive Jim Ferguson discover that they can time travel to each other's eras. They try to stop the Germans from changing the outcome of WWI. (108 mins.)
Director: John Hough
37.
Batman
(1989)
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker. (126 mins.)
Director: Tim Burton
38.
Galaxy Quest
(1999)
The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. (102 mins.)
Director: Dean Parisot
39.
Blast from the Past
(1999)
A romantic comedy about a naive man who comes out into the world after being in a nuclear fallout shelter for 35 years. (112 mins.)
Director: Hugh Wilson
40.
Total Recall
(1990)
When a man goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or does he? (113 mins.)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
41.
The Lawnmower Man
(1992)
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science. (108 mins.)
Director: Brett Leonard
42.
Bicentennial Man
(1999)
An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions. (132 mins.)
Director: Chris Columbus
43.
Underworld
(2003)
Selene, a vampire warrior, is entrenched in a conflict between vampires and werewolves, while falling in love with Michael, a human who is sought by werewolves for unknown reasons. (121 mins.)
Director: Len Wiseman
44.
Underworld: Evolution
(2006)
Picking up directly from the previous film, vampire warrior Selene and the half werewolf Michael hunt for clues to reveal the history of their races and the war between them. (106 mins.)
Director: Len Wiseman
45.
Underworld: Awakening
(2012)
When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrior Selene leads the battle against humankind. (88 mins.)
46.
Critters
(1986)
A race of small, furry aliens make lunch out of the locals in a farming town. (82 mins.)
Director: Stephen Herek
47.
Critters 2
(1988)
Eggs of the small, furry alien carnivores are left behind on Earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the town of Grover's Bend. (86 mins.)
Director: Mick Garris
48.
A Sound of Thunder
(2005)
When a scientist sent back to the prehistoric era strays off the path he causes a chain of events that alters history in disastrous ways. (101 mins.)
Director: Peter Hyams
49.
Ender's Game
(2013)
Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion. (114 mins.)
Director: Gavin Hood
50.
Congo
(1995)
When an expedition to the African Congo ends in disaster, a new team is assembled to find out what went wrong. (109 mins.)
Director: Frank Marshall
51.
Space Truckers
(1996)
John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry... (95 mins.)
Director: Stuart Gordon
52.
The High Crusade
(1994)
Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla) brings you John Rhys-Davies in a Monty Pythonesque... (100 mins.)
Director: Klaus Knoesel, Holger Neuhäuser
53.
The Puppet Masters
(1994)
The Earth is invaded by stingray-shaped alien "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. (109 mins.)
Director: Stuart Orme
54.
Moon
(2009)
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. (97 mins.)
Director: Duncan Jones
55.
My Stepmother Is an Alien
(1988)
An alien is sent on a secret mission to Earth, where she appears as a gorgeous, attractive, and single lady... (105 mins.)
Director: Richard Benjamin
56.
The Fly
(1986)
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. (96 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
57.
The Fly II
(1989)
The almost-human son of "Brundlefly" searches for a cure to his mutated genes while being monitored by a nefarious corporation that wishes to continue his father's experiments. (105 mins.)
Director: Chris Walas
58.
Oblivion
(2013)
A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself. (124 mins.)
Director: Joseph Kosinski
59.
Minority Report
(2002)
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. (145 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
60.
Species
(1995)
A group of scientists try to track down and trap a killer alien seductress before she successfully mates with a human. (108 mins.)
Director: Roger Donaldson
61.
Timecop
(1994)
Max Walker, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who's intent on changing the past to control the future. (99 mins.)
Director: Peter Hyams
62.
Deep Rising
(1998)
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first. (106 mins.)
Director: Stephen Sommers
63.
Doorways
(1993 TV Movie)
Cat, a fugitive from a parallel Earth ruled by aliens, lands on "our" Earth in the middle of a freeway... (120 mins.)
Director: Peter Werner
64.
The Hidden
(1987)
An alien parasite with the ability to possess human bodies goes on a violent crime spree in L.A. A human cop, detective Beckett, and an alien cop posing as a young FBI agent Gallagher both pursue the parasite who frequently changes his human hosts. (96 mins.)
Director: Jack Sholder
65.
Dead Heat
(1988)
Two policemen are brought back to life to chase down supernatural criminals. (86 mins.)
Director: Mark Goldblatt
66.
The Terminator
(1984)
A seemingly indestructible humanoid cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs. (107 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
67.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
(1991)
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg. (137 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
68.
The Thirteenth Floor
(1999)
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague... (100 mins.)
Director: Josef Rusnak
69.
Universal Soldier
(1992)
Private Luc Deveraux and his sadistic sergeant, Andrew Scott, got killed in Vietnam. The army uses their bodies for a secret project - reanimating dead soldiers as deadly obedient cyborgs. However, their memories come back too. (102 mins.)
Director: Roland Emmerich
70.
The Philadelphia Experiment
(1984)
A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy "invisibility" experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors 40 years into the future. (102 mins.)
Director: Stewart Raffill
71.
Predator
(1987)
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior. (107 mins.)
Director: John McTiernan
72.
Predator 2
(1990)
Amidst a territorial gang war in 1997, a sophisticated alien hunter stalks the citizens of Los Angeles and the only man between him and his prey is veteran L.A.P.D. officer, Lieutenant Mike Harrigan. (108 mins.)
Director: Stephen Hopkins
73.
Paycheck
(2003)
What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being chased. (119 mins.)
Director: John Woo
74.
The Maze Runner
(2014)
Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners" for a shot at escape. (113 mins.)
Director: Wes Ball
75.
The Running Man
(1987)
A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show. (101 mins.)
Director: Paul Michael Glaser
76.
The Hunger Games
(2012)
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death. (142 mins.)
Director: Gary Ross
77.
12:01
(1993 TV Movie)
Barry Thomas is the average office worker. He becomes attracted to Lisa Fredericks who works in the same company... (92 mins.)
Director: Jack Sholder
78.
Independence Day
(1996)
The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive. (145 mins.)
Director: Roland Emmerich
79.
Deadpool
(2016)
A fast-talking mercenary with a morbid sense of humor is subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers and a quest for revenge. (108 mins.)
Director: Tim Miller
80.
Starship Troopers
(1997)
Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival. (129 mins.)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
81.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
(1977)
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle-station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the evil Darth Vader. (121 mins.)
Director: George Lucas
82.
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
(1980)
After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Master Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke. (124 mins.)
Director: Irvin Kershner
83.
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
(1983)
After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to make Vader return from the dark side of the Force. (131 mins.)
Director: Richard Marquand
84.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
(2015)
Three decades after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, a new threat arises. The First Order attempts to rule the galaxy and only a ragtag group of heroes can stop them, along with the help of the Resistance. (136 mins.)
Director: J.J. Abrams
85.
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
(1992)
After a freak accident, a yuppie turns invisible and runs from a treacherous CIA official, while trying to cope with his new life. (99 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
86.
Class of 1999
(1990)
Robot teachers have been secretly placed in the schools where the students have run riot. The teachers... (99 mins.)
Director: Mark L. Lester
87.
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
(1983)
Three women make an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog... (90 mins.)
Director: Lamont Johnson
88.
Deep Red
(1994 TV Movie)
After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known as "Deep Red", the astonishing... (86 mins.)
Director: Craig R. Baxley
89.
Hot Tub Time Machine
(2010)
A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born. (101 mins.)
Director: Steve Pink
90.
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
(2006)
When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell. (95 mins.)
Director: Ivan Reitman
91.
Eagle Eye
(2008)
Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move. (118 mins.)
Director: D.J. Caruso
92.
Limitless
(2011)
With the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100 percent of his brain abilities, a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers. (105 mins.)
Director: Neil Burger
93.
Xchange
(2001)
In the future, where it's faster to travel by exchanging bodies with someone at the destination, a man's body is hijacked by a ruthless terrorist. (110 mins.)
Director: Allan Moyle
94.
Escape from New York
(1981)
In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him. (99 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
95.
Body Snatchers
(1993)
A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama. (87 mins.)
Director: Abel Ferrara
96.
The Arrival
(1996)
Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it. (115 mins.)
Director: David Twohy
97.
Retroactive
(1997)
A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband. (91 mins.)
Director: Louis Morneau
98.
Demolition Man
(1993)
A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society. (115 mins.)
Director: Marco Brambilla
99.
Knights
(1993)
In the future, a kickboxer and a robot lead a revolution against ruling cyborgs. (90 mins.)
Director: Albert Pyun
100.
Judge Dredd
(1995)
In a dystopian future, Joseph Dredd, the most famous Judge (a police officer with instant field judiciary powers), is convicted for a crime he did not commit and must face his murderous counterpart. (96 mins.)
Director: Danny Cannon
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