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1. Spaceman (I) (2024)
R | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Half a year into his solo mission on the edge of the solar system, an astronaut concerned with the state of his life back on Earth is helped by an ancient creature he discovers in the bowels of his ship.
Director: Johan Renck | Stars: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano, Kunal Nayyar
Votes: 32,946
2. Mother/Android (2021)
R | 110 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a post-apocalyptic world rocked by a violent android uprising, a young pregnant woman and her boyfriend desperately search for safety.
Director: Mattson Tomlin | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Algee Smith, Raúl Castillo, Linnea Gardner
Votes: 21,203
3. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera
Votes: 7,162 | Gross: $8.72M
4. School's Out Forever (2021)
105 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A 15-year old flees to his school after an apocalyptic event.
Director: Oliver Milburn | Stars: Oscar Kennedy, Liam Lau-Fernandez, Anthony Head, Alex Macqueen
Votes: 1,210
5. The Cabbage Soup (1981)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret, Claude Gensac
Votes: 9,589
6. Invention for Destruction (1958)
Unrated | 83 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An evil millionaire named Artigas plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world from his headquarters inside an enormous volcano.
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Lubor Tokos, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub, Frantisek Slégr
Votes: 2,799
7. The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)
97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpathians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera.
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Michal Docolomanský, Evelyna Steimarová, Vlastimil Brodský, Milos Kopecký
Votes: 1,422
8. R.U.R.
Sci-Fi | Filming
A young woman visits the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results. Based on the famous 1920 play by Karel Capek, a satire ever more potent for today.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Mallory Jansen, Lindsay Farris
9. R.U.R.: Genesis (2013)
7 min | Short, Action, Drama
Set in the style of a sexy, alt-history 1969, this adaptation depicts a world populated by genetically engineered workers ("artificials") -- perfect, made-to-order people who lack fundamental rights.
Director: James Kerwin | Stars: Chase Masterson, Kipleigh Brown, James Ellis Lane, Amara Cash
Votes: 32
10. Hibernatus (1969)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A rich businessman faces a quite weird problem - his wife's grandfather has been revived thanks to science. But he is not aware that many decades have passed.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Louis de Funès, Michael Lonsdale, Claude Gensac, Bernard Alane
Votes: 6,640
11. R.U.R. (1938 TV Movie)
35 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Technological progress, in the shape of Rossum's Universal Robots, threatens to dominate and wipe out mankind.
Stars: Derek Bond, Harvey Braban, William Lyon Brown, Cherry Cottrell
Votes: 19
12. On the Comet (1970)
74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
When a comet passes the earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa with it. Carried along is a bunch of people. Among them Angelika, who just escaped from a ruthless weapon ... See full summary »
Director: Karel Zeman | Stars: Magda Vásáryová, Emil Horváth, Frantisek Filipovský, Cestmír Randa
Votes: 688
13. Mrs. Hyde (2017)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Mrs. Géquil is a teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained?
Director: Serge Bozon | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Romain Duris, José Garcia, Adda Senani
Votes: 1,659 | Gross: $0.02M
14. Ferat Vampire (1982)
90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A doctor Marek is shocked when his beloved nurse Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A fellow doctor makes him believe ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Jirí Menzel, Dagmar Havlová, Jana Brezková, Petr Cepek
Votes: 648
15. Frankenstein 90 (1984)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Eddy Mitchell, Fiona Gélin, Herma Vos
Votes: 394
16. Loss of Feeling (1935)
85 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In an unnamed English-speaking capitalist land, a young engineer invents inexhaustible giant robots to replace the fragile human workers on high-volume assembly-lines, and soon finds his ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Andriyevsky | Stars: Sergei Vecheslov, Vladimir Gardin, Mariya Volgina, Anna Chekulaeva
Votes: 182
17. The Secret of Steel City (1979)
85 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Two scientists use their inherited fortune differently. One designs a beautiful town called Fortuna, while the second builds huge factories to make munitions known as Steel City.
Director: Ludvík Ráza | Stars: Jaromír Hanzlík, Martin Ruzek, Josef Vinklár, Jan Potmesil
Votes: 322
18. Krakatit (1948)
97 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After an accidental explosion in the lab, its inventor slips in and out of dream-like hallucinations, realizing that he had given the formula to one of his colleagues, who he tries to stop before it is too late.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Karel Höger, Florence Marly, Eduard Linkers, Jirí Plachý
Votes: 477
19. 'Babicky dobíjejte presne!' (1984)
101 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always try to up the other one. Both grandmums... See full synopsis »
Director: Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Jirí Lábus, Daniela Kolárová, Libuse Havelková, Jana Dítetová
Votes: 143
20. Krakatit (2017 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
About a chemist who is able to produce exceptionally powerful explosive. He calls it "Krakatit," after the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa. A special feature of Krakatit is that erupts seemingly without cause.
Directors: Blazena Honcarivová, Alice Nellis | Stars: Karel Hábl, Zuzana Krónerová, Klára Lidová, Lenka Smídová
21. R.U.R. (1948 TV Movie)
60 min | Sci-Fi
A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.
Director: Jan Bussell | Stars: Anthony Eustrel, Eugene Leahy, Derek Tansley, Maurice Bannister
22. The Newt Congress (2022)
16 min | Short
For years now, giant talking newts have been used both for their labor and as laboratory animals. The Newt Congress takes place at a conference building surrounded by nature where ... See full summary »
Directors: Immanuel Esser, Matthias Sahli | Stars: Ursula Benz, Manuela Biedermann, Tobias Bienz, Peter Hottinger
Votes: 29
23. Temné slunce (1980)
135 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A remake of the 1948 atomic-age film, "Krakatit", by the same director. A scrupulous scientist is in the throes of a serious ethical dilemma after creating a highly-efficient explosive which may bring immeasurable suffering to mankind.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Rudolf Hrusínský, Magda Vásáryová, Jerzy Kamas
Votes: 58
24. R.U.R. (1976 TV Movie)
Sci-Fi
Technological progress, in the shape of Rossum's Universal Robots, threatens to dominate and wipe out mankind.
Director: László Marton | Stars: Péter Balázs, Karola Csürös, Judit Halász, Gábor Mádi Szabó
25. Dvacet tisic mil pod morem (1980 TV Movie)
Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Director: Pavel Kraus | Stars: Jirí Adamíra, Vítezslav Jandák, Rudolf Papezík, Jirí Pleskot
Votes: 8
26. Zelnacka (1996 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director: Pavel Hása | Stars: Josef Somr, Jan Skopecek, Kamil Halbich, Petr Kostka
Votes: 15
27. Retsept yeyo molodosti (1983)
92 min | Comedy, Musical
A musical comedy based on the play by K. Capek "The Makropulos Affair". A fantastic longevity story of a famous actress. She looks 30 - in fact, about three hundred. The secret of her youth is in a special potion invented a long time ago.
Director: Evgeniy Ginzburg | Stars: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Oleg Borisov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Anatoliy Romashin
Votes: 90
29. Bambinot (1984– )
60 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Stars: Josef Abrhám, Eliska Balzerová, Petr Cepek, Milos Kopecký
Votes: 51
30. A fehér kór (1970 TV Movie)
Director: László Nemere | Stars: Nándor Tomanek, Ferenc Bessenyei, László Sinkó, Rudolf Somogyvári
31. Blbec z Xeenemunde (1963)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A dark comedy, set during the second World War in Germany. Mentally retarded 16 year old boy manages to calculate the exact focus of miniature rockets and mercilessly kills people he does not like.
Director: Jaroslav Balík | Stars: Václav Sloup, Jan Pivec, Rudolf Hrusínský, Slávka Budínová
Votes: 43
32. A Makropulosz-ügy (1988 TV Movie)
Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Gyula Radó | Stars: Judit Hernádi, Géza Tordy, Béla Paudits, Miklós Benedek
33. O Matylde s náhradní hlavou (1985)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Directors: Adolf Born, Jaroslav Doubrava, Milos Macourek | Star: Iva Janzurová
Votes: 20
34. Sredstvo Makropulosa (1979 TV Movie)
126 min | Comedy
The Makropulos remedy is an elixir of longevity, the possibility of which becomes for the heroes of the play a test of their human viability.
Directors: Maya Markova, Vladimir Monakhov | Stars: Nelli Kornienko, Vladimir Kenigson, Aleksandr Ovchinnikov, Eduard Martsevich
Votes: 16
36. Podivná letecká spolecnost (1992 TV Movie)
59 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Oldrich Danek | Stars: Jana Brejchová, Jaromír Hanzlík, Radovan Lukavský, Ladislav Trojan
37. Der Winterschläfer (1959 TV Movie)
92 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director: Jürgen Goslar | Stars: Helmuth Lohner, Heinz-Leo Fischer, Gisela Trowe, Helmut Förnbacher
39. Vec Makropulos (1970 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Directors: Jaroslav Dudek, Karel Pokorný | Stars: Arnost Faltýnek, Daniela Kolárová, Václav Mares, Miroslav Nohýnek
40. Vec Makropulos (1967 TV Movie)
85 min | Fantasy, Music
Director: Václav Kaslík | Stars: Helga Pilarczyk, Ivo Zidek, Rudolf Vonásek, Nada Sormová
41. The Lost Face (1965)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Central Europe, 1930s: Czech physician Bartos (Vlastimil Brodský) devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of ... See full summary »
Director: Pavel Hobl | Stars: Jarmila Bechynová, Jana Brejchová, Jana Brezková, Vlastimil Brodský
Votes: 51
42. Krakatit (1961 TV Movie)
Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Director: Václav Kaslík | Stars: Beno Blachut, Milan Karpisek, Ivana Mixová, Rudolf Pellar
43. Tajemství kojence (1983 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Director: Frantisek Laurin | Stars: Zora Jandová, Ladislava Kozderková, Josef Somr, Jarmila Svehlová
44. Holcicka s náhradní hlavou (2016)
26 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Directors: Tobiás Frýdl, Daniel Polák | Stars: Eduard Balek, Karel Cervený, Benjamín Frýdl, David Frýdl
45.
Broadway Television Theatre (1952–1954)
Episode:
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
(1953)
Comedy, Drama
Technological progress, in the shape of Rossum's Universal Robots, threatens to dominate and wipe out mankind.
Stars: Dorothy Hart, Hugh Reilly
47.
ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
Episode:
The Macropulos Secret
(1958)
Drama
Director: Peter Cotes | Stars: Eva Bartok, Erik Chitty, Pearl Dadswell, Philip Latham
48.
Matinee Theatre (1955–1958)
Episode:
The Makropoulos Incident
(1958)
Drama, Horror, Mystery
Stars: John Conte, Sarah Churchill