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Moonfall(2022)

PG-13
| 2h 10min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
3.2/5 (with 1,204 votes)

A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.

Back to the Future Part II(1989)

PG
| 1h 48min | Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
3.9/5 (with 5,973 votes)

Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.

The Good Dinosaur(2015)

3.4/5 (with 2,458 votes)

An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

District 9(2009)

R
| 1h 52min | Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 4,205 votes)

Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is unconcerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9.

A Flintstone Christmas(1977)

3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Santa has an accident at Fred's house on Christmas Eve, Fred and Barney have to continue his run for him.

The Twelve Tasks of Asterix(1976)

3.7/5 (with 525 votes)

Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human".

Ong Bak 3(2010)

R
| 1h 35min | Action, Adventure, History
3.0/5 (with 199 votes)

Tien is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his arch rival returns challenging Tien for a final duel.

Just Visiting(2001)

PG
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
2.4/5 (with 307 votes)

A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 12th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his family and slowly learns what this new century is like. However, he still needs to get back to the 12th century to deal with the witch, so he starts looking for a wizard. Remake of 1993 French film Les Visiteurs (The Visitors).

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade(1999)

3.7/5 (with 193 votes)

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the suicide bombing of a young girl and is forced to undergo retraining. However, unbeknownst to him, he becomes a key player in a dispute between rival police divisions, as he finds himself increasingly involved with the sister of the girl he saw die.

Directed by Hiroyuki Okiura - With Yoshikatsu Fujiki, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Eri Sendai, Kōsei Hirota, Yoshisada Sakaguchi

The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot(2019)

R
| 1h 36min | Drama, Adventure, Fantasy
2.7/5 (with 183 votes)

Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot.

Directed by Robert D. Krzykowski

We Were Tomorrow(2017)

How many lifetimes will alter tomorrow? In attempt to salvage humanity, alchemists relocate a small group to an alternative world and grant them three lifetimes to restart the population. Now, after only a few centuries, those in the new world face annihilation faster than those in the world they left behind. Tattooed with the key to escape, twin siblings Noah and Evelyn, battle through three vastly alternate lifetimes, to reconnect with their matches William and Siena, before time, an immortal hunter Cain, or the world, robs them of their last chance.

April and the Extraordinary World(2015)

3.5/5 (with 134 votes)

France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.

Directed by Franck Ekinci
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Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars(2009)

4.0/5 (with 97 votes)

In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.

2009: Lost Memories(2002)

2h 16min | Thriller, Action, Drama
3.1/5 (with 30 votes)

There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a major city. A Korean resistance group fights for liberty, independence & the restoration of true history. Two cops, Japanese & Korean, investigate the group.

Good Morning, Night(2003)

1h 46min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 81 votes)

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.

Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean(2005)

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planned third atomic bombing of Japan. Based on Harutoshi Fukui's novel Shuusen no Lorelei.

Directed by Shinji Higuchi

Code Geass: Akito the Exiled 2: The Wyvern Divided(2013)

3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

The war between Euro Britannia and the European Union continues. New orders are given to the W-0 Unit. To land in the middle of the enemy territory as a diversion. The pilots of the W-0 Unit consist only of the commanding officer, Leila, the only surviving Japanese from their last battle, Akito, and the three that escaped from the Eleven ghettos and lived in the underworld, Ryou, Yukiya, and Ayano. With everyone holding their respective expectations, the operation moves forward. On the other side in Euro Britannia, Shin, who made his benefactor commit suicide with the mysterious power of “Geass”, is appointed the leader of the Knights of St. Michael. As Shin steadily advances for the sake of his own ambition, he and his subordinates in the Ashura squad are given orders to deploy. The one that lives in order to fight, and the one that fights in order to live.

Samurai Commando Mission 1549(2005)

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.

Directed by Masaaki Tezuka

The Twentieth Century(2019)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Toronto, Canada, 1899. William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) fervently believes that he is destined to become Prime Minister, but to do so he will first have to fight his personal obsessions and overcome the many obstacles he will encounter on his tortuous path to power.

Kamen Rider Ryuki Special: 13 Riders(2002)

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

This television special is an alternate telling of the Kamen Rider Ryuki story. Shinji Kido's life, working as an employee at ORE Journal, takes a sharp turn after being pulled into the Mirror World by a Mispider. Luckily, he was saved by a Kamen Rider Ryuki, Koichi Sakakibara. However, Sakakibara could no longer go on due to the severity of his injuries and passed his Card Deck to Shinji, allowing him to become the next Ryuki and defeat the monster.

Shadow on the Land(1968)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.

The Lost Ship(2024)

A decades spanning mystery commencing in 1945 after the mysterious deaths of Adolf Hitler and Subhash Chandra Bose, and culminating in 2022 at the height of the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Mysteries of the Gods(1976)

1h 27min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

William Shatner explores the theory that the U.S. government is involved in a cover-up of visiting alien spacecraft. Based on a book by Erich von Däniken, this documentary contains evidence of extraterrestrial life here on earth. Proof discovered through photographs taken by scientists and evidence of actual voyages found by archaeologists.

Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings Volume 4: The Hidden Faith of the Founding Fathers(2011)

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The 'Hidden Faith of Our Founding Fathers' is perhaps the first and only documentary to go where no film has ever gone before: into the hidden faith of America's founding fathers. Many founders were involved in secret societies, and yet it is often claimed these men were Christians who were trying to build a Christian nation. But was their faith the true faith of the Bible? And is it possible, as some claim, that the exact opposite is true? What did the founders believe about the Person of Jesus Christ? Were they fighting for Christianity, or against it? Moreover, is it possible that the events of the American Revolution have a much darker significance in the pages of Bible prophecy than most church leaders are aware?

Snodgrass(2013)

24min | Drama

In 1991 50-year old John Lennon, living on the dole in Birmingham and following the moderate success of the Beatles, recalls how he left the band in 1962 after they were persuaded to release 'How Do You Do It?' as a single, rather than 'Love Me Do'.

Anthony(2020)

1h 26min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

In July 2005, black teenager Anthony Walker was murdered by two white men in an unprovoked racist attack in a Liverpool park. He was just 18 years old. This film tells the story of how this talented young man's life might have turned out.

Unknown Redux(2017)

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

UNKNOWN REDUX is a short movie by Anssi Määttä and Antti Tuominen, where events depicted happen in a fictitious Finland and it's alternative history.

Touch the Sun: Peter & Pompey(1988)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The fate of a young Australian boy is somehow linked with that of a young Roman boy who had traveled to Australia by ship during the time of the Roman Emperor, Nero.

Directed by Michael Carson - With Emil Minty

Beneath the Hagia Sophia(2023)

1h 35min | Documentary

A documentary about Hagia Sophia. But somewhere nobody seen or filmed before. Cisterns, wells and passages beneath the Hagia Sophia.

The Battle of Mohács(2004)

1h 22min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

By the notes of Fiáth Pompeiusz, the one-time friend of Kapa and Pepe, Professor Szirtes has solved the secret of the time machine, and he realizes the invention relying on "special" H2O. Kapa and Pepe shall return by it into the past in order to set time right, which is out of joint, that is, to correct history, to save King Louis II, and prevent the Mohács Disaster. Pepe yields to the not too tender persuasion to enter upon the great journey through time, dies and revives, and they arrive at the battlefield of Mohács in time. Kapa films the events. The Turks win and cut off the king’s, Pepe’s, head, still the Hungarians dictate the peace treaty. Kapa and Pepe want to return, they fill the time machine up with water from the well, yet it won’t start. Even so Kapa and Pepe hover over Budapest and quarrel.

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