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Short film from Alexander Kluge.  More of a music video

Talky Soviet Solaris clone.  Which means it’s really, really talky

Wild Japanese Swordfight epic — with spaceships eating each other

Czech Jules Verne adaptation

One room, four scientists — and a lot of numbers…

Wow!  Brilliant Future Tech Film Noir Murder Mystery

Teen comedy with ancient aliens and a legendary monster hunter.  Aka, Taro

German Horror film, where the real monsters aren’t from Outer Space

Insane HK robot rumble.  A true Guilty Pleasure

Of Mice and Men with monsters?  Sparklers from space?

Only Jerry Warren could make mad science dull!

World’s worst archaeologists vs. Prehistoric Humanoid.  Or a Bacon Mummy.

“Let’s put on a show!”  Andy Hardy meets the aliens???

Buddhist magic — boosted by 5000 horsepower!

Huge monster fights giant windup toy robot.  Only Keita Amemiya, right?

The “perfect” ship, the “perfect” crew and the end of civilization

New Wave time-twisting murder mystery

Please don’t reveal the secret ending to your friends (or show them the trailer)

Canadian Punk Sci Fi: Black, cynical and satiric…

Ominous short film about the dangers of AI

A Direct-to-VHS Action Teen Sex Comedy Hacker film…

Bruce Campbell B-Movie goodness!

Buddy Cop Cyberpunk Revenge Film.  One of those

Genius inventor, on a plane, with a lot of familiar Time travel tropes…

  • Terminator 2 (1989)

See Shocking Dark

An Art House French Mad Max?  If only it were that simple…

Desperate insect DNA enhanced soldiers fight giant cockroaches. Soulless

Bad CGI T-Rexs and… Body Positivity???

Toei’s answer to Godzilla.  A very strange one at that

Radioactive statues from the future never lead to anything good…

Louisiana Good Ol’ Boys hunt a monster in the Bayou.  With lots of talk

Filipino Jacques Tourneur-style mad scientist film.

  • THE TERROR OF DR. CHANEY (1976)

See Mansion of the Doomed

The first last Godzilla film…

Yet another Roger Corman Alien Ripoff, by way of The Andromeda Strain

  • TERRORE NELLO SPAZIO (1965)

See Planet of the Vampires

An R-rated kid’s movie?  A sex comedy with kids?  You decide!

The Classic.  Giant Ants, the Army, and James Whitmore…

Fourth Wall slasher film with the world’s stupidest Alien invader

Brett Piper’s wonderfully trashy fish monster film!

Roger Corman homage.  A salesman sells us out for…a new vacuum cleaner?

  • They Saved Hitler’s Brain (1968)

See The Madmen of Mandoras

Brilliant, must-see short film about two strangers talking in a diner.

  • Thin Air (1969)

See Invasion of the Body Stealers

What did I do to deserve this????
  • The Thinking Robots (1976)

See Le collectionneur des cerveaux

Impressive art house SF debut film.  Totally unlikable, but that’s the point

  • Third Planet After the Sun [The Third Planet] (1972)

See Treta sled slantzeto

  • The Third Dragon (1985)

See Tretí sarkano

  • The Thirteenth Apostle (1988)

See Trinadtsatyy apostol

Never let the effects guys write your comedy.  Not even if you have Lou Costello

Delivered fresh to your doorstep!

This is why we need independent film! Brilliant Kiwi Comedy

  • Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)

See Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon

  • THREE GIANT MONSTER GOURMET (2020)

See Monster SeaFood Wars

Written and designed by Jean “Moebius” Giraud

Hong Kong Giant Robot Tokusatusu movie…stolen from Japan?…

India’s “first” space film?  Maybe not.  But it is preposterous fun

  • The Time Breakdown (2016)

See A Repartição do Tempo

Ignore the robots.  Interesting low budget time travel thriller.

  • Time Matrix (2013)

See Eternity

Stellar Anime about people sitting in a bar talking.  To robots

Complex time travel complications in a small Italian town

Yet another Chinese tomb raiding SF action movie.

  • Time Raiders (2021)

See Danger! Danger!

Ong Bak meets Retroactive.  Or something like that

  • The Time to Die (1970)

See Le temps de mourir

A real Frankenstein monster of a bargain basement time travel film

Hey, the sets were right next to each other, we have to make this film!

Imaginative short SF comedy

Time loops, subs, clones, cyborgs, rayguns, and whatever else they thought of

Ancient alien mummy from King Tut’s tomb stalks busty co-eds

Astronaut ends up a year ahead of himself — and invisible…

Yet another brain-washed supersoldier thriller

An unsettling collage animated Art House reimagining of The Langoliers

That’s one way to star in your own movie!  Bland kids’ fare

Think Flight of the Navigator, only not as good…

Pilot for a cyberpunk series that never was, with a story by Robert Holmes

The past, present and future collide.  Only really cheap and silly

The female Laurel and Hardy meet a robot…

Vincent Price and a creature that lives on fear…

Idiot cavemen, dangerous creatures and a T-Rex Korean-style — all in “grunt.”

Wild computer-assisted Hollywood anime by Don Bluth.  A must-see…

  • Titan Find (1985)

See Creature

  • Titanium (2014)

See Vychislitel

Romantic alternate history Anime

Beautiful teen time travel drama from the director of Hausu…

  • Tokyo Blackout (1987)

See Shuto shôshitsu

  • Tomb of the Living Dead (1968)

See Mad Doctor of Blood Island

Toho’s Godzilla follow-up, without a giant lizard in sight

First surviving Japanese SF film.  A lot of fun

Stephen King’s Quatermass and the Pit?  Yeah, pretty much

  • Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)

See Zítra vstanu a oparím se cajem

Give the audience everything they want! Chris Pratt saves the world

Italian “Raiders” clone.  With aliens.  It’s fun

  • The Torture Chamber (1968)

See Fear Chamber.  Also known as Torture Zone

Children find toys from the future.  What could possibly go wrong?…

Canadian TV movie about a deadly A.I.

Ugggghhh.  There are worse films, but this one is bad enough

A werewolf story with a lizard man — and the moon gets directly involved!

Larry Blamire strikes again.  But no lost skeleton this time…

  • Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020)

See Bando

Dry hair is for squids!  Time travelling Bad Ass cop from the Future.

A Full Moon Features Sequel that’s…better than the original?

Even Joe Roche can’t save this one…

  • Transmutations (1985)

See Underworld

  • The Trap (1975)

See Fällan 

Wild warm up OVA sort-of prequel for Redline…

Two guys in Blackpool make a SF movie.  It isn’t bad

Female time agents.  In short, tight, leather uniforms

Compelling drama based on…abstract math?

  • Treasure of the Bitch Islands (1990)

See Le trésor des îles chiennes

A fun look at the excesses of Trek fandom, but…

Classic B-Movie giant worm goodness with Val and Earl

More of the same – and proud of it

The seventh — and hopefully last.

Strange and arty pulp science fiction by underground legend F.J. Ossang…

Anthology film from Bulgaria.  The past, present and even the future…

Three young boys pursue a mysterious secret.  But not the one by Joe Dante…

Paranoid conspiracy thriller made from bits and pieces of other films  

A guy in a suit wrestles a stop-motion dino!  Brett Piper’s finest moment!

Dark, grim and gritty adaption of Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles

  • Trip to the Moon (1959)

See Rehla ilal kamar

Joan Crawford finds the missing link…and teaches him to play catch?

Think Rodan, only with a giant stone monster.  Who can’t fly…

Ignore the critics.  Excellent Quatermass inspired SF horror

What was wrong with Maximum Overdrive, anyway?…

In the city of vampires, something even worse is stirring…

  • Tsenzor (2017)

See Censor

Perhaps the first Science Fiction feature film.  But they got better eventually

Arty not-quite-an-adaptation of the Fredrik Pohl story

BMX road warrior vs. Michael Ironside

Ozploitation classic:  So good Arnold Schwarzenegger copied it!

  • “Turkish Flash Gordon” (1967)

See Baytekin — fezada çarpisanlar

Classic BAD film.  Cobbled together from bits of your favorites!

  • 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 (2020)

See 8-ka de shinda kaijû no 12-nichi no monogatari

  • 12 Hours (2022)

See Ji Di Zhui Ji

Twilight Zone-ish short film

Truly Epic

Absurd Indian Popcorn Time-Travelling fun!

Behind the scenes at Mamoru Oshii’s play. Oh, and the robot flies…

Rochester and Jane Eyre aboard a submarine

Another of Brett Piper’s Two Minute Klassics.  Brilliant

Doctor Moreau’s Most Dangerous Game.  Or something like that…

Wild and crazy robot action with giant monsters. Comfortable as an old shoe

Arch Oboler’s evil TV movie

Intrigue on the moon in Enki Billal’s decaying future

  • Tyranno’s Claw (1994)

See Tirannoui baltob

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