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3) Prometheus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Explorers have discovered a clue that brings them to the origins of mankind on Earth. This leads them on a journey that takes them to the darkest corners of the universe.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[200-]
Language
English
Description
An extraterrestrial cat named Jake is forced to crash-land his spaceship on Earth. Jake then proceeds to lead a physicist, his girlfriend, the Army and a team of baffled scientists on endless escapades during his unscheduled and hilarious visit.
6) Aliens
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
After escaping an encounter with aliens, the only survivor is asked to return to the scene as an advisor for a group of disbelieving Marines.
7) Solaris
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
On a space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris, terrified crew members are experiencing a host of strange phenomena, including eerie visitors who seem all too human.
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Russian
Description
Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011], c2010
Language
English
Description
After a human-looking alien race arrives on Earth and shares their healing powers and new technology, several resistance fighters become determined to expose the truth of what the aliens really are and reveal their secrets to the world.
13) They live
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
One man discovers that aliens are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Only specially made sunglasses make the deadly truth visible.
14) Avatar
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Jake Sully is a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where a corporate consortium is mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Telos where an Earth archaeological expedition, led by Professor Parry, is attempting to uncover the lost tombs of the Cybermen. With a lot of help from the Doctor, the archaeologists enter the tombs. There, one of the party, Klieg, reveals himself and his business partner, Kaftan, to be planning to revive the Cybermen.
16) Red Dwarf: XI
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An unambitious slob has been awakened from a 3 million year sleep to find out he may be the last human alive. Hopelessly lost in space, this crew of mutant bachelors kill time and share adventures aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf.
17) Red Dwarf: X
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The most inept band of space travelers ever to roam the interstellar highway returns with an all-new season of misadventures. This series begins with the Dwarfers mining ship still creaking through the wastelands of unchartered deep space, but the posse soon stumbles upon the mysteriously abandoned SS Trojan. As they inspect the ship Rimmer receives an SOS distress call from an old foe and is suddenly faced with the dilemma of his life.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A police detective in the asteroid belt, the first officer of an interplanetary ice freighter and an earth-bound United Nations executive slowly discover a vast conspiracy that threatens the Earth's rebellious colony on the asteroid belt.
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