Le Voyage dans la Lune Georges Méliès (1902)

Le Voyage dans la Lune Georges Méliès


A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black and white silent science fiction film.


It is loosely based on two popular novels of the time:  From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.


The film was written and directed by Georges Méliès, assisted by his brother Gaston. The film runs 14 minutes if projected at 16 frames per second, which was the standard frame rate at the time the film was produced. 

It was extremely popular at the time of its release and is the best-known of the hundreds of fantasy films made by Méliès.


Metropolis (1927)


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In a Futuristic City sharply divided between the working class and the City planners, the Son of the city's Mastermind falls in love with a working class Prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to Mediate their Differences.



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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Forbidden Planet (1956)

A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has.

The Time Machine (1960)

The Time Machine (1960)

A scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race and a cannibalistic one living underground.


His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.


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A Clockwork Orange (1971)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

In future Britain, Alex DeLarge, a charismatic and psychopath delinquent, who likes to practice crimes and ultra-violence with his gang, is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan.


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Soylent Green (1973)

Soylent Green (1973)

In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.

Westworld (1973)

Westworld (1973)

A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

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David Bowie | The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)

An alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications.

Battlestar Galactica (1978)

Battlestar Galactica 1978


After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.

Alien (1979)

After a space merchant vessel receives an unknown transmission as a distress call, one of the crew is attacked by a mysterious life form and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

The Black Hole (1979)

THE BLACK HOLE  (1979)

The explorer craft U.S.S. Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the magnificent U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering near a black hole.


The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, Maximillian. But the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.

Blade Runner [1982]

IN THE SMOG-CHOCKED DYSTOPIAN

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Blade Runner Rick Deckard

is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants

who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.


The Terminator (1984)

A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.

Stargate (1994)

An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.

The Fifth Element (1997)

The Fifth Element 1997

In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

I, Robot (2004)

In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.

Ex Machina (2014)

Caleb, a 26 year old programmer at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company.


But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

The Dark Tower (2017)

A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and open the gates of Hell.