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Criterion collection volume 820
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This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine like leaders.
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In Bruno Dumont’s farcical follow-up, Li’l Quinquin is all grown up and goes by the nickname CoinCoin. He hangs out on the Côte D’Opale and attends meetings of the Nationalist Party with his childhood friend Fatso. His old love, Eve, has abandoned him for Corinne. When a strange magma is found near the town, the inhabitants suddenly start to behave very weirdly. Our beloved heroes Captain Van Der Weyden and his loyal assistant Carpentier...
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On a distant planet, tiny humanoid creatures called Oms live in fear of the Draags. Draags are blue-skinned, red-eyed creatures standing over 40 feet tall. When a Draag child casually kills a human mother with a flick of her finger, she makes amends by adopting the dead woman's child as a pet. However, the new pet quickly figures out the secret of Draag brainpower and escapes to share his knowledge with a band of humans. Together, the humans make...
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Two years have passed since elite police officer Damien Tomasso teamed up with reformed vigilante Leito to save the notorious District 13, a racially charged ghetto populated by violent drug-dealing gangs and vicious killers. Despite government promises to maintain order, the state of the district has deteriorated and is causing civil unrest. A group of corrupt cops and elected officials begin conspiring to cash in on the district's redevelopment....
5) MFKZ
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Angelino and his skull-and-flame pal Vinz live in a seedy tenement in a burnt-out, gang-and cockroach-ridden dystopian metropolis. Following a scooter accident, Angelino starts experiencing migraines and strange hallucinations, as well as fits of rage-inspired superpowers, as he slowly awakens to the truth of his origins.
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A classic fantasy film featuring trick photography. It was conceived as a spoof of a Jules Verne's novel, De la terre à la lune. A group of scientists fly to the moon, are captured, escape, and fall vertically back to earth. Includes scenes of dancers from the Théâtre du Châtelet and acrobats from the Folies-Bergère.
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Criterion collection volume 820
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This futuristic story takes place on a faraway planet where blue giants rule, and oppressed humanoids rebel against the machine like leaders.
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Claude Ridder is recovering from a failed suicide attempt after the collapse of his relationship with Catrine. He is approached by an obscure scientific lab, who wants him to participate in the human trials of a new time travel device. The test will send him back one year's time, for one minute. But the machine goes haywire, and Ridder gets caught in a never-ending series of temporal leaps, re-living his tragic life out of sequence.
9) Alphaville
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American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant space city of the film₂s title where he must find a missing person and kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff co-star in this cockeyed fusion of science fiction with pulp characters and surrealist poetry. Godard₂s irreverent journey to the mysterious city remains one of the least conventional films of all time.
10) The gravity
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Chaos ensues when an unprecedented alignment of planets, impacting the Earth's gravity, upsets the balance of a futuristic ghetto run by a ruthless gang and the destiny of two brothers eager for their freedom in an unceasing fight between the old and new generations.
11) Dante 01
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At the edge of the galaxy drifts a hellish space station designed to study the criminally insane imprisoned within. After a new prisoner arrives he begins to reveal frightening alien powers. As the other occupants become infected with the dangerous power a vicious uprising is unleashed.
12) Star Trek IV
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The command crew of the Enterprise travels back in time to bring two humpback whales to the future Earth to save the planet from being destroyed by a mysterious alien probe.
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In the deepest reaches of space, the fight to save all human life from extinction has begun. Hoping for lasting peace following centuries of intense warfare, the Twelve Colonies gather to sign a treaty with their dreaded enemies, the Cylons. But after an act of treachery, the Cylons launch a devasting surprise attack, destroying the Colonies home planet. A lone flagship, the Galactica, remains to aid the surviving colonists on their epic journey to...
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American secret agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant space city of the film's title where he must find a missing person and kill the inventor of fascist computer Alpha 60. Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff co-star in this cockeyed fusion of science fiction with pulp characters and surrealist poetry. Godard's irreverent journey to the mysterious city remains one of the least conventional films of all time.
16) La cité des enfants perdus =: The city of lost children ; directors, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
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This fantastically twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on a dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls...
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Criterion collection volume 387
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La jetée: While at the Orly Airport observation deck, a boy sees a man shot. Shortly afterwards World War III breaks out and Paris is destroyed by nuclear weapons. As one of the survivors, the now grown man is chosen as part of an experiment in time travel because he has a strong grasp on a moment in the past-- the image of the man being shot at the airport. He is successfully sent back in time. But once in the past, he falls in love with a girl,...