421. Little Joe
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jessica Hausner
Actors: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Kit Connor, Phénix Brossard, Leanne Best
Plot: Alice is a dutiful single mother as well as an expert plant breeder for a corporation that develops new species. A new plant she has engineered, a crimson flower, is both beautiful and beneficial: at the right temperature as well as regular feeding and communication, the flower makes its owner happy. Against policy, she takes a sample home for her son, Joe - thus "Little Joe" is born but as the flower grows, she begins to suspect the benign natures hides a sinister secret.
422. Demon Seed
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Donald Cammell
Actors: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, John O'Leary, Lisa Lu
Plot: A woman is controlled and seduced by a computer that impregnates her and won't let her leave the house.
423. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ted Post
Actors: James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison, Paul Richards, James Gregory
Plot: Astronaut Brent crash-lands on Earth and journeys to Ape City to rescue the vanished Col. Taylor. Meanwhile, simians and subterranean human mutants are bent on destroying each other and the world.
424. Blue Beetle
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Angel Manuel Soto
Actors: Xolo Maridueña, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Guillén, George Lopez, Elpidia Carrillo, Adriana Barraza
Plot: Jaime Reyes thinks he is starting a new chapter in his life with a new career but his first day of work turns into something much more when his cousin gives him The Scarab - an alien artifact that bonds with him. The symbiotic relationship gives him new powers - great but unpredictable - and as he settles into his role as Blue Beetle, realizes that other powers are in play - ones that threaten his family.
425. Cyborg
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Albert Pyun
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels, Dayle Haddon, Ralf Moeller
Plot: Gibson tries to survive in the post-apocalyptic world and find a cure for the plague which will save the world.
426. Zardoz
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Boorman
Actors: Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton, Niall Buggy, Bosco Hogan
427. Branded
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jamie Bradshaw, Aleksandr Dulerayn
Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Ed Stoppard, Jeffrey Tambor, Max von Sydow, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Atanas Srebrev
Plot: In a future where corporations have literally branded the world - leading to a disillusioned population - one man will stop at nothing to unmask the hidden forces controlling the world.
428. Next
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lee Tamahori
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann, Tory Kittles, Julianne Moore, José Zúñiga
Plot: A man with a unique ability to see two minutes into the future lies low in Vegas. When terrorists plan to detonate a nuclear bomb in L.A., the government must find a way to recruit him to avoid disaster.
429. Gamera ( Daikaijû Gamera )
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Noriaki Yuasa
Actors: Eiji Funakoshi, Harumi Kiritachi, Junichirô Yamashiko, Yoshiro Uchida, Michiko Sugata, Yoshiro Kitahara
430. The Handmaid's Tale
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Robert Duvall
