161. Fahrenheit 451
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, Jeremy Spenser, Bee Duffell
Plot: in a society that forbids books a fireman (a man that burns books), get curious, and begins reading them.
162. Stargate Continuum
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Martin Wood
Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, Ben Browder, Christopher Judge
Plot: SG-1 travel to the Tokra home world to witness the execution of Ba'al, the last remaining system lord. While there however things quickly go awry as Teal'c + Vala vanish into thing Air. Mitchell, Carter + Jackson race back to the Stargate but when they arrive on Earth discover that things have been drastically altered.
163. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Garth Jennings
Actors: Bill Bailey, Mos Def, Warwick Davis, Anna Chancellor, Sam Rockwell, Martin Freeman
Plot: The planet is about to be destroyed by aliens, who are making an interstellar highway, when Arthur Dent is teleported off into a spacecraft by his friend who is really an alien. Follow this great adventure filled with depressed robots, two-headed men, ingenious mice and giant super computers.
164. Monkey Business
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal
Plot: A chemist stumbles upon a formula that brings back youth - and after taking a dose, finds himself living the good life of teenager. But when his wife receives an even bigger dose, it opens the door for all kinds of trouble.
165. The Man Who Fell to Earth
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey, Tony Mascia
Plot: A humanoid alien comes to earth to get water for his dying planet but becomes distracted by the pleasures and pains he encounters here instead.
166. Elysium
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Actors: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, William Fichtner, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, Michael Shanks
Plot: In the year 2159 the ultra-wealthy live in luxury and pristine conditions on the man-made space station Elysium while the majority of the people must get by living on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. While some work to preserve the lifestyles of rich by keeping immigration under control, others on Earth will stop at nothing to make sure equality is brought to everyone.
167. The X Files: Fight the Future
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Bowman
Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau, Mitch Pileggi
Plot: After five years, the X-Files have been closed down and agent Mulder and
Scully are assigned regular duty. In Texas, a federal building is
destroyed, but investigating the matter leads not to terrorists, but their
own government behind the plot. This cover-up leads to an even bigger
conspiracy involving a powerful cabal of men and a mysterious
extraterrestrial virus.
168. Lessons of Darkness ( Lektionen in Finsternis )
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Werner Herzog
Plot: Werner Herzog's documentary about the burning of the Kuwaiti oil fields eschews formal interviews and commentary and lets music and striking visuals tell the tale.
169. Last Night
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don McKellar
Actors: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell, Sarah Polley, David Cronenberg, Callum Keith Rennie
170. In Time
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andrew Niccol
Actors: Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Matt Bomer, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Miller
Plot: Mankind has figured out how to turn off the aging gene. To avoid overpopulation time had become the new currency and the rich are now near immortal while the rest of the people must barter to extend their lives. When a poor man comes into a wealth of time, he comes under the watchful eye of the corrupted "Time Keepers" and must now figure out how to avoid them to enjoy his sudden extended life.
