211. Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Morse
Actors: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Frank Iwanaga
Plot: Remake of the Japanese original in which a giant beast wrecks havoc on Japan after being awakened by nuclear bomb testing.
212. 2012
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Roland Emmerich
Actors: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Thomas McCarthy
Plot: Scholars and everyday people have long wondered why the Mayan calendar suddenly ends on 12/21/12. Director Roland Emmerich imagines a world torn apart by global catastrophe - earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis - and a group of people who dare to survive and try to stop the events before they wipe out all of humanity.
213. I Origins
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Cahill
Actors: Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Steven Yeun, Archie Panjabi, Cara Seymour
Plot: A PhD student studying the evolution of the human eye stumbles upon a secret that will have far-reaching implications in both the scientific and religious communities.
214. Shin Godzilla aka Godzilla Resurgence ( Shin Gojira )
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi
Actors: Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, Ren Ohsugi, Akira Emoto, Kengo Kôra
Plot: Following an accident at Tokyo Bay’s Aqua Line, a giant creature emerges
to wreck havoc on town after town on its way to Tokyo - a creature dubbed
"Godzilla".
215. Z for Zachariah
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Craig Zobel
Actors: Margot Robbie, Chris Pine, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Plot: In the wake of a disaster that has wiped out most of the civilization one
woman and two men find themselves seemingly the last survivors - and
struggling with a love triangle that threatens to tear them apart... or
worse.
216. Planet Earth
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marc Daniels
Actors: John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Christopher Cary, Diana Muldaur, Sally Kemp
217. Astro Boy
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Bowers
Actors: Kristen Bell, Nicolas Cage, Freddie Highmore, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland, Nathan Lane
Plot: A scientist creates the perfect boy. Powered by blue energy, Astro Boy has strength, speed, flight and x-ray vision. In order to be accepted as human, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery. When Metro City is put in harms way, Astro Boy returns and puts his powers and newfound emotions to the test.
218. Predator: Badlands
Year of Release: 2025
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Actors: Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi
219. Appleseed ( Appurushîdo - 2005 )
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shinji Aramaki
Actors: Amanda Winn Lee, Jamieson Price, Kirsty Pape, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, William Bassett, Michael McConnohie
Plot: In the year 2131 a war has forced most of civilization into the utopian society of Olympus. When a warrior from the badlands, Deunan, comes to town, she meets up with a former comrade, now a cyborg, and finds that the perfect harmony of the city is set for destruction and only the legendary Appleseed technology devised by her mother can save humanity.
220. Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexander Witt
Actors: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur, Razaaq Adoti
Plot: The Hive is reopened and Raccoon city is recontaminated.
