Movies (fiction) by Category

20 million miles to earth 2005, 2002, 1957

A spaceship returns to earth from Venus, bringing a sample of the local life form to study. The animal escapes, and is pursued by the locals and the military. 1 videodisc (82 min.)

MEDIA 10-4432

 

Akira 2001

Katsuhiro Otomo, Ryohei Suzuki, Shunzo Kato, Izo Hashimoto, Mitsuo Iwata, Nozumo Sasaki, Mami Koyami, Katsuhiro Otomo, Pioneer Entertainment (USA), and Akira Committee (Firm)

A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious. 1 videodiscs (124 min.)

MEDIA 10-251

 

Alien 1992, 1979

Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill, Ridley Scott, Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, and Veronica Cartwright

Seven astronauts on a routine mission encounter an awesome galactic horror. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

MEDIA 10-3756             2-2433

 

Alphaville une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution c1998, 1965

Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion. 1 videodisc (99 min.)

MEDIA 10-4201

 

Blade runner 1999, 1982

Philip K Dick, Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, Michael Deeley, Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, and Daryl Hannah

Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert "blade runner," must identify and execute four replicants, (genetically engineered beings virtually identical to humans) which have illegally returned to earth from their off-world slave duty. 1 videocassette (117 min.)  DVD

DANA       MEDIA         MEDIA 1303             2-1705            10-66

 

The boys from Brazil 2009

Martin Richards, Stanley O'Toole, Franklin J Schaffner, Heywood Gould, Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason , Ira Levin, Producer Circle Company, and Lion's Gate Films

A band of Nazi leaders, escaped from postwar Germany, scheme to return to power. Their plans to dominate the world are based on a bizarre biological experiment undertaken by Josef Mengele: to clone Hitler. 1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.)

MEDIA 10-2232

 

Brazil 1986, 1985

Terry Gilliam, Robert De Niro, Jonathan Pryce, and Katherine Helmond

A surrealistic view of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme and everyone is monitored by a secret government agency. 1 videocassette (131 min.)

MEDIA 2-597   10-03 10-04 10-05    2-7509

 

The butterfly effect c2004

Chris Bender, J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress , Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz , Bender-Spink, Inc, Film Engine (Firm), Katalyst Films (Firm), New Line Home Entertainment (Firm), and New Line Cinema Corporation

Evan Treborn wants to be free of his disturbing childhood memories. As a young child, he often blacked out for long periods of time and would try to detail his life through journal writing. As a young adult, he revisits the journal entries to figure out the truth about his troubled childhood friends Kayleigh, Lenny, and Tommy. When he discovers he can travel back in time in order to set things right, he does so in order to save his beloved friends. But he discovers that for every change he makes in the past, there is an unexpected consequences in the future. 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.)

MEDIA 10-1007

 

Café flesh 1999, 1982

1 videodisc (74 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3810

 

Children of men 2007

Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor,  Charlie Hunnam, Hilary Shor, Alfonso Cuarón, P. D James, Universal Pictures (Firm), Strike Entertainment (Firm), and Hit and Run Productions

London, 2027, humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Theo Faron, a London peace activist turned bureaucrat, joins forces with his revolutionary ex-wife, Julian, in order to save mankind by protecting a woman who has mysteriously became pregnant. These three set out on a desperate struggle to deliver the world's only pregnant woman to the Human Project with hope that they can discover the cure for global infertility. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-1105

 

A clockwork orange 2007, 1971

Stanley Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Wendy Carlos, Anthony Burgess, Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

"Being the adventures of a young man who couldn't resist pretty girls, or a bit of the old ultra-violence, who went to jail, was re-conditioned, and came out a different young man. Or was he?" So might opine your humble narrator, Alex. Alex and his droogs Georgie, Dim, and Pete are bored. Alex loves Ludwig van, milk bars, and mayhem. One night a botched burglary ends in murder. Apprehended by the police, Alex is tried, sentenced, and sent to prison for fourteen years. Two years into his sentence, he signs up for The Ludovico Treatment, and is released as cured. However, the world is a harsh and violent place, and now Alex is unable to defend himself. O my brothers, what will happen to poor Alex now? 2 videodiscs (137 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3414

 

The crazies 2010, 1973

A biological weapon gone awry is only the start of problems a small Pennsylvania town, Evans City.  1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-4410

 

The day the Earth stood still c2009, 1951, 2008

Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy humans that mankind is worth saving, but it may be too late. 2 videodiscs (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-4616

 

Demon seed 2011

When a scientist and his wife separate so he can work on a biological supercomputer, the computer takes over his house and his wife. Follow Susan's desperate attempts to outmaneuver and outthink her captor. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-5466

 

Earth vs. the flying saucers 2005, 2002, 1956

Earthlings battle alien humanoids for the survival of the planet. A cult classic with extraordinary visual effects. 1 videodisc (83 min.)

MEDIA 10-4431

 

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind c2004

Steve Golin, Anthony Bregman, Charlie Kaufman, Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry, Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson, Universal Pictures (Firm), and Focus Features

When Joel discovers that his girlfriend, Clementine, has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind through an experimental scientific procedure, he decides to ease his own pain by getting the same treatment. But, as each memory of Clementine is systematically eliminated, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her and desperately attempts to reverse the process. 1 videodisc (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-382

 

The falls 2006

Presents two major works by Peter Greenaway. The Falls is divided into 92 biographies of people who have all been affected by "VUE," the Violent Unknown Event, a phenomenon in some way connected with birds and flying. In Vertical features remake, a playful parody of avant-garde theorising, academics argue about the work of Tulse Luper, Greenaway's best-known fictional character. 1 videodisc (239 min.)

MEDIA 10-5469

 

Forbidden planet 2006, 1956

Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space cruiser crew, and Robby the Robot, to the green-skied world that's home to Dr. Morbius and his daughter, and to a mysterious terror. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-4613

 

Gattaca 2008, 1997

As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director is brutally murdered, a clue left at the crime scene threatens to shatter Vincent's plans. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-3867

 

Gladiatorerna The gladiators 2006, c1969

Peter Watkins, Göran Lindgren, Arthur Pentelow, Kenneth H. C Lo, Hans Bendrik, Frederick Danner, Nonstop Sales, Sandrews (Firm : Stockholm, Sweden), New Yorker Video (Firm), and Project X Distribution

To maintain international and internal security and to divert mankind's natural aggression, the UN organizes a series of military games, which are often fought to the death by different teams of crack combat specialists. 1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.)

MEDIA 10-1019

 

Guardians of the galaxy 2014

Peter Quill teams up with Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Groot to deliver an all-powerful orb into the right hands, but along the way get drawn into the battle for the fate of the galaxy. 2 videodiscs (ca. 121 min.)

MEDIA 10-5559

 

The Handmaid's tale 1990

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Volker Schlöndorff, Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Robert Duvall, Daniel Wilson, and Volker Schlöndorff

Set in the near future, the handmaids of the title are women who can still bear children after the ravages of war caused wide spread sterility. One of the handmaids, Kate, is caught trying to escape the republic of Gilead and sent to the prison-like training center. She is sent from there to the home of the commander to bear his child, but revolutionary forces have other plans for her! 1 videocassette (109 min.)

DANA  MEDIA 1410  2-2268      10-556

 

Her 2014

"Set in Los Angeles in the slight future, ... Theodore, a complex, soulful man ... makes his living writing touching personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet "Samantha", a bright, female voice ... who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny. As her needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other"--Container. 2 videodiscs (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-5111

 

How to make a monster 2006, 1958

A studio makeup artist goes berserk and turns his creations into zombie-like killers. 1 videodisc (73 min.)

MEDIA 10-4428

 

It came from beneath the sea 2005, 2003, 1955

Science fiction thriller that pits man and woman against a giant octopus created after an H-bomb explosion. 1 videodisc (79 min.)

MEDIA 10-4430

 

It came from outer space c2002

After discovering that a meteor-like object buried under a landslide is an inhabited space ship from another planet, a young scientist delays an attack by panic-stricken townspeople so that the ship can leave the earth. 1 videodisc (81 min.)

MEDIA 10-5464

 

Kaze no tani no Naushika Nausicaä of the valley of the wind 2005

Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Uma Thurman , Patrick Stewart,  Alison Lohman, Edward James Olmos, Tokuma Shoten, Hakuhodo, Sutajio Jiburi, Kabushiki Kaisha, Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm), and Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

Nausicaä is the princess of a rural valley that lives at peace on the edge of a deadly fungal wasteland, until a ship carrying a weapon from a bygone industrial age crashes nearby. When warriors from a far country come to retrieve the artifact, their invasion draws Nausicaä and her people into a sprawling political conflict. Set 1,000 years after a global war that nearly destroyed all life on Earth. 2 videodiscs (117 min.)

MEDIA 10-600

 

Moon child 2004

Takashi Hirano, Gackt, Takahisa Zeze, Kisyu Izuchi, Hyde, Lihong Wang, Zeny Kwok, Taro Yamomoto, Anne Suzuki, TLA Releasing (Firm), Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha, and Moon Child Film Partners

Part futuristic science fiction and part John Woo style gunplay. Mood Child is a gothic vampire horror film from Japan. Director Takahisa Zeze brings a deliciously stylized vision to this tale of doomed friends whose gangster lifestyle becomes corrupted. 1 videodisc (119 min.)

MEDIA 10-614

 

The Omega man c2003, 1971

"Biological war has decimated life on earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets, foraging for supplies. And makes damn sure he gets undercover before sundown, when other 'inhabitants' emerge."--Container. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-4436

 

Outbreak 2009, 1995

A take-charge army virologist tryies to stave off global biological meltdown. A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. Its mortality rate is 100%. And some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebomb the town and everyone in it. 1 videodisc (128 min.)

MEDIA 10-3868

 

Pi 1998

Darren Aronofsky, Eric Watson, Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, and Samia Shoaib

A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market. 1 videodisc (85 min)

MEDIA 10-46

 

Poison 2011, 1991

Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Jean Genet, Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Gayle Norman, Scott Renderer, James Lyons, Arnold A Semler, Bronze Eye Productions (Firm), and Zeitgeist Films

This film interweaves three tales that build toward a devastating climax. The first tale, Hero, tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide. Horror, the second tale, deals with a mad sex experiment that unleashes a disfiguring plague. Lastly is the tale, Homo, which explores the obsessive sexual relationship between two inmates. 1 videodisc (85 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3061

 

Red planet Mars 2006

"An American scientist contacts Mars by radio and receives information that Mars is a utopia and that Earth's people can be saved if they return to the worship of God. Revolution sweeps the Earth, including the Soviet union. But there remains doubt about the messages being genuine, as an ex-Nazi claims he was duping the Americans"--Container. 1 videodisc (87 min.)

MEDIA 10-5092

 

Returner 2004, c2002

Akifumi Takuma, Toru Horibe, Chikahiro Ueda, Takashi Yamazaki, Kenya Hirata, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Anne Suzuki, Goro Kishitani, Kirin Kiki, Yukiko Okamoto, Mitsuru Murata, Kisuke Iida, Kazuya Chimizu, Chiharu Kawai, Kozo Shibazaki, Akira Sako, Takuya Taguchi, Akshiko Matsumoto, Anri Johjo, Robot (Firm), Returner Film Partners (Firm), and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)

The year 2084, when humanity is decimated by a ruthless alien force, all hope lies in Millie, as she goes back in time to stop the invasion. Ending up in present-day 2002, she takes on a mysterious mercenary who has a thirst for blood. Through some coercing, Miyamoto unwillingly joins the mission, as they infiltrate the government base that holds a captured alien and its crashed spacecraft. With Mizoguchi and the Triads moving in, seeking some of the alien advanced weaponry, Miyamoto may finally get the vengeance he seeks as Millie gets closer and closer to saving the entire human race. 1 videodisc (116 min.)

MEDIA 10-607

 

Saving Private Ryan 1999

Steven Spielberg, Robert Rodat, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, and Tom Sizemore

Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. 1 videodisc (ca. 169 min.)

MEDIA 10-09

 

Seconds 2013

A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn. 1 videodisc (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-4961

 

Sleeper 2005, 1973

Jack Rollins, Charles H Joffe, David Walsh , Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman, Jack Grossberg, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory, John McLiam, Bartlett Robinson, Don Keefer, Brian Avery, Ralph Rosenblum, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, and MGM Home Entertainment Inc

Miles Monroe enters the hospital in 1973 for a minor ulcer operation only to wake up 200 years later after being defrosted. As Miles tries to adjust to his new environment, he is re-programmed, de-programmed, chased by Big Brother-like police, and falls for Luna, an underground poet. 1 videodisc (87 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2912

 

Soylent green 2003, 1973/

Charlton Heston plays a cop in this 21st century science-fiction horror story. The setting is New York, teeming with 40 million citizens, most of whom are out of work. Environmental erosion is almost complete and voluntary death is encouraged by government-sponsored clinics. For their food, the people have grown to rely almost totally on a greenish, wafer-like substance called soylent. As Heston investigates the murder of a magnate in the dictatorial Soylent Company, he comes face to face with the hideous truth about the secret ingredient of "Soylent Green.". 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 10-3869 10-4435

 

Space is the place 2003, 1974

R. a. Sun, James Newman, Joshua Smith, John Coney, Raymond Johnson, Christopher Brooks, Barbara Deloney, North American Star System, Intergalactic Solar Arkestra, and Plexifilm (Firm)

Sun Ra, space-age prophet, lands his spaceship, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. Like Ra himself, Space is the Place is one of a kind, a mythopoetic manifesto made by people who believed in Ra's mystical message as much as they dug the raw splendor of his Afro-psychedelica. 1 videodisc (82 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3366

 

The Stepford wives 2001, c1975

Edgar J Scherick, William Goldman, Bryan Forbes, Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Patrick O'Neal, Tina Louise, Owen Roizman, Timothy Gee, Michael Small, Ira Levin, Fadsin Cinema Associates, Palomar Pictures, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc

In the New England town of Stepford, the women dedicate themselves to housework, cleaning, doing laundry, and preparing gourmet meals for their husbands. Their homes are well maintained as are the lawns. It's all a well-kept secret until Joanna moves to town and discovers the truth behind these Stepford wives. 1 videodisc (115 min.)

MEDIA 10-2177

 

Szerelmem, Elektra Electra, my love c2003

Miklós Jancsó,  Mari Törocsik, György Cserhalmi, József Madaras, Lajos Balázsovits,  Gabi Jobba, Mária Bajcsay, MAFILM, Magyar Filmlaboratóriumban, Hunnia Filmstudió (Firm), Hungarofilm, and Facets Video (Firm)

A re-imagination of the classic myth, now set on a desolate Hungarian plain and in the future. 1 videodisc (71 min.)

MEDIA 10-977

 

Tank girl c2002, 1995

"The year's 2033 and since a humongous meteor hit the earth, the world just hasn't been the same ... A mega-villain, Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell), the leader of Water & Power, holds the world in his grasp since he controls all the H2O down to the last drop ... or so he thinks. Two colossal enemies stand in his way: (1) The Rippers -- an army of half-men/half-kangaroo people whose sole purpose is to bring down the W. & P. and (2) a chick with a tank and tons of attitude -- a.k.a. Tank Girl. Kesslee had better get a grip on reality and his water jugs because not even a run in her stocking is going to stop her from saving the planet."--Container. 1 videodisc (104 min.)

MEDIA 10-4077

 

They live c2003, 1988

One man discovers that aliens are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Only specially made sunglasses make the deadly truth visible. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-5108

 

The thing 1998, 1982

Set in the winter of 1982 at a research station in Antarctica, a twelve man research team finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, the THING creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them. 1 videodisc (109 min.)

MEDIA 10-5106

 

Things to come  2006

Deals with a future time when humanity, fed up at last with the death and destruction of constant war, unites in a great movement dedicated to peace. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-5117

 

The Truman show c2006, 1998

[An insurance salesman, Truman Burbank,] "is about to discover just how abnormal his seemingly 'normal' life is. What he doesn't realize -- just yet -- is that his whole life is a reality TV show, televised and broadcast for the world to see!"--Container. 1 videodisc (102 min.)

MEDIA 10-5137

 

The two faces of Dr. Jekyll 2008, 1960

Michael Carreras, Wolf Mankowitz, Terence Fisher, Henry Younger, Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Francis De Wolff, Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark, John Paul, Robert Louis Stevenson, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Hammer Film Productions, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

The two faces of Dr. Jekyll: Experiments bring out the monster in one doctor, creating the world's most infamous dual personality. The curse of the mummy's tomb: The tomb of Egyptian prince Ra is found and shipped to America, where someone is trying to raise him from the dead. 1 videodisc (168 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3099

 

Videodrome c2004, 1983

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation. 2 videodiscs (89 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3743

 

X-men first class 2011

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war. 1 videodisc (132 min.)

MEDIA 10-3839

 

X-Men origins c2009

Somewhere in the wilds of northwest Canada in the early 1800s, Logan and Victor, two half-brothers with special powers grow up amid violence. Eventually they will become the near-indestructible warriors known as Wolverine and Sabretooth. William Stryker is a sinister government operative whose Weapon X program experiments keep pulling Wolverine back in. Kayla Silverfox shares a peaceful Canadian co-existence with Wolverine as he tries to drop out of the program. Along the way, Wolverine encounters many mutants, both familiar and new. 1 videodisc (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-5228

 

2010 the year we make contact c1991

Arthur Charles Clarke, Peter Hyams, Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain, MGM/UA Entertainment Co, Turner Entertainment Co, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

While planet Earth poses on the brink of disaster, a team of Russian and American scientists hurtle to a rendezvous with the abandoned Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL. 1 videocassette (117 min.)

MEDIA 2-7109

 

Aelita 1991

IAkov Aleksandrovich Protazanov, Yulia Solntseva, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Valentina Kuinzhi, Nikolai Petrovich Batalov, and Igor Ilinsky

A Moscow engineer designs a spaceship and travels to Mars to meet a woman who haunts his dreams. He succeeds, but finds himself embroiled in a Martian proletarian uprising. 1 videocassette (113 min.)

MEDIA 2-5569

 

After life a film by Kore-eda Hirokazu  1998, 2000

Hirokazu Koreeda, Hiroshi Arata, Oda Erika, Susuma Terajima, and Naito Takashi

In Kore-eda's thought-provoking vision; the newly deceased find themselves in a way station somewhere between Heaven and Earth.  With the help of dedicated caseworkers, each soul is given three days to choose one cherished memory for their life that they will relive for eternity. As the film reveals, recognizing happiness and finding a life's worth of meaning in a single event is no simple task. 1 videocassette (118 mins.)

MEDIA 2-5184

 

Akira 2001

Katsuhiro Otomo, Ryohei Suzuki, Shunzo Kato, Izo Hashimoto, Mitsuo Iwata, Nozumo Sasaki, Mami Koyami, Katsuhiro Otomo, Pioneer Entertainment (USA), and Akira Committee (Firm)

A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious. 1 videodiscs (124 min.)

MEDIA 10-251

 

Alien 1992, 1979

Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill, Ridley Scott, Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, and Veronica Cartwright

Seven astronauts on a routine mission encounter an awesome galactic horror. 1 videocassette (116 min.)

MEDIA 2-2433

 

Blade runner 1999, 1982

Philip K Dick, Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, Michael Deeley, Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, and Daryl Hannah

Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert "blade runner," must identify and execute four replicants, (genetically engineered beings virtually identical to humans) which have illegally returned to earth from their off-world slave duty. 1 videocassette (117 min.)  DVD

DANA       MEDIA         MEDIA 1303             2-1705            10-66

 

Brazil 1986, 1985

Terry Gilliam, Robert De Niro, Jonathan Pryce, and Katherine Helmond

A surrealistic view of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme and everyone is monitored by a secret government agency. 1 videocassette (131 min.)

MEDIA 2-597   10-03 10-04 10-05    2-7509

 

The butterfly effect c2004

Chris Bender, J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress , Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Eric Stoltz , Bender-Spink, Inc, Film Engine (Firm), Katalyst Films (Firm), New Line Home Entertainment (Firm), and New Line Cinema Corporation

Evan Treborn wants to be free of his disturbing childhood memories. As a young child, he often blacked out for long periods of time and would try to detail his life through journal writing. As a young adult, he revisits the journal entries to figure out the truth about his troubled childhood friends Kayleigh, Lenny, and Tommy. When he discovers he can travel back in time in order to set things right, he does so in order to save his beloved friends. But he discovers that for every change he makes in the past, there is an unexpected consequences in the future. 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.)

MEDIA 10-1007

 

Children of men 2007

Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor,  Charlie Hunnam, Hilary Shor, Alfonso Cuarón, P. D James, Universal Pictures (Firm), Strike Entertainment (Firm), and Hit and Run Productions

London, 2027, humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Theo Faron, a London peace activist turned bureaucrat, joins forces with his revolutionary ex-wife, Julian, in order to save mankind by protecting a woman who has mysteriously became pregnant. These three set out on a desperate struggle to deliver the world's only pregnant woman to the Human Project with hope that they can discover the cure for global infertility. 1 videodisc (110 min.)

MEDIA 10-1105

 

A Clockwork orange 1971, 1983

Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess

Alex, the hero, fights, robs, rapes, and kills with the conscienceless joy of a strong young predator. Finally caught and imprisoned, he undergoes an experimental treament that conditions him against violence and sex. 1 videocassette (137 min.)

MEDIA     DOUGLASS 2-152           108

 

Close encounters of the third kind widescrean presentation 1998, 1977

Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, and Steven Spielberg

Humans make contact with aliens after witnessing the arrival of flying saucers from another world. 1 videocassette (152 min.)

MEDIA 2-3747

 

The Empire strikes back 1997, 1980

Kenny Baker, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Irvin Kershner, Gary Kurtz, Leigh Brackett, and Lawrence Kasdan

Star wars -- The empire strikes back -- Return of the JediThe battle to save the galaxy from the evil Empire rages on. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth.  While Han and Leia escape in the Millenium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda.  Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the dark side of the Force beckons him into an ultimate duel with Darth Vader. 1 videocassette (ca. 127 min.)

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Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind c2004

Steve Golin, Anthony Bregman, Charlie Kaufman, Pierre Bismuth, Michel Gondry, Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, Tom Wilkinson, Universal Pictures (Firm), and Focus Features

When Joel discovers that his girlfriend, Clementine, has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind through an experimental scientific procedure, he decides to ease his own pain by getting the same treatment. But, as each memory of Clementine is systematically eliminated, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her and desperately attempts to reverse the process. 1 videodisc (107 min.)

MEDIA 10-382

 

Fahrenheit 451 1966, 1992

Ray Bradbury, François Truffaut, Lewis Allen, Jean-Louis Richard, Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack, Anton Diffring, and Jeremy Spenser

Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read.  Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom. 1 videocassette (112 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1703 2-3717

 

Gattaca 1998

Andrew Niccol, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin, Jude Law, and Loren Dean

Story about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection.  Vincent is an "In-Valid," who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.  However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. 1 videocassette (107 min.)

DANA 1310

 

Gladiatorerna The gladiators 2006, c1969

Peter Watkins, Göran Lindgren, Arthur Pentelow, Kenneth H. C Lo, Hans Bendrik, Frederick Danner, Nonstop Sales, Sandrews (Firm : Stockholm, Sweden), New Yorker Video (Firm), and Project X Distribution

To maintain international and internal security and to divert mankind's natural aggression, the UN organizes a series of military games, which are often fought to the death by different teams of crack combat specialists. 1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.)

MEDIA 10-1019

 

The Handmaid's tale 1990

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Volker Schlöndorff, Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern, Victoria Tennant, Robert Duvall, Daniel Wilson, and Volker Schlöndorff

Set in the near future, the handmaids of the title are women who can still bear children after the ravages of war caused wide spread sterility. One of the handmaids, Kate, is caught trying to escape the republic of Gilead and sent to the prison-like training center. She is sent from there to the home of the commander to bear his child, but revolutionary forces have other plans for her! 1 videocassette (109 min.)

DANA  MEDIA 1410  2-2268      10-556

 

A.I. Artificial intelligence 2002

Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, Bonnie Curtis, Stanley Kubrick, Haley Joel Osmet, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Robards, William Hurt, and Brian Wilson Aldiss

Visions of a future full of astonishing android technology, David, an advanced android, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to discover the secret of his own identity. 1 videocassette (145 min.)

DANA 1706

 

Kaze no tani no Naushika Nausicaä of the valley of the wind 2005

Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Uma Thurman , Patrick Stewart,  Alison Lohman, Edward James Olmos, Tokuma Shoten, Hakuhodo, Sutajio Jiburi, Kabushiki Kaisha, Walt Disney Home Entertainment (Firm), and Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

Nausicaä is the princess of a rural valley that lives at peace on the edge of a deadly fungal wasteland, until a ship carrying a weapon from a bygone industrial age crashes nearby. When warriors from a far country come to retrieve the artifact, their invasion draws Nausicaä and her people into a sprawling political conflict. Set 1,000 years after a global war that nearly destroyed all life on Earth. 2 videodiscs (117 min.)

MEDIA 10-600

 

The Last of England 1987

Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, and Derek Jarman

A vision of totalitarian England. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-774

 

The Lost world 1925, 1991

Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry O Hoyt, Willis O'Brien, Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, and Lloyd Hughes

The lost world [with accompanying photos and trailer] -- Prehistoric poultry : the dinornis or great roasting whiffenpoof -- R.F.D., 10,000 B.C. : a mannikin comedy -- The dinosaur and the missing link : a prehistoric tragedy -- Monsters of the past : Pathé reviewA British expedition to the Amazon in search of a marooned explorer encounters living dinosaurs.  One is brought back to London, where it escapes and wrecks havoc on the city.  This videocassette release of the film also features descriptions and still photos of missing scenes, photos of the film's producers, an original trailer, and several shorts about prehistoric times which used the same animation techniques. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-2567

 

Mad Max beyond Thunderdome c1998

George Miller, George Ogilvie, Terry Hayes , Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Kennedy Miller (Firm), Warner Bros, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Once again, Mad Max stands alone against the barbarians of a post nuclear age. 1 videocassette (107 min.)

MEDIA 2-7104

 

The man who fell to earth 1998

Nicolas Roeg, Michael Deeley, Barry Spikings, Paul Mayersburg, David Bowie, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Rip Torn, and Walter S Tevis

An alien being comes to Earth to colonize its water riches but instead becomes head of a large corporation and is gradually destroyed by the pleasures, the technology and the richness of life on earth. 1 videocassette (appr. 140 min.)

DANA 929

 

The matrix 1999

Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Joel Silver, Keanu Reeves, Larry Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster, and Joe Pantoliano

In a dystopian future, the "real" world as we know it is nothing more than a computer construct, created by an all-powerful artificial intelligence. A small group of humans has found a way out of the construct and is now fighting for the future of the human race. 1 videocassette (162 min.)

MEDIA 2-5990

 

Moon child 2004

Takashi Hirano, Gackt, Takahisa Zeze, Kisyu Izuchi, Hyde, Lihong Wang, Zeny Kwok, Taro Yamomoto, Anne Suzuki, TLA Releasing (Firm), Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha, and Moon Child Film Partners

Part futuristic science fiction and part John Woo style gunplay. Mood Child is a gothic vampire horror film from Japan. Director Takahisa Zeze brings a deliciously stylized vision to this tale of doomed friends whose gangster lifestyle becomes corrupted. 1 videodisc (119 min.)

MEDIA 10-614

 

On the beach 1996

Stanley Kramer, Nevil Shute, John Paxton, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins

Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere. Australia is the only civilized area spared from destruction.  With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise. 1 videocassette (135 min.)

MEDIA 2-3791

 

Pi 1998

Darren Aronofsky, Eric Watson, Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, and Samia Shoaib

A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market. 1 videodisc (85 min)

MEDIA 10-46

 

Red planet Mars 1990, 1952

Peter Graves, Andrea King, Herbert Berghof , Anthony Veiller,  Harry Horner, John L Balderston, and John Edward Hoare

An American scientist establishes radio contact with Mars, and discovers that the average life span there is 300 years and there is an abundance of food and energy. The world is thrown into a panic, but the question soon arises--is this real or the work of an imposter? 1 videocassette (89 min.)

MEDIA 2-2895

 

Returner 2004, c2002

Akifumi Takuma, Toru Horibe, Chikahiro Ueda, Takashi Yamazaki, Kenya Hirata, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Anne Suzuki, Goro Kishitani, Kirin Kiki, Yukiko Okamoto, Mitsuru Murata, Kisuke Iida, Kazuya Chimizu, Chiharu Kawai, Kozo Shibazaki, Akira Sako, Takuya Taguchi, Akshiko Matsumoto, Anri Johjo, Robot (Firm), Returner Film Partners (Firm), and Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)

The year 2084, when humanity is decimated by a ruthless alien force, all hope lies in Millie, as she goes back in time to stop the invasion. Ending up in present-day 2002, she takes on a mysterious mercenary who has a thirst for blood. Through some coercing, Miyamoto unwillingly joins the mission, as they infiltrate the government base that holds a captured alien and its crashed spacecraft. With Mizoguchi and the Triads moving in, seeking some of the alien advanced weaponry, Miyamoto may finally get the vengeance he seeks as Millie gets closer and closer to saving the entire human race. 1 videodisc (116 min.)

MEDIA 10-607

 

The road warrior 1999

George Miller, Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Mike Preston, Warner Bros, Kennedy Miller (Firm), and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Max, now a loner, is reluctantly helping a tiny oil-producing community to defend itself against a band of depraved crazies thirsty for precious fuel. 1 videocassette (110 min.)

MEDIA 2-7078

 

Saving Private Ryan 1999

Steven Spielberg, Robert Rodat, Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon, and Tom Sizemore

Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer and the strength to triumph over uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. 1 videodisc (ca. 169 min.)

MEDIA 10-09

 

Soylent green 1991, 1973

Richard Fleischer, Stanley R Greenberg, Walter Seltzer, Russell Thacher, Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Edward G Robinson, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, and Harry Harrison

In the 21st century, a hard-boiled police detective investigates a murder and discovers what soylent green, the people's principal food, is made of. 1 videocassette (97 min.)

MEDIA 2-3699

 

Star Trek: First contact c1997

Rick Berman, Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Alfre Woodard, James Cromwell, Alice Krige, and Paramount Pictures

They call themselves the Borg, a half-organic, half-machine collective with a sole purpose: to conquer and assimilate all races. Led by their seductive and sadistic queen, the Borg are headed to earth with a devious plan to alter history. Picard's last encounter with the Borg almost killed him. Now, he wants vengeance. 1 videocassette (111 min.)

MEDIA 2-7099

 

Star wars: Episode IV: A new hope pc1995, 1977

George Lucas, Gary Kurtz, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness , Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation , Lucasfilm, Ltd, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc, and Fox Video (Firm)

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and the robots R2D2 and C3PO work together to rescue her and restore justice to the Empire; includes interview with George Lucas. 1 videocassette (124 min.)

MEDIA 2-7132

 

Star wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi c1995

Howard Kazanjian, Richard Marquand, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Fox Video (Firm), Lucasfilm, Ltd, and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc

After rescuing Han Solo and Princess Leia from crim lord Jabba the Hutt, Luke rejoins Yoda. Only by completing his Jedi training can he become a true Jedi and defeat Darth Vader and the dark side of the Force. 1 videocassettes (134 min.)

MEDIA 2-7116

 

Szerelmem, Elektra Electra, my love c2003

Miklós Jancsó,  Mari Törocsik, György Cserhalmi, József Madaras, Lajos Balázsovits,  Gabi Jobba, Mária Bajcsay, MAFILM, Magyar Filmlaboratóriumban, Hunnia Filmstudió (Firm), Hungarofilm, and Facets Video (Firm)

A re-imagination of the classic myth, now set on a desolate Hungarian plain and in the future. 1 videodisc (71 min.)

MEDIA 10-977

 

The Terminator collection 1995

James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, William Wisher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Lance Henrikson, Paul Winfield, Robert Patrick, and Joe Morton

The Terminator (ca. 108 min., 1984) / Hemdale Film ; a Pacific Western production of a James Cameron film ; written by James Cameron, with Gale Anne Hurd ; produced by Gale Anne Hurd ; directed by James Cameron.
Terminator 2 : judgment day (ca. 139 min., 1991) / Carolco ; a Pacific Western production in association with Lightstorm Entertainment ; a James Cameron film ; written by James Cameron & William Wisher ; produced and directed by James Cameron2 videocassettes (ca. 247 min.)

DANA. DANA 1309 cassette 1 1309 cassette 2

 

Things to come 1936, 1986

H. G Wells, William Cameron Menzies, Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, and Alexander Korda

A classic science fiction fantasy deals with a future time when humanity, fed up at last with the death and destruction of constant war, unites in a great movement dedicated to peace. 1 videocassette (92 min.)

MEDIA 2-1291

 

The time machine 1987,1960

H. G Wells, David Duncan, George Pal, Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Helmore, Whit Bissell, and Doris Lloyd

An inventor who has developed a "time machine" travels to the distant future, and finds a joyless society after centuries of endless wars. 1 videocassette (VHS) (103 min.)

DANA 74

 

Total recall 1997

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox, Paul Verhoeven, Ronald Shusett, and Philip K Dick

A worker leaves Earth for the mind-bending nightmarish reality of a Martian mining colony ruled by a dictator who can alter reality to suit his whims. 1 videocassette (113 min.)

MEDIA 2-3748

 

Twelve monkeys 1997

Terry Gilliam, David Webb Peoples, Janet Peoples, Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Charles Roven, and Chris Marker

Cole arrives at a mental hospital, claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2035.  His mission: to save humanity from a killer virus that will devastate the future world population.  A beautiful psychiatrist initially classifies Cole as delusional, but she soon joins him in an effort to unravel the mystery surrounding his questionable sanity with two clues: a haunting childhood memory and a series of puzzling symbols from a group known as The Army of the Twelve Monkeys. 1 videocassette (130 min.)

MEDIA 2-3824

 

Unsichtbare Gegner Invisible adversaries 1987

Valie Export, Peter Weibel, and Susanne Widl

Anna, a Viennese photographer, discovers that extra-terrestrial beings are colonizing the minds of her fellow citizens by raising the human aggression level. The outer world immediately becomes disjointed, but the inner world, too, as Anna and her lover try to hang on to their deteriorating relationship. 1 videocassette (112 min.)

MEDIA 2-5097

 

Videodrome 1987

James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry

Sci-fi horor filmmaker David Cronenberg's diabolical invader is a television show that seduces and controls its viewers.... a pulsating science fiction nightmare about a world where video can control and alter human life. 1 videocassette (89 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 96             2-6205