Movie List for "sci fi 2"

Looker (1981)

Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts … Year 1981.

Generes: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Michael Crichton
Writer: Michael Crichton
Actors: Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, Leigh Taylor-Young

Scared to Death (1980)

An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the … Year 1980.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: William Malone
Writer: William Malone, Robert Short (story), William Malone (story)
Actors: John Stinson, Diana Davidson, David Moses, Toni Jannotta

Toxic Zombies (1980)

After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the growers of the crop are poisoned by the chemical and turn into zombie-like mutants. Year 1980.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Charles McCrann
Writer: Charles McCrann
Actors: Charles McCrann, Beverly Shapiro, Dennis Helfend, Kevin Hanlon

Poto and Cabengo (1980)

Two young twins in the USA have invented their own shared language. Scientists are wanting to study the language but social workers are trying to get the twins to leave their secret … Year 1980.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Jean-Pierre Gorin
Writer: Jean-Pierre Gorin
Actors: Jean-Pierre Gorin

Alligator (1980)

A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage. Year 1980.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Lewis Teague
Writer: John Sayles (screenplay), John Sayles (story), Frank Ray Perilli (story)
Actors: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Jagger

Altered States (1980)

A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically. Year 1980.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Ken Russell
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky (written for the screen by), Paddy Chayefsky (novel)
Actors: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid

The Psychotronic Man (1979)

A man discovers that he has psychotronic powers–the ability to will people to die. He begins exercising that power. Year 1979.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Jack M. Sell
Writer: Phil Lanier, Jack M. Sell, Peter Spelson
Actors: Peter Spelson, Chris Carbis, Curt Colbert, Robin Newton

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader. Year 1980.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: Leigh Brackett (screenplay by), Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay by), George Lucas (story by)
Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams

A Plague on Our Children (1979)

Dioxins, PCBs and profit v. public health. A hard-hitting investigation of dioxins and PCBs, with a clear scientific explanation of why they are the most poisonous man-made substances in … Year 1979.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Robert Richter
Writer: Robert Richter
Actors: N/A

Goldengirl (1979)

A neo-Nazi doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised, and conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics. Year 1979.

Generes: Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Director: Joseph Sargent
Writer: John Kohn, Peter Lovesey (novel)
Actors: Susan Anton, James Coburn, Curd Jürgens, Leslie Caron

C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)

A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the invention from him. Year 1979.

Generes: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Director: Don Chaffey
Writer: Dick Robbins (screenplay), Duane Poole (screenplay), Joseph Barbera (screenplay), Joseph Barbera (story)
Actors: Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Chuck McCann

The Black Hole (1979)

A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole. Year 1979.

Generes: Action, Sci-Fi
Director: Gary Nelson
Writer: Jeb Rosebrook (story by), Bob Barbash (story by), Richard H. Landau (story by), Jeb Rosebrook (screenplay by), Gerry Day (screenplay by)
Actors: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms

Plague (1979)

An ambitious lab assistant carries out a forbidden experiment and accidentally creates a deadly bacteria which kills her and rapidly engulfs the city. The authorities order a curtain of … Year 1979.

Generes: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Director: Ed Hunt
Writer: Ed Hunt, Barry Pearson
Actors: Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Céline Lomez, Michael J. Reynolds

Spawn of the Slithis (1978)

A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Stephen Traxler
Writer: Stephen Traxler
Actors: Alan Blanchard, Judy Motulsky, J.C. Claire, Dennis Falt

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

When seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade a small town, replicating the residents one body at a time. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: W.D. Richter (screenplay), Jack Finney (novel)
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright

The Lucifer Complex (1978)

An intelligence agent discovers a Nazi plot to revive the Third Reich by using clones. Year 1978.

Generes: Sci-Fi
Director: Kenneth Hartford, David L. Hewitt
Writer: David L. Hewitt, Dale Skillicorn
Actors: Robert Vaughn, Merrie Lynn Ross, Keenan Wynn, Aldo Ray