Top Sci-Fi Movies 2014
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Interstellar
A sci-fi film that delves into Caltech physicist Kip Thorne's theories of gravity fields. A space travel story about a group of explorers who travel through a worm hole and into another dimension. Based on real science, the film will explore the mind-bending territory of black holes and gravity waves and touch on some of the hypotheses that Albert Einstein chased but never could prove.
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Matt Damon, John Lithgow, Timothee Chalamet, Steven Spielberg, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine
Extraterrestrial
Still reeling from her parents divorce, April (Brittany Allen) is dragged back to the vacation cabin she spent fond summers at as a child accompanied by a group of friends. Her trip down memory lane takes a dramatic and terrifying turn when a fireball descends from the sky and explodes in the nearby woods. Lead by her boyfriend, played by Freddie Stroma, the group venture out toward the crash site and discover the remnants of a ship from another planet along with footprints that suggest its alien occupants are still alive. The college friends soon find themselves caught in the middle of something bigger and more terrifying than anything they could ever imagine.
Freddie Stroma, Jesse Moss, Collin Minihan, Randy Manis, Kim Arnott, Shawn Angelski, Martin Fisher, Colin Minihan
Automata
Fast forward fifty years into the future, planet earth is in the midst of gradual desertification. Mankind struggles to survive as the environment deteriorates and the slow regression of the human race begins in AUTÓMATA. On the brink of life and the reality of death, technology combats the prevailing uncertainty and fear with the creation of the first quantum android, the Automata Pilgrim 7000. Designed to bring support to society’s plight, man and robot reveal what it means to co-exist in a culture defined by human nature. The descent of civilization is juxtaposed by the rise of ROC, the corporation at the helm of robotic intelligence. Despite the demise of humanity, the company has set forth security protocols to ensure mankind always maintains control over the manufactured population. As ROC insurance agent, Jacq Vaucan (Antonio Banderas) routinely investigates cases and complaints surrounding defective androids, he begins to uncover the secrets behind who is really manipulating the Automata Pilgrim 7000. Jacq’s own suspicions propel the mystery— uncovering a truth that is far more complex than the make or model of any machine.
Antonio Banderas, Gabe Ibanez, Sandra Hermida, Danny Lerner, Javier Donate, Melanie Griffith, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster
Young Ones
Young Ones is set in a near future when water has become the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet, one that dictates everything from the macro of political policy to the detailed micro of interpersonal family and romantic relationships. The land has withered into something wretched. The dust has settled on a lonely, barren planet. The hardened survivors of the loss of Earth’s precious resources scrape and struggle. Ernest Holm (Michael Shannon) lives on this harsh frontier with his children, Jerome (Kodi Smit McPhee)and Mary (Elle Fanning). He defends his farm from bandits, works the supply routes, and hopes to rejuvenate the soil. But Mary's boyfriend, Flem Lever (Nicholas Hoult), has grander designs. He wants Ernest's land for himself, and will go to any length to get it.
Elle Fanning, Nicholas Hoult, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Shannon, Jake Paltrow, Noah Baumbach, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy
The Maze Runner
When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.
Will Poulter, Thomas Sangster, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Lindsay Williams, Kaya Scodelario, Wes Ball, Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers
Space Station 76
When a new assistant captain (Liv Tyler) arrives on the Omega 76, tensions spark, and more than asteroids collide.
Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, Matt Bomer, Jack Plotnick, Marisa Coughlan, Jerry O'Connell, Kylie Rogers, Kali Rocha
The Scribbler
Follows Suki (Katie Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using "The Siamese Burn," an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being "cured," she's haunted by a thought... what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?
Sasha Grey, John Suits, Dan Schaffer, Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku, Kunal Nayyar, Gina Gershon
The Zero Theorem
Set in a future London, The Zero Theorem stars Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst. He lives in isolation in a burnt-out chapel, waiting for a phone call which he is convinced will provide him with answers he has long sought.
Qohen works on a mysterious project, delegated to him by Management (Matt Damon), aimed at discovering the purpose of existence - or the lack thereof - once and for all. But his solitary existence is disturbed by visits from the flirtatious Bainsley (Mélanie Thierry), and Bob (Lucas Hedges), Management's wunderkind son.Yet it is only once he experiences the power of love and desire that he is able to understand his very reason for being.
David Thewlis, Nicolas Chartier, Christoph Waltz, Terry Gilliam, Richard Zanuck, Dean Zanuck, Pat Rushin, Tilda Swinton
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Guardians are aliens in the 31st century -- each the last of their kind -- who travel back in time to enlist help to battle the Badoon, an evil alien race that attempts to conquer Earth's solar system.
The movie’s Guardians lineup will include Drax the Destroyer, a human resurrected as a green warrior with the sole purpose of killing Thanos (the villain in the Avengers final-scene tease); Groot, a giant tree-man; Star-Lord, a gun-toting half-human/half-alien intergalactic vigilante; Rocket Raccoon, a genetically engineered animal with a knack for guns and explosives; and Gamora, the last survivor of her species who was saved by Thanos to be his assassin but now battles him.
Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, James Gunn, Vin Diesel, John C. Reilly, Chris Pratt, Kevin Feige, Nicole Perlman
The Giver
In a perfect world where there is no conflict, racism or sickness, every member of society has a specific role, and 16-year-old Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. As Jonas uncovers the truth behind his world's past, he discovers that many years earlier his forefathers gave up humanity in order to have a stable society.
Alexander Skarsgard, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Odeya Rush, Taylor Swift, Jeff Bridges, John Heyman, Vadim Perelman
The Congress
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress (Robin Wright, playing a version of herself) decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent (Harvey Keitel) and the head of Miramount Studios (Danny Huston), her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions. In return, she receives healthy compensation so she can care for her ailing son, and her digitized character will stay forever young. Twenty years later, under the creative vision of the studio’s head animator (Jon Hamm), Wright’s digital double rises to immortal stardom.
Jon Hamm, Paul Giamatti, Ari Folman, Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
Judy Greer, Matt Reeves, Amanda Silver, Andy Serkis, Toby Kebbell, Peter Chernin, Rick Jaffa, Scott Z. Burns
I Origins
Follows the story of Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt), a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner Karen (Brit Marling), they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.
Brit Marling, Mike Cahill, Michael Pitt, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Steven Yuen, Archie Panjabi, Cara Seymour, William Mapother
Edge of Tomorrow
Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop—forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again.
But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.
Tom Cruise, Doug Liman, Emily Blunt, Charlotte Riley, Erwin Stoff, Bill Paxton, Tom Lassally, Jason Hoffs
I’ll Follow You Down
After the disappearance of a scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.
Gillian Anderson, Rufus Sewell, Richie Mehta, Haley Joel Osment, Victor Garber, Sarah Manninen, Sherry Miller
The Signal
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour: the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. The trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area. Suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students, Nic (Brenton Thwaites), regains consciousness, he is in a waking nightmare…
Laurence Fishburne, Sarah Clarke, Olivia Cooke, Lin Shaye, William Eubank, Beau Knapp, Robert Longstreet, Brenton Thwaites
Transformers 4: Age of Extinctio...
The film begins after an epic battle that left a great city torn, but with the world saved. As humanity picks up the pieces, a shadowy group reveals itself in an attempt to control the direction of history… while an ancient, powerful new menace sets Earth in its crosshairs. With help from a new cast of humans, Optimus Prime and the Autobots rise to meet their most fearsome challenge yet. In an incredible adventure, they are swept up in a war of good and evil, ultimately leading to a climactic battle across the world.
Michael Bay, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Don Murphy, Kelsey Grammer, T.J. Miller
Godzilla
The film retells the origin of Godzilla in contemporary times as a "terrifying force of nature".
Frank Darabont, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Gareth Edwards, Thomas Tull, David S. Goyer, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins
Under the Skin
Storyline revolves around an alien disguised as a mesmerizing woman who snares human prey on remote highways and other desolate spots with her voracious sexuality. Over time, she begins to change her thinking about humans and finds herself on a collision course with her own kind.
Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Glazer, Nick Wechsler, James Wilson, Walter Campbell, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Brannigan, Joe Szula
Transcendence
Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him.
However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed—to be a participant in his own transcendence. For his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can…but if they should.
Their worst fears are realized as Will’s thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown. The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him.
Morgan Freeman, Cole Hauser, Johnny Depp, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Hall, Wally Pfister, Andrew Kosove
Godzilla: The Japanese Original
A 400-foot monster reptile with radioactive breath is revived, thanks to nuclear testing. It goes on a mad rampage, destroying Tokyo - how will they kill it?
Fuyuki Murakami, Takeo Oikawa, Ishirô Honda, Takeo Murata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Divergent
An adventure set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities, Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ansel Elgort, Zoe Kravitz, Kate Winslet, Miles Teller, Maggie Q
Robocop
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years – and it’s meant billions for OmniCorp’s bottom line. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine pursuing justice.
Michael Keaton, James Vanderbilt, Joel Kinnaman, Samuel L. Jackson, Mike Medavoy, Gary Oldman, Jay Baruchel, Jose Padilha
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Ho...
After finding a pair of droids, Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet to save Princess Leia from the clutches of Darth Vader.
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Gary Kurtz, George Lucas
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empir...
Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, Darth Vader continues to pursue the Rebel Alliance. While the Empires tracks Han and Leia across the galaxy, Master Yoda trains Luke. Vader secretly sets a trap for Luke that will lead to a vicious confrontation and a shocking revelation.
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Irvin Kershner, Gary Kurtz, Lawrence Kasdan, Leigh Brackett, George Lucas
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