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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Rennie | Patricia Neal | Hugh Marlowe | Sam Jaffe | Billy Gray | Frances Bavier | Lock Martin | Elmer Davis | H.V. Kaltenborn | Drew Pearson | Gabriel Heatter | Holly Bane | Marshall Bradford | John Brown | John Burton
Directors: Robert Wise
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A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.

The Host (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Kang-ho Song | Hie-bong Byeon | Hae-il Park | Ah-sung Ko | Du-na Bae | David Joseph Anselmo | Philip Hersh | Paul Lazar | Clinton Morgan | Dal-su Oh | No-shik Park | Brian Rhee | Scott Wilson | Pil-Sung Yim
Directors: Joon-ho Bong
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The film revolves around Park Hee-bong, a man in his late 60s. Park runs a small snack bar on the banks of the Han River and lives with his two sons, one daughter, and one granddaughter. The Parks seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life, but maybe a bit poorer than the average Seoulite. Hee-bong’s elder son Gang-du is an immature and incompetent man in his 40s, whose wife left home long ago. Nam-il is the youngest son, an unemployed grumbler, and daughter Nam-joo is an archery medalist and member of the national team. One day, an unidentified monster suddenly appears from the depths of the Han River and spreads panic and death, and Gang-du’s daughter Hyun-seo is carried off by the monster and disappears. All the family members are in a great agony because they lost someone very dear to them. But when they find out she is still alive, they resolve to save her.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Henry Thomas | Dee Wallace-Stone | Robert MacNaughton | Drew Barrymore | Peter Coyote | K.C. Martel | Sean Frye | C. Thomas Howell | David M. O'Dell | Richard Swingler | Frank Toth | Robert Barton | Michael Darrell | David Berkson | David Carlberg
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family’s garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot’s brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth’s first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there’s no alien spaceship in sight.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss | François Truffaut | Teri Garr | Melinda Dillon | Bob Balaban | J. Patrick McNamara | Warren J. Kemmerling | Roberts Blossom | Philip Dodds | Cary Guffey | Shawn Bishop | Adrienne Campbell | Justin Dreyfuss | Lance Henriksen | Merrill Connally
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Cableman Roy Neary is one of several people who experience a close encounter of the first kind, witnessing UFOs flying through the night sky. He is subsequently haunted by a mountainlike image in his head and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, putting severe strain on his marriage. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have a close encounter of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of otherworldly visitors in the form of military vehicles that went missing decades ago suddenly appearing in the middle of nowhere. Roy and the agents both follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind: contact.

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: Canada | France | Germany | UK
Actors: | Eric Mabius | Milla Jovovich | Sienna Guillory | Oded Fehr | Thomas Kretschmann | Sophie Vavasseur | Razaaq Adoti | Jared Harris | Mike Epps | Sandrine Holt | Matthew G. Taylor | Zack Ward | Iain Glen | Dave Nichols | Stefan Hayes | Geoffrey Pounsett
Directors: Alexander Witt
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The nightmare isn’t over, General Cain ordered The Hive to be reopened, and in doing so contaminated all of Raccoon City, a city of the dead, with Alice stuck right in the middle. Now, along with other surviors, Jill Valentine, Carlos Oliviera and his Captain, Nicholai, they must fight to survive, to escape the nightmare that has plaqed Raccoon City. But now there is a new threat: Matt Addison has fully mutated into a seemingly unstoppable creature, code named Nemesis, who will stop at nothing until everything around it is dead, but it also has another agenda…

Dreamcatcher (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Morgan Freeman | Thomas Jane | Jason Lee | Damian Lewis | Timothy Olyphant | Tom Sizemore | Donnie Wahlberg | Mikey Holekamp | Reece Thompson | Giacomo Baessato | Joel Palmer | Andrew Robb | Eric Keenleyside | Rosemary Dunsmore
Directors: Lawrence Kasdan
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Four friends sruggling with life meet in the Maine woods for their annual hunting trip. When a stranger stumbles in to their camp disoriented mumbling things about lights in the sky the four friends put in a struggle with a psychotic army colonel and a being that has taken control of one of their minds.