Sci-Fi Movies 2017 List

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Mar. 2, 2019

Top Sci-Fi Movies 2017

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An aggressive race of aliens took over Planet Earth and humanity's at its end, living in giant bunkers below ground. Young Military rookie S.U.M.1 (Iwan Rheon) is sent to the surface to save a group of unprotected survivors.

Christian Pasquariello, Christian Alvart, Iwan Rheon, André Hennicke

80%

  • 2
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Rey took her first steps into a larger world in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and will continue her epic journey with Finn, Poe, and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the continuing Star Wars saga, Star Wars: Episode VIII.

Tom Hardy, Mark Hamill, Ram Bergman, Jimmy Vee, Lawrence Kasdan, Oscar Isaac, Benicio Del Toro, John Boyega

PG-13

82%

  • 4.1
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When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the earth, Detective Mark Corley (Frank Grillo) storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the key to saving his son and taking back the planet once and for all.

Frank Grillo, Bojana Novakovic, Iko Uwais, Liam O'Donnell, Jonny Weston, Yayan Ruhian

R

27%

  • 5
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A teenage dirt bike rider stumbles upon M.A.X., an escaped prototype of the most advanced military creation in history.

Becky G., David S. Goyer, Kevin Turen, Oliver Daly, Alex MacNicoll, Adam Schneider, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi

PG-13

91%

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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Harrison Ford, Denis Villeneuve, Ana de Armas, Ridley Scott, Ryan Gosling, Dave Bautista, Cynthia Yorkin, Hampton Fancher

R

89%

  • 3.6
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The year is 2307 A.D. The Earth is frozen over and virtually uninhabitable. The remaining humans live underground, unable to survive the sub-arctic temperatures. With no “man power,” scientists bio-engineered Humanoids that possess great strength, speed, and tolerance to extreme cold. When a rogue humanoid escapes and threatens to lead a rebellion against mankind, an elite team of soldiers, led by decorated killer Commander Bishop, must hunt and kill the fugitive.

Joey Curtis, Paul Sidhu, Branden Coles, Arielle Holmes, Kelcey Watson, Anne-Solenne Hatte, Timothy Lee DePriest, Stormi Henley

75%

  • 2.4
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After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world’s leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong—the system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything...and everyone along with it.

Gerard Butler, Ed Harris, Dave Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Abbie Cornish, Andy Garcia, Amr Waked, Dean Devlin

PG-13

67%

  • 3.4
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Electrical lineman Roy Neary (Dreyfuss) 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 mountain-like image and becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, much to the dismay of his family. Meanwhile, government agents around the world have close encounters of the second kind, discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappeared decades earlier, only to suddenly reappear in the Sonora and Gobi Desert. Roy and the agents then follow the clues they have been given to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind: contact.

Steven Spielberg, Teri Garr, Richard Dreyfuss, Lance Henriksen, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban

PG

63%

  • 3.8
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The year is 2020, three days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. While she should be studying for her exams, Kokone Morikawa is often dozing off, stuck between reality and a dream-world full of fantastic motorized contraptions. But after her father, a talented but mysterious mechanic, is kidnapped for stealing technology from a powerful corporation, it's up to Kokone and her childhood friend Morio to save him.

Together they realize that Kokone's dream-world holds the answers to the mystery behind the stolentech, and they embark on a journey that traverses dreams and reality, city and country, and past and present. Their mission uncovers a trail of clues to her father's disappearance and ultimately a surprising revelation about Kokone's family.

Kenji Kamiyama

76%

  • 3.7
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Shot in the back by government hit-men, Frank Lerner wakes up to find himself in a fully automated government prison. Howard, his LSO (Life Support Operator) provides food, drink and basic needs to keep Frank alive. Frank, through extensive and intensive mind interrogation is forced to relive the same day over and over until evidence is received of the crime he is accused of committing. With each entry into his mind, more and more memories are observed and secrets become unravelled, but which are real and which are imagined? As war erupts and the outside world falls under attack, Frank finds himself cut off and trapped with a computer system that slowly begins to malfunction. He must venture into his own memory through the interrogation program in order to find a way of escaping, to get back to the woman he loves and the outside world… that may already be gone.

Cassandra Clark, Travis Milloy, Christopher Soren Kelly

NR

79%

  • 3.3
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A group of medical students subject themselves to near-death experiences in order to see if anything lies beyond the big sleep. The members of the group are then revisited by physical manifestations of childhood sins, but they are not sure if what they are facing is real or hallucination.

Ellen Page, Nina Dobrev, Diego Luna, Kiefer Sutherland, Kiersey Clemens, Niels Arden Oplev, Laurence Mark, Ben Ripley

PG-13

77%

  • 3
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Marc is diagnosed with a disease and is given a short time to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first cryogenically frozen man to be revived in history. Marc discovers a startling future, but the biggest surprise is that his past has accompanied him in unexpected ways.

Oona Chaplin, Charlotte Le Bon, Mateo Gil, Tom Hughes, Barry Ward

86%

  • 3
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A team of special forces soldiers approach the designer of a high-tech military compound to investigate the disappearance of another team guarding the facility. The compound, known professionally as a Temple, is an artificial intelligence powered facility designed for interrogating high level prisoners. Upon entering the Temple, the soldiers quickly find the earlier team horrifically slaughtered but no evidence as to who is responsible.

Almost immediately, the crew begins to experience strange and horrific supernatural phenomena as they attempt to uncover who killed the previous team. Soon enough, they find a lone survivor, a dangerous terrorist who may hold the key to who killed the soldiers. But as the story goes on, we’ll learn that there’s more to it than we’ve been told and a dark secret the soldiers share may hold the key to surviving The Temple.

Anne Heche, John Stockwell, Matt Savelloni, Wesley Snipes, Seth Rollins, Gene Simmons, Dave Annable

R

78%

  • 2.5
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Gunslinger Roland Deschain roams an Old West-like landscape in search of the dark tower, in the hopes that reaching it will preserve his dying world.

Ron Howard, Matthew McConaughey, Brian Grazer, Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, Idris Elba, Abbey Lee, Nikolaj Arcel

PG-13

91%

  • 3.4
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A small town on the night of Orson Welles’s legendary 1938 "War of the Worlds" radio hoax is fooled into believing aliens are invading America. As they face what they think is their last night alive, hilarious & life-changing events unfold.

Jody Lambert, Michael Dowling, Tony Hale, Heather Burns, Anna Camp, Sam Jaeger, Raymond J. Barry, Dan Bakkedahl

74%

  • 1.5
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Zhao Xiaoding, Anthony LaMolinara

79%

  • 1
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A typical modern millennial college student hurrying through life gets into a near-fatal bus accident, but instead of dying, she is reborn through hybrid technology by her biotech father and his advanced lab and turned into a modern day Frankenstein...

Russell Hodgkinson, Tony Dupe, Rich Morris, Carollani Sandberg

54%

  • 1
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In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic "One Child Policy," seven identical sisters live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda that the sisters outwit by taking turns assuming the identity of one person: Karen Settman (Noomi Rapace). Taught by their grandfather (Willem Dafoe) who raised and named them - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday - each can go outside once a week as their common identity, but are only free to be themselves in the prison of their own apartment. That is until, one day, Monday does not come home...

Matthew Feitshans, Noomi Rapace, Willem Dafoe, Tommy Wirkola, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Philippe Rousselet, Hester Hargett-Aupetit, Max Botkin

NR

77%

  • 2.6
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Set in the near future, Marjorie Prime centers on Marjorie (Lois Smith), who spends time with the young likeness of her deceased husband Walter (Jon Hamm). This revitalized Walter is a sophisticated holographic projection that provides companionship while stimulating Marjorie’s memory—allowing her to explore their shared past as she lives with dementia.

Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Michael Almereyda, Lois Smith, Tim Robbins

77%

  • 2.7
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After a homemade bomb decimates Sarajevo, developed countries rely on advanced surveillance to free them from the threat of terrorism. But while the United States enjoys heightened security, the nations it once considered threatening are mysteriously plagued by genocide within their own borders. Strangely, these massacres all link back to one American by the name of John Paul. Special agent Clavis Shepherd is sent to capture the elusive target, but even with combat meds to numb the pain and a life rooted in the bliss of ignorance, nothing can prepare this soldier—or the world—for the truth behind humanity’s darkness.

68%

  • 3.3
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In War for the Planet of the Apes, the third chapter of the critically acclaimed blockbuster franchise, Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

Woody Harrelson, Dylan Clark, Peter Chernin, Andy Serkis, Gabriel Chavarria, Judy Greer, Steve Zahn, Aleks Paunovic

PG-13

80%

  • 3.8
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An ex-U.S. government geologist makes a low-budget film documenting his experiences of extraterrestrials.

Gregory Borowiec, Michael Borowiec, Sam Marine, George Basil, Pamela Fila

70%

  • 2.6
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Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are special operatives for the government of the human territories charged with maintaining order throughout the universe. Valerian has more in mind than a professional relationship with his partner- blatantly chasing after her with propositions of romance. But his extensive history with women, and her traditional values, drive Laureline to continuously rebuff him.

Under directive from their Commander (Clive Owen), Valerian and Laureline embark on a mission to the breathtaking intergalactic city of Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis comprised of thousands of different species from all four corners of the universe. Alpha's seventeen million inhabitants have converged over time- uniting their talents, technology and resources for the betterment of all. Unfortunately, not everyone on Alpha shares in these same objectives; in fact, unseen forces are at work, placing our race in great danger.

Cara Delevingne, Ethan Hawke, Dane DeHaan, Rihanna, Luc Besson, Clive Owen, Herbie Hancock

PG-13

84%

  • 3.9
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Matt, a video game developer, embeds an iPhone camera into his prosthetic eye to secretly record and document a weekend with friends in a luxurious mountain top cabin. The weekend takes a terrifying turn when a meteorite crashes the party forcing everyone to face the darkest, screaming nightmare while somehow connecting life, love, and loss in a twist of fear.

Mathieu Ratthe, Kimberly Laferriere, Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles, Juliette Gosselin, Alex C. Nachi

PG-13

63%

  • 2.2
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Raised on the mythical island of Themyscira and trained by Amazonian warriors, a young woman named Diana fulfills a destiny long ago bestowed on her by the Gods when her home and the world at large is threatened, she must leave and travel to the outside world for the first time. In doing so she will take the first steps to becoming the hero that is Wonder Woman…

Zack Snyder, Chris Pine, Jason Fuchs, Gal Gadot, Patty Jenkins, Michelle MacLaren, David Thewlis, Said Taghmaoui

PG-13

90%

  • 4.6
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Set in a future version of the world, the video game style plot follows an experiment for unlimited energy, harnessing parallel universes, which goes wrong. Chased by drones and soldiers, pilot and physicist Will Porter must race through an imploding world to get the Redivider box to a tower, which will save humanity, including his family, in the real world.

Tim Smith, Omid Nooshin, C. Kindinger, Dan Stevens, Berenice Marlohe, Tygo Gernandt, Charity Wakefield

R

62%

  • 2
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The Last Knight shatters the core myths of the Transformers franchise, and redefines what it means to be a hero. Humans and Transformers are at war, Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg); Bumblebee; an English Lord (Sir Anthony Hopkins); and an Oxford Professor (Laura Haddock).

Mark Wahlberg, Steven Spielberg, Josh Duhamel, Michael Bay, Don Murphy, Akiva Goldsman, Matt Holloway, Anthony Hopkins

PG-13

91%

  • 3.5
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A young woman is abandoned in a Texas wasteland where she is captured by cannibals.

Jason Momoa, Jim Carrey, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Ana Lily Amirpour, Diego Luna, Suki Waterhouse

R

66%

  • 3
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n the near future, scientist Xia Tian (Yang Mi) is on the verge of a major discovery: time travel. After she successfully sends living tissue back in time by 110 minutes, her years of work seem to have paid off, but everything unravels when her young son is kidnapped and held for a hefty ransom - all of her research. When the drop goes sour and her son is killed, Xia Tian desperately sends herself back in time using her prototype, where she discovers multiple versions of her future self. Now, all of the Xia Tians must band together to save their son.

Jackie Chan, Liu Chang, Cha Muchun, Yang Mi, Wallace Huo, King Shih-Chieh

NR

95%

  • 3.8
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Set to the all-new sonic backdrop of Awesome Mixtape #2, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team’s adventures as they unravel the mystery of Peter Quill’s true parentage.

James Gunn, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Kevin Feige, Dave Bautista, Sean Gunn

PG-13

82%

  • 4.4
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Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ALIEN with Alien: Covenant, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with Prometheus -- and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world -- whose sole inhabitant is the "synthetic" David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Danny McBride, Tony Scott, Jack Paglen, Michael Green, Katherine Waterston

R

77%

  • 3.1
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After Gloria (Anne Hathaway) loses her job and is kicked out of her boyfriend’s apartment, she leaves her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.

Tim Blake Nelson, Nacho Vigalondo, Anne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens, Austin Stowell

R

85%

  • 3.3
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Explores the faltering start of the program to the Mercury and Gemini missions, the tragic Apollo 1 fire and the Moon landings.

David Fairhead

86%

  • 4.5
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A young street magician (Jacob Latimore) is left to care for his little sister after their parents' passing and turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads. When he gets in too deep, his sister is kidnapped and he is forced to use his magic and brilliant mind to save her.

JD Dillard, Dule Hill, Alex Theurer, Jacob Latimore, Seychelle Gabriel, Storm Reid, Sasheer Zamata, Cameron Esposito

R

71%

  • 3.8
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Rupture follows Renee Morgan (Noomi Rapace), a single mom, who is deathly terrified of spiders. While in route to meet up with a friend, she is violently abducted by a group of strangers. After enduring intense yet strange questioning and examinations, some about her fear of spiders, Renee soon discovers that she is now the subject of an underground experiment. Her captors explain to her that she has a genetic abnormality that can potentially allow her to “rupture” and reveal her alien nature. Renee must find a way to escape before it is too late.

Peter Stormare, Noomi Rapace, Kerry Bishe, Steven Shainberg, Brian Nelson, Lesley Manville, Michael Chiklis

NR

76%

  • 2.5
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A diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific – as beautiful as it is treacherous – unaware that they’re crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.

Brie Larson, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Tom Hiddleston, Eric McLeod, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent, Max Borenstein

PG-13

84%

  • 3.8
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SYNOPSIS: In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange behaviors cause Abby to have doubts about the sanity, and perhaps identities, of the two employees onsite.

Tom Sizemore, Dagen Merrill, Kevin Burke, Fred Fernandez-Armesto, Adam Gyngell, Dominic Monaghan, Sarah Habel

61%

  • 2.3
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When a flash of light shoots across the sky on their romantic, Iceland vacation, Jenai (Maika Monroe) and Riley (Matt O’Leary) wake up to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world. As they question why all the people have vanished from the planet, they soon start to wonder if perhaps they should leave too.

Geoffrey Orthwein, Andrew Sullivan, Maika Monroe, Matt OLeary

72%

  • 2.6
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Life tells the story of the six-member crew of the International Space Station that is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the crew begins to conduct research, their methods end up having unintended consequences and the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Espinosa, Paul Wernick, Rebecca Ferguson, Rhett Reese, Ariyon Bakare, Dana Goldberg

79%

  • 3.8
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Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank's maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Richard Kelly, Patrick Swayze, Sean McKittrick, Nancy Juvonen, Adam Fields, Jena Malone

R

63%

  • 3.9
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In the near future, the world is off-balance. People have gained a specific knowledge, and death has lost meaning, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor (Robert Redford): There is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide in order to "re-set" their existence, others go on, trying to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will (Jason Segel), who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla (Rooney Mara). There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments. They are all looking to Dr. Harbor for meaning. Can Will and Isla find peace - in this place, or on the other side?

Rooney Mara, Jason Segel, Robert Redford, Charlie McDowell, Justin Lader

84%

  • 2
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In this interplanetary adventure, a space shuttle embarks on the first mission to colonize Mars, only to discover after takeoff that one of the astronauts is pregnant. Shortly after landing, she dies from complications while giving birth to the first human born on the red planet – never revealing who the father is. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Gardner Elliot – an inquisitive, highly intelligent boy who reaches the age of 16 having only met 14 people in his very unconventional upbringing.

While searching for clues about his father, and the home planet he’s never known, Gardner begins an online friendship with a street smart girl in Colorado named Tulsa. When he finally gets a chance to go to Earth, he’s eager to experience all of the wonders he could only read about on Mars – from the most simple to the extraordinary. But once his explorations begin, scientists discover that Gardner’s organs can’t withstand Earth’s atmosphere.

Eager to find his father, Gardner escapes the team of scientists and joins with Tulsa on a race against time to unravel the mysteries of how he came to be, and where he belongs in the universe.

Gary Oldman, Janet Montgomery, BD Wong, Britt Robertson, Peter Chelsom, Richard B. Lewis, Allan Loeb, Carla Gugino

PG-13

84%

  • 3
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Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began – The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Ruby Rose, Paul W.S. Anderson, Eoin Macken, Rola, Lee Joon-Gi

R

79%

  • 4.1
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