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12 Monkeys
12 Monkeys, also released as Twelve Monkeys, is a 1995 American science fiction thriller directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt.
12:01
12:01 is a 1993 American made-for-television science fiction thriller directed by Jack Sholder, starring Jonathan Silverman, Helen Slater, and Martin Landau, in which a man relives the same day.
A Chinese Odyssey
A Chinese Odyssey (大话西游) is Jeff Lau's two-part 1995 Hong Kong comedy starring Stephen Chow, adapting Journey to the West; a box-office flop that became a mainland cult classic from 1997.
After Life (ワンダフルライフ) (1998 film)
After Life (ワンダフルライフ, Wandafuru Raifu) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 1998 Japanese fantasy drama in which the dead choose one memory to be filmed for eternity; built from 500 interviews, it won the Nantes Grand Prix and scored 91 on Metacritic.
Alien Resurrection
Alien Resurrection (Alien: Resurrection, Alien, la résurrection) is the 1997 fourth Alien film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Joss Whedon, starring Sigourney Weaver as a cloned Ripley-alien hybrid and Winona Ryder, released November 26, 1997.
Armageddon (1998 film)
Armageddon (1998) is Michael Bay's Touchstone disaster film in which Bruce Willis's oil drillers destroy a Texas-sized asteroid. Grossed $553.7 million worldwide on a $140 million budget; released July 1, 1998, opposite Deep Impact.
Barren Illusions
Barren Illusions (大いなる幻影, Ôinaru gen'ei), also Barren Illusion, is a 1999 Japanese drama-romance by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, made with Film School of Tokyo students, about Haru and Michi in near-future 2005 Tokyo testing a pollen drug, premiered at Venice 1999.
Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich is a 1999 surreal comedy directed by Spike Jonze, written by Charlie Kaufman, starring John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and Malkovich as himself; a portal on office floor 7½ lets people enter the actor's mind for 15 minutes.
Bicentennial Man (film)
Bicentennial Man is a 1999 American science fiction drama directed by Chris Columbus, in which Robin Williams plays a robot who spends two centuries trying to become human.
Blankman
Blankman is a 1994 American superhero comedy parody film directed by Mike Binder, starring and co-written by Damon Wayans as nerdy inventor Darryl Walker, based on his In Living Color Handi-Man character; a Columbia Pictures box office flop with cult followings.
Chain Reaction (1996 film)
Chain Reaction (1996 film) is an American science fiction techno-thriller directed by Andrew Davis. It stars Keanu Reeves and Morgan Freeman as researchers framed for murder.
Dark Angel (1990 film)
Dark Angel, released in the US as I Come in Peace, is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Craig R. Baxley, starring Dolph Lundgren.
Darkman
Darkman is a 1990 American superhero thriller directed by Sam Raimi and starring Liam Neeson as a scientist who takes masked revenge on the gangsters who disfigured him.
Death Becomes Her
Death Becomes Her is a 1992 Robert Zemeckis black comedy starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis about rivals drinking an immortality potion; ILM's first computer-generated human skin texture earned an Academy Award, and a 2024 Broadway musical followed.
Deep Impact (film)
Deep Impact is a 1998 American disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, about a comet on a collision course with Earth, starring Morgan Freeman and Téa Leoni.
Demolition Man (film)
Demolition Man is a 1993 Warner Bros. sci-fi action comedy directed by Marco Brambilla, starring Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, and Sandra Bullock; a cop frozen in 1996 is thawed in 2032 San Angeles, a satirical utopia inspired by Brave New World.
Dragonheart
Dragonheart is a 1996 American fantasy adventure film directed by Rob Cohen, starring Dennis Quaid as a knight allied with Draco, the last living dragon voiced by Sean Connery.
Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American fantasy romance film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as a gentle artificial man with scissor blades for hands.
Event Horizon (film)
Event Horizon is a 1997 sci-fi horror film directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, written by Philip Eisner, starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill. A $60 million Paramount box-office failure that became a cult classic; its 130-minute cut is largely lost.
Existenz
eXistenZ is David Cronenberg's 1999 Canadian-British sci-fi horror thriller starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jude Law, about an organic virtual-reality game; Silver Bear winner released four weeks after The Matrix.
Face/Off
Face/Off is a 1997 John Woo science-fiction action film from Paramount starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage as an FBI agent and terrorist who surgically swap faces and identities.
Fire in the Sky
Fire in the Sky (1993) is a Paramount sci-fi drama directed by Robert Lieberman, starring D.B. Sweeney as logger Travis Walton, dramatizing his disputed 1975 Arizona abduction claim; also known from Walton's book The Walton Experience.
Flubber (film)
Flubber is a 1997 American science fiction family comedy directed by Les Mayfield, starring Robin Williams as an inventor who creates a gravity-defying green goo.
Fluke (film)
Fluke is a 1995 American fantasy drama directed by Carlo Carlei, adapted from James Herbert's 1977 novel, in which a workaholic killed in a car crash is reincarnated as a dog.
Forever Young (1992 film)
Forever Young is a 1992 American science-fiction romance film directed by Steve Miner and written by J. J. Abrams, starring Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Elijah Wood.
Fortress
Fortress is a 1992 science fiction prison-break film directed by Stuart Gordon, starring Christopher Lambert, Loryn Locklin, and Kurtwood Smith, and filmed in Queensland, Australia.
Freejack
Freejack is a 1992 American science fiction action film directed by Geoff Murphy, in which bounty hunters from 2009 snatch people from the past for body transplants.
Galaxy Quest
Galaxy Quest (1999) is a DreamWorks science-fiction comedy directed by Dean Parisot, starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Alan Rickman as washed-up actors of a Star Trek-like TV show recruited by aliens who think the show is real.
Gattaca
Gattaca (1997) is Andrew Niccol's dystopian science fiction film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law, about an 'in-valid' who assumes a 'valid's' DNA identity to join a space program; a box-office disappointment that became a canonical bioethics reference.
Grand Tour: Disaster in Time
Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, also released as Timescape, is a 1992 David Twohy sci-fi film starring Jeff Daniels as an innkeeper whose guests are future tourists attending disasters, adapted from Kuttner and Moore's Vintage Season.