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Kill Command
Kill Command is a 2016 British sci-fi action film, Steven Gomez's directorial debut for Vertigo Films, starring Vanessa Kirby and Thure Lindhardt as marines hunted by learning military robots on a remote island; released 13 May 2016 with about 1,100 VFX shots.
Kin (film)
Kin is a 2018 American sci-fi action thriller, also known as an expansion of the short film Bag Man, directed by Australian twins Jonathan and Josh Baker. Eli Solinski finds an alien gun in Detroit; Myles Truitt, Jack Reynor, James Franco, Dennis Quaid star; Lionsgate released it August 31, 2018.
Lazer Team
Lazer Team is a 2016 science fiction comedy about four men who find an alien battle suit. It was financed by an Indiegogo campaign that raised over $2.4 million.
League of Gods (封神传奇)
League of Gods (封神传奇) is a 2016 Chinese fantasy action film directed by Koan Hui, starring Jet Li, Fan Bingbing and Tony Leung Ka Fai; a 500-million-RMB effects-heavy adaptation of Investiture of the Gods that flopped critically and commercially.
Level 16
Level 16 is a 2019 Canadian dystopian sci-fi thriller written and directed by Danishka Esterhazy, starring Katie Douglas and Celina Martin as girls uncovering the truth of Vestalis Academy.
Life (2017 film)
Life is a 2017 American science-fiction horror film directed by Daniel Espinosa. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson, and follows a crew studying a dangerous Martian sample.
Life Like (film)
Life Like is a 2019 American sci-fi thriller drama directed and written by Josh Janowicz, starring Drew Van Acker, Addison Timlin, and Steven Strait as android Henry; released digitally May 14, 2019, rated R, 96 minutes.
Limitless (film)
Limitless is a 2011 American science-fiction thriller directed by Neil Burger, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, loosely based on Alan Glynn's novel The Dark Fields.
Lockout (film)
Lockout is a 2012 French-American science fiction prison action film directed by James Mather and Stephen St. Leger, co-written with Luc Besson, and starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace.
Looper (film)
Looper (2012) is Rian Johnson's science-fiction action thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt, in which a 2044 hitman must kill his future self sent back from 2074; made independently for $37.5 million, it opened with $20.8 million.
Lost River (film)
Lost River (2014) is Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, a dark fantasy-drama starring Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, and Saoirse Ronan, shot in Detroit, premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2014, originally titled How to Catch a Monster.
Lucid Dream (루시드 드림) (2017 film)
Lucid Dream (루시드 드림) is a 2017 South Korean SF thriller, Kim Joon-sung's feature debut, starring Go Soo, Sul Kyung-gu, and Park Yoo-chun; a father uses lucid dreaming to find his abducted son. It was the second Korean film signed by Netflix and earned 102,170 admissions.
Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris is a 2011 romantic comedy-fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen, in which an American screenwriter visits 1920s Paris each night at midnight and meets Jazz Age figures.
Midnight Special (film)
Midnight Special is a 2016 American science fiction thriller written and directed by Jeff Nichols, starring Michael Shannon as a father fleeing with his powerful young son.
Monster Hunt (捉妖记)
Monster Hunt (捉妖记) is Raman Hui's 2015 Chinese live-action/CG fantasy comedy about Song Tianyin pregnant with the monster king Huba. Costing 3.5亿 RMB after Kai Ko's reshoot, it grossed 24.28亿, briefly China's all-time box-office champion.
Monsters (2010 film)
Monsters (2010 film) is a 2010 British science-fiction film, a debut for Gareth Edwards, where an American photojournalist escorts his boss's daughter through a quarantined zone in Mexico.
Morgan (2016 film)
Morgan is a 2016 science fiction thriller directed by Luke Scott, starring Kate Mara as a consultant evaluating a bioengineered humanoid at a remote facility.
Mortal Engines (film)
Mortal Engines (2018), Christian Rivers' directorial debut scripted by Walsh, Boyens, and Jackson from Philip Reeve's novel, depicts mobile predator cities; it cost $100–150 million and earned $83.7 million, a major flop.
Mune: Guardian of the Moon
Mune: Guardian of the Moon (Mune, le gardien de la lune; ミューン 月の守護者の伝説) is a French 3D/2D animated fantasy by Benoît Philippon and Alexandre Heboyan about a faun chosen as Moon guardian who must recover the stolen Sun, released in France in 2015.
Mute (2018 film)
Mute (2018) is a Netflix sci-fi noir directed by Duncan Jones, starring Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, and Justin Theroux; a 16-year passion project set in future Berlin, critically panned (RT 20%, Metascore 35).
Ne Zha (2019 film)
Ne Zha (哪吒之魔童降世, Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child) is a 2019 Chinese animated fantasy film directed by Jiaozi (Yang Yu), adapting the Nezha myth; it grossed 5.035 billion yuan in China and spawned the 2025 record-breaking sequel Ne Zha 2.
Odd Squad: The Movie
Odd Squad: The Movie is a 2016 PBS KIDS television film directed by J.J. Johnson, in which the kid agents battle the rival Weird Team; it won a Daytime Emmy for writing and a Canadian Screen Award.
Okja (옥자)
Okja (옥자) is Bong Joon Ho's 2017 Netflix film about girl Mija rescuing her genetically engineered superpig from the Mirando Corporation; $50 million budget, Cannes 2017 Competition controversy, starring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Ahn Seo-hyun.
Orange (2015 film)
Orange (オレンジ), 2015 Japanese live-action film by Hashimoto Kojiro for Toho, adapting Ichigo Takano's manga; stars Tao Tsuchiya and Kento Yamazaki; distinct from the 2010 Telugu film Orange.
Pandemic (film)
Pandemic (2016) is an American first-person POV zombie action-horror film directed by John Suits, written by Dustin T. Benson, starring Rachel Nichols and Alfie Allen, released by XLrator Media on April 1, 2016, scoring 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Passengers (2016 film)
Passengers is a 2016 American science fiction romance film directed by Morten Tyldum, starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence as passengers awakened early on a colony ship.
Perfect Sense
Perfect Sense (2011) is a drama directed by David Mackenzie, written by Kim Fupz Aakeson, starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green as a Glasgow chef and epidemiologist falling in love during an epidemic that removes the senses one by one; Sundance 2011 premiere, Edinburgh Best New British Feature winner.
Phoenix Forgotten
Phoenix Forgotten is a 2017 found-footage sci-fi horror film directed by Justin Barber, co-written with T.S. Nowlin, produced by Ridley Scott, about three teens who vanish investigating the 1997 Phoenix Lights.
Pinocchio (2019 film)
Pinocchio is Matteo Garrone's 2019 Italian-language live-action adaptation of Collodi's 1883 novel, starring Federico Ielapi and Roberto Benigni as Geppetto. A 125-minute Italy-France-UK co-production, it earned two 2021 Oscar nominations and was Italy's top Christmas 2019 box-office film.
Pixels (2015 film)
Pixels (2015) is a Chris Columbus sci-fi action comedy starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Peter Dinklage, and Josh Gad, adapted from Patrick Jean's 2010 short, in which aliens attack Earth using arcade games; it grossed $244.9 million worldwide and was critically panned.