http://www.scienceplusfiction.org daily 3 2005-11-16T15:01:27Z http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/28_days_later Waking from a coma in a deserted London hospital, Jim takes to the deserted city streets in a state of mystified confusion. Joining forces with another group of survivors following a terrifying encounter in a seemingly abandoned church, Jim soon learns the truth behind the deserted streets and the menacing creatures that lurk in the shadows. Is there still a glimmer of hope for humanity? No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:16Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/1984 In a totalitarian society of the future, every form of individuality is forbidden. Rules are made by an invisible “Big Brother” who, thanks to his followers, controls the actions of the population in such a way that nobody can have any subversive thought. Edmond O’Brien is an officer of the government, happy with his job until he commits an illegal action: he falls in love. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:12Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/brazil_en Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of Kafka’s The Trial in this bureaucratic nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam Lowry whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. Not a software bug, a real bug that gets smooshed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying an innocent citizen, one Mr.Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:16Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/code_46 William investigates on a fraud against the insurance company Sphinx in Shangai. He finds out that the responsible for the fraud is Marie, a girl who works for the company. William knows well that Marie is guilty and that she must pay for what she has done, but an unexpected event prevents him from handing her over to the police: he falls in love with her, and this will change his life forever. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:16Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/first_men_in_the_moon The first manned U.N. space flight lands on the Moon only to discover a tattered Union Jack and a message written in 1899. On Earth, the experts track down an old man, Arnold Bedford, in an institution, who tells them how he had indeed reached the Moon, over sixty years ago, in the anti-gravity spaceship invented and piloted by his eccentric neighbour, Professor Cavor. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:15Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/gorgo_en A prehistoric monster, caught by a tiny Irish island, is shipped to London to be exhibited in a circus, despite the warnings of scientists that the monster is undoubtedly a mere infant. Panic sweeps Britain as their theory proves correct, and the monster’s angry mother trundles towards London. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:14Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/mysterious_island During the American Civil War, Cyrus Harding, escapes from a Confederate prison with Privates Herbert Brown and Neb, after seizing a hot-air balloon. Blown far out into the Pacific Ocean they eventually land on a remote South Sea island, where they encounter various giant creatures, two shipwrecked English ladies, a band of pirate cut-throats and, finally, Captain Nemo, and his submarine Nautilus. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:14Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/quatermass_pit Dr Matthew Roney and his assistant Barbara Judd are called to inspect some unusual prehistoric skulls exposed during building work on an extension to the London Underground system, and further excavations reveal a large object resembling a rocket. When the object is finally penetrated, large locust-like beings are unearthed. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:15Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/earth_caught_fire Strange phenomena are taking place all over the world. Official explanations are guarded and contradictory. However, two ‘Daily Express’ journalists, Stenning and science correspondent Bill Maguire, discover that the climatic upheavals began after an American nuclear test and a similar Russian explosion that have caused the shifting of the orbit of the Earth and its approach to the sun. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:14Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/hitchhikers_guide_to_galaxy Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin their journey through space aided by quotes from the Guide and their fellow travellers. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:17Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/man_fell_earth A mysterious stranger calling himself T.J. Newton heaps up a fortune thanks to the patents for his revolutionary inventions that will transform the communications industry. Newton is actually an alien from another world where the inhabitants are dying from a lack of water, and he inaugurates a space programme designed to return him to his home planet. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:16Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/sorcerers Professor Monserrat has perfected a method of obtaining control over the human mind. Urged on by his wife Estelle, he determines to try it on the young Mike. The experiment succeeds: by concentrating together, Monserrat and Estelle can make him do their bidding and they share his sensations. Monserrat plans to use his discovery to allow elderly people to relive the experience of youth, but Estelle has different ideas. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:15Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/time_bandits In the hope of becoming notorious bandits, a group of dwarfs steals the map of the cosmos that shows its ‘time holes’, and they find themselves tumbling into the bedroom of Kevin, an English schoolboy. Pursued by both the Supreme Being and Evil, who also seeks the map, the dwarfs take Kevin on a journey through the time holes, encountering various characters from history and legend. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:16Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/unearthly_stranger Munro, head of a team of scientists working on a formula where by man will be able to project himself through time and space, is found dead by his secretary. Investigating the case, security officer Major Clarke reveals that two Americans and a Russian working on thesame lines have met similar fates. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:15Z Entry http://www.scienceplusfiction.org/archive/movies/villaggio_dannati_en Six boys and six girls are born in the village of Midwich, to women unable to account for their pregnancy. All the children have the same flaxen hair and strangely powerful eyes. Time passes, and by the age of nine not only they are intellectual giants, but they also seem to have supernatural powers. Those who oppose them are killed, it will be a scientist who will try to stop him. No publisher cappella 2007-11-07T11:15:14Z Entry