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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
They call themselves the Borg--a half-organic, half-machine collective with a sole purpose: to conquer and assimilate all races. Led by their seductive and sadistic queen, the Borg are headed to earth with a devious plan to alter history. Picard's last encounter with the Borg almost killed him. Now, he wants vengeance
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
In the fourth installment of the Alien series, Ellen Ripley died fighting the perfect predator. Two hundred yeras and eight experiments later (since Alien 3), she returns. A group of scientists cloned her, along with the alien queen inside her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. However, the resurrected Ripley is full of surprises for her creators, as are the aliens. To combat the creatures, Ripley must team up with a band of smugglers, including...
6) Aliens
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1986
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Description
Ripley is recovering from her first encounter with the deadly alien. Her account of that event is received with skepticism, but transmissions from a colony later established on the Alien's planet abruptly cease. Burke, an up-and-coming company man, talks Ripley into going back with a squad of colonial marines. Of course the Marines do not take her warnings seriously either, until they come face-to-face with the awesome alien spawn.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.
8) The Giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
10) The abyss
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
When a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks, the Navy commandeers the crew of a civilian deep sea oil rig to help in the rescue operation. This perilous mission becomes a wondrous odyssey into the unknown as forces from the ocean's deepest region begin to make contact with the divers.
11) Armageddon
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Description
When an asteroid the size of Texas is headed for Earth, a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers are sent to drop a nuclear warhead into its core.
12) Fright night
Pub. Date
1998
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Description
When a teen-age boy can't get anybody to believe that his neighbor is a vampire, he turns to a TV-horror host, who used to be the "Great Vampire Killer" of the movies.
16) Prometheus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Explorers have discovered a clue that brings them to the origins of mankind on Earth. This leads them on a journey that takes them to the darkest corners of the universe.
18) Alien 3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Lt. Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Ripley's fears that an Alien was aboard her craft are confirmed when the mutilated bodies of ex-cons begin to mount. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind, Ripley must lead the men into battle against the terrifying creature. She soon discovers a...
20) Stargate
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
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Description
A secret military mission takes a group of men through an Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate to an ancient civilization on the other side of the universe. Once there, they must battle the astoundingly powerful sun god, Ra, before they can find their way home.
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