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1) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
2) Torn curtain
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"World-famous American scientist Michael Armstrong, and his fiancee/assistant, Sarah Sherman, travel to Copenhagen for a physics conference. When Sarah mistakenly intercepts a message meant for Armstrong, she believes that he is secretly defecting to East Germany. Or is he? As Armstrong goes undercover to glean top-secret information, the couple find themslves running for their lives from enemy agents"--Container.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A family of scientists is on the brink of a powerful discovery when a mysterious force suddenly abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Years later, April carries on her family's research in secret with her cat, Darwin, but soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy conspiracy and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered airships, and cyborg rat spies!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The show reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. In the film, 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.
Series
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy scientist, Cecilia Kass escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding. But when her abusive ex commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
It is the height of the Cold War, and ex-thief Harry Palmer, now reluctantly working as a secret agent, has been called in to investigate a strange occurrence among a number of leading scientists. It seems the scientists have been kidnapped, but reappear only days after the kidnapping, brainwashed and useless. During the course of the investigation, a tape is uncovered with the word "Ipcress" on it
7) Stalker
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Russian
Description
Inside a mysterious realm called the zone there is The Room, a place that will grant you your innermost desire. Stalker, a man that knows how to pass the deadly secrets of The Zone, escorts a group of people to the Room.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
English
Description
Scientist Bruce Banner has been living in the shadows, scouring the earth for an antidote. Warmongers dream of abusing his powers and won't leave Bruce alone. He suffers from his constant need to be with the only woman he has ever love, Betty Ross, and Bruce knows that he must return to civilization. The brilliant doctor is ruthlessly pursued by a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and aggression called The Abomination whose powers match that of...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
13) Igor
Publisher
Quality Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Determined to prove he can create his own diabolical invention, a mad scientist's nice-guy assistant, Igor, creates a female Franken-monster. But his creation, Eva, is sweet and sings. That is, until she falls into the clutches of Dr. Schadenfreude.
14) Hard to be a God
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Russian
Description
Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
15) Moonraker
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
James Bond joins forces with NASA scientist Holly Goodhead to prevent a power-mad industrialist from destroying human life on Earth.
Author
Series
My weirdest school volume 9
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Retired scientist Miss Tracy comes to Ella Mentry School to teach about the planets and the solar system and casts A.J. as Uranus in the school play.
17) The quiet Earth
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
At exactly 6:12 a.m., government research scientist Zac Hubson awakens to discover that he may be the last man on Earth. Homes, highways and entire cities are deserted. He soon learns down the road that he isn't alone, a woman and a trucker are still there.
18) Top secret!
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
An American rock star teams up with the daughter of a scientist to find the scientist before he creates the ultimate weapon, in this spoof of war epics and Elvis films.
20) The children
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Two retired nuclear scientists in an isolated cottage by the sea as the world around them crumbles. Then an old friend arrives with a frightening request" --
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