Posts Tagged ‘alternative-reality’

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)

Friday, June 11th, 2010
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Shou | James Remar | Talisa Soto | Sandra Hess | Brian Thompson | Lynn 'Red' Williams | Reiner Schöne | Deron McBee | Musetta Vander | Marjean Holden | Irina Pantaeva | Chris Conrad | Litefoot | J.J. Perry
Directors: John R. Leonetti
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The evil Emperor Shao Kahn has broken the rules of the Mortal Kombat tournament and, with his generals Motaro, Sheeva, Ermac, and Sindel (former queen of Edenia, once a beautiful kingdom, now the ravaged outworld), engineers the merger of the Earth and Outworld realms, destroying life as man knows it. The destruction will take place in six days, unless Lord Rayden, Liu Kang, Princess Kitana, Sonya Blade, and their companions can thwart the Outworld squadrons.

Inland Empire (2006)

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Inland Empire
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: France | Poland | USA
Actors: Laura Dern | Jeremy Irons | Justin Theroux | Harry Dean Stanton | Peter J. Lucas | Karolina Gruszka | Jan Hencz | Krzysztof Majchrzak | Grace Zabriskie | Diane Ladd | Julia Ormond | Ian Abercrombie | Karen Baird | Bellina Logan | Amanda Foreman
Directors: David Lynch
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After taking the lead in a new movie Hollywood star Nikki Grace learns the script is based on an old polish film, which was abandoned after the two lead roles of the film were murdered, Thinking the film is cursed Nikki’s imagination runs riot.

Event Horizon (1997)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Event Horizon
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Laurence Fishburne | Sam Neill | Kathleen Quinlan | Joely Richardson | Richard T. Jones | Jack Noseworthy | Jason Isaacs | Sean Pertwee | Peter Marinker | Holley Chant | Barclay Wright | Noah Huntley | Robert Jezek
Directors: Paul W.S. Anderson
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The year is 2047 and a ship named the Event Horizon has re-appeared after disappearing 7 years prior, in experiments for faster than light travel. A rescue hastily speeds to the returned vessel after a transmission was picked up from the ship, garbled, but vaguely resembling a human voice. As the crew reach the ship, and spend longer on it, it appears that someone or something is toying with them, and more, the question is what has the Event Horizon become?

Sliding Doors (1998)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Sliding Doors
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow | John Hannah | John Lynch | Jeanne Tripplehorn | Zara Turner | Douglas McFerran | Paul Brightwell | Nina Young | Virginia McKenna | Kevin McNally | Terry English | Paul Stacey | Joanna Roth | Neil Stuke
Directors: Peter Howitt
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Young Helen is fired from her job at a PR company, and when the sliding doors of the tube car close on her, we start to see what would have happened if she’d made the train, and if she hadn’t.

The Truman Show (1998)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Truman Show, The
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Laura Linney | Noah Emmerich | Natascha McElhone | Holland Taylor | Brian Delate | Blair Slater | Peter Krause | Heidi Schanz | Ron Taylor | Don Taylor | Ted Raymond | Judy Clayton | Fritz Dominique | Angel Schmiedt | Ed Harris
Directors: Peter Weir
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Truman Burbank is a normal man, living in a normal town. He grew up to be a desk clerk for a insurance company, living an ordinary life, having an ordinary wife, an ordinary neighbour and an ordinary bud, who pops in from time to time with a sixpack. But Truman is not happy with his life. He wants to see the world. He wants to get away from his happy-happy, ever tidy, nice’n'shiny little island town at the seaside. In reality, Truman was an unwanted pregnancy. His “father”, Christof, a reckless TV-Producer whom he never met, made up the Truman Show – the greatest show on earth – a show in which life is live. So, everyone around poor Truman is an actor with a little headphone in the ear. One day, Truman accidentally bumps into a catering area backstage and gets pretty suspicious. His plan now is: Pretend to be sleeping and steal away…

Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Cube 2: Hypercube
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Kari Matchett | Geraint Wyn Davies | Grace Lynn Kung | Matthew Ferguson | Neil Crone | Barbara Gordon
Directors: Andrzej Sekula
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Eight strangers find themselves waking up in a strange cube-shaped room with no recollection of how they came to be there. Soon discovering that they’re in a strange fourth dimension where our laws of physics don’t apply, they have to unravel the secrets of the “hypercube” in order to survive…

The One (2001)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
One, The
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jet Li | Carla Gugino | Delroy Lindo | Jason Statham | James Morrison | Dylan Bruno | Richard Steinmetz | Steve Rankin | Tucker Smallwood | Harriet Sansom Harris | David Keats | Dean Norris | Ron Zimmerman | Darin Morgan | Mark Borchardt
Directors: James Wong
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There is not one universe, but there are many, which is a multiverse. Supposing you are just one person, there are many other versions of you in the other universes, there are ways to travel, but only a police agency,MVA, can travel only for police procedures. Gabriel Yulaw (Jet Li)is a former MVA agent, who killed another version of himself in self-defense. It made the other versions of him stronger. When Yulaw found out about this, he became power-hungry killing the 122 other versions for two years. After killing Lawless (also played by Jet)and getting captured by his former partner Roedecker (Delroy Lindo) and a new MVA agent Funsch (Jason Statham) Yulaw managed to escape the prison and is trying to kill his last target, Gabe Law (also played by Jet) who is a police officer. He is also at Yulaw’s strength. Roedecker and Funsch now have to arrest Yulaw before he can kill Gabe. There is a possibility that the universe could die or make Yulaw invinible. After encountering Yulaw for the first time, Gabe thought that it was his split personality, but it wasn’t. Will Gabe be able to confront Yulaw before or after Yulaw ruins his life?

Run, Lola, Run (1998)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Run, Lola, Run
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany
Actors: Monica Bleibreu | Heino Ferch | Lete Lubosch | Franka Potente | Moritz Bleibtreu | Herbert Knaup | Nina Petri | Armin Rohde | Joachim Król | Ludger Pistor | Suzanne von Borsody | Sebastian Schipper | Julia Lindig | Lars Rudolph | Andreas Petri | Klaus Müller | Utz Krause | Beate Finckh
Directors: Tom Tykwer
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Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manny. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola’s run.

Howard the Duck (1986)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Howard the Duck
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Lea Thompson | Jeffrey Jones | Tim Robbins | Ed Gale | Chip Zien | Tim Rose | Steve Sleap | Peter Baird | Mary Wells | Lisa Sturz | Jordan Prentice | Paul Guilfoyle | Liz Sagal | Dominique Davalos | Holly Robinson Peete
Directors: Willard Huyck
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The story begins of a sarcastic humanoid duck the size of a man by the name of Howard from outer space is pulled from his home world to Earth through a laser beam and somehow winds up in Cleavland where he meets and quickly befriends with Beverly Switzler, a lead singer where they must stop an alien invader known as the Dark Overlords at all costs.

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Thirteenth Floor, The
Genres: Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Craig Bierko | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Gretchen Mol | Vincent D'Onofrio | Dennis Haysbert | Steven Schub | Jeremy Roberts | Rif Hutton | Leon Rippy | Janet MacLachlan | Brad William Henke | Burt Bulos | Venessia Valentino | Howard S. Miller | Tia Texada
Directors: Josef Rusnak
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Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He’s about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that’s just like the 30′s with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine…

Society (1989)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Society
Genres: Horror | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Billy Warlock | Connie Danese | Ben Slack | Evan Richards | Patrice Jennings | Tim Bartell | Charles Lucia | Heidi Kozak | Brian Bremer | Ben Meyerson | Devin DeVasquez | Maria Claire | Conan Yuzna | Jason Williams | Pamela Matheson
Directors: Brian Yuzna
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The teenager Bill Whitney (Billy Warlock) feels misfit with his parents and his sister Jenny Whitney (Patrice Jennings). When his sister’s boyfriend David Blanchard (Tim Bartell) bugs his family, he shows the disturbing tapes to Bill showing incest and a weird society. When Blanchard dies in a car accident, Bill decides to investigate his family and find a scary truth.

Watchmen (2009)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Watchmen
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Danny Woodburn | Apollonia Vanova | Nhi Do | Tony Ali | Jay Brazeau | Chris Burns | Billy Crudup | Matt Drake | Ron Fassler | Matt Frewer | L. Harvey Gold | Matthew Goode
Directors: Zack Snyder
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A crime/conspiracy story based on the influential comic by Alan Moore. Watchmen focuses on the every day life of out of work superheroes. Costumed superheroism has been outlawed, and most groups have been abandoned. But as a new threat presents itself, the paranoid masked detective/vigilante Rorschach uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all masked heroes.