Adventure, Science Fiction
As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Virtual Obsession
A Whale for the Killing
Invisible Man
Planets Around Us
The Wren
Ben-Hur
A Tree of Palme
Future Fear
The Water Babies
Countdown: Armageddon
The NeverEnding Story
Monster on the Campus
Assault on Dome 4
Walkabout
Rich and Strange
The Giant Claw
Gamera vs. Viras
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The White Warrior
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Adventures of Huck Finn
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 1993
Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and escapes. He soon runs into his friend, Jim, a slave fleeing his master. Together, the pair embarks on a raft journey down the Mississippi River, staying ahead of pursuers who blame the slave for Huck's alleged murder.Virtual Obsession
IMDB 4.8 | Feb , 1998
If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a reason and go quietly, or to use cryogenics to hope you could be cured someday in the future, or to download your consciousness into computer memory where you could still continue to interact with the ones you love?A Whale for the Killing
IMDB 7 | Feb , 1981
A conservationst, stranded with his family at a Newfoundland coastal resort, flies in the face of custom and fights an entire community to prevent a trapped whale's slaughter with only the support of his wife and one of the locals.Invisible Man
IMDB 6.4 | Dec , 1954
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.Planets Around Us
IMDB 3 | Feb , 1962
An alien race sends cyborgs — made to look like the son of a famous scientist, whom they killed when he landed on their planet — to Earth to help pave the way for an invasion.The Wren
IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 1966
Feride is a young girl who lost her family as a child and was educated in a French school. Because of her mischievousness and cheerfulness, she is nicknamed Wren by those around her. On the eve of marriage with the boy she loves, she thinks she is being deceived and runs away. Feride then begins to work as a teacher in various Anatolian cities. She will experience many difficulties during her travels.Ben-Hur
IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 2016
A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.A Tree of Palme
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 2002
A Tree of Palme is an interpretation of the Pinocchio tale. It concerns a small puppet, Palme, who was tasked by his creator to look over his ailing wife, Xian. After her passing, Palme is visited by a mysterious woman who he mistakenly believes to be Xian. Shaken out of his sadness, Palme accepts her request to deliver something special to a far-off place known as Tama. This sets Palme off on a journey to discover his own emotions, and what it truly means to be human.Future Fear
IMDB 3.6 | Dec , 1997
An able-bodied scientist has found a cure for the plague from outer space which has eradicated almost all life on the planet. A mad general who wants to repopulate the planet with a new race sends a special female assassin to take him out.The Water Babies
IMDB 6 | Jun , 1978
Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on the verge of being caught, he frames his young apprentice, Tom, for the crime. Tom runs away and jumps into a river where, instead of drowning, he finds himself transformed into a mystical aquatic creature. Swimming and breathing effortlessly, he discovers a colorful underwater world replete with creatures both cruel and kind.Countdown: Armageddon
IMDB 5 | Feb , 2009
A journalist searches for her daughter as a series of catastrophic disasters push a destabilized society toward the brink of global war.The NeverEnding Story
IMDB 7.2 | Apr , 1984
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.Monster on the Campus
IMDB 6.1 | Dec , 1958
A college paleontology professor acquires a newly discovered specimen of a coelecanth, but while examining it, he is accidentally exposed to its blood, and finds himself periodically turning into a murderous Neanderthal man.Assault on Dome 4
IMDB 3.6 | Oct , 1996
In this science-fiction action opus, intergalactic extremist Alex Windham has seized control of Dome 4, a scientific outpost on another planet, after escaping from a penal colony on Mars. Windham is forcing the staff of Dome 4 to construct new weapons that he can use to destroy his enemies, but what he doesn't know is that one of his captives is the wife of interstellar lawman Chase Moran, and MorWalkabout
IMDB 7.3 | Jul , 1971
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an Aboriginal boy who shows them how to survive, and in the process underscores the disharmony between nature and modern life.Rich and Strange
IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 1931
Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.The Giant Claw
IMDB 4.9 | Jun , 1957
Global panic ensues when it is revealed that a mysterious UFO is actually a giant turkey-like bird that flies at supersonic speed and has no regard for life or architecture.Gamera vs. Viras
IMDB 5.8 | Mar , 1968
As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's spaceship, the Scouts are menaced by the evil inhabitants, including Viras, a squid-like monster that grows to colossal size to battle Gamera.The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 1953
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.The White Warrior
IMDB 5.2 | Jun , 1959
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian Czar.