Category "science-fiction"

One-eyed, tentacled aliens that disguise themselves as humans [closed]

I saw this when I was very young, so my memories are spotty. I cannot recall if this is a movie or a TV episode (older), nor whether it was

Upcoming movie about an android [closed]

At some point in the last year, I saw a preview for a movie at the theater. What I remember is a person dressed in a hoodie walking into a pr

Movie in which time is money [closed]

I saw this movie on an American PBS station, I think in the late '70s or early '80s. The premise was very similar to the Justin Timberlake fi

Can SciFi gadget be considered prior art?

Patents are received when there is no prior art. That is, you cannot patent things that are already in the public domain. So, take the iPad, I'd swear that Sta

1980s sci-fi show about a family transported through a pyramid? [closed]

I saw part of a show sometime in the 80s (early or late, I couldn't say) that I have been trying to remember for some time. Figured I never w

Black and white science fiction movie with aliens and dome [closed]

I saw this science fiction a long time ago. I recall a light plane having to land. The pilot and a woman struggling to survive in a town tha

Female lead learns martial arts from an android [closed]

Looking for an older most likely 1990's science fiction movie that has a female lead who learns martial arts from an android. I remember the

Miniseries featuring an upside down ziggurat-shaped spaceship [closed]

An American made for TV movie shown over several nights in, I think, the 90's, that featured a spaceship resembling an upside down ziggurat ho

1990s sci-fi tv show with invading humanoids and dull crosshatched eyes [closed]

I am remembering a sci fi TV show from probably around the 90s in which the enemies had strange eyes. The eyes were dull and had either a cros

Sci-fi movie where people in a submarine see something that starts making their dreams come true [closed]

All I remember is that it's about some group of people traveling in a submarine in the sea (i think), they see something in the sea and after

Family trapped underground/another dimension and forced to play a game show [closed]

OK, I'm looking for this movie for a long time now but I don't remember much of it, I've seen it when I was a kid and it's stuck in my brain e

Crew try to make contact with an intelligent storm [closed]

I'm trying to find a movie I saw in the late 1990s in Russian language, but it was definitely originally in English. The plot of this movie i

80s / 90s Sci Fi movie or show about aliens/monster that look amish [closed]

I am trying really hard to remember where I saw this. I remember it took place in a modern world, but there was a field or dome that they cou

Scientist steals two insect-like aliens and raises them in his shed [closed]

I've searched far and wide for this and, as I've got limited memory of it, I've no idea how to find the actual name of the film. The premise

A sci-fi prison where you don't age [closed]

A sci-fi prison where you don't age The main character is male, he gets sent to prison (unsure if he committed the crime) He keeps trying to e

Apples in a greenhouse on a spacestation [closed]

As a child sometime in the late seventies or very early eighties, I saw a sci-fi movie on TV - there was a scene in a greenhouse, either on a

A movie about getting to a fake utopian planet / virtual environment [closed]

A movie about getting to a utopian planet that found out to be a fake one, instead the people were connected to a machine, that took them to a

Boy's dream about a hairy monster or alien turns out to be real [closed]

What is this 1950s sci-fi movie about a boy's dream? I remember its ending where you are convinced that all the action in the movie turns ou

Why doesn't time dilation take place when travelling at warp?

In Star Trek ships are frequently seen travelling many times faster than the speed of light. My understanding of the theory of relativity is a little rusty but

Primer question to better understand the movie

I just discovered Primer: it is nothing short of amazing IMHO. I've read various sites and graphics explaining how their machine work and I've got a question wh