Alex Garland
2) The coma
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2004
Description
When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a subway train, life around him feels unfamiliar, even strange. He arrives at his best friend's house without remembering how he got there; he seems to be having an affair with his secretary, which is pleasant but surprising. He starts to notice distortions in his experience, strange leaps in his perception of time. Is he truly reacting with the outside world, he wonders, or might he be terribly...
3) Ex machina
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan intensifies....
4) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
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.
5) Civil war
Pub. Date
[2024]
Formats
Description
In a dystopian future America, a team of military-embedded journalists race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.
7) Dredd
Publisher
Lionsgate
Formats
Description
"The America of the post-apocalyptic future is an irradiated wasteland, a vast ultraviolent world where criminals control the mean city streets. Ultimate law enforcers like Dredd ... and his new partner, Anderson ... are Judges--the only force battling for justice. Dispatched by the central authority, the Judges' target is Ma-Ma ... a ruthless boss bent on expanding her criminal empire through sales of Slo-mo, a dangerous reality-altering drug"--Container....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love.
9) Men
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. However, someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her. What begins as simmering dread soon becomes a fully formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.
10) 28 days later
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come.
11) The beach
Description
Includes: Commentary by Director Danny Boyle ; 9 deleted scenes ; Storyboard gallery with Theatrical Trailer ; and All Saints music video "Pure shores."
12) Sunshine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.
13) 28 days later
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Description
An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come.
14) Ex machina
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
After her husband returns physically changed from a secret mission, a biologist decides to join a dangerous expedition into a zone where the laws of nature have been turned around; after alien ships arrive at locations around Earth, a linguist is called in to translate and understand the alien language; wealthy British aristocrat and artifact collector, Lara Croft must find a key that unlocks a device that can control time before the evil Illuminati...
16) Sunshine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.
17) The tesseract
Publisher
Distributed by Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Four people's paths mysteriously cross at a dilapidated Bangkok hotel. A drug mule falls into an intensive state of paranoia while he is holding a package from a local mafia boss. In the hotel lobby, a British psychologist suffering from the trauma of losing her son, checks in. A rising mafia boss, having plundered drugs from a rival crime family, races in a car to meet the drug mule in his hotel room. Showered by a barrage of bullets, a female assassin...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
The beach: A young backpacker in Thailand searching for something different learns of the existence of an idyllic island which is not even on the map. Once he reaches the island, he discovers a secret commune of international drifters living off fish and pot. The man's arrival coincides with growing tension between factions, leading to the commune's violent demise.
The man in the iron mask: In 1638 Queen Anne of France gives Birth to a boy, who will...
Publisher
Binge Box
Description
The terminator: In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
Ex machina: Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a...