Soviet Union 1959 66m Directed by: Viktor Morgenstern. Starring: Pavel Makhotin, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Georgiy Shamshurin, Anatoliy Shamshurin, Konstantin Erofeev, Pavel Samarin, Nadezhda Vishnevskaya, Georgiy Vitsin, Konstantin Nemolyayev, Vladimir Seleznyov, Nikolai Timofeyev, Feliks Yavorsky. Music by: Andrey Sevastyanov. The first manned trip to the space is - of course - a big success of a soviet science. The movie shows in detail the tremendous work with the preparation of the flight. In the key scene of the film the astronaut Andrei must make a difficult choice. Will he go home from the space and leave the robotic probe packed with priceless information behind or send the probe to Earth and thus sacrifice his own life on altar of the scientific progress of the mankind?
Hong Kong / Japan 1992 96m Directed by: Tai Kit Mak. Starring: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Jacky Cheung, Roy Cheung, Shu-Kei Chow, Carman Lee, Tatsuya Nakadai, Woo-Ping Yuen, Reiko Hayama. Music by: Kiyoko Ogino, Richard Yuen. Taki is assigned to go after Daishu, a businessman who is suspected by the police to be selling the drug "happiness", a drug from the Rapter's world that causes people to "evaporate" if they stop taking it. Actually it is another group of Rapters that are selling the happiness. The second group attacks Daishu's group, and eventually Taki, Daishu, and Daishu's daughter join forces to fight the evil Rapters.
USA / Canada 1981 98m Directed by: D. Paul Thomas. Starring: Gary Bayer, Alana Rader, Malcon McCaiman, Jerry Houser, Sarah Rush, James Blendick, Jon Locke, Michael Amber, Peter Von Berg, Valentina Quinn, D. Paul Thomas, James Chapman, Debra Johansen, Wendy Isaac, Alice Lee. Music by: Ovid Young. College professor Stephen Miles, his wife, a young girl, and a drifter are suddenly faced with a society where money is worthless, food is scarce, your neighbor is your enemy and oppression reigns. The four must survive a world of earthquakes, natural disasters, looters, corrupt officials and the Anti-Christ in power.
USA 1963 85m Directed by: Russ Marker. Starring: Tim Holt, James Britton, Jack Herman, Ann Pellegrino, Robert Bob Kelly, Linda Jenkins, Carol Gilley, Jay Ramsey, Bill Thurman, Charles Young, Olga Powell, Bob Brown, Marvin Seabright, Lee Arthur, Patrick Cranshaw. Music by: Don Zimmers. A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
China 2015 96m Directed by: Li Yi. Starring: Joma, Chong Wang, Yalayam. 10.000 years from now after the collapse of the enviroment, the Human Race has nearly gone extinct while a new species has risen to take its place. Troubles arise when a tribal leader of this new race comes across an ancient power that he seeks to use to conquer the world. Only one Human girl stands between him and his plans...
Thailand 1977 104m Directed by: Sompote Sands. Starring: Duangcheewan Komolsen, Lor Tok. Four boys are born with strange features, one has very big ears, one has a tail, one has very big hands, one has big nose sinus. Becoming friends, they spend most of their time playing and sleeping. Becoming adults, their fathers banish them from the village as they are doing nothing to help the community. Just as they leave, a local mafia gang threatens the villagers to get help to cultivate opium and to provide food for their members. Meanwhile one lady wants to marry one of the boys but wishes that he can remove his tail. He refuses. At night time, while he is sleeping, she cuts his tail. He flees away but looses a lot of blood. A crazy scientific professor finds and decides to save him by using technology. He becomes the Thai Six Million Dollar Man! He then gathers his three other friends to free the villagers from the mafia gang.
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Japan 1959 121m Directed by: Eijirô Wakabayashi. Starring: Tatsuo Umemiya, Hiroko Mine, Takashi Kanda, Ushio Skashi, Ken Hasebe, Junji Masuda, Jôji Oka, Akira Asami, Jack Curtis, Rikiya Iwaki, Akira Katayama, Yûji Kitamine, Kôji Komori, Tokio Kozuka, Hiroshi Mihara. Music by: Katsuhisa Hattori. When an alien force tries to invade Earth to steal a powerful new rocket fuel, a mysterious hero intervenes.