Science fiction, by Noah Paganotto, Argentina, 2022.
In an undetermined location on planet Earth, in an unknown time, Zoilo lives with his family in a wasteland surrounded by ruins. They live uprooted, without mothers, knowing that pregnancy for women is synonymous with death. For them there is o...

Comedy, by Eduardo Cocciardo, Italy, 2022.
We are in Italy in the period of Covid-19. Matteo Rovere is over forty years old, he is paranoid, hypochondriac and lives in a modest apartment in the company of his old mother, facing his monotonous days in an obsessive way. He goes out very little, and...

Horror, Science Fiction, by George P. Breakston, United States, 1959.
An American journalist stationed in Japan is sent to interview an eccentric Japanese scientist who is conducting bizarre experiments in his mountain laboratory. When the scientist realizes that the hapless correspondent is the ...

Science fiction, by Yakov Protazanov, Soviet Union, 1924.
The film follows the story of Los, an engineer who dreams of traveling through space. One day, during an experiment, he receives a transmission from Mars, which seems to come from Queen Aelita. Los builds a spaceship and departs for Mars, ...

Horror, science fiction, by Joseph Green, United States, 1962.
Dr. Bill Cortner saves a patient who was pronounced dead, but the senior surgeon, Bill's father, condemns his son's unorthodox transplant methods and theories. While driving to his family home, Bill and his attractive future wife Jan ...

Sci-fi, by Mahbub Islam Raftaar, Bangladesh, 2021.
Earth was destroyed due to famine, war, starvation and human devastation, but some people who remained in space survived and later formed a colony called "Emperian". Years later they have discovered a way to go back in time. Therefore, they decid...

Horror, Sci-fi, by Bernard L. Kowalski, United States, 1959.
An independent production by Roger Corman's factory, it is one of the "creature films" produced in the 1950s in response to fears of the cold war. In the Florida Everglades, a pair of giant leeches live in an underwater cave. They begin...

Science fiction, by Robert Wise, United States, 1952.
Based on the short story Goodbye to the Master by Harry Bates, the film is set in Washington. A flying saucer lands in a park and a crowd, even if frightened, crowds around, while soldiers with armored vehicles arrive. A human-like extraterres...

Sci-fi, by John Sherwood, United States, 1957.
A large meteorite crashes into the Southern California desert and explodes in hundreds of black fragments that have strange properties. When those fragments are exposed to water, they grow and become large and tall. The fragments begin to slowly petr...

Horror, Sci-fi, by Roger Corman, United States, 1959.
Scientist Eric Zinthrop is fired from his job on a honey farm for using wasps to experiment with him. The owner of a large cosmetics company, Janice Starlin, is upset when the sales of her company start to decline: her customers know that she ...

Sci-fi, drama, by Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973, Mexico.
A man, nicknamed The thief, who represents the Fool's card in the Tarot, lies unconscious in a desert, among swarms of flies. When he wakes up he encounters a footless and handless dwarf representing the Five of Swords. The two become friends ...

Drama, science fiction, by Michael Anderson, United Kingdom, 1956.
Orwell's most controversial film adaptation of 1984, which prompted questions in the British Parliament about its alleged subversive nature. The planet is divided into 3 states: Oceania, Eurasia and Estasia, which have always been...

Horror, sci-fi, by Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow, United States / Italy, 1964.
Unnoticed at the time of its release and considered today a masterpiece, it is the first and best film adaptation of Richard Matheson's book of the same name, released in 1954. Shot back in 1964, in Rome, with an Italia...

Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2019.
Someone wants to control the life of the employee Giuseppe Russo: the products he buys, his political and religious faith, his private life, even his dreams. But he will do anything to escape control and find his true self. Giuseppe is a man of ar...

Short film, sci-fi, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy, 2011.
Freely adapted from "The Strange Case of M. Valdemar" by Edgar Allan Poe: a man on his deathbed, is mesmerized (a kind of hypnosis), remaining suspended between life and death until ...

LANGUAGE: Italian
SUBTITLES: English

Short film, sci-fi, by Edo Tagliavini, Italy.
In the near future, Europe and USA are united in a "Democratic Federation": the only way to become a member of this federation is to attend the TV show "Tao" and to fight against other competitors for the green card.

Food for thought
Tao means "the w...