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Science Fiction & Fantasy Films DVD List

12 Monkeys
Cole travels into the past to obtain a sample of a virus that has devastated the world's population.
Call Number: UMDVD 682

2046
Chow Wo Man is a womanizer who is writing a sci-fi novel about a future in which all memories are suspended.
Call Number: UMDVD 2059

Alien
A space merchant vessel investigates an unknown transmission and finds a mysterious lifeform.
Call Number: UMDVD 958

Arrival
As humankind edges toward global war, a team is brought together to investigate mysterious spacecraft.
Call Number: UMDVD 10183

Attack the Block
A gang of inner-city London kids must defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures.
Call Number: UMDVD 6659

Beasts of the Southern Wild
Tenacious six-year-old Hushpuppy sets out on a journey to save her father Wink from a mysterious malady.
Call Number: UMDVD 7534 & UMBLU 9

Children of Men
The entire planet has gone infertile in 2027, and chaos has erupted: war, rebellion, refugees.
Call Number: UMDVD 3169

Code 46
In a totalitarian world, possible relationships between men and women have to be genetically approved.
Call Number: UMDVD 1526

Coherence
On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience reality-bending events.
Call Number: UMDVD 9671

The Color of Magic
On the magical realm of Discworld, the city-state of Ankh-Morpork gets its first tourist.
Call Number: UMDVD 6677

Constantine
A skeptical police officer teams up with a supernatural detective to solve a mysterious suicide.
Call Number: UMDVD 7437

Contact
After years of searching, Dr. Elli Arroway finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens.
Call Number: UMDVD 1131

District 9
A field operative contracts a strange virus that changes his DNA while clearing out an alien refugee slum.
Call Number: UMDVD 6083

Dune
Tells the story of the desert planet Dune and a revolt against its evil controllers.
Call Number: UMDVD 1786

The Fall
An injured stuntman tells a fellow patient a fantastical story, and the line between fiction and reality blurs.
Call Number: UMDVD 4493

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Newt Scamander's global excursion to find and document magical creatures gets complicated in New York.
Call Number: UMDVD 10214

Fantastic Planet (La planète sauvage)
On a distant planet, tiny humanoid creatures called Oms live in fear of the blue-skinned, red-eyed Draags.
Call Number: UMDVD 8509

The Fifth Element
Two hundred and fifty years in the future, the arrival of a great evil threatens all of life itself.
Call Number: UMDVD 1315

Galaxy Quest
Actors from a TV series cancelled 20 years ago must protect the universe.
Call Number: UMDVD 3627

The Handmaid's Tale
In a fascist future, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Call Number: UMDVD 3832

Interstellar
A team of explorers travels beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Call Number: UMDVD 9292

Jumper
David can teleport to anywhere in the world, but he's soon pursued by a deadly and secret organization.
Call Number: UMDVD 5350

Jupiter Ascending
Jupiter begins to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along.
Call Number: UMDVD 9656

Logan's Run
An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30.
Call Number: UMDVD 970

The Matrix
A group of human rebels fights for control of reality.
Call Number: UMDVD 216

MirrorMask
A young girl has an extremely vivid & symbolic dream the night before her mother goes in for surgery.
Call Number: UMDVD 4503

Moon
In the midst of a three-year lunar contract, astronaut Sam Bell makes a discovery that jeopardizes his sanity.
Call Number: UMDVD 6759

Pan's Labyrinth
Young Ofelia finds that creatures from her imagination have become a reality.
Call Number: UMDVD 3062

Primer
Four friends know they've built something of great impact, and debate its use and purpose.
Call Number: UMDVD 1421

Rise of the Guardians
A secret circle of legendary characters comes together to protect childhood hope, belief, and imagination.
Call Number: UMDVD 8805 & UMBLU 66

Rogue One
A group of unlikely heroes band together on a desperate mission to steal the plans to the Death Star.
Call Number: UMDVD 10181

Sleep Dealer
A young man looks for a better life outside his small rural village in Mexico.
Call Number: UMDVD 6858

Snowpiercer
The lower-class passengers on a perpetual-motion train stage an uprising and move towards the front.
Call Number: UMDVD 8812

Solaris [1972]
Ground control receives strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station.
Call Number: UMDVD 782

Star Trek Movie Trilogy
Includes The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, and The Voyage Home.
Call Number: UMDVD 6453

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
A ragtag group of heroes and the Resistance fight to defeat the evil First Order.
Call Number: UMDVD 9794 & UMBLU 121

The Terminator
An indestructible cyborg is sent back in time to kill the mother of the future hope of mankind.
Call Number: UMDVD 3192

Tideland
A young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Call Number: UMDVD 3666

TrollHunter
Students investigating a series of bear killings learns that there are much more dangerous creatures afoot.
Call Number: UMDVD 6660

The Wild Blue Yonder
An alien tells of his dying planet, his and his people's visits to Earth, and Earth's man-made demise.
Call Number: UMDVD 2728