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A 12-year-old boy goes missing in 1978, only to reappear once more in 1986. In the eight years that have passed, he hasn't aged. It is no coincidence that at the time he "comes back", a flying saucer is found, entangled in power lines.
Subgenre: | music video |
Themes: | alien abductionmissing childartificial intelligencetime travel |
Locations: | water pistoloceanouter spacepolice carpolice stationbicycleboathospital |
Characters: | parent child relationshipalienboybrother brother relationshipdoctorfamily relationships |
Period: | year 1978year 19861970s1980s |
Story: | fort lauderdale floridasouth floridaextraterrestrial robotalien creature as pettwo way mirroralien creatureboy with glassesreunited with familyreference to twisted sisterreference to the bee geesbratty childlost yearsspeed of lighttubesocksfuture time travel β¦hospital gownreference to jimmy carterolder brotherreference to coca colapurple hairindependence daybrain scanravinefirst crushsparklervineconvoyearth viewed from spacefrisbeepre teengolden gate bridgeflying saucertwo brothersfourth of julystation wagontrain tracksbaseball capname calling12 year oldhappy endingnasapet dogbackpacktokyo japantelescopepresumed deadfloridalifting someone into the airagingufofireworkscharacter says i love youmissing personproduct placementunderwater scenespaceshipfour word titleroboturinationmirrordog (See All) |
Two decades after the freak alien invasion that nearly destroyed mankind a new threat emerges. This Alien mothership is more than twice the size as the last one and once again, the world's armies must band together to save the world. Do they have enough firepower or will this battle change and will β¦aliens take over? (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Locations: | outer spaceboathospital |
Characters: | aliendoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | independence dayconvoyearth viewed from spaceflying saucerfourth of julypresumed deadufocharacter says i love youunderwater scenespaceshipurinationdog |
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomo β¦rrowland." (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligencetime travel |
Locations: | outer spacepolice stationbicycle |
Characters: | boydoctor |
Story: | earth viewed from spacebaseball capnasafloridaproduct placementspaceshiprobotdog |
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decid β¦e to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien. (Read More)
Themes: | missing child |
Locations: | outer spacebicycle |
Characters: | alienboybrother brother relationshipdoctorfamily relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | lifting someone into the airufoproduct placementspaceshipdog |
In the year 2058, the Earth will soon be uninhabitable after the irreversible effects of pollution and global warming! Professor John Robinson, lead scientist of the Jupiter 2 Mission, will lead his family to the habitable planet Alpha Prime to prep it for colonization. The Jupiter 2 is equipped wit β¦h a hyperdrive that allows faster-than-light travel, which will eventually be employed to evacuate the citizens of Earth. However hypergates must be constructed on Earth and Alpha Prime to provide stable points of departure and arrival. Dr. Zachary Smith is bribed by a terrorist organization to sabotage the mission, and ends up an unwilling stowaway as the ship blasts off. (Read More)
Themes: | time travel |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | boyfamily relationships |
Story: | alien creature as petalien creaturefireworksspaceshiprobot |
Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. When his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm suddenly touches down. What follows is the extraordinary battle β¦for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it in this contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells seminal classic sci-fi thriller. (Read More)
Themes: | alien abduction |
Locations: | outer spacebicycle |
Characters: | alienbrother brother relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | alien creatureufounderwater scenespaceshipfour word titlemirror |
Danny and Walter are two brothers who barely get along even while driving their parents to distraction as their older sister tries to ignore them. Despite their squabbling, the brothers manage cooperate enough to play an old mechanical board game named Zathura. However, after their first move, they β¦find that the game has apparently flung them, their sister and their entire house into outer space. Furthermore, the brothers surmise the only way to return home is to finish the game. However with almost every move, new dangers arise as the siblings find themselves learning to cooperate in ways they never expected as they realize what they mean to each other. (Read More)
Locations: | outer spacebicycle |
Characters: | alienbrother brother relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | pre teentwo brothersspaceshipfour word titlerobot |
A massive ball of furry creatures from another world eat their way through a small mid-western town followed by intergalactic bounty hunters opposed only by militant townspeople.
Locations: | outer spacepolice carpolice stationbicycle |
Characters: | alienfamily relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | alien creatureearth viewed from spaceufofireworksspaceship |
Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIBs untarnished mission statement: protecting the earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an int β¦ergalactic disaster of epic proportions. And now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay-who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the Men In Black, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy-to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction. (Read More)
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | year 19781970s |
Story: | alien creatureufoproduct placementspaceshipfour word titledog |
Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. Rodriguez, the neighborhood baseball guru, takes Smalls under his wing - soon he becomes part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the β¦ desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him. (Read More)
Characters: | boyfamily relationships |
Story: | boy with glassesfourth of julybaseball capname callinglifting someone into the airfireworksunderwater scenedog |
"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signa β¦ls the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be. (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligencetime travel |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | aliendoctor |
Story: | earth viewed from spacenasaagingufoproduct placementspaceship |
A group of aliens return to earth to retrieve cocoons containing the people they'd left behind from an earlier trip. These cocoons had been resting at the bottom of the ocean. Once retrieved, they stored these recovered cocoons in the swimming pool of a house they'd rented in a small Florida town. T β¦heir mission is hampered by a number of elderly people from a nearby retirement community who had been secretly using the pool, and who discover unusual powers from within these cocoons. (Read More)
Locations: | oceanouter spacepolice car |
Characters: | alienboydoctorfamily relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | telescopespaceship |
When a small town is invaded by aliens from outer space who are capturing and killing the townspeople, no one takes them seriously. Why? The aliens all look like circus clowns, use weapons that look clown like, and all have painted on smiles. Only a few of the young people in the town realize the da β¦nger and of course no one believes them. Armed with an ice cream truck they try and rescue their friends. (Read More)
Locations: | outer spacepolice carpolice stationbicycle |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | ufospaceshipdog |
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Themes: | alien abductionartificial intelligence |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alienboy |
Story: | two way mirrorearth viewed from spaceufoproduct placementunderwater scenespaceshiprobotdog |
This is the story of a nine-year-old boy named Hogarth Hughes who makes friends with an innocent alien giant robot that came from outer space. Meanwhile, a paranoid U.S. Government agent named Kent Mansley arrives in town, determined to destroy the giant at all costs. It's up to Hogarth to protect h β¦im by keeping him at Dean McCoppin's place in the junkyard. (Read More)
Locations: | outer spacebicycle |
Characters: | alienboy |
Story: | extraterrestrial robotrobot |
Two sci-fi geeks take a pilgrimage to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever. For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul (voiced by 'Seth Rogen' (qv)) has been hanging out at a top-secret militar β¦y base. When he discovers he's been taken prisoner, the space-traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town - a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy ('Simon Pegg' (qv)) and Clive Gollings ('Nick Frost (I)' (qv)). Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes. (Read More)
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | boy with glassessparklerufofireworksproduct placementspaceshipurinationdog |
Just before the destruction of the planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El sends his infant son Kal-El on a spaceship to Earth. Raised by kindly farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, young Clark discovers the source of his superhuman powers and moves to Metropolis to fight evil. As Superman, he battles the vil β¦lainous Lex Luthor, while, as novice reporter Clark Kent, he attempts to woo co-worker Lois Lane (Read More)
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | year 19781970s |
Story: | convoyearth viewed from spacegolden gate bridgeproduct placementspaceship |
Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, and a strange kid named Biaggio. He announces that they β¦are going to build a house there, free from responsibility and parents. Once their makeshift abode is finished, the three young men find themselves masters of their own destiny, alone in the woods. (Read More)
Themes: | missing child |
Locations: | police stationbicyclehospital |
Characters: | boy |
Story: | boy with glassesbackpackmissing personfour word title |
1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious 'manife β¦stations'? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out. (Read More)
Themes: | time travel |
Locations: | oceanouter space |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | ufospaceshipmirror |
In the early 70's, Commander Nathan Walker, Captain Ben Anderson and Lieutenant Colonel John Grey are assigned in a secret mission to the Moon to protect the USA from USSR using detectors. Nathan and Ben land on the Moon in the Liberty module while John stays in orbit in the module Freedom. They col β¦lect rock samples and bring them to the Liberty. They also find footprints and the body of a Soviet cosmonaut on the moon. Soon they hear weird noises and they find that they are not alone in the satellite. (Read More)
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | alien creatureearth viewed from space12 year oldnasaspaceship |
One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war, and may even put the fate of mankind in his hands.
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | nasatelescopespaceshiprobotdog |
On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, pilot β¦ed by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day... (Read More)
Locations: | outer spacehospital |
Characters: | alienfamily relationships |
Story: | independence dayfourth of julypresumed deadufoproduct placementspaceshipdog |
It's the summer of 1959 in Castlerock, Oregon and four 12 year-old boys - Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern - are fast friends. After learning of the general location of the body of a local boy who has been missing for several days, they set off into woods to see it. Along the way, they learn about them β¦selves, the meaning of friendship and the need to stand up for what is right. (Read More)
Characters: | boybrother brother relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | boy with glassesreference to coca colaolder brotherpre teentrain tracksbaseball cap12 year olddog |
Kevin McCallister is back. But this time he's in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his very own playground. But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New Yo β¦rk too, plotting a huge holiday heist! Kevin's ready to welcome them with more battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget! (Read More)
Themes: | missing child |
Locations: | police carpolice stationhospital |
Characters: | boybrother brother relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | floridalifting someone into the airfireworksproduct placement |
1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and β¦life will never be the same again. (Read More)
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | boybrother brother relationshipdoctorfamily relationships |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | boy with glassesfirst crushfourth of julylifting someone into the airfireworks |
Earth's future has been riddled by disasters, famines, and droughts. There is only one way to ensure mankind's survival: Interstellar travel. A newly discovered wormhole in the far reaches of our solar system allows a team of astronauts to go where no man has gone before, a planet that may have the β¦right environment to sustain human life. (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligencetime travel |
Locations: | outer spacehospital |
Characters: | doctorfamily relationships |
Story: | earth viewed from spacenasaspaceshiprobot |
Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and f β¦all in love - so he can get back to the future. (Read More)
Themes: | time travel |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | family relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | telescopelifting someone into the airproduct placementfour word titledog |
Superman does a lot in his newest adventure. Archvillain Lex Luthor, determined to make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, creates a new being to challenge the Man of Steel: the radiation-charged Nuclear Man. The two super-powered foes clash in an explosive screen extranvaganza that sees Sup β¦erman save the Statue of Liberty, repulse a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, rebuild the demolished Great Wall of China and perform many more spetactular feats. (Read More)
Locations: | outer spacepolice car |
Characters: | boy |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | earth viewed from spacegolden gate bridgelifting someone into the airproduct placementspaceship |
A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid England of all children.
Themes: | missing child |
Locations: | oceanpolice carbicycle |
Characters: | boydoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | lifting someone into the airfireworksmissing person |
An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Cold War-era Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message to the planet that Klaatu wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, communication turns out to be difficult, so, after learn β¦ing something about the natives, Klaatu decides on an alternative approach. (Read More)
Locations: | outer spacehospital |
Characters: | alienboy |
Story: | flying sauceruforobot |
Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband. So when an alien life form decides to model "himself" on the husband, Jenny is understandably confused if not terrified. The alien, or Starman, as he is called, has a deadline to meet, and kidnaps Jenny in order to meet it.
Locations: | outer spacepolice car |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | flying saucerufoproduct placementurination |
Locations: | outer spacehospital |
Characters: | alienboyfamily relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | speed of lightfourth of julytelescopedog |
SPOILER: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries β¦to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. (Read More)
Locations: | police carpolice stationbicycle |
Characters: | alienboyfamily relationships |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | sparklerconvoypet dogbackpackspaceship |
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine Wise, a genetically engineered ex- β¦military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along - her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos. (Read More)
Themes: | alien abduction |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alienfamily relationships |
Story: | earth viewed from spacetelescopepresumed deadproduct placementspaceshiprobot |
The most acclaimed Star Trek adventure of all time with an important message. It is the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien probe is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In their frantic attempt to save mankind, Admiral Kirk and his crew must time travel back t β¦o 1986 San Francisco where they find a world of punk, pizza and exact-change buses that are as alien to them as anything they have ever encountered in the far-off reaches of the galaxy. William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy return as Kirk and Spock, along with the entire Star Trek crew. (Read More)
Themes: | time travel |
Locations: | outer spacehospital |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | golden gate bridgeunderwater scene |
Nim Rusoe is a girl who joins her father, a scientist, when he does research on marine life on an island. It's just the two of them but she spends her time making friends with all the animals she encounters, chatting on the computer and reading the adventure books of Alex Rover. When her father goes β¦ to do some research but when a storm strikes the island he doesn't come back, she gets worried and frightened. She then e-mails Alex Rover hoping that he will come but what she doesn't know is that Alex Rover is a woman who is agoraphobic and germaphobic. But her creation comes to life and eggs her to go. Unfortunately she has never gone anywhere before and is denied her necessities like her sanitary gel by the customs officer at the airport. In the meantime, Nim tries to be strong while waiting for Alex to arrive. (Read More)
Locations: | oceanboat |
Characters: | boyfamily relationships |
Story: | golden gate bridgetelescopepresumed deadlifting someone into the airmissing personproduct placementunderwater scene |
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd is invited by Dr. Sandor Halvorson to join his team who have found something extraordinary. Deep below the Arctic ice, they have found an alien spacecraft that has been there for perhaps 100,000 years. Not far from where the craft landed, they find the remains of the occupa β¦nt. It's cut out of the ice and taken back to their camp but as the ice melts, the creature reanimates and not only begins to attack them but manages to infect them, with team members devolving into the alien creature. (Read More)
Characters: | aliendoctor |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | alien creaturespaceshipdog |
Europa, Jupiter's moon is known to have potential to support life. Hence a manned mission is sent to Europa to search for data proving existence of life there. "Europa report" shows the difficult choices and sacrifices the crew has to make to fulfill their objective of sending valuable data to Earth β¦ for research. (Read More)
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | alien creatureearth viewed from spacecharacter says i love youunderwater scenespaceship |
After breaking out of a moon-based maximum security prison, Boris the Animal decides to go back in time and eliminate the person who arrested him - Agent K. When he does so, Agent J realizes that the time line has been changed and he too travels back to July 15, 1969, the day before Agent K is kille β¦d. After overcoming some disbelief, J manages to convince young K and others of just who he is and why he's there. With the help of a being who can see all time lines, they track Boris down. J also learns a secret, something old K had never told him. (Read More)
Themes: | time travel |
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | earth viewed from spacenasafloridaproduct placementspaceshipfour word title |
He's found his mojo, baby, and now Austin Powers is back again in this shagadelic comedy-adventure! The "sshhh!" hits the fan when Dr. Evil and Mini-Me escape from prison. Joining forces with the superfreaky Goldmember, they kidnap Austin's father, master spy Nigel Powers, in a dastardly time-travel β¦ scheme to take over the world. Before you can say "Shake Your Booty," Austin cruises to 1975 and teams up with sexy Foxxy Cleopatra to stop Dr. Evil and Goldmember from their mischievous mayhem. (Read More)
Themes: | time travel |
Locations: | ocean |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | tokyo japancharacter says i love youproduct placementurination |
A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war is being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possess β¦es it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasts off in search of it. He eventually tracks it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sends him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forces him into a paralyzed state. His body is later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, but before going into a comatose state Megatron uses the last of his energy to engrave into the Captain's glasses a map showing the location of the Allspark, and to send a transmission to Cybertron. Megatron is then carried away aboard the Captain's ship. A century later, Captain Witwicky's grandson Sam Witwicky (nicknamed Spike by his friends) buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it to be Bumblebee, an Autobot in disguise who is to protect Spike, who possesses the Captain's glasses and the map engraved on them. But Bumblebee is not the only Transformer to have arrived on Earth - in the desert of Qatar, the Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok attack a U.S. military base, causing the Pentagon to send their special Sector Seven agents to capture all "specimens of this alien race." Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves β¦ (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Locations: | outer spacepolice carpolice stationbicycle |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | extraterrestrial robotufoproduct placementroboturinationdog |
After stealing a mysterious orb in the far reaches of outer space, Peter Quill from Earth, is now the main target of a manhunt led by the villain known as Ronan the Accuser. To help fight Ronan and his team and save the galaxy from his power, Quill creates a team of space heroes known as the "Guardi β¦ans of the Galaxy" to save the world. (Read More)
Themes: | alien abduction |
Locations: | outer spacehospital |
Characters: | alienboyfamily relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | alien creatureunderwater scenespaceshipfour word titledog |
Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly receives written word from his friend, Doctor Emmett Brown, as to where can be found the DeLorean time machine. However, an unfortunate discovery prompts Marty to go to his friend's aid. Using the time machine, Marty travels to the old west where his friend has run afou β¦l of a gang of thugs and has fallen in love with a local schoolteacher. Using the technology from the time, Marty and Emmett devise one last chance to send the two of them back to the future. (Read More)
Themes: | time travel |
Characters: | family relationships |
Period: | 1980s |
Story: | ravinefrisbeelifting someone into the aircharacter says i love youproduct placementdog |
Linguistics professor Louise Banks leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touchdown in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors. Hoping β¦ to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all of mankind. (Read More)
Themes: | alien abductiontime travel |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | aliendoctor |
Story: | alien creatureufocharacter says i love youspaceship |
It's a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn't sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local bus β¦inessmen. Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator. The dead boy's mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the reward. A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, offers to hunt down the creature for a hefty fee. Soon Quint, Brody and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are at sea hunting the Great White shark. As Brody succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, they're going to need a bigger boat. (Read More)
Locations: | oceanboathospital |
Characters: | boy |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | fourth of julylifting someone into the airunderwater scenedog |
A spaceship shaped like a human lands face first on Liberty Island. Its crew (of tiny, intelligent, and unemotional beings) is looking for an orb sent from its planet to extract the oceans' salt, which will ruin Earth. The orb is in the possession of Josh, the fifth-grade son of a single mom whose c β¦ar strikes the ambulatory alien spaceship and cripples its power supply. The crew has 48 hours to recover the orb, throw it in the Atlantic, and leave Earth. Over the course of two days, the ship's crew experiences chaos and emotion in New York. Do Earth's giants - Josh and his mom - have anything to teach these brainy aliens? Meanwhile, mutiny is afoot and the cops are closing in. (Read More)
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | alien |
Story: | telescopeproduct placementspaceshipdog |
The Earth was ravaged by the Formics, an alien race seemingly determined to destroy humanity. Fifty years later, the people of Earth remain banded together to prevent their own annihilation from this technologically superior alien species. Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savi β¦or of the human race. He is separated from his beloved sister and his terrifying brother and brought to battle school in orbit around earth. He will be tested and honed into an empathetic killer who begins to despise what he does as he learns to fight in hopes of saving Earth and his family. (Read More)
Locations: | outer space |
Characters: | alienboybrother brother relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | earth viewed from spacepresumed deadspaceship |
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS is the new adventure film from Luc Besson, the director of The Professional, The Fifth Element and Lucy, based on the comic book series which inspired a generation of artists, writers and filmmakers. In the 28th century, Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laurelin β¦e (Cara Delevingne) are a team of special operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha-an ever-expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence and cultures with each other. There is a mystery at the center of Alpha, a dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe. (Read More)
Themes: | artificial intelligence |
Locations: | oceanouter space |
Characters: | alien |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | alien creature as petalien creatureunderwater scenespaceshiprobot |
A couple on a holiday in the Caribbean decide to spend the day on a scuba diving trip. But was it the wrong decision? When a mis-count happens on the boat, Susan and Daniel are left behind in the middle of the ocean, the boat long gone. With all their hopes set on the boat coming back to rescue them β¦, they try to keep themselves safe, especially when sharks start to appear. (Read More)
Locations: | oceanboat |
Story: | character says i love youmissing personunderwater sceneurination |