Items Matching Tag 'Sci-Fi'

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (Blu-ray Details)
On December 17th, Kyon's life was abnormal: he spent his free time with an alien robot (Yuki), a time traveler (Mikuru), and an ESPer (Koizumi), trying to keep a headstrong classmate (the eponymous Haruhi) entertained so that she wouldn't unintentionally destroy the world. On December 18th, Kyon's life becomes...normal. Haruhi has disappeared as if she never attended their high school. Yuki is now...

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society (Blu-ray Details)
A.D. 2034. It has been two years since Motoko Kusanagi left Section 9. Togusa is now the new leader of the team that has considerably increased its appointed personnel. The expanded new Section 9 confronts a rash of complicated incidents, and investigations reveal that an ultra-wizard hacker named the Puppeteer is behind the entire series of events. In the midst of all, Batou, who was stalking...

Space: Above and Beyond (Collector's Edition) (DVD Details)
It's the year 2063. After 150 years of deep space exploration, the people of Earth feel certain they are alone in the universe. Then word comes that two Earth outposts light-years away from home have been brutally attacked by an advanced alien civilization. Now the new young recruits of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry are heading for the front lines of space in the toughest...

Yakuza Weapon (Blu-ray Details)
Working as a hard-to-kill mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) is informed of the death of his gang boss father, Kenzo (Akaji Maro). Returning home after four years, Shozo discovers that his father's number-one man, Kurawaki (Shingo Tsurumi), has double-crossed and assassinated Kenzo, leaving Shozo not only in charge of what little remains of the Iwaki Family, but also...

Kiddy Grade: Complete Collection (DVD Details)
In Star Century Zero-One-Sixty-Five, the Global Union was born. To provide an impartial mediator to the various planetary governments of the G.U., the Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs, or G.O.T.T., was simultaneously formed to settle economic disputes amongst the member planets. Existing in the shadows of the G.O.T.T., the ES Force serves as the G.O.T.T.'s primary law enforcement...

War of the Worlds: Season 1 Boxset (DVD Details)
In 1953, the war began: Martian invaders, bent on the conquest of Earth, destroy human civilisation and leave death and panic in their wake. If not for our planet's tiniest bacteria, they would have wiped human existence from the Earth. Captured and quarantined, the aliens' threats are all but forgotten; their insidious plans lay dormant for decades. But now, freed from captivity, revived and...

Re-Cycle (DVD Details)
Chu Xun is a best selling author. Her latest, ReCycle, deals with supernatural forces. But as she starts to write she realises that her fictional world and the real world are beginning to mesh and collide. Chu decides to follow her heroine into the phantasmagorical and horrific alternate reality-but will she be able to escape it's grasp and face the secret from her past which holds the key to her...

Mardock Scramble: The First Compression (Blu-ray Details)
To stop the unstoppable you need the irresistible. To kill the unkillable, you need someone for whom death no longer has a meaning. And to catch the perfect serial killer, you need the one person who knows his methods the best... his last victim! Murdered and reborn, no longer human, the female cyborg Balot exists for only one reason: to track down the man who killed her and bring him to...

Arctic Blast (DVD Details)
When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice! A US research vessel sits on a calm Antarctic Ocean studying the thinning of the ozone when suddenly a blast of sub zero air strikes the vessel, causing the horrific and instant deaths of the crew. When Jack Tate (Michael...

Perfect Sense (DVD Details)
A virus is spreading. People around the world are being infected. First the grief, then smell is gone. As loss of one sense leads to another, people are stripped of the lives that they once knew. Chaos ensues whilst a young couple try to begin a relationship. Michael (Ewan McGregor, Star Wars, Shallow Grave) is a chef and Susan, (Eva Green, Casino Royale, Camelot) a scientist, their budding...

Gantz 2: Perfect Answer (DVD Details)
Gantz is based on a hit manga series created by Hiroya Oku and stars leading Japanese actors Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters from Iwo Jima) and Kenichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Detroit Metal City). Gantz 2: Perfect Answer begins several months after the events of the first film. Kurono (Ninomiya Kazunari) is still fighting aliens under the order of Gantz and he is close to reaching the score he needs...

Appleseed: Ex Machina (Blu-ray Details)
Following the non-nuclear war that killed half the world's population, the city-nation of Olympus stands as a beacon of hope in a world of chaos and conflict. The utopian metropolis is governed by Gaia, a vast artificial intelligence, and administered by genetically engineered humanoids known as Bioroids, whose designer DNA suppresses strong emotions. With Bioroids being half of its population,...

Origin: Spirits of the Past (Blu-ray Details)
A young boy named Agito enters a forbidden sanctuary where a glowing machine resides. This machine preserves a young girl named Toola, who has a mission entrusted to her from the past. Three-hundred years into the future, the Earth's environment has been ruined by the interference of mankind, and in between the 300 years, the forest has come to life and is at constant war with man. It is an...

The Shinkai Collection (DVD Details)
From Makoto Shinkai, the man hailed as Japan's "new Miyazaki," come two unusual and evocative tales of love and relationships. In Voices of a Distant Star, when a mysterious alien force begins to attack Earth, young Mikako feels compelled to join the resistance. But when she does so, she leaves behind the young man that she loves. As she flies further into deep space, the time between her messages...

Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor (DVD Details)
Two years have passed since Hei and Yin escaped the Syndicate after the events of the first season. Making their way to Russia, Hei encounters a young girl named Suou Pavlichenko, whose family is gradually pulled into the war between contractors and various intelligence factions. Meanwhile, Misaki Kirihara has quit her position in Foreign Affairs to begin her own investigations into Hei, the...

Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (Blu-ray Details)
It is the year 2032 and Earth is a world where the few remaining humans coexist with cyborgs, human spirits inhabiting mechanized bodies, and dolls, robots with no human elements whatsoever. A cyborg detective for the government`s covert anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, Batou is charged with investigating the bizarre case of a malfunctioning gynoid – a hyper-realistic female robot...

Brazil (Blu-ray Details)
Brazil is a Terry Gilliam`s surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme. Everyone is monitored by a secret government agency that forbids love to interfere with efficiency. When a daydreaming bureaucrat (Jonathan Pryce) becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero (Robert De Niro) and a beautiful mystery woman (Kim Greist), he becomes the...

Ghost in the Shell: 2.0 (Blu-ray Details)
In 1995, the animated cyberpunk action-thriller GHOST IN THE SHELL stunned moviegoers and anime fans alike by seamlessly merging traditional animation with the latest CG imagery to create an intelligent and artistic sci-fi spectacle unlike anything seen before. The film enjoyed both critical and popular acclaim at the international box office before going on to reach even greater success on DVD....

Eden Of The East Movie 2: Paradise Lost (Blu-ray Details)
The story of political and subversive intrigue in the series finally reaches endgame. Even as the law enforcement net tightens around Saki and her fellow Eden of the East associates over alleged terrorist activities, the complex web surrounding the mysterious Mr. Outside is finally untangled as the remaining Selecao attempt to outmaneuver one another. Takizawa's memories and identity are also...

Redline (Blu-ray Details)
Redline is the biggest, most popular, illegal and most dangerous races in all of the galaxy. ‘Sweet’ JP has always wanted to be the winner of this event, but after being caught up with the wrong crowd for years, an accident at the qualifying Yellowline event lands him in hospital. However, when the secret location of the Redline event is revealed to be the incredibly hostile Roboworld, two of the...

Silent Running (Masters of Cinema) (Blu-ray Details)
Three years after helping to achieve some of the most amazing imagery in cinema history with 2001: A Space Odyssey, special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull made an auspicious directorial debut at age 29 with the environmentally themed science fiction classic Silent Running. In the distant future, plant life on our planet is extinct. Remaining specimens are cultivated in vast greenhouse-like...

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Series 4 (DVD Details)
As this ground-breaking action adventure series went into its final series, the unparalleled genius of producer Irwin Allen kicked into creative overdrive, resulting in some of the greatest science-fiction television of all time. From rampaging gorillas and diabolical puppet masters to time-travelling androids and interplanetary kidnappings, this is the show that defined the genre, setting new...

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (DVD Details)
It is mid-december, and SOS Brigade chief Haruhi Suzumiya announces that the Brigade is going to hold a Christmas party in their clubroom, with Japanese hotpot for dinner. The brigade members Kyon, Yuki Nagato, Mikuru Asahina and Itsuki Koizumi start preparing everything for the party, such as costumes and decorations. But a couple of days later, Kyon arrives at school only to find that Haruhi is...

City/Secret Beneath the Sea - The Complete Series (DVD Details)
A highly popular sequel to ABC's smash-hit Pathfinders trilogy, the two Beneath the Sea series once again star Gerald Flood - this time as intrepid reporter Mark Bannerman. Created by cult favourite writer John Lucarotti (Doctor Who, The Avengers, Into the Labyrinth, Star Maidens) both series see scientific journalist Mark Bannerman and his assistant Peter Blake get into (and out of!) all...

ICE (DVD Details)
As a result of a drastic of environment and an unknown contamination, in the year 2012, every male on the face of the earth dies out in a short space of time. Most of the remaining females perish after fighting in a world war over their territory. The only survivors are the 20,000 women in the Shinjuku area. People are huddles together in this corner of the planet, which has turned in to an ocean...

Assassin: City Under Siege (DVD Details)
You’ve never seen a superhero movie quite like this before! Let the fevered imaginations of the director of JACKIE CHAN’S WHO AM I? and the fight choreographer behind THE WARLORDS take you on an adrenaline-pumped, hyperreal, comic book-style action thrill-ride that will leave you screaming for more. Six circus performers stumble across an abandoned top secret World War II laboratory and...

RideBack: The Complete Series Collection (DVD Details)
After an injury forces Rin to trade her stage career for college life, she finds new thrills as a member of the RideBack Club. When she discovers an unusual connection with one machine in particular - Fuego - she is forced into the middle of a revolution. The tyrannical new government rules with an iron fist, and Rin is reluctant to take them on. But as her dearest friends suffer and the...

Pathfinders in Space Trilogy (The) (DVD Details)
One of ITV's earliest dramas written specifically for children and a precursor to the development of Doctor Who, Sydney Newman's Pathfinders series is one of the most eagerly awaited archive television releases of all time. Over three series the Pathfinders journeyed to the Moon and other worlds, proving tremendously successful with the viewing public and even getting into the regional top ten...

Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino OVA (DVD Details)
It's business as usual for the Social Welfare Agency as Marco and Angelica bring down a Five Republics Faction safe house. Meanwhile, Jean and Rico travel to Venice to do a job on a local Mafioso in bed with terrorists. When the bullets stop flying, Triela sorts through the wreckage of her showdown with Pinocchio, and Jean is haunted by visions of a tragic past.

Freedom: The Complete Collection (DVD Details)
The year is 2267 and, following a global catastrophe that rendered the Earth uninhabitable, mankind has settled in a vast, domed moon colony originally intended to be a stepping stone for manned space missions to Mars. Known as Eden, this artificial environment provides a peaceful, albeit heavily regulated, existence for millions of people. Among them is 15-year-old Takeru, who, along with many...