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1. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Votes: 720,046 | Gross: $326.11M
2. As Above, So Below (2014)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Director: John Erick Dowdle | Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil
Votes: 111,477 | Gross: $21.20M
3. Frankenhooker (1990)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes.
Director: Frank Henenlotter | Stars: James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen, J.J. Clark
Votes: 13,476 | Gross: $0.21M
4. Frankenstein (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles
Votes: 79,636
5. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror
A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, Alexandre Rignault
Votes: 35,100 | Gross: $0.05M
6. The Coed and the Zombie Stoner (2014)
Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a nerdy sorority girl falls in love with a zombie, it's only a matter of time before a zombie apocalypse is unleashed on campus. The sorority girl discovers that weed is the cure--now ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Miller | Stars: Catherine Annette, Grant O'Connell, Jamie Noel, Aaron Caleb
Votes: 1,576
7. Chairman of the Board (1997)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy
A surfer becomes the head of a major company.
Director: Alex Zamm | Stars: Scott 'Carrot Top' Thompson, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Larry Miller, Raquel Welch
Votes: 6,484 | Gross: $0.31M
8. Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A scientist creating perfumes inherits his great grandfather Dr. Jekyll's formula and decides to use modern technology to improve it. He ends up as an ambitious, ruthless woman. She tries to prevent returning into the spineless man.
Director: David Price | Stars: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes: 3,019 | Gross: $2.76M
9. Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)
92 min | Horror, Comedy
Six scientists investigate a strange phenomenon at the creepy Headstone Manor, the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier that took the lives of 18 guests in one night.
Director: Ray Cameron | Stars: Kenny Everett, Vincent Price, Pamela Stephenson, Gareth Hunt
Votes: 2,760
10. Creator (1985)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
An eccentric scientist teaches a student in his own manner while he looks for a way to clone his deceased wife.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen
Votes: 3,509 | Gross: $5.35M
11. Bug (1975)
PG | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James ... See full summary »
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith-Jackson
Votes: 2,634 | Gross: $3.60M
12. Alpha Code (2020)
97 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Johana, a woman with no past, is hiding from a UN Agent Bowie, a head of secret space program. On her run she meets Martin and with help of Bowie's ex-colleague Lance they both help Martin to find his half alien daughter.
Director: Keoni Waxman | Stars: Bren Foster, Denise Richards, Randy Couture, Marek Vasut
Votes: 1,105
13. Sexual Chemistry (1999)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
At Biotec the scientists are trying to develop a sexually stimulating drug for both men and women. Robert tries his on himself and it turns him on and off into a sexy woman and back to himself making things complicated.
Director: Mike Sedan | Stars: Jeff Xander, Stephanee LaFleur, Chanda Marie, Raisa Ivanic
Votes: 315
14. Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977)
93 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Jan is a decent, boring man, living a decent, boring life as a rocket designer. When his adventurous twin brother dies in a breakfast accident, Jan decides to impersonate him, unwittingly becoming a part of a Nazi time travel conspiracy.
Director: Jindrich Polák | Stars: Petr Kostka, Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Vlastimil Brodský
Votes: 1,468
15. Prey (1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Bio-anthropologist, Dr. Sloan Parker, her colleague, Dr. Ed Tate, their associate Tom Daniels, and their friends, discover and investigate a secret new dominant humanoid species which is looking for a way to replace humans.
Stars: Adam Storke, Frankie Faison, Larry Drake, Debra Messing
Votes: 593
16. End of the World (1977)
PG | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After witnessing a man's death in a bizarre accident, Father Pergado goes on a spiritual retreat, where he encounters his alien double bent on world conquest.
Director: John Hayes | Stars: Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Kirk Scott, Dean Jagger
Votes: 1,202
17. Marie Curie: The Courage of Knowledge (2016)
100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Follows the famous physicist and chemist Marie Curie and her struggle for recognition in the male-dominated science community in early 20th century France.
Director: Marie Noëlle | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Arieh Worthalter, Charles Berling, Izabela Kuna
Votes: 1,605
18. The Man with Two Heads (1972)
GP | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Serum obtained from a brain after a mass murder transforms the good Dr. Jekyll of London into the evil Mr. Blood.
Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Denis DeMarne, Julia Stratton, Gay Feld, Jaqueline Lawrence
Votes: 319
19. Frankenstein 90 (1984)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Eddy Mitchell, Fiona Gélin, Herma Vos
Votes: 396
20. Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
80 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
"What if someone had an absurd dream and the visions ran out in the street?" a scientist asks Rose, a researcher who discovers a way to engender beneficial dreams (to produce contented, ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Dana Medrická, Jirí Sovák, Olga Schoberová, Juraj Visny
Votes: 1,154
21. The Einstein of Sex (1999)
Unrated | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. ... See full summary »
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Kai Schumann, Friedel von Wangenheim, Ben Becker, Wolfgang Völz
Votes: 729
22. Krakatit (1948)
97 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After an accidental explosion in the lab, its inventor slips in and out of dream-like hallucinations, realizing that he had given the formula to one of his colleagues, who he tries to stop before it is too late.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Karel Höger, Florence Marly, Eduard Linkers, Jirí Plachý
Votes: 475
23. Vzteklina (2017–2018)
56 min | Crime, Thriller
A serial killer sets on a killing spree. Mercilessly and cruelly he ends the lives of those who are bound by guilt and are responsible for the death of his loved ones.
Stars: Krystof Hádek, Johana Matousková, Leos Noha, Jan Vlasák
Votes: 136
24. La machine (1994)
96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The psychiatrist Marc Laxroix is a studious scientist of the brains of criminals. He has an unhappy and loveless marriage with his wife Marie Lacroix and they have a boy, Léonard Lacroix. ... See full summary »
Director: François Dupeyron | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Didier Bourdon, Natalia Wörner
Votes: 744
25. Stealing Time (2011)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
When a down-on-his-luck inventor builds a time machine to change the past, he unwittingly sets off a disastrous chain of events.
Director: Alex Calleros | Stars: Mikie Beatty, Dan Beckner, Adele Watkin, Joel Kelley Dauten
Votes: 440
26. Skeleton on Horseback (1937)
78 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Bedrich Karen, Zdenek Stepánek, Václav Vydra
Votes: 380
27. Panic (1972)
85 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A young woman is nursing a doll like a real baby, and even hears its cries. Her fantasies becomes more deranged and her paranoia never lets her go. Is someone chasing her? Was she abused by three men?
Director: Julián Soler | Stars: Ana Martín, Ofelia Guilmáin, Joaquín Cordero, José Gálvez
Votes: 96
28. Tajemství krve (1953)
108 min | Biography, Drama
Biopic on Czech doctor Jan Jansky, who in his research published the classification of the four different blood types, for the first time, in 1907.
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Vladimír Ráz, Zdenek Stepánek, Jirina Petrovická, Vlastimil Brodský
Votes: 44
29. Tu mourras moins bête (2015– )
3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A mustached female professor answers scientific questions in a comedic way, for multiple customers.
Stars: François Morel, Jérôme Pauwels, Nathalie Fort, Nathalie Homs
Votes: 48
30. Dábelské líbánky (1970)
93 min | Comedy, Crime
A charming senior lecturer Kostohryz (Vlastimil Brodský) is an unquestionable star of the Research Institute of the Chemical Factories, admired by men and loved by women. There are two ... See full summary »
Director: Zdenek Podskalský | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Jana Brejchová, Iva Janzurová, Jirina Jirásková
Votes: 69
31. Z lékárníkova deníku (1971 TV Movie)
31 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The pharmacist lives a happy but monotonous life. His apartment is above the pharmacy, his wife cooks for him and in the afternoons he works in the pharmacy so that he can devote himself to... See full summary »
Director: Vít Olmer | Stars: Václav Mares, Marie Drahokoupilová, Vít Olmer, Milan Mach
32. Nepolepsitelný starý muz (1987)
Biography, Drama, History
Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vera Kubánková, David Matásek
33. Krakatit (2017 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
About a chemist who is able to produce exceptionally powerful explosive. He calls it "Krakatit," after the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa. A special feature of Krakatit is that erupts seemingly without cause.
Directors: Blazena Honcarivová, Alice Nellis | Stars: Karel Hábl, Zuzana Krónerová, Klára Lidová, Lenka Smídová
34. Ucitel a prítel zustal verejnosti neznám (1968)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Three Czech scientists - professors of physiology, morphology and microbiology - receive a prestigious scientific award for their common discovery of little ball corpuscles causing joy in ... See full summary »
Director: Milan Ruzicka | Stars: Pavel Carbol, Josef Chvalina, Eugen Jegorov, Milos Kopecký
35. Zlato (2016)
22 min | Short, Mystery
Gustav Meyrink dedicates his life to the pursuit of ancient matter, but discovers that old chemist Kinský is interwoven with dark forces and the place itself is shrouded in mystery.
Director: Jakub Vano | Stars: Ivan Lupták, Václav Sanda, Miloslav Petrovic, Bohumir Stary
Votes: 16
36. Neprítel lidu (1958 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Jan Matejovský | Stars: Ladislav Bohác, Eduard Dubský, Vladimír Leraus
37. Hrající destník (1976)
25 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Stars: Josef Dvorák, Jirí Hrzán, Lubomír Lipský, Ljuba Skorepová
38. Krakatit (1961 TV Movie)
Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Director: Václav Kaslík | Stars: Beno Blachut, Milan Karpisek, Ivana Mixová, Rudolf Pellar
39. Klec (1973 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
Director: Vojtech Stursa | Stars: Jan Tríska, Jaroslav Rava, Zdena Herfortová, Milan Pásek
40. Jdete a chodte (1966)
9 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Milos Kopecký in the role of moderator teaches us how to behave properly as a pedestrian and how to deal with the pitfalls on the roads and in traffic in general.
Director: Václav Táborsky | Stars: Milos Kopecký, Lubomír Kostelka
Votes: 10
41. Spojení pres Kodan (1968 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Miloslav Zachata | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Jana Hlavácová, Karel Höger, Marie Vásová
42. Smrt Archimedova (1987 TV Short)
12 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Václav Postránecký, Karel Hábl, Roman Janousek
43. Jehla (1982 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Director: Jirí Svoboda | Stars: Jana Brejchová, Radovan Lukavský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jirí Bartoska
Votes: 13
44. Pavilón Z (1979)
Short, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Milos Zábranský | Stars: Jaroslav Krejcí, Vít Olmer, Vladimír Smeral
45. Úrad (1968 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Jaroslav Novotný | Stars: Ladislav Bohác, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Kveta Fialová, Josef Gruss
46. The Incredible Wardrobegadget of Dr.Stein (2018)
15 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Director: Gabriela Placková
Votes: 21
47. Stací stisknout (1987 TV Movie)
51 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Stars: Viktor Preiss, Jitka Molavcová, Jirina Jirásková, Petr Nározný
Votes: 12
48. Other (2012 Video)
15 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
Obsessed with finding a cure for his terminal illness, a moribund doctor pushes the boundaries of modern science to buy himself some time. However, is a man's fervent will to live enough to grasp the unfathomable limits of knowledge?
Director: Daniel DelPurgatorio | Star: David Steiger
Votes: 88
49. Boris Carloff: Falling (2012 Music Video)
5 min | Fantasy, Horror, Music
Mad botanist experiments with possibilities of creating an artificial human out of plants.
Directors: Jan Zivocký, Martin Zivocký | Star: Boris Carloff
Votes: 30