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51. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Kyle Abraham, Paul Askedall, Nicholas Winand, Hashim Gari
Votes: 1,315
52. Timesweep (1987 Video)
85 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of people enter an old movie studio and are suddenly transported through time.
Director: Dan Diefenderfer | Stars: Kevin Brief, Martin English, Sandra Beer, Frank Vrooman
Votes: 147
53. Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1996)
Not Rated | 145 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary focusing on the life of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, the author of the bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and originator of the Objectivist philosophy.
Director: Michael Paxton | Stars: Sharon Gless, Michael S. Berliner, Harry Binswanger, Sylvia Bokor
Votes: 649 | Gross: $0.21M
54. One-way to Moscow (2020)
99 min | Comedy
Around the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of thousands of people were spied on in Switzerland. Policeman Schuler goes undercover to reveal a possible political coup in the Zurich Schauspielhaus.
Director: Micha Lewinsky | Stars: Miriam Stein, Philippe Graber, Mike Müller, Michael Maertens
Votes: 258
55. I Love Vienna (1991)
104 min | Comedy
Director: Houchang Allahyari | Stars: Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Dolores Schmidinger, Hanno Pöschl, Kouros Allahyari
Votes: 134
56. Vogliamo i colonnelli (1973)
98 min | Comedy
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Duilio Del Prete, Giuseppe Maffioli
Votes: 660
57. Symphony No. 42 (2014)
Not Rated | 10 min | Animation, Short, Mystery
Forty-seven brief but vivid vignettes about the paradoxical nature of our world, seamlessly intertwine perplexing scenes of poetical absurdism with the ironic, the grotesque, and the beautiful. Is this the symphony of life?
Director: Réka Bucsi
Votes: 838
58. Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma (2016 Video Game)
M | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Nine people find themselves forced to play a deadly game in a nuclear bunker, where every 90 minutes their memories of recent events are erased. In order to escape, they must kill 6 people via various "decisions."
Director: Kotaro Uchikoshi | Stars: Tomokazu Sugita, Miyuki Sawashiro, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Aki Toyosaki
Votes: 187
59. The Target Shoots First (2000)
70 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music
An NYU philosophy grad struggles to maintain artistic and personal integrity as a production manager for Columbia House.
Director: Christopher Wilcha | Stars: Christopher Wilcha, Marie Capozzi, Rick Hunt, John S. Wilcha
Votes: 205
60. The Lost Adventure (2008 Video)
30 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The cut-scenes from Futurama (2003), edited together to form an episode. Mom attempts to take over the universe and it's up to the Planet Express crew to stop her.
Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 1,593
61. Loop (VI) (2019)
8 min | Short, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A short film about time paradoxes.
Director: Juan Francisco Pérez Villalba | Stars: Felipe Correa, César Saleh, Jhon Meza, Nicolás Peñuela
Votes: 9
62. The Bewitched Inn (1897)
Not Rated | 2 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
At a solitary cheap inn, a distant traveller overcome with fatigue has a close encounter with the supernatural.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,219
63. The Chronic Adventure Story (2022 TV Movie)
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Caught in the middle of a plagiarism lawsuit, author Samuel Gibson discovers his story can go multiple ways- but can he maintain control over the characters in his life? The cards are in your favor.
Director: Eric Bergquist | Stars: Dave Bresnahan, Justin S Blackburn, Dana Stern, Christopher Bethune
64. Paradox (XII)
Sci-Fi, Thriller | Post-production
Two detectives searching for a missing child begin to suspect they may have a serial killer in their town. Further investigation leads to his capture, but begins the mystery of why.
Director: Timothy Colletti | Stars: Ryan Vallan, Maximilien Blanc, Nelita Villezon, Jean Charles
65. 15 Till Midnight (2010)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Parallel worlds collide as a secret society policing this phenomena track a man whose wife has seemingly disappeared.
Director: Wolfgang Meyer | Stars: Brandon Slagle, Dee Martin, Devanny Pinn, Andrew Roth
Votes: 311
66. Ladder of Philosophy
Documentary, History | Announced
Four philosophers - an atheist, an agnostic, a Christian, and a Hindu - settle down to discuss life, reason, faith, and whatever else comes to mind.
Director: Martin Horlacher | Star: Martin Horlacher
67. Doctor Who: The Adventure Games - City of the Daleks (2010 Video Game)
Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Doctor and Amy Pond visit London in 1963, only to find it in ruins through the Daleks. Now the two must save Earth by confronting the Daleks in Skaro.
Stars: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Sara Carver, Nicholas Briggs
Votes: 109
68. Casimir Effect (2011)
60 min | Sci-Fi
A story of unrequited love set on a backdrop of temporal paradox.
Directors: Gabriel Strange-Wood, Lydia Wood | Stars: Gareth David-Lloyd, Gemma James, John Jenner, Gemma Lloyd
Votes: 18
69. Distances (2018 Video)
5 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
A short film about the calvary of mankind in a paradox time-loop, set side by side in both the living and the dead world.
Directors: András Péter Gerõ, Szabolcs Kálmánfi | Stars: Nikoletta Pap, Krisztián Wiesler, Krisztián Farkas, András Péter Gerõ
Votes: 29
70. The Grandfather Paradox (2006)
8 min | Short, Sci-Fi
While teaching a class the infamous causality paradox, Professor Thaddeus' grandson has traveled from the future to violently solve this paradox once and for all.
Director: Jean-François Dasylva-LaRue | Stars: James Allport, Lucinda Davis, Neil Napier, Ken Proulx
Votes: 19
71. Lifeline (2024)
10 min | Short, Sci-Fi
The hero faces ethical dilemmas/ moral dilemmas/ ethical paradoxes which we tries to solve through logical approaches. But the bigger problem arises when the emotion comes into the scene.
Director: Seenjoy Saha | Star: Seenjoy Saha
72. The Still Life, the Moving Picture and the Distance Between
Fantasy | Announced
A boy is kidnapped from his home by a magical Djinn who wants to imprison him as part of his collection. The boy escapes with a friend's help and sets out on the challenging, fantastically adventurous and mysterious journey home.
73. Stray Dog (2013)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Milo struggles to get over he and his girlfriend's breakup.
Director: Bertie Gilbert | Stars: Bertie Gilbert, Sam Caplat, Ryan O'Connor
Votes: 182
74. Across the 4th Parallel (2019)
75 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Four stories about four young people unknown to each other, who must understand and survive separately in a universe where every choice has no turning point and that, all are dependent and connects their lives and fates even after the end.
Directors: Vangelis Papadiochos, Tasos Poziadis, Thodoris Skaris, Anty Vens | Stars: Dimitra Chatzistavridi, Georgia Damigou, Alexandros Geranis, Chrysa Gwen Michailidou
75. New Year, New Me (2020)
25 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A lonely man spends New Year's Eve with an intruder, but not all is as it seems.
Director: Zachary Padgett | Stars: Zachary Padgett, Madison Martinez
Votes: 5
77. Ab Irato (1991)
13 min | Short, Comedy
Visuals paradoxes, logical paradoxes, paradoxes of the choice and the prediction... Things, people and behaviors are not inevitably what we think they are. Let's not act ab irato (under the... See full summary »
Director: Hervé Lièvre | Star: Isabelle de Botton
78. Idle Mist (1998)
28 min | Horror, Crime, Short
When the darkness in a musician's dreams tears its way into his waking life, a series of brutal murders rocks the city and word spreads of a spectral form looming over the rooftops.
Director: Andrés Useche | Stars: Catalina Gallo, Andrés Useche, Patricia Salazar, Yonier Bedoya
Votes: 683
79. A Writer's Paradox (2019)
12 min | Short, Mystery, Thriller
A freelance writer is faced with a dilemma of having to complete his deceased brother's novel, due to the pressure from publishers. He discovers something mysterious when he visits his brother's place.
Director: Aravind Sankar | Stars: Govind Sankar, Anvar Shajahan
80. Dissonance (II) (2019)
12 min | Short, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Dissonance is a mind bending speculative short written and directed by Ashish Ranjan. The film has a curious non-linear chronology that accelerates in shifting timelines and advances intimidating and tantalizing problems of interpretation.
Director: Ashish Ranjan | Star: Ashish Ranjan
82. Yuri Lennon's Landing on Alpha 46 (2010)
G | 14 min | Short, Sci-Fi
After his landing on Jupiter moon Alpha64, the cosmonaut Yuri Lennon is confronted with an extraordinary paradox.
Director: Anthony Vouardoux | Stars: Marc Hosemann, Milton Welsh
Votes: 217
83. Rupkothar Kahini (2018)
23 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Basudeb Roy finds that everytime he tries to make a call from his newly received mobile phone, the phone asks for a date and time in the past. Basudeb now keeps on calling his missing ... See full summary »
Director: Sourav Paul Datta | Stars: Barun Chanda, Dipanwita
84. Out of Time (2013 Video)
18 min | Short, Sci-Fi
When a strange creature from the future lands at Sinaloa Middle School, Thomas, Olivia, Reese, and Max must band together to save the universe and time itself from certain paradoxical destruction.
Director: Hunter Woelfle | Stars: Thomas Thompson, Reese Wright, Olivia Wallace, Max VonBlankenburg
Votes: 5
85. Viloma (2015)
60 min
Kalpana is a gifted Kashmiri artist. As she draws an image, a meaningful picture is formed on its reverse side. Urged by her guru to share this art with the world, she enters her reversible creations in art contest with surprising results.
Director: Arvind Narale | Stars: Arshia Bhan, Manoshi Chatterjee, Jimmy Christakos, Arpita Dar
Votes: 10
86. Paradox (I) (2020)
13 min | Short, Sci-Fi
To guarantee that the future stays the same, time agents are sent to make sure the present does what they want it to. But when Katherine is ordered to kill an innocent girl, she fights back, but at what cost?
Director: Jon Cohen | Stars: Natalia Ladyko, Mia Bowd, Panda Likoudis, Elizabeth McLean
87. The Bridge (II) (2009)
14 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Director: Nick Murphy | Stars: Josh Henderson, Cara Schimmel, Matt Pyle, Pete Hill
Votes: 11
88. The Barber Paradox (2015)
2 min | Short, History
A re-telling of Bertrand Russell's Barber Paradox.
Director: Luke Ibbetson | Stars: Don McCorkindale, Frank Soldato, Belel Tenya, Belel Tenya
89. Tijd Doet Helen (2006)
10 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young man causes a car crash, killing a woman, and tries to deal with the guilt. He finds a book that may have a solution.
Director: Vincent van Willegen | Stars: Peter Adriaanse, Steven Heinsius, Lisa Huibregtse
Votes: 15
90. Paradox (IV) (2021)
8 min | Short, Action, Mystery
Determined to save the world, our protagonist must embark himself on a multi-temporal life treating adventure to save Past, Present and Future, and accomplish a mission where time itself is at stake.
Director: John Augustus | Star: AJ Styles
91. Second Impressions (2021)
30 min | Short, Comedy
Jess is a mess. Bad job. Love life in shambles. She's in need of a serious do-over. When her sketchy friend Dalton offers her a time travel serum called "Paradox," she leaps at the chance ... See full summary »
Director: Rob Mabry | Stars: Jared Donnelly, Nicole Esperon, Yvonne Falcon, Blanca Gomez
92. Of Tomorrows Unknown (1991)
Action, Sci-Fi
A man goes back in time, meets his wife-to-be, and stops Earth from becoming annihilated by embryonic aliens in exoskeletons that can take on human form.
Director: Michael West | Stars: Kurt Houk, Joanne Arney, O'Brian Childs, Bill Wolfe
Votes: 23
93. Paul Davies: The Big Questions (1995)
27 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
Stars: Phillip Adams, Paul Davies
Votes: 10
94. Mïus: Strobe and Noise (2016 Video)
5 min | Short, Music, Mystery
This music video verifies the concept of the song with a dark, time-wrapped, paradox abstraction. Strobe and Noise is a kind of revenge story about the cycle of violence placed in a ... See full summary »
Director: Péter Varsics | Stars: Mariann Hargitai, Bence Jónás, Viktor Klem, Péter Vozár
95. Timelike (2015)
9 min | Short, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Madeline and her boyfriend are enjoying a quiet evening at home when they are interrupted by a visit from a stranger bearing a message from Madeline's future self.
Director: Richard Boylan | Stars: Ewa Kasp, Mel Hoy, Richard Boylan
Votes: 79
96. Salandar (1980)
33 min | Short
The Mongol invasion of Iran leaves the country devastated but the people fight for their right in their own way.
Director: Varuzh Karim-Masihi | Stars: Parviz Poorhosseini, Dariush Farhang, Mohamad Motie
Votes: 34
97. Britain Through a Lens - The Documentary Film Mob (2011 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
A film that shows how, from 1929 to the end of World War Two, a small group of well-to-do film makers' and government bureaucrats started the British documentary genre.
Director: Chris Durlacher | Stars: Steven Mackintosh, Edgar Anstey, H.E. Fowle, Stuart Legg
Votes: 16
98. Out of Nowhere (2009)
16 min | Short, Mystery
Obsessed with a vision in his dream, a lonely man tries to discover it's meaning. His journey becomes one of self discovery, but he soon finds himself wanting to return to normality.
Director: Dan Millidge | Star: Wayne Hunt
99. The Alien Paradox (2009 Video)
2 min | Documentary, Short
A behind-the-scenes look at dancer/performance artist Paradox Pollack's work on JJ Abrams' STAR TREK. Pollack worked closely with the creature design and special effects make-up teams to ... See full summary »
Stars: J.J. Abrams, Neville Page, Paradox Pollack
Votes: 9
100. I Just Can't Understand (2009)
5 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Directors: Gez Medinger, Robin Schmidt | Star: David King