Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "cryonics"

1. Idiocracy (2006)

R | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Corporal Joe Bauers, a decidedly average American, is selected for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten and left to awaken to a future so incredibly moronic that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.

Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews

Votes: 182,010 | Gross: $0.44M

2. Alien (1979)

R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 949,721 | Gross: $78.90M

3. Aliens (1986)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser

Votes: 762,544 | Gross: $85.16M

4. Avatar (2009)

PG-13 | 162 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez

Votes: 1,385,828 | Gross: $760.51M

5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter

Votes: 719,025 | Gross: $56.95M

6. Passengers (I) (2016)

PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early.

Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne

Votes: 447,011 | Gross: $100.01M

7. 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)

PG | 116 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban

Votes: 57,180 | Gross: $40.20M

8. Event Horizon (1997)

R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years.

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson

Votes: 197,038 | Gross: $26.67M

9. Alien³ (1992)

R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann

Votes: 319,228 | Gross: $55.47M

10. Oblivion (I) (2013)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.

Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko

Votes: 552,908 | Gross: $89.02M

11. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

PG-13 | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy

A world-class playboy and part-time secret agent from the 1960s emerges after thirty years in a cryogenic state to battle with his nemesis Dr. Evil.

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Mimi Rogers

Votes: 257,005 | Gross: $53.88M

12. Demolition Man (1993)

R | 115 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.

Director: Marco Brambilla | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne

Votes: 193,199 | Gross: $58.06M

13. Vanilla Sky (2001)

R | 136 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell

Votes: 285,573 | Gross: $100.61M

14. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".

Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner

Votes: 248,703 | Gross: $206.04M

15. Forever Young (1992)

PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

During a cryogenics test, a pilot frozen in 1939 awakes in 1992 but time is running out, as his body starts to age rapidly.

Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser

Votes: 50,055 | Gross: $55.96M

16. Open Your Eyes (1997)

R | 119 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.

Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez

Votes: 73,211 | Gross: $0.37M

17. Dark Star (1974)

G | 83 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm

Votes: 27,223

18. Outland (1981)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

A federal marshal stationed at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy. He gets no help from the workers or authorities when he finds himself marked for murder.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen, Peter Boyle, James Sikking

Votes: 32,353 | Gross: $17.37M

19. Sleeper (1973)

PG | 89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory

Votes: 44,811 | Gross: $2.91M

20. 7Seeds (2019–2020)

TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

In the immediate future, a giant meteorite has collided with earth. All living organisms, including mankind, have been wiped off the face of the planet.

Stars: Alejandro Saab, Jad Saxton, Scott Gibbs, Amber Lee Connors

Votes: 1,774

21. Iceman (2014)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, History

An imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later passes and they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.

Director: Wing-Cheong Law | Stars: Donnie Yen, Baoqiang Wang, Shengyi Huang, Kang Yu

Votes: 3,837 | Gross: $0.01M

22. Chiller (1985 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Corporate exec Miles Creighton dies, and is cryogenically frozen in the hopes that he can be revived. 10 years later, the procedure is a success, and Miles returns--without his soul.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Michael Beck, Beatrice Straight, Laura Johnson, Dick O'Neill

Votes: 1,583

23. Realive (2016)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Marc will die of cancer and chooses cryogenic freeze and hopes to be thawed, when there's a solution to his condition. He's the first human brought back 68 years later. Can he adapt mentally and physically?

Director: Mateo Gil | Stars: Tom Hughes, Oona Chaplin, Charlotte Le Bon, Melina Matthews

Votes: 5,571

24. Blue Gender (1999–2000)

TV-MA | 23 min | Animation, Action, Sci-Fi

Yuji Kaido was diagnosed with a serious disease and since there was no cure for the unknown illness, he was cryogenically frozen.

Stars: Laura Bailey, Eric Vale, Houko Kuwashima, Kenji Nojima

Votes: 1,321

25. Late for Dinner (1991)

PG | 99 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Two young men evading the police for a crime they didn't commit are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).

Director: W.D. Richter | Stars: Peter Berg, Brian Wimmer, Marcia Gay Harden, Cassy Friel

Votes: 1,901 | Gross: $8.91M

26. The Chilling (1989)

R | 90 min | Horror

The bodies at a cryogenic centre are defrosted by accident and turn into cannibalistic zombies.

Directors: Deland Nuse, Jack A. Sunseri | Stars: Linda Blair, Dan Haggerty, Troy Donahue, Jack De Rieux

Votes: 677

27. Subject Two (2006)

R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller

A doctor invents a resurrection formula and tests it by killing his assistant over and over and over again.

Director: Philip Chidel | Stars: Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton, Courtney Mace, Jürgen Jones

Votes: 1,613

28. Freezing People Is Easy

Comedy, Drama, Horror | Pre-production

A man experiments within the burgeoning field of cryogenics during the 1960s.

29. The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)

Unrated | 64 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

When Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.

Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor

Votes: 1,964

30. Policenauts (1994 Video Game)

Action, Crime, Mystery

Johnathan Ingram is one of "policenauts" assigned the task of upholding the law on a space station called "Beyond Coast". Ingram was lost in the space after an accident left himn out of ... See full summary »

Directors: Hideo Kojima, Hideki Tonokatsu | Stars: Hideyuki Tanaka, Shôzô Îzuka, Kikuko Inoue, Osamu Saka

Votes: 157

31. Bucky and the Squirrels (2015)

PG | 82 min | Comedy

In 1968, a one-hit wonder US rock band vanished in a plane crash s in the Alps. 50 years later, the aircraft has just been discovered with the Squirrels still inside - frozen alive. Can the band make a comeback after half a century?

Director: Allan Katz | Stars: Josh Duvendeck, Kyle S. More, Matt Cook, Matt Shively

Votes: 81

32. Final (2001)

R | 111 min | Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller

When Bill (Denis Leary) wakes up in the psychiatric wing at Sumer Hospital, he has trouble distinguishing his dreams from reality.

Director: Campbell Scott | Stars: Denis Leary, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie, Jim Gaffigan

Votes: 1,384 | Gross: $0.01M

33. 2030 (2018)

Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary

Johnny Boston was 10 years old when he first met FM-2030, a futurist who intended to live forever. But in 2000, after his body ceased to function, FM was cryonically preserved. 16 years ... See full summary »

Director: Johnny Boston | Stars: Fereidoun M. Esfandiary, Johnny Boston, Flora Schnall, Vincent Veloso

Votes: 37

34. Artifact (2013)

Action, Adventure, Drama

Human's struggle to obtain ancient Artifacts that have been scattered throughout space.

Stars: Cesar D' La Torre, Rich Finley, Ksenia Valenti, Daniel Begus

Votes: 55

35. How to Live Forever (2009)

Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary

Baby boomer Mark Wexler travels the world searching for the secrets of long life.

Director: Mark Wexler | Stars: Suzanne Somers, Phyllis Diller, Ray Bradbury, Jack LaLanne

Votes: 285 | Gross: $0.06M

36. Singapore, Singapore (1967)

95 min | Comedy, Thriller

Captain Art Smith and four US Marine volunteers in Singapore investigate the disappearance of other Marines on shore leave in that city and discover that a mad scientist is responsible.

Director: Bernard Toublanc-Michel | Stars: Sean Flynn, Marika Green, Terry Downes, Marc Michel

Votes: 40

37. Syväjäädytetty opettaja (1971 TV Movie)

38 min | Family, Sci-Fi

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Director: Ulpu Tolonen | Stars: Kari Kihlström, Ensio Sallinen, Maija-Liisa Pohjola, Birgit Tähkänen

Votes: 40

38. Prisoner of Fame (2019)

19 min | Short, Drama

A dramatic series about pop superstar, Jack London, who eventually fakes his death to escape his trouble-filled life.

Director: Craig Ross Jr. | Stars: Phillip Andre Botello, Carl Gilliard, Nathanyael Grey, Anthony Nuncio

Votes: 12

39. Legally Dead

Drama | Announced

To save his wife from certain destruction and give millions of people a choice in their own future, a research scientist must convince a jury that medical advancements prove death is no longer inevitable.

Director: Anthony Waller

40. Aurinkotuuli (1980)

122 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

While experimenting with gravity scientist Erik Rankamaa accidentally gets frozen for nearly 30 years. When he awakens in 1999 he discovers that the world has become severely polluted.

Director: Timo Linnasalo | Stars: Paavo Piskonen, Lilga Kovanko, Antti Litja, Erkki Pajala

Votes: 102

41. How Would Immortality Change the Way We Live? (2017 Video)

6 min | Documentary, Short

Olga Khazan looks at the problem of not dying.

Stars: Zoltan Istvan, Olga Khazan, Eric Matzner

42. 2040: Possibilities by Edward de Bono (1995)

45 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi

Edward De Bono's hand sketches out words and simple pictures on a scrolling sheet of white paper. It seems we have been put in a cryogenic freeze in 1988, and have been brought out after ... See full summary »

Director: Edward De Bono

Votes: 8

43. Ex Nihilo (2017)

9 min | Documentary, Short

Ex Nihilo is an experimental short documentary about life, death and our attempts to control them. It tells the stories of an advanced humanoid robot, a cryonics facility, where the brains ... See full summary »

Director: Timo Wright

44. Barney Miller (1975–1982)
Episode: Atomic Bomb (1977)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

A college student's physics project is really a functional atomic bomb.

Director: Noam Pitlik | Stars: Hal Linden, Max Gail, Ron Glass, Jack Soo

Votes: 131

45. Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode: Cool Air/Camera Obscura/Quoth the Raven (1971)

TV-PG | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment. / Miserly banker Sharsted finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device. / Edgar Allan Poe can't get the first line down on paper.

Directors: John Badham, Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Marty Allen, Ross Martin, Barbara Rush, Rene Auberjonois

Votes: 408

46. Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode: Frosted Flakes (1994)

Crime, Drama, Family

A boy is dying from leukemia. The matter for Judge Bone is whether he will allow the request of the boy and his parents to cryogenically freeze him before the illness destroys his body in ... See full summary »

Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly

Votes: 49

47. Soap (1977–1981)
Episode: Episode #1.13 (1977)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In the aftermath of Peter's murder, Chief of Police Tinkler goes over the facts with both the Tates and the Campbells.

Director: Jay Sandrich | Stars: Jimmy Baio, Diana Canova, Billy Crystal, Cathryn Damon

Votes: 142

48. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode: The Neutral Zone (1988)

TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

While assigned to investigate missing outposts in the Neutral Zone, the Enterprise revives three cryogenically frozen people found aboard a wayward derelict Earth vessel.

Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby

Votes: 3,865

49. The Red Green Show (1991–2006)
Episode: Spokesman Red (2004)

TV-G | 23 min | Comedy

Red gets hired as a product spokesman.

Director: William G. Elliott | Stars: Bob Bainborough, Joel Harris, Jeff Lumby, Patrick McKenna

Votes: 10

50. In Search of... (1977–1982)
Episode: Cryogenics (1978)

Not Rated | Documentary

Scientists have frozen and successfully revived animals in laboratory settings. In addition, some human beings have opted to be frozen at death in hopes of being revived at a future time. Can cryogenics permit humans to live forever?

Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Josiah Brown, Art Quaife, Paul Segall

Votes: 25