Best Indie Sci-Fi: Watchlist #3
This list is a companion to Best Indie Sci-Fi 1997-2021, Best Indie Sci-Fi 1997-2021: Watchlist #1, and Best Indie Sci-Fi 1997-2021: Watchlist #2. It includes films scheduled for V6.1, V6.2, and V7.0.
In the notes, a + is a film appearing for the first time on the watchlist, while (< is) indicates a bump down from Watchlist 1. A * indicates a direct-to-DVD or VOD release; these are missing from the + films.
In the notes, a + is a film appearing for the first time on the watchlist, while (< is) indicates a bump down from Watchlist 1. A * indicates a direct-to-DVD or VOD release; these are missing from the + films.
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- DirectorGregg ArakiStarsJames DuvalRachel TrueNathan BextonFollows a day in the lives of a group of Los Angeles high school students and the strange lives they lead.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsJulia OrmondJens Jørgen FleischerAgga OlsenA 6 y.o. Inuit boy runs off a snowy roof in Copenhagen and dies. Smilla, a half Inuit who lives in the building and knows the boy, looks into it. What makes an acrophobic boy run up on the roof? The clues take her to Greenland.
- DirectorTrey ParkerStarsTrey ParkerDian BacharRobyn Lynne RaabNaive young Mormon Joe Young is recruited to act in porn movies.(US 1998).
- DirectorBenny ChanJackie ChanStarsJackie ChanMichelle FerreMirai YamamotoA Secret Agent loses his memory after falling from a crashing helicopter. He is then chased by several other agency operatives, but he has no idea why.(US 1999)
- DirectorLynn Hershman LeesonStarsTilda SwintonFrancesca FaridanyTimothy LearyEmmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?^ (US 1999)
- DirectorLeVar BurtonStarsKatey SagalRyan MerrimanKatie VoldingA teenager wins a fully-automated dream house in a competition, but soon the computer controlling it begins to take over and everything gets out of control. Then teenage Ben must calm the computer named PAT.
- DirectorAllan MoyleStarsStephen BaldwinPascale BussièresKim CoatesIn the future, where it's faster to travel by exchanging bodies with someone at the destination, a man's body is hijacked by a ruthless terrorist.+
- DirectorTakashi YamazakiStarsTakeshi KaneshiroAnne SuzukiGorô KishitaniA young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.(US 2003).
- StarsTimothy HuttonRandy QuaidKari MatchettWhen college professor J.T. Neumeyer discovers a police file that outlines the details of his murder - which is to take place five days in the future - he wastes no time trying to save his own life.
- DirectorBarry StrugatzStarsCara BuonoRobert Downey Sr.Jonah MeyersonA depressed Brooklyn housewife sleepwalks through her life until she is abducted by UFOs. Determined to solve the mystery of her otherworldly experiences, she embarks on a journey that leads to both romance and a new meaning of life.
- DirectorOmar NaimStarsRobin WilliamsJim CaviezelMira SorvinoSet in a world with memory recording implants, Alan Hakman is a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.
- StarsEric StoltzCatherine BellLou Diamond PhillipsA shipping magnate hires four experts from various fields to investigate what happened to his ships that went missing in the Bermuda Triangle. The team discovers a threat that might unravel time itself and cause the world to end.
- DirectorThomas BangalterGuy-Manuel De Homem-ChristoStarsPeter HurteauMichael ReichHelena StoddardThe journey of two robots on their quest to become human.
- DirectorJonathan KingStarsOliver DriverNathan MeisterTammy DavisAn experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.(US 2007).
- DirectorJulien LeclercqStarsAlbert DupontelMarie GuillardMarthe KellerIn the near future Paris, a cop is searching for his wife's killer. The trail leads him to a high tech medical clinic where everything is not what it seems.
- DirectorCarter SmithStarsShawn AshmoreJena MaloneJonathan TuckerA leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.+
- DirectorDarren Lynn BousmanStarsPaul SorvinoAnthony HeadAlexa PenaVegaA worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
- DirectorMinoru KawasakiStarsKenji KohashiShûji KashiwabaraMasatoshi MatsuoDue to global warming and the shifting of tectonic plates, most of the Earth's land has sunk beneath the surface of the ocean. Only Japan remains and refugees from all nations try to incorporate themselves into Japanese society:(US 2008*).
- DirectorToby WilkinsStarsShea WhighamJill WagnerPaulo CostanzoTrapped in an isolated gas station by a voracious Splinter parasite that transforms its still-living victims into deadly hosts, a young couple and an escaped convict must find a way to work together to survive this primal terror.(US 2009*).
- DirectorDavid PastorÀlex PastorStarsChris PinePiper PeraboLou Taylor PucciAs a lethal virus spreads globally, four friends seek a reputed plague-free haven. But while avoiding the infected, the travelers turn on one another.
- DirectorGerald McMorrowStarsEva GreenRyan PhillippeSam RileyA portrait of the broken lives of four people (a vigilante detective, a worried parent, an awkward man looking for love and a suicidal artist) as they all struggle to cope in their religiously-dystopian city.(US 2009*).
- DirectorAhmed Alauddin JamalStarsPaul BarberIain FraserSaeed JaffreySchizophrenic drifter Rabbie Burns believes voices warning him to save England's dogs from a deadly disease within 30 hours before a "Supreme Being" destroys humanity, initiating a race against time amidst a canine epidemic crisis.(US 2010*).
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsAlan Van SprangKenneth WelshKathleen MunroeOn an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.+ (US 2010).
- DirectorSandy ColloraStarsClark BartramDamion PoitierIsaac C. Singleton Jr.A spaceship crashes on a desert planet with 3 survivors besides the escaped prisoner. Extraction's in 110 hours.*
- DirectorHenry SaineStarsKyle DavisDevin McGinnMatt BauerJeff is an ordinary guy that is stuck at a dead end job with a boring life, but when a strange old man gives him an Ancient relic and tells him that he is the last bloodline of H.P. Lovecraft, He and his friend Charlie embark on an adventure to protect the relic piece from falling into the hands of the Starspawn and his minions that wish to reunite the relic and release Cthulhu back into the world.+