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Short Circuit is a 1986 American science fiction comedy film directed by  John Badham and written by S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock. The film's  plot centers upon an experimental military robot that is struck by  lightning and gains a human-like intelligence, prompting it to escape  its facility to learn more about the world. The film stars Ally Sheedy,  Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton and G. W. Bailey,  with Tim Blaney as the voice of the robot named "Number 5". A sequel,  Short Circuit 2, was released in 1988, directed by Kenneth Johnson.

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WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 American  computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation  Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed and  co-written by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, and co-written by  Jim Reardon. It stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff  Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, with Sigourney Weaver and Fred  Willard. The overall ninth feature film produced by the studio, WALL-E  follows a solitary robot on a future, uninhabitable, deserted Earth in  2805, left to clean up garbage. He is visited by a probe sent by the  starship Axiom, a robot called EVE, with whom he falls in love and  pursues across the galaxy.

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, often  shortened to Buckaroo Banzai, is a 1984 American science fiction film  produced and directed by W. D. Richter and written by Earl Mac Rauch. It  stars Peter Weller in the titular role, with Ellen Barkin, John  Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, and Christopher Lloyd. The supporting cast  includes Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash, Clancy Brown, Pepe Serna, Robert  Ito, Vincent Schiavelli, Dan Hedaya, Jonathan Banks, John Ashton, Carl  Lumbly and Ronald Lacey.

The film centers upon the efforts of the polymath Dr. Buckaroo Banzai, a  physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock star, to save the world  by defeating a band of inter-dimensional aliens called Red Lectroids  from Planet 10. The film is a cross between the action-adventure and  science fiction film genres and also includes elements of comedy and  romance.

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Ready Player One is a 2018 American science fiction action film based on  Ernest Cline's novel of the same name. Directed by Steven Spielberg  from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Cline, it stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia  Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, and Mark  Rylance. The film is set in 2045, where much of humanity uses the OASIS,  a virtual reality simulation, to escape the real world. A teenage  orphan finds clues to a contest that promises the ownership of the OASIS  to the winner, and he and his allies try to complete it before an evil  corporation can do so.

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Bill & Ted Face the Music is a 2020 American science fiction comedy  film directed by Dean Parisot and written by Chris Matheson and Ed  Solomon. It is the third film in the Bill & Ted film series, and the  sequel to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991).[4] Alex Winter, Keanu  Reeves, and William Sadler reprise their roles as Bill, Ted, and the  Grim Reaper, while Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine,  Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Holland Taylor, Kid Cudi,  Jillian Bell and Beck Bennett join the cast. In the film, Bill and Ted  must write a song to unite humanity before space-time is destroyed. The  script was laid out as early as 2010, but a production deal was not  confirmed until 2018. Filming commenced on July 1, 2019.

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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is a 1991 American science fiction comedy  film, and the feature directorial debut of Pete Hewitt. It is the  second film in the Bill & Ted franchise, and a sequel to Bill &  Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George  Carlin reprise their roles. The film, which partially spoofs The Seventh  Seal, received mixed reviews from critics, but has since gained a cult  following like its predecessor.

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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction  comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Chris Matheson and  Ed Solomon. The first installment of the Bill & Ted franchise, it  stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George Carlin. It follows Bill  (Winter) and Ted (Reeves), who travel through time to assemble  historical figures for their high school history presentation.

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Warlock is a 1989 American supernatural horror film directed by Steve  Miner and written by David Twohy. Julian Sands stars as the title  character, a son of Satan who travels from the late 1600s to modern  times with the mission of destroying the world. Lori Singer and Richard  E. Grant co-star as a 20th century woman and a 17th century witch-hunter  attempting to stop him.  The film was shown internationally in 1989, but did not receive an  American release until January 11, 1991. It received mixed reviews and  grossed $9 million on a $15 million budget. Two sequels followed, with  Sands reprising his role in the second, although both serve as  standalone films with no connection to the original.

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Somewhere in Time is a 1980 American romantic fantasy drama film from Universal Pictures, directed by Jeannot Szwarc, and starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer. It is a film adaptation of the 1975 novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the screenplay.

Reeve plays Richard Collier, a playwright who becomes obsessed with a photograph of a young woman at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Through self-hypnosis,  he wishes himself back in time to the year 1912 to find love with  actress Elise McKenna (portrayed by Seymour), but comes into conflict  with Elise's manager, William Fawcett Robinson (portrayed by Plummer),  who fears that romance will derail her career, and resolves to stop him.

The film is known for its musical score composed by John Barry, featuring pianist Roger Williams. The 18th variation of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is also used several times.