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Escape from New York is a 1981 American science fiction action film  co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt  Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Ernest Borgnine, Isaac Hayes,  Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton.

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a 1991 American science  fiction film directed by Nicholas Meyer, who directed the second Star  Trek film, The Wrath of Khan. It is the sixth feature film based on the  1966–1969 Star Trek television series. Taking place after the events of  Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, it is the final film featuring the  entire cast of the television series. The destruction of the Klingon  moon Praxis leads the Klingon Empire to pursue peace with their longtime  adversary, the Federation; the crew of the Federation starship USS  Enterprise must race against unseen conspirators with a militaristic  agenda.

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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is a 1989 American science fiction film  directed by William Shatner and based on the television series Star Trek  created by Gene Roddenberry. It is the fifth installment in the Star  Trek film series, and takes place shortly after the events of Star Trek  IV: The Voyage Home (1986). Its plot follows the crew of the USS  Enterprise-A as they confront renegade Vulcan Sybok, who is searching  for God at the center of the galaxy.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (or simply Rogue One) is a 2016 American  epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards. The screenplay by  Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy is from a story by John Knoll and Gary  Whitta. It was produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney  Studios Motion Pictures. It is the first installment of the Star Wars  anthology series and an immediate prequel to Star Wars: Episode IV – A  New Hope (1977). The main cast consists of Felicity Jones, Diego Luna,  Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Jiang  Wen, and Forest Whitaker. Set a week before A New Hope, the plot  follows a group of rebels who band together to steal plans of the Death  Star, the ultimate weapon of the Galactic Empire. The film also details  the Rebel Alliance's first effective victory against the Empire, first  referenced in A New Hope's opening crawl.

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Moon is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Duncan Jones (in his  directorial debut) and written by Nathan Parker from a story by Jones.  The film follows Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), a man who experiences a  personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint  mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon. Kevin Spacey voices Sam's  robot companion, GERTY. Moon premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film  Festival and was released in selected cinemas in New York and Los  Angeles on 12 June 2009. The release was expanded to additional theatres  in the United States on 10 July and to the United Kingdom on 17 July. A  follow-up film containing an epilogue to the film's events, Mute, was  released in 2018. A third installment, a graphic novel called Madi: Once  Upon A Time in the Future, was released in 2020.

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a 1986 American science fiction film  directed by Leonard Nimoy and based on the television series Star Trek.  It is the fourth feature installment in the Star Trek franchise, and is a  sequel to Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984); it completes the  story arc begun in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued  in The Search for Spock. Intent on returning home to Earth to face trial  for their actions in the previous film, the former crew of the USS  Enterprise finds the planet in grave danger from an alien probe  attempting to contact now-extinct humpback whales. The crew travel to  Earth's past to find whales who can answer the probe's call.

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is a 1984 American science fiction  film, written and produced by Harve Bennett, directed by Leonard Nimoy,  and based on the television series Star Trek. It is the third film in  the Star Trek franchise, and is the second part of a three-film story  arc that begins with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and  concludes with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). After the death of  Spock (Nimoy), the crew of the USS Enterprise returns to Earth. When  James T. Kirk (William Shatner) learns that Spock's spirit, or katra, is  held in the mind of Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Kirk  and company steal the decommissioned USS Enterprise to return Spock's  body to his homeworld. The crew must also contend with hostile Klingons  led by Kruge (Christopher Lloyd) who are bent on stealing the secrets of  a powerful terraforming device.

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film  directed by Nicholas Meyer and based on the television series Star Trek.  It is the second film in the Star Trek film series, and is a sequel to  Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). The plot features Admiral James T.  Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise  facing off against the genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh  (Ricardo Montalbán), a character who first appeared in the 1967 Star  Trek episode "Space Seed". When Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to  exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from  acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. The film is the  beginning of a three-film story arc that continues with the film Star  Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and concludes with the film Star  Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).

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District 9 is a 2009 science fiction action film directed by Neill  Blomkamp in his feature film debut, written by Blomkamp and Terri  Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. It is a  co-production of New Zealand, the United States and South Africa. The  film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James, and was adapted  from Blomkamp's 2006 short film Alive in Joburg.

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Blade: Trinity is a 2004 American superhero horror film written and  directed by David S. Goyer, who also wrote the screenplays to Blade and  Blade II. It stars Wesley Snipes as Blade, based on the Marvel Comics  character of the same name, who also produced with Goyer, Peter  Frankfurt and Lynn Harris, with a supporting cast of Ryan Reynolds,  Jessica Biel, Kris Kristofferson, Dominic Purcell, Parker Posey and  Triple H. The film was released in the United States on December 8,  2004.