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Prime VideoJonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2015– · Series · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy · War
In an alternate history, during the time of real life Napoleonic Wars, two men of destiny, the gifted recluse Mr. Norrell and daring spellcasting novice Jonathan Strange, use magic to help England.
Prime Video - #688#688Prime Video
LOLA
2023 · Movie · 1h 19mSci-Fi & Fantasy · War
1940, Thom and Mars have built a machine, LOLA, that can intercept radio and TV broadcasts from the future. Unknown to them sharing these broadcasts the devastating changes it will have on the future of world but to them also.
Prime Video - #984#984Prime Video
The Wipers Times
2013 · Movie · 1h 32mWar
When Captain Fred Roberts discovered a printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium in 1916, he decided to publish a satirical magazine called The Wipers Times - "Wipers" being army slang for Ypres. Full of gallows humour, The Wipers Times was poignant, subversive and very funny. Produced literally under enemy fire and defying both authority and gas attacks, the magazine proved a huge success with the troops on the western front. It was, above all, a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity. In his spare time, Roberts also managed to win the Military Cross for gallantry.
Prime Video - #1379#1379Prime Video
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
1999 · Movie · 46mSci-Fi & Fantasy
When a young girl finds herself sleeping in an abandoned theater on Christmas Eve, the Christmas spirits living there come to life just long enough to help her find her way through music.
Prime Video - #1478#1478Prime Video
Medusa
2021 · Movie · Portuguese · 2h 12mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Thriller
In order to resist temptation, Mariana and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them. However, the day will come when the urge to scream will be stronger than it ever has been.
Prime Video - #1876#1876Prime Video
Dance of the Sky Empire
2020– · Series · Mandarin · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy · History · Romance
A Saintess is on a mission to release the Dragon Emperor. Admitted to the Academy, she encounters the Nation-Protector, the Emperor's 2nd son, and a foreign prince who have all taken an interest in her for their own reasons.
Prime Video - #2274#2274Prime Video
The Investiture Of The Gods
2014– · Series · Mandarin · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy
Can a great Taoist warrior protect the heavens from evil spirits? Jiang Zi Ya (Sammul Chan) is a military strategist who was mentored by Yuan Shi Tian Zun, the primeval lord of Heaven and one of the highest deities of Taoism.
Prime Video - #2374#2374Prime Video
Alice in Wonderland
1986– · Series · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy
One of the most well-known stories begins one golden summer afternoon. Alice is sitting on a riverbank with her sister when a fully-dressed, talking rabbit runs past her. She follows the rabbit down the hole and enters a nonsensical world where it seems the normal rules of logic do not apply. In Wonderland, Alice participates in a winner-less race, alternates between being tiny and giant, hears riddles at a "mad" tea party, plays croquet with live flamencos, and attends a trial where the Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the Queen's tarts. Join Alice as she encounters the Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, and others as she makes her way through Wonderland.
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Prime VideoThe Heretics
2017 · Movie · 1h 27mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Thriller
A young girl is abducted by a man, who claims that a cult is hunting her. His goal is to protect her until sunrise but while restrained, the young girl falls deathly ill. While her friends and family search for her, the source of her illness becomes more and more apparent. She’s not sick…she’s changing.
Prime Video - #3073#3073Prime Video
Chronofilm
2020– · Series · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy
A team of investigators travels back in time with the Chronofilm Institute, observing history but never interfering. Eventually, they will have to decide whether to keep their past intact or change it for the hope of a better future.
Prime Video - #3871#3871NetflixPrime Video
Image of Victory
2023 · Movie · Hebrew · 2h 8mWar · Drama · History
In 1948, Hassanin joins a platoon going to Palestine to liberate farmers. While documenting their mission, Hassanin's values are tested and both sides re-evaluate what they understand about war.
NetflixPrime Video - #3970#3970Prime Video
The End Will Be Spectacular
2019 · Movie · Kurdish · 2h 15mWar
After her brother's death in the hands of ISIS, Zilan returns to her natal city, where the people's demonstrations are receiving brutal repression. In the fight for her people's freedom, she will not remain a passive witness.
Prime Video - #4170#4170Prime Video
The Real Exorcist
2020 · Movie · Japanese · 1h 48mSci-Fi & Fantasy
Sayuri, a coffee shop waitress, uses her supernatural powers to help those who are troubled by spiritual phenomena. She gradually gets involved in serious matters, eventually facing a fierce battle with the devil.
Prime Video - #4769#4769Prime Video
The Wave
2019 · Movie · 1h 27mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
An insurance lawyer goes out on the town to celebrate an upcoming promotion with his co-worker, Jeff. But their night takes a bizarre turn when Frank ingests a hallucinogen that completely alters his perception of the world.
Prime Video - #4969#4969Prime Video
Criss Angel Mindfreak
2005–2010 · Series · 6 seasonsSci-Fi & Fantasy · Reality
In "Criss Angel Mindfreak," world-renowned mystifier Criss Angel stretches the boundaries of reality and belief as he executes incredible illusions, death-defying escapes, fearless demonstrations and astonishing physical feats.
Prime Video - #5269#5269Prime Video
Soul Reaper
2024 · Movie · Indonesian · 1h 52mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Thriller
A teenager with the ability to enter other people's dreams. When he witnesses a dark spirit taking people's lives in their dreams, he quickly realizes that it's related to the mysterious deaths that are happening in the real world.
Prime Video - #6167#6167Prime Video
Revival
2024 · MovieSci-Fi & Fantasy
Two robbers on the run end up in the clutches of a doctor who experiments on people to navigate the afterlife. What seems to be an innocuous foray into a scientific and existential revolution for humanity soon takes a turn for the worse.
Prime Video - #6766#6766Prime Video
Kill Me Again
2025 · Movie · 1h 48mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Thriller
Charlie, a notorious serial killer known as the Midnight Mangler finds himself trapped, reliving the same violent night over and over. Initially embracing his grisly urges, Charlie soon becomes desperate to escape the endless nightmare.
Prime Video - #7266#7266Prime Video
Battle for the Western Front
2022 · Movie · 1h 30mWar
Inspired by Canuck WWI flying ace Billy Bishop, two young soldiers crash the front lines in August 1918. With the Allies detained, their platoon must desperately hold out alongside legendary Anishinaabe sniper Francis "Peggy" Pega...
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Paramount+Prime VideoThe Silent Planet
2024 · Movie · 1h 35mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
Follows two inmates in the near future who are sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor on a distant planet. As things unravel, they become increasingly paranoid and start to lose a sense of who they are and their past lives.
Paramount+Prime Video - #7565#7565Prime Video
The Advanced Guard
1998 · Movie · 1h 31mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
As a prelude to full-blown alien invasion, a team of four aliens telepathically linked with their lifelike human-looking android bodies abducts four random humans to test them to determine if humans can make good slaves.
Prime Video - #7665#7665Prime Video
Secret Weapon
2019 · Movie · Russian · 1h 37mWar
It's the Great Patriotic War. The Red Army has had to retreat in a hurry and left their top secret weapon, "Katyusha", behind. A group of eight soldiers is sent to do everything possible to not let Katyusha fall into German hands.
Prime Video - #8264#8264Prime Video
Dream Hacker
2025 · Movie · 1h 45mSci-Fi & Fantasy
Due to her age, Professor Jennifer Connelly is often described as a science prodigy. A genius of our time, with five Phd's psychology, psychiatry, neurology, physics and chemistry. Jennifer's primary studies are in dreams and the effects they have on the waking mind. For the past 6 years, her studies have led her to theorize that with the right equipment, she can not only watch and record someone else's dreams but maybe even influence them in a subconscious way. To prove this theory, and believing it may have military applications, Oxford obtains a substantial government grant to build the equipment Jennifer needs to journey into this new unknown area of neural science.
Prime Video - #8464#8464Prime Video
Crown of Shadows
2025 · Movie · 2h 22mSci-Fi & Fantasy
The Kingdom of Aberon has fallen into darkness under Queen Ginnarra's reign since she murdered the King. Exiled and hunted, her brother Prince Elderon joins a rebellion, summoning a dragon to defeat the Queen and the Dark Gods she...
Prime Video - #8564#8564Prime Video
The Piper
2023 · Movie · 1h 45mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
Liz and her daughter Amy move to Hamelin where a dark secret in Liz's past is uncovered by the restless spirit of the Pied Piper, who seeks out those who have gotten away with a crime, and punishes them by taking away their children.
Prime Video - #8964#8964Prime Video
Gretel & Hansel
2020 · Movie · 1h 27mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
In a distant land, two siblings, Hansel and Gretel, wander through the woods in search of food and work. When a mysterious lady offers them a way out, they accept without thinking about the consequences.
Prime Video - #10062#10062Prime Video
Blade: The Iron Cross
2020 · Movie · 1h 10mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
In 1945 a psychic war journalist gains a telekinetic link to a murderous puppet and uses its help to sabotage a top secret Nazi experiment that involves using a Death Ray to transform people into zombies.
Prime Video - #10261#10261
Prime VideoRiverworld
2003 · Movie · 1h 26mSci-Fi & Fantasy
A movie for the Sci Fi Channel based on the book series by Philip José Farmer. The location is Riverworld, a mysterious and treacherous land where every human who died between the years 99,000 BC and 2,200 AD has been resurrected on the banks of a huge river.
Prime Video - #10561#10561Prime Video
Ghost Project
2023 · Movie · 1h 17mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
Three young programmers come across an abandoned technology meant to detect supernatural presence. They reverse engineer the tech and create an app for their phones which allows them to see ghosts, thus endangering their own lives.
Prime Video - #11160#11160
Prime VideoDead Night
2018 · Movie · 1h 26mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
A caring mother loses her sanity, setting off a chain of events resulting in tragedy and murder. The story of Casey Pollack unfolds from two very different perspectives when one night in the woods culminates in absolute terror...
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Prime VideoDon't Blink
2014 · Movie · 1h 32mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
Ten people arrive at a secluded mountain resort to find it completely deserted. With no gas for the return trip, the visitors are forced to stay and investigate the mystery surrounding the abandoned lodge.
Prime Video - #12257#12257Prime Video
Beyond White Space
2018 · Movie · 1h 33mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
The USS Essex is travelling in the furthest reaches of the known Universe when it encounters a gigantic creature. After pirates steal their cargo and most of their supplies the crew decide to capture the creature.
Prime Video - #12955#12955Prime Video
Wolvesbayne
2009 · Movie · 1h 32mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
In 1887, the powerful vampire Lilith is vanquished by a vampire council and four amulets avoid her return to the world of living. In the present days, the greedy Realtor Russel Bayne is pressing Alex Layton to sell her store of es...
Prime Video - #13055#13055Prime Video
Monsterwolf
2010 · Movie · 1h 30mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror
A group of people who represent an oil company find new ground to drill for oil but then accidentally unleash a wolf-like creature. The creature wreaks havoc in the town and can only be stopped by the last surviving native American.
Prime Video - #13354#13354Prime Video
Metamorphosis
2007 · Movie · 1h 38mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Thriller
In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in the Carpathian Mountains faces the evil Countess Elizabeth Bathory, accused of drinking and bathing in blood of virgin women. Co...
Prime Video - #13654#13654Prime Video
Planet of Dinosaurs
1977 · Movie · 1h 24mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama
A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. Soon the crew discovers that there are dinosaurs on the planet. The crew have to survive until they hopefully are found and rescued.
Prime Video - #14153#14153Prime Video
Wunderland
2018 · Movie · 1h 25mWar
Christmas 1944, The Germans make one final push against the attacking allied armies in the West. Lt. Robert Cappa and his platoon of 2nd Infantry Division soldiers have been ordered to hold a vital road junction against the German aggressors. Cappa and his men must find their faith and strength to stand against their enemy in the epic fight know as "The Battle of The Bulge."
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Prime VideoFutureworld
1976 · Movie · 1h 48mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
Upon attempting to divulge a diabolical plot of the futuristic theme park, Futureworld, an ex-employee is dispatched after he tips off the reporter who exposed Westworld. The reporter and his ex-co-reporter investigate the situation.
Prime Video - #14849#14849Prime Video
After the Pandemic
2022 · Movie · 1h 24mSci-Fi & Fantasy
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a global airborne pandemic has wiped out 90% of the Earth's population and only the young and immune have endured as scavengers. For Ellie and Quinn, the daily challenges to stay alive are compounded when they become hunted by the merciless Stalkers.
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Prime VideoEpisode 50
2011 · Movie · 1h 21mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
Teaming up for the first time for a special episode of a supernatural reality TV show, two rival crews get more then they bargained for when they make physical contact with a ferocious spirit of terrifying power. They must band together before it destroys them all. After 49 killer episodes…this is the true story of what happened on episode 50.
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