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Stranger Things
2016–2025 · Series · 5 seasonsSci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama · Horror
12 EmmysBest Sci-Fi & Fantasy SeriesIn 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, the children unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries.
Netflix - #3986
High School Return of a Gangster
2024– · Series · Korean · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy
A middle-aged gangster finds himself body-swapped into the body of a bullied teen. Now inhabited by a tough-as-nails gangster, the teen starts to fight back against the power structure at his school and change his miserable existe...
Hulu - #4782

Sometimes in April
2005 · Movie · 2h 20mWar · Drama · History
When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000...
MAX - #4882
Pit Babe
2023– · Series · Thai · 2 seasonsSci-Fi & Fantasy · Romance · Sport
Babe, the number 1 driver, is Charlie's idol. Charlie wants to be like Babe, but he does not have a race car. He plucks up courage and approaches Babe to ask to borrow one. Babe agrees and the two make an interesting deal.
Netflix - #5281
Number 24
2024 · Movie · Norwegian · 1h 51mWar · Biography · Drama
Young apprentice Gunnar Sønsteby from Rjukan decides to resist Nazi-Germany on the day of the invasion to later become the leader of the "Oslo-gang" carrying out countless daring acts of sabotage making him Norway's greatest war h...
Netflix - #5479
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018 · Movie · 2h 4mWar · Drama · Romance
In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. Then she learns the secret they are afraid to reveal.
Netflix - #5878
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 - #6177
Enys Men
2023 · Movie · 1h 36mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is a n...
Hulu - #6477
Padmaavat
2018 · Movie · Hindi · 2h 43mWar · Drama · History
Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Me...
Netflix - #6777
Reunited Worlds
2017– · Series · Korean · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy · Romance
Sung Hae Sung reappears 12 years after a fatal accident, unchanged and seeking answers about his resurrection. Aided by friends and Jong Won, he strives to right wrongs and unravel the enigma surrounding his death.
Netflix - #6877
Riphagen the Untouchable
2016 · Movie · Dutch · 2h 11mWar · Biography · Drama
The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.
Netflix - #7076
Women at War
2022– · Series · French · 1 seasonWar · Drama · History
France, 1914. The destinies of four women intersect: Marguerite, a mysterious Parisian prostitute; Caroline, propelled to the head of the family factory; Agnes, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent; and Suzanne, a feminist n...
Netflix - #8174
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 nonsensic...
Prime Video - #8674
The 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 - #9173
The Six Triple Eight
2024 · Movie · 2h 7mWar · Drama · History
During World War II, 855 women joined the fight to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.
Netflix - #9473
From Tomorrow
2024– · Series · Spanish · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy
Gabriela moves into a new home where she discovers a mysterious mineral that allows her to see visions of the future, including her daughter's death. Convinced they're real, she teams up with an inspector to try to change Emma's f...
Hulu - #9573
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
2025 · Movie · 1h 39mWar · Drama
Depicts 8-year-old Bobo's life on her family's Rhodesian farm during the Bush War's final stages. It explores the family's bond with Africa's land and the war's impact on the region and individuals through Bobo's perspective.
Netflix - #9973
Chronofilm
2020– · Series · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy
Chronofilm, one of the hottest reality shows on television showing off your history books like it's never been taught. Follow a group of historians as they travel back in time to film recreations with the sole mission of just reco...
Prime Video - #10872
Amrapali
1966 · Movie · Hindi · 1h 59mSci-Fi & Fantasy · History
A victory over neighboring state Vaishai has always eluded Magadh Samrat Ajaatshatru despite being winning and taking control over all neighboring states. He attacks Vaishali only get defeated again. Wounded, lost and on the run, ...
Netflix - #12070
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 - #13569
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 - #13868
Pilecki's Report
2023 · Movie · Polish · 1h 58mWar · Biography · Drama
Polish WWII resistance fighter Witold Pilecki infiltrates Auschwitz, is imprisoned and interrogated by communist officials post-war, depicting his wartime experiences, incarceration, torture, and 1948 execution for opposing Soviet...
Netflix - #16066
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 nigh...
Prime Video - #16566
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...
Prime Video - #16865

The 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 - #16965
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 - #17864
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 - #17964
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 - #20261
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 - #20660
Sniper: Legacy
2014 · Movie · 1h 35mWar · Action · Thriller
A rogue assassin is taking out military leaders, and Brandon gets word that his father is one. He tries to track down the killer, finds out that his father isn't dead and realizes that his superior officers are using him as bait to track the killer.
Netflix - #20960

Dead 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...
Prime Video - #23155
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 - #23255
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 - #23554
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 - #23854
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 - #24353
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."
Prime Video - #24851

Futureworld
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 - #25349
After the Pandemic
2022 · Movie · 1h 24mSci-Fi & Fantasy
Follows a scenario in which the death rate for a new virus isn't 1%, but somewhere around 98%. Ellie leaves her neighborhood and stumbles across a new city where she meets Quinn, someone who has taken a different approach to the n...
Prime Video - #25848

Episode 50
2011 · Movie · 1h 21mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
Focuses on two television crews of paranormal experts: one team of skeptics looking to de-bunk myths about ghosts and another consisting of believers looking to prove their existence. Teaming up for the first time for a special ep...
Prime Video
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