Dan O'Bannon

Dan O'Bannon

Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American screenwriter and director of science fiction and horror films. He is best known for his work on "Alien" (1979), "The Return of the Living Dead" (1985) and "Total Recall" (1990).

  • Title: Dan O'Bannon
  • Popularity: 6.887
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1946-09-30
  • Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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  • Also Known As: Daniel Thomas O'Bannon, Daniel O'Bannon
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Dan O'Bannon Movies

  • 2003
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    Dan O'Bannon: Crafting Fear

    Dan O'Bannon: Crafting Fear

    1 2003 HD

    Documentary about Dead & Buried.

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  • 1974
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    Dark Star

    Dark Star

    5.937 1974 HD

    A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as...

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  • 2011
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    More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead

    More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead

    7.6 2011 HD

    Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic "The Return of the Living Dead."

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  • 2007
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    In Search of Moebius

    In Search of Moebius

    10 2007 HD

    Documentary about Frenchman Jean Giraud, one of the most influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time and also one of the genre's...

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  • 2007
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    Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures

    Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures

    6.556 2007 HD

    French artist and author Jean Giraud is one of the most famous and influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time. He achieved his...

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  • 2006
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    Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'

    Ride with the Angels: Making 'Blue Thunder'

    1 2006 HD

    Making of 'Blue Thunder'

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  • 1997
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    Area 51: The Alien Interview

    Area 51: The Alien Interview

    3.5 1997 HD

    A documentary about aliens and UFOs with re-enactments of alien interviews and video of a supposedly real video of an alien being interviewed by...

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  • 2002
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    The Alien Saga

    The Alien Saga

    6.4 2002 HD

    In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling the ultimate biomechanical creature....

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  • 1986
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    Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors

    Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors

    8.2 1986 HD

    Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention.

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  • 2007
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    Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

    Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

    6 2007 HD

    This documentary about "2001: A Space Odyssey" looks at some of the things that seemed fanciful in 1968, which don't seem quite as much anymore.

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  • 2003
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    The Beast Within: Making Alien

    The Beast Within: Making Alien

    8.167 2003 HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's...

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  • 2010
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    Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star

    Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star

    4.6 2010 HD

    Exploring the controversial story behind John Carpenter (Halloween & The Thing) and writer Dan O Bannon's (Alien & Return of the Living Dead)...

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  • 2020
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    AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1

    AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1

    1 2020 HD

    Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 is a brand new compilation of the most...

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  • 1999
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    The Alien Legacy

    The Alien Legacy

    6.7 1999 HD

    A behind the scenes look at the making of 'Alien'

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  • 2002
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    Return of the Living Dead: Designing the Dead

    Return of the Living Dead: Designing the Dead

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1971
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    Judson's Release

    Judson's Release

    1 1971 HD

    Dan O’Bannon stars in one of the first iterations of the classic "the babysitter and the man upstairs" urban legend that would go on to...

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  • 1968
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    Good Morning, Dan

    Good Morning, Dan

    1 1968 HD

    Set in the future of 2006, an old man forced into a daily routine by an automated system reminisces about his younger years.

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  • 2019
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    Memory: The Origins of Alien

    Memory: The Origins of Alien

    6.202 2019 HD

    The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the...

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  • 2013
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    Jodorowsky's Dune

    Jodorowsky's Dune

    7.839 2013 HD

    Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa...

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  • 1974
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    Dark Star

    Dark Star

    5.937 1974 HD

    A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as...

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  • 1974
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    Dark Star

    Dark Star

    5.937 1974 HD

    A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as...

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  • 1974
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    Dark Star

    Dark Star

    5.937 1974 HD

    A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as...

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  • 1990
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    Total Recall

    Total Recall

    7.305 1990 HD

    Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory...

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  • 1985
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    The Return of the Living Dead

    The Return of the Living Dead

    7.2 1985 HD

    When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally...

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  • 1985
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    The Return of the Living Dead

    The Return of the Living Dead

    7.2 1985 HD

    When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally...

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  • 1991
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    The Resurrected

    The Resurrected

    6.164 1991 HD

    Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.

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  • 1981
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    Dead & Buried

    Dead & Buried

    6.3 1981 HD

    After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living...

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  • 1986
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    Invaders from Mars

    Invaders from Mars

    5.5 1986 HD

    In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his...

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  • 2019
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    Alien: Containment

    Alien: Containment

    6.1 2019 HD

    Four survivors find themselves stranded aboard a small escape pod in deep space. Trying to piece together the details around an outbreak, they find...

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  • 1985
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    Lifeforce

    Lifeforce

    6.26 1985 HD

    A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into...

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  • 2019
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    Alien: Alone

    Alien: Alone

    6.2 2019 HD

    An abandoned crew member aboard a derelict chemical hauler is trying to keep her ship and herself alive. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it...

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  • 2019
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    Alien: Night Shift

    Alien: Night Shift

    6.2 2019 HD

    When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy. Near closing time, they are...

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  • 2019
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    Alien: Harvest

    Alien: Harvest

    6.684 2019 HD

    The surviving crew of a damaged space harvester has a motion sensor as their only navigation tool leading them to safety, while a creature in the...

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  • 2019
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    Alien: Specimen

    Alien: Specimen

    6.128 2019 HD

    During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.

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  • 1995
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    Screamers

    Screamers

    6.206 1995 HD

    SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding,...

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  • 1983
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    Blue Thunder

    Blue Thunder

    6.2 1983 HD

    Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences...

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  • 2012
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    Total Recall

    Total Recall

    6.015 2012 HD

    Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the...

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  • 1997
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    Hemoglobina

    Hemoglobina

    4.4 1997 HD

    A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although...

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  • 1974
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    Dark Star

    Dark Star

    5.937 1974 HD

    A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as...

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  • 2014
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    Shock Value: The Movie — How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror

    Shock Value: The Movie — How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror

    1 2014 HD

    Image Archive archivist Dino Everett assembled a feature-length compilation of SCA student works from the late ’60s and ’70s. The...

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  • 2007
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    Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

    Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

    5.185 2007 HD

    After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone...

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  • 2024
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    Alien: Romulus

    Alien: Romulus

    7.267 2024 HD

    While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in...

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  • 2017
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    Alien: Covenant

    Alien: Covenant

    6.1 2017 HD

    The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but...

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  • 1979
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    Alien

    Alien

    8.158 1979 HD

    During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the...

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  • 1979
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    Alien

    Alien

    8.158 1979 HD

    During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the...

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  • 2004
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    AVP: Alien vs. Predator

    AVP: Alien vs. Predator

    5.923 2004 HD

    When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they...

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  • 2004
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    AVP: Alien vs. Predator

    AVP: Alien vs. Predator

    5.923 2004 HD

    When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they...

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  • 2024
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    Alien: Monday

    Alien: Monday

    7.3 2024 HD

    The crew of the Thanatos, a remote mining ship at the edge of the galaxy, discover the danger of undeclared cargo.

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  • 1990
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    Total Recall

    Total Recall

    7.305 1990 HD

    Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory...

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  • 2012
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    Prometheus

    Prometheus

    6.568 2012 HD

    A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they...

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  • 1992
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    Alien³

    Alien³

    6.374 1992 HD

    After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility....

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  • 1986
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    Aliens

    Aliens

    7.947 1986 HD

    Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep...

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  • 1997
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    Alien Resurrection

    Alien Resurrection

    6.2 1997 HD

    Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of...

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  • 2019
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    Alien: Ore

    Alien: Ore

    6.148 2019 HD

    When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, a hard-working miner of a planet mining colony is forced to...

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  • 1968
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    Good Morning, Dan

    Good Morning, Dan

    1 1968 HD

    Set in the future of 2006, an old man forced into a daily routine by an automated system reminisces about his younger years.

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  • 1968
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    Good Morning, Dan

    Good Morning, Dan

    1 1968 HD

    Set in the future of 2006, an old man forced into a daily routine by an automated system reminisces about his younger years.

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  • 1969
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    Blood Bath

    Blood Bath

    1 1969 HD

    A disturbed man makes a few terrible decisions that lead to an unexpected bath.

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  • 1969
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    Blood Bath

    Blood Bath

    1 1969 HD

    A disturbed man makes a few terrible decisions that lead to an unexpected bath.

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  • 1968
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    Good Morning, Dan

    Good Morning, Dan

    1 1968 HD

    Set in the future of 2006, an old man forced into a daily routine by an automated system reminisces about his younger years.

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  • 1981
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    Heavy Metal

    Heavy Metal

    6.5 1981 HD

    The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

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  • 1981
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    Heavy Metal

    Heavy Metal

    6.5 1981 HD

    The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

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  • 1974
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    Dark Star

    Dark Star

    5.937 1974 HD

    A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as...

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  • 1970
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    6.9 1970 HD

    Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC television series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter. The series uses the...

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  • 1970
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    7.1 1970 HD

    Fifteen years after her mother disappeared on the deep-space towing ship Nostromo, Amanda Ripley travels to a remote space station that may hold...

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