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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Joker is back with a vengeance, and Gotham's newest Dark Knight needs answers as he stands alone to face Gotham's most infamous Clown Prince of Crime
Duration: 76 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Animation, Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: superhero, heroes, good versus evil, insanity, justice, save the day, fighting crime, secret identity, master villain, heroic mission, undercover, danger, aging, imaginary, righting the wronged, dystopian future, unlikely friendships, death, torture, murder, villain, mentor, violence, batman, multiverse
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)
Plot Summary:
D has been hired to track down Meier Link, a notoriously powerful vampire who has abducted a woman, Charlotte Elbourne. D's orders are strict - find Charlotte, at any cost. For the first time, D faces serious competition. The Markus Brothers, a family of Vampire Hunters, were hired for the same bounty. D Must intercept Meier and conquer hostile forces on all sides in a deadly race against time
Duration: 103 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Hong Kong, USA
Plot tags: vampire, supernatural, gory, danger, master warrior, bounty hunter, blood, obsessive quest, violent content, true love, half breed, missing person, werewolf, supernatural power, mutant, woman in danger, justice, supernatural being, vampire apocalypse, monster, betrayal, vampire human love, kidnapping, zombie, revenge
Frequency (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time
Duration: 118 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: time travel, radio, father son relationship, investigation, parallel universe, butterfly effect, altering history, murder, serial killer, changing the past or future, time, rescue, sent to the past, race against time, police detective, psychopath, murder mystery, haunted by the past, supernatural, firefighter, memory, family relations, fire, alternate history, alternate reality
X-Men (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers
Duration: 104 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 638000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: superhero, mutant, heroes, supernatural, good versus evil, mission, danger, x men, psychic power, supernatural ability, genetically altered, heroic mission, rescue, superhuman powers, supernatural power, vigilante, shapeshifting, terrorist plot, team, comic book, immortality, genetics, psychic, social misfits, superhuman
Unbreakable (2000)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 435000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: superhero, plot twist, invulnerability, twists and turns, villain, self discovery, father son relationship, train crash, comic book, supernatural power, a vision, good versus evil, supernatural, supernatural ability, psychic, conflict, child with gun, psychology, existentialism, heroes, swimming pool, disability, home invasion, obsession, security guard
Pitch Black (2000)
Plot Summary:
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light
Duration: 109 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 251000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: monster, creature, survival, alien, space travel, alien life-form, one man army, outer space, dark hero, tough guy, anti hero, deadly creature, space and aliens, escape, eclipse, spaceship crash, mysterious planet, danger, alien invasion, tough heroes, alien encounter, alien creature, warrior, evil alien, space
Titan A.E. (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Dredge are bent on mankind's destruction
Duration: 94 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Plot tags: alien, heroic mission, space travel, spacecraft, galaxy, space battle, save the world, young heroes, life risking, space station, space, space opera, dystopia, scientist, alien encounter, mission, human existence, space and aliens, space colony, disappearance, outer space, space adventure, destruction, distopia, alien invasion
The Cell (2000)
Plot Summary:
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim
Duration: 107 min
IMDB Rating: 6.4/10
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Plot tags: serial killer, surrealism, psychopath, race against time, coma, psychiatrist, mind game, virtual reality, investigation, fbi, child abuse, schizophrenia, dream, torture, traumatic childhood, violent, horse, gore, sadomasochism, female bodybuilder, macabre, subconscious, kidnapping, psychology, obsession
The 6th Day (2000)
Plot Summary:
Futuristic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world
Duration: 123 min
IMDB Rating: 5.9/10
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: cyberpunk, lookalikes, cloning, conspiracy, genetic engineering, dystopia, murder, danger, clone, rivalry, apocalypse, dishonesty, one against many, mistaken identity, father daughter relationship, megacorporation, alternate reality, back from the dead, supernatural, consciousness, doppelganger, space, twins, car chase, genetics
Hollow Man (2000)
Plot Summary:
Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can determine how to make him visible again. Caine's predicament eventually drives him mad, with terrifying results
Duration: 112 min
IMDB Rating: 5.8/10
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Plot tags: invisible man, invisibility, psychopath, experiment, nudity, sex scene, rape, mad scientist, scientist, stalker, voyeur, monster, transformation, voyeurism, danger, brutality, invisible, killing spree, disorder, supernatural, science, insanity, supernatural power, paranoia, murder
Pokémon: Spell of the Unknown (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Molly Hale's sadness of her father's disappearance get to her, she unknowingly uses the Unown to create her own dream world along with Entei, who she believes to be her father. When Entei kidnaps Ash's mom, Ash along with Misty & Brock invade the mansion looking for his mom and trying to stop the mysteries of Molly's Dream World and Entei!
Duration: 93 min
IMDB Rating: 5.8/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Plot tags: pokemon, father daughter relationship, lightning, rescue, kidnapping, fire, disappearance, professor, friendship, best friend, superhero, video game, mountain village, young boy, police officer, police, violence, water, ice, battles, castle, mother, father, deception, officer
Mission to Mars (2000)
Plot Summary:
When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate
Duration: 114 min
IMDB Rating: 5.7/10
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Plot tags: mars, space travel, astronaut, space station, alien, alien encounter, space, spacecraft, mysterious planet, trapped in space, space and aliens, nasa, humanity, outer space, escapades, space opera, danger, daring rescue, heroic mission, space adventure, space exploration, disaster, self sacrifice, zero gravity, human in outer space
Red Planet (2000)
Plot Summary:
Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 5.7/10
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Plot tags: mars, survival, space travel, catastrophe, astronaut, robot, outer space, space, space opera, spacecraft, save the world, ecological disaster, desert, stranded, space exploration, heroic mission, science, danger, race against time, mission gone awry, apocalypse, alien, artificial intelligence, dystopia, nasa
What Planet Are You From? (2000)
Plot Summary:
A highly-evolved planet, whose denizens feel no emotion and reproduce by cloning, plans to take over Earth from the inside by sending an operative, fashioned with a humming, mechanical penis, to impregnate an earthling and stay until the birth. The alien, Harold Anderson, goes to Phoenix as a banker and sets to work finding a mate. His approaches to women are inept, and the humming phallus doesn't help, but on the advice of a banking colleague, he cruises an AA meeting, meets Susan, and somehow convinces her to marry. The clock starts to tick: will she conceive, have a baby, and lose Harold (and the child) to his planet before he discovers emotion and starts to care?
Duration: 105 min
IMDB Rating: 5.6/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: alien, cloning, pregnancy, culture clash, fish out of water, humanity, benign alien, satire, misfit, couples, leadership, disorder, alien invasion, fall in love, space and aliens, erotica, happy ending, alien disguised as human, invasion, underground, philosophy, disguise, visitor, pluto, space
Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jesse and Chester, two bumbling stoners, wake up one morning from a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car. They encounter a variety of people while looking for it, including their angry girlfriends, an angry street gang, a transexual stripper, a cult of alien seeking fanatics, and aliens in human form looking for a mystical device that could save or destroy the world
Duration: 83 min
IMDB Rating: 5.5/10
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: alien, idiot, stoner, friendship, teenager, stupidity, obsessive quest, cannabis, dumb, buddies, memory loss, transsexual, ostrich, strip club, save the world, buddy, amnesia, road trip, bromance, nerd, chinese restaurant, bare chested male, party, college, weed
Supernova (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose body quickly mutates into a monstrous and deadly form
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 4.8/10
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: space travel, outer space, space, alien, robot, rescue, space and aliens, survival, danger, end of the world, natural disaster, heroic mission, save the world, imaginary, race against time, alien invasion, disaster, chess, artificial intelligence, violence, remote control, ship, interracial couple, apocalypse, monster
Highlander: Endgame (2000)
Plot Summary:
Immortals Connor and Duncan Macleod join forces against a man from Connor's distant past in the highlands of Scotland, Kell, an immensely powerful immortal who leads an army of equally powerful and deadly immortal swordsmen and assassins. No immortal alive has been able to defeat Kell yet, and neither Connor nor Duncan are skilled enough themselves to take him on and live. The two of them eventually come to one inevitable conclusion; one of them must die so that the combined power of both the Highlanders can bring down Kell for good. There can be only one... the question is, who will it be?
Duration: 87 min
IMDB Rating: 4.6/10
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: sword fight, immortality, immortal, sword and sorcery, good versus evil, supernatural, supernatural ability, mythology, mentor, medieval, gory, rivalry, danger, heroic mission, martial arts, space opera, wrestler, battles, brother brother relationship, swordsman, superhero, sorcery, revenge, violence, sword
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Plot Summary:
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 4.5/10
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: physical appearance, stupidity, genetics, fountain of youth, mad scientist, supernatural ability, nothing goes right, disorder, eccentric family, goofy hero, love and romance, silly humor, buddies, urban, genius, kids and family, black history, african american, nerd, dysfunctional family, food, inventor, black cast, stoner, androgyny
Left Behind: The Movie (2000)
Plot Summary:
Rayford Steele is an airline pilot whose relationship with his wife has gone sour;he ponders having an affair with an attractive flight attendant, Hattie Durham. In the midst of a flight to London, a number of their passengers mysteriously disappear, and chaos takes hold as a number of vehicles on the ground and in the air are suddenly unmanned. Meanwhile, Buck Williams, a television journalist, is pondering the rash of sudden disappearances as he works on a report about Dr. Chaim Rosenzweig, an Israeli scientist who has devised a formula that would make any soil on earth easy to cultivate. However, Buck wonders if there's more to Rosenzweig than he first imagined when he discovers the doctor is in cahoots with two multi-millionaires who plan to broker the invention to promote their own agenda of international domination
Duration: 100 min
IMDB Rating: 4.3/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Plot tags: disaster, redemption, end of the world, natural disaster, god, chaos, stewardess, supernatural, danger, save the world, journalism, race against time, post apocalypse, distopia, conspiracy, christian, religious, dating, faith, apocalypse, airplane, betrayal, un, christianity, religion
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Flintstones are at it again. The Flintstones and the Rubbles head for Rock Vegas with Fred hoping to court the lovely Wilma. Nothing will stand in the way of love, except for the conniving Chip Rockefeller who is the playboy born in Baysville but who has made it in the cutthroat town of Rock Vegas. Will Fred win Wilma's love?
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 3.7/10
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: dinosaur, fish out of water, goofy hero, disorder, friendship, misfit, nothing goes right, heroic mission, alien, love, caveman, superhero, kids and family, best friend, marriage proposal, puppet, young heroes, casino, cave woman, flirting, waitress, heroes, friends, love and romance, partner
2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
Plot Summary:
Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies, but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix. When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the United States is being held captive on a secret international moon base called Vegan and that he has been replaced on Earth by a clone, the US Marshall Service immediately sends their 'best' man, Dix, on the mission. Dix travels to Vegan to rescue the president, but is quickly duped and ends up returning to Earth where he installs the clone-president and removes the real one. The bumbling Dix must then find a way to restore the real president before aliens take over the Earth, and restore in himself a belief in truth, justice and the American way
Duration: 99 min
IMDB Rating: 3.5/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Plot tags: usa president, space and aliens, space travel, save the world, daring rescue, zero gravity, chases and races, escapades, danger, alien encounter, race against time, benign alien, save the day, artificial intelligence, imaginary, mad scientist, hostage, disguise, clone, moon, toilet humor, humour, satire, space, feeling
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state. After being captured, it is up to Tyler to save mankind
Duration: 117 min
IMDB Rating: 2.5/10
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, evil alien, heroic mission, danger, stupidity, planet, survival, heroes, rivalry, miner, life is a bitch, society, space, post apocalyptic, escapades, space opera, slavery, rescue, escape attempt, battle zone, rat, greed, paranoia