 | 2001 - A Space Odyssey
Buy used from: $3.46 Stanley Kubrick's stunning film of the book by Arthur C. Clarke.
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 | Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
Buy used from: $1.49 From the Phillip Dick story, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
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 | Forbidden Planet
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $4.11 The 1956 introduction of Robby the Robot . Loosely drawn from Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
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 | The Day the Earth Stood Still
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $3.22 Gort comes bringing peace on earth.
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 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $7.49 The 1956 original of the oft-remade thriller.
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 | Silent Running
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $6.09 Bruce Dern in a haunting ecological tale with three robots nicknamed Huey, Dewey and Louie.
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 | Soylent Green
Buy used from: $7.00 Charlton Heston in a future dystopia and a "B" movie classic.
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 | Dark Star
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.68 John Carpenter's funny, weird, thoughtful, low-budget cult classic.
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 | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.11 Call it a "B" movie but Peter Weller, John Lithgow and Ellen Barkin are absolutely great. Accompanying book by Earl Mac Rauch.
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 | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $6.95 Here's the low-budget BBC miniseries with sets that look like Dr. Who, but the heart and soul of Douglas Adams.
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 | Zardoz
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.33 Sean Connery makes a movie great, even a very outre sci-fi fantasy one like Zardoz.
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 | Logan's Run
Buy used from: $2.25 Before it was a TV show it was a movie, and now it's a DVD.
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 | Westworld
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.14 Yul Brenner as a robot in the perfect theme park where nothing can go worng.
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 | The Omega Man
Buy used from: $3.97 Charlton Heston in a cult classic loosely based on a novel.
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 | Lost in Space - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $50.99 / Used from: $30.00 See the other great robot creation, robot B-9 in these first black and white episodes.
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 | Lost in Space - Season 2, Vol. 1
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $11.10 Lost in Space goes color. Gaze at the excellent robot and spaceship designs.
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 | Lost in Space - Season 2, Vol. 2
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $14.98 Here's the rest of season two, haven taken a comic turn, but it was still suspenseful to me as a kid.
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 | Lost in Space - Season 3, Vol. 1
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $14.88 The cliff-hanger endings brought you back each week for more adventures with the Robinsons.
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 | Lost in Space - Season 3, Vol. 2
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $14.92 More of the show spin off of the comic, Space Family Robinson.
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 | The Last Starfighter (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $5.26 Because it came out when a Star Wars movie did, this film was ignored, but it's excellent in its own right. Alan Dean Foster did a tie-in novel.
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 | Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $6.58 Not just the (for their time) ground breaking special effects, but the intriguing story make Tron an all-time classic (the video game came from the movie).
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 | Johnny Mnemonic
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.19 Keanu Reeves in this over the top realization of a short story by cyberpunk author William Gibson.
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 | V - The Original TV Miniseries
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $6.98 The original sci-fi miniseries that later spun off into a show.
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 | Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $11.61 Fritz Lang's dazzling and thoughtful 1927 art deco sci-fi masterpiece, finally restored. Queen used part of it in a video.
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 | The War of the Worlds (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $4.78 The original film of the H.G. Wells novel that caused so much havoc in a radio broadcast by Orson Welles.
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