(1968) Mauro Parenti, Lucretia Love, Gordon Mitchell, John Karlsen.   The title character is a masked superhero very much in the mold as Diabolik.  There’s a great pre-credit sequence where he takes on a shipload of drug dealers.  Our hero then pops in and out the rest of the way as he searches for a magical golden relic, all the while trying to keep the bad guys from looting King Tut’s treasures...  

(1970) Dean Jones, Philippe Leroy, Gastone Moschin, Rafael Alonso.  Jones is a professor working on a cure for the common cold.  He also happens into a mysterious Indian potion that makes one invisible, which he has occasion to use.  When a gang of crooks find out about Jones' invisibility serum, naturally they come after him.   Will Jones discover his antidote, beat the crooks, and get the girl? 

(1973) Keir Dullea, William Osler, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, Ed Ames.  Dullea leads a trio of space adventurers who are on a desperate mission to save Earthship Ark—a massive spaceship that houses the remnants of mankind.  Unknown to most people in the Ark’s biospheres, the ship is on a collision course with a distant star...

(1929) Jameson Thomas, Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Humberston Wright.  This two-disc edition features 35mm transfers of both the sound edition and the silent edition (with music score) of this forgotten sci-fi classic.  An incident at the border of two futuristic countries leads the world to the brink of World War... 

(1958) Michael Emmet, Ed Nelson, Angela Greene.   It’s the first time in widescreen DVD video for this ‘50s drive-in gem!  A spaceship returns to Earth carrying an astronaut who's been impregnated with alien embryos, also on board is an alien monster that terrorizes a group of scientists in their mountain laboratory...

(1959) Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Arden, directed By Edgar Ulmer.  First time in widescreen DVD video.  A jet pilot from the 20th century breaks through a time barrier in the sky to a plague-ravaged Earth, menaced by mutants.  Lots of sci-fi intrigue with a big revolt at the end of the film...  

(1933) Conrad Veidt, Marie Ney, Basil Gill, Anne Grey, Dennis Hoey.  A big, sprawling epic fantasy.  Veidt plays a Jew who goes to Christ, asking him to cure his mistress’s illness.  Christ tells him that when she returns to her real husband she will be cured.  Refusing to let her, Veidt essentially condemns her to death.  Then, when Christ is staggering toward his crucifixion, Veidt spits on him in contempt...

(1979) Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson.  A police inspector comes to a remote mountain hotel to investigate a murder.  Shortly after his arrival a snowslide cut the hotel off from civilization.  The inspector then begins to realize that something far worse than a simple case of murder is afoot—aliens, androids, terrorists, and more...

(1983) Pip Donaghy, David Gwillim, Lila Kaye, Ron Pember, Merelina Kendall.  This six-part, two-disc mini-series is a vivid retelling of the classic H. G. Wells story and probably comes the closest to the Wells original than any other screen version.  Donaghy is superb as Griffin, the man destined to go mad because of his own fantastic discovery...

(1943) Hans Albers, Hermann Speelmans, Käthe Haack, Ferdinand Marian.  Armed with immortality, Munchausen rides horses, hot air balloons and even cannon balls as he travels the world saving beautiful ladies of royalty.  He is aided by his faithful servant who is armed with a fantastic rifle that can hit targets from 100 miles away and a runner who can sprint great distances in seconds... 

(1947) Jean-Pierre Aumont, Maria Montez, Dennis O’Keefe, Henry Daniell. Two Legionnaires comb the Sahara for a missing scientist.  They are captured by strange desert warriors and taken to the lost land of Atlantis, ruled over by a beautiful but ruthless queen who is surrounded by the golden mummies of past lovers. Aumont is great as the stalwart Legionnaire who crumbles to the sexual power of Montez...

(1956) Boris Andreyev, Shukur Burkhanov, Andrei Abrikosov, Natalya Medvedeva, Nelli Myshkova, Sergey Martinson.  A wonderful Russian fantasy about a legendary warrior who fights to save his people from an assortment of horrible monsters including a dragon, a wind demon, and other legendary creatures.  There are many great scenes and the special effects, for the time, were very well done...

(1969) Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver, Karlis Sebris.  It’s a post-apocalyptic world in which mankind has been decimated by an unknown plague.  Cities are on fire; millions have died.  A young couple is detained by the government and sequestered into a beach house to conceive a child in an effort to save mankind. They are soon visited by strange riders and a massive whale dies on their beach...

(1972) Mine Mutlu, Kunt Tulgar, Erol Tas, Erol Gunaydin.  This outlandish Turkish sci-fi action film features “the Copperhead,” a masked hero who fights the evil Dr. Satan.  The doctor has designs on conquering the world with robots and other electronics.  He laughs maniacally throughout the film.  There are many scenes that will make you howl and the Sherlock Holmish sidekick is bad beyond belief.  A wonderfully inept film that never lets up...

(1913) Crissie Bell, E. Holman Clark, Hubert Willis.  Britain's first full-length sci-fi film.  A Martian having offended his ruler is exiled to Earth with the mission to change the heart of a selfish man.  Based on a highly popular stage play, Message to Mars features futuristically clad Martians, thought transference, instant space travel, mind control...

(1932) Hans Alber, Sybille Schmitz, Peter Lorre, Paul Hartman.  Great sci-fi about a giant floating platform built in the mid-Atlantic as a refueling stopover for trans-Atlantic flights.  Unfortunately there are plans afoot to stop this daring project.  Albers is the great flier in the center of it all, who falls for the beautiful daughter of the man who built the platform.  Sabotage and intrigue soon... 

(1940, Updated 4-11-25) Vlasta Burian, Antonin Mikulic, Meda Valentová.  A fine fantasy-comedy (7.1 on IMDB) with a tiny touch of horror.  There are many plot elements: clandestine marriages, secret children, castle ghosts, hush-hush love affairs, etc.—all woven together by great script-writing, resulting in many uproarious moments.  The scene where the town doctor visits the Baron’s castle...

(1965, Upgraded 7/11/22) Terrance Morgan, Jessica Dunning, Joseph O’Conor, Hannah Gordon, George Pastell.  An excellent B&W made-for-TV Brit feature.  The Earth has blown up!  No one knows why or how—it just happened.  One lonely Earth survivor (Morgan) is a nomadic tinker on Mars.  He spurns the love of a Martian woman in favor of shipping out to a colony on Venus, hoping to build a better life.  But things are not what he...