Cryogenics
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1. Chiller (1985 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Corporate exec Miles Creighton dies, and is cryogenically frozen in the hopes that he can be revived. 10 years later, the procedure is a success, and Miles returns--without his soul.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Michael Beck, Beatrice Straight, Laura Johnson, Dick O'Neill
Votes: 1,585
2. Legally Dead
Drama | Announced
To save his wife from certain destruction and give millions of people a choice in their own future, a research scientist must convince a jury that medical advancements prove death is no longer inevitable.
Director: Anthony Waller
3. Syväjäädytetty opettaja (1971 TV Movie)
38 min | Family, Sci-Fi
Director: Ulpu Tolonen | Stars: Kari Kihlström, Ensio Sallinen, Maija-Liisa Pohjola, Birgit Tähkänen
Votes: 40
4. 2040: Possibilities by Edward de Bono (1995)
45 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Edward De Bono's hand sketches out words and simple pictures on a scrolling sheet of white paper. It seems we have been put in a cryogenic freeze in 1988, and have been brought out after ... See full summary »
Director: Edward De Bono
Votes: 8
5. Aurinkotuuli (1980)
122 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
While experimenting with gravity scientist Erik Rankamaa accidentally gets frozen for nearly 30 years. When he awakens in 1999 he discovers that the world has become severely polluted.
Director: Timo Linnasalo | Stars: Paavo Piskonen, Lilga Kovanko, Antti Litja, Erkki Pajala
Votes: 102
6. Freezing People Is Easy
Comedy, Drama, Horror | Pre-production
A man experiments within the burgeoning field of cryogenics during the 1960s.
7. How to Live Forever (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
Baby boomer Mark Wexler travels the world searching for the secrets of long life.
Director: Mark Wexler | Stars: Suzanne Somers, Phyllis Diller, Ray Bradbury, Jack LaLanne
Votes: 285 | Gross: $0.06M
8. Subject Two (2006)
R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
A doctor invents a resurrection formula and tests it by killing his assistant over and over and over again.
Director: Philip Chidel | Stars: Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton, Courtney Mace, Jürgen Jones
Votes: 1,614
9. The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Unrated | 64 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
When Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor
Votes: 1,965
10. Late for Dinner (1991)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Two young men evading the police for a crime they didn't commit are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).
Director: W.D. Richter | Stars: Peter Berg, Brian Wimmer, Marcia Gay Harden, Cassy Friel
Votes: 1,901 | Gross: $8.91M
11. Sleeper (1973)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory
Votes: 44,833 | Gross: $2.91M
12. Forever Young (1992)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
During a cryogenics test, a pilot frozen in 1939 awakes in 1992 but time is running out, as his body starts to age rapidly.
Director: Steve Miner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elijah Wood, Isabel Glasser
Votes: 50,093 | Gross: $55.96M
13. Demolition Man (1993)
R | 115 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.
Director: Marco Brambilla | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne
Votes: 193,430 | Gross: $58.06M
14.
Logan's Run (1977–1978)
Episode:
Crypt
(1977)
TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
The runners find an underground room with six survivors of the nuclear holocaust cryogenically frozen. A series of earthquakes complicate efforts to rescue the frozen humans.
Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: Gregory Harrison, Heather Menzies-Urich, Donald Moffat, Randy Powell
Votes: 97
15.
Life After People (2009–2010)
Episode:
The Bodies Left Behind
(2009)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Looks at the future of Boston and Houston after people disappear. It also looks at what will happen to the mummified and cryogenically frozen bodies that are left behind.
Director: James Grant Goldin | Stars: Timothy Watson, Robert Allison, John Anderson, Brian Burke-Gaffney
Votes: 75
16. Begstvo mistera Mak-Kinli (1975)
162 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A science fiction fantasy about a guy who decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the ... See full summary »
Director: Mikhail Shvejtser | Stars: Donatas Banionis, Zhanna Bolotova, Angelina Stepanova, Boris Babochkin
Votes: 220
17. 2090 (1996)
91 min | Sci-Fi
Two men awaken from a long cryogenic sleep, to do battle in a future as primitive and violent as the remote past. California has become an arid island wasteland of subsistence farming, ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Scott | Stars: Steve Bagish, Warren Burton, Ken Kraft, Sonny Landham
Votes: 38
18. Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass (2011)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
John Glass, wakes up in a desolated barn from a long cryogenic slumber, to be informed that not only the planet has been devastated by a third world war, but reduced to little habitability ... See full summary »
Director: Pat Tremblay | Stars: Jamie Abrams, Paula Davis, Navin Pratap
Votes: 209
19. Host (1998 TV Movie)
180 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
If you were a brilliant young scientist given only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a reason and go quietly, or to use cryogenics to ... See full summary »
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Mimi Rogers, Jake Lloyd, Andy Comeau
Votes: 295
20. Seventy-Seven Below (2004)
25 min | Short
A long estranged son, Lenny Gold reluctantly visits his dying father. With his unwitting girlfriend Dahlia by his side, Lenny must contend with his father's last wish: to be cryogenically frozen.
Director: Aina Abiodun | Stars: Dominic Comperatore, Susan Santiago, Steven Shaw, Jean St. James
21. Frozen (2004)
17 min | Short, Sci-Fi
After his death from a massive coronary, Eric Kamen's head was severed, then cryogenically frozen. He was supposed to wake up in a bright, distant future, free to live a new life, in a new ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Orr | Stars: Michael Jason Chandler, Thomas La Rue, George Thomas, David Huber
Votes: 11
22. Frozen Alive (1964)
80 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Drama
A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Mark Stevens, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Joachim Hansen
Votes: 643
23. They Will All Die in Space (2015)
M/PG | 14 min | Short, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The starship Tantalus drifts through space.
Director: Javier Chillon | Stars: Francesc Garrido, Julio Perillán, Ben Temple, Lindsey Myhren
Votes: 135
24. Martian (2010 Video)
Animation, Short
Martian and Terra discover a lifeless Jovian freighter is not abandoned.
Director: Brandon Hex | Stars: Ben Maclaine, Deanna Rashell, Mark Starks, Alex Mathias
Votes: 22
25. See You in the Future... (2004 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
A one-hour documentary exploring the frontier science known as cryonics (the practice of freezing the human body after death). "Heaven Can Wait" tracks the lives of three cryonicists.
Director: Camilla Overbye Roos | Stars: Chengcheng Fan, Bernard Hill, Tonglan Qiu
Votes: 16
26. The Revivals (2011)
7 min | Short, Horror
Set in the not to distant future, lives are changed forever when family relatives from their past are cryogenically unfrozen.
Director: Chad Darnell | Stars: Mitch Barrett, Catie Boles, Leo Georgallis, Rib Hillis
27. Retribution in the Year 2050 (1998)
Sci-Fi
Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Aideen Bradshaw, Philip Bredin, Johnny Brewer, Anna Broad
Votes: 33
28. Somnolence (II) (2011)
12 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi
Director: Patrick Kalyn | Stars: Douglas Chapman, Shannon Schoenit, Ryf Van Rij, Ilan Muallem
Votes: 35
29. The Accidental Defrosting of Will Debney (2009)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Will Debney was Australia's most famous children's entertainer until his death in 1971, where soon after he was cryogenically frozen. Roger works in accounts payable at Debney Inc and he is... See full summary »
Director: Shane Dunlop | Stars: Sarcha Braund, Nichelle Claire, Max Clark, Cate Commisso
30.
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil (2010–2012)
Episode:
Black Tie Showdown
(2012)
TV-MA | 23 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Atticus takes the book and brainwashes the students of Crowley High to do his bidding, forcing a showdown with Todd at the semi-formal. Secrets are revealed, romances blossom and tragedy ... See full summary »
Director: Craig Wallace | Stars: Alex House, Maggie Castle, Bill Turnbull, Melanie Leishman
Votes: 88
31. I Am (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 89 min | Drama
I AM offers an insight into the true nature of our God, and fights the damaging stereotypes of His character through a gritty, non-linear drama with a plot weaving around average people violating the Ten Commandments - one by one.
Director: John Ward | Stars: Tomas Boykin, John Ward, Todd Zeile, Stefan Hayek
Votes: 420
32. Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984)
Unrated | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The night before the school festival, things seem to be repeating themselves. Gradually, all the world functions come to a stop, the only ones that are not affected are a select group of student friends.
Director: Mamoru Oshii | Stars: Fumi Hirano, Toshio Furukawa, Akira Kamiya, Kazuko Sugiyama
Votes: 2,229
33. Ghost Warrior (1984)
R | 81 min | Action, Sci-Fi
A deep-frozen 400-year-old samurai is shipped to Los Angeles, where he comes back to life. Dazed and confused, he goes on a rampage. Can the female scientist and her colleague who revived him stop him before it's too late?
Director: J. Larry Carroll | Stars: Hiroshi Fujioka, John Calvin, Janet Julian, Charles Lampkin
Votes: 851
34. Freezer Burn (2007)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A brilliant scientist falls for his wife's 14-year-old art student and, using the technology from his research, he figures out a way for them to be together.
Director: Charles Hood | Stars: Robert Harriell, Michael Consiglio, Ivo Velon, C.C. Seymour
Votes: 386
35. Des morts (1979)
Unrated | 105 min | Documentary
This morbid, unusual, and critically acclaimed documentary was filmed in the most exotic locations all over the world. Of the Dead (Des Morts) deals with death, the soon dead, and the ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Pol Ferbus, Dominique Garny, Thierry Zéno
Votes: 152
36. The Chilling (1989)
R | 90 min | Horror
The bodies at a cryogenic centre are defrosted by accident and turn into cannibalistic zombies.
Directors: Deland Nuse, Jack A. Sunseri | Stars: Linda Blair, Dan Haggerty, Troy Donahue, Jack De Rieux
Votes: 677
37. Largo retorno (1975)
116 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
David and Anna are a newly wed couple, whose lives together take a turn as Anna becomes diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Director: Pedro Lazaga | Stars: Mark Burns, Lynne Frederick, Charo López, Ricardo Merino
Votes: 85
38. The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown
Votes: 1,107
39. Shinkuronishiti (2004)
133 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A Tokyo detective investigates after a fashion model witnesses a brutal slaying by a serial killer.
Director: Macoto Tezuka | Stars: Reika Hashimoto, Kaori Kawamura, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Masanobu Andô
Votes: 341
40. VR.5 (1995–1997)
60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Young woman Sidney works in a telephone company and she is sure that her father, doctor Bloom, and sister died after an accident. Sidney's hobby is to play with virtual reality. She has ... See full summary »
Stars: Lori Singer, Michael Easton, Anthony Head, David McCallum
Votes: 722
41. Beyond Redemption: Space Captain (2014)
109 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
In the year 2121, a transport ship mysteriously explodes in a remote region of space. The crew of the Redemption go to investigate and find an alluring female cyborg. Before long an alien ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Day | Stars: Paul Day, Abigail Jayne Martin, Alanah France, Kylie Stephenson
Votes: 52
42. Space Truckers (1996)
PG-13 | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A space trucker and his cute fiancee are on their way from a space station to Earth with an unknown cargo. When space pirates hijack them, 5000 disintegrator robots are found in the cargo.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Tim Loane, Ian Beattie, Olwen Fouéré, Shane Rimmer
Votes: 8,707
43. Galaxina (1980)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the 31st century, sexy blonde android Galaxina helms the crew of a space cruiser on a mission to find the Blue Star, a mystical gem that holds unlimited power.
Director: William Sachs | Stars: Stephen Macht, Avery Schreiber, J.D. Hinton, Dorothy Stratten
Votes: 3,430
44. Final (2001)
R | 111 min | Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
When Bill (Denis Leary) wakes up in the psychiatric wing at Sumer Hospital, he has trouble distinguishing his dreams from reality.
Director: Campbell Scott | Stars: Denis Leary, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie, Jim Gaffigan
Votes: 1,385 | Gross: $0.01M
45. The Last Airbender (2010)
PG | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Votes: 174,939 | Gross: $131.56M
46. Idiocracy (2006)
R | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Corporal Joe Bauers, a decidedly average American, is selected for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten and left to awaken to a future so incredibly moronic that he's easily the most intelligent person alive.
Director: Mike Judge | Stars: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews
Votes: 182,523 | Gross: $0.44M
47. Perfect Sense (2011)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.
Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Lauren Tempany, Connie Nielsen
Votes: 63,973 | Gross: $0.00M
48. Encrypt (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 101 min | Sci-Fi
By the year 2068, the Earth's ozone is gone, violent and uncontrollable storms are razing it's surface as a result. A small group of military survivors are the defenders of the last of ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar L. Costo | Stars: Grant Show, Vivian Wu, Steve Bacic, Matthew G. Taylor
Votes: 590
49. Iceman (1984)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A prehistoric Neanderthal man found frozen in ice is revived by an arctic exploration team, who then attempt to use him for their own scientific means.
Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer
Votes: 6,061 | Gross: $7.34M
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