Science Fiction
End of the World (La fin du monde)
Following the discovery of a comet heading straight for the Earth, a scientist, helped by his brother, manages to unify all the nations of the world and have a Universal Republic proclaimed.
F.P. 1 Doesn't Answer
A dashing pilot helps pursuade an heiress to fund the creation of a massive floating airport serving as a way station between four continents. When communication with Floating Platform 1 is mysteriously interrupted, the pilot risks his life to investigate its disappearance.
Gold (1934, Germany)
A rare science fiction film made in National Socialist Germany, Karl Hartl's GOLD is a high-tech thriller dramatizing the ongoing war between scientific progress and corporate greed (resurrecting some of the themes and spectacle of Fritz Lang's Metropolis). GOLD is not only a handsomely-produced dra…