Jul 19, 1979
87 min
Full-HD

The Thing in the Castle (1979)

A senior professor is kidnapped in the park by residents of a veterans home. Once there, he is asked to invent a "rejuvenating machine" to restore their youth.

Category

Science Fiction

Country

Germany East Germany

Companies

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Erwin Geschonneck

Prof. Bunzberger

Vlastimil Brodský

Prof. K.

Jaecki Schwarz

Axel

Renate Blume

Susi

Milan Beli

Reporter

Amza Pellea

Wenzel

Fred Delmare

Theo

Erich Mirek

Recommended For You

Thriller
2024
Movie

2073

2073

6.7
2024

Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.

Genre : Thriller

Science Fiction
2020
Movie

Monsters of Man

Monsters of Man

6.4
2020

A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six doctors on a humanitarian mission witness the brutal slaughter and become prime targets.

Genre : Science Fiction

Science Fiction
2024
Movie

Code 8 Part II

Code 8 Part II

6.3
2024

In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.

Genre : Science Fiction

Comedy
2020
Movie

Superintelligence

Superintelligence

5.9
2020

When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to Carol to prove that people are worth saving.

Horror
2020
Movie

Black Box

Black Box

6.4
2020

After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.

Science Fiction
2019
Movie

The Wave

The Wave

6
2019

A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.

Genre : Science Fiction

Science Fiction
2016
Movie

2149: The Aftermath

2149: The Aftermath

6.5
2016

In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.

Genre : Science Fiction

Horror
2022
Movie

Margaux

Margaux

6
2022

As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux's plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.

Science Fiction
2012
Movie

Robot & Frank

Robot & Frank

6.9
2012

Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.

Genre : Science Fiction

Horror
2025
Movie

Ick

Ick

6.2
2025

Science teacher Hank’s life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects that a new student may be his daughter—all while facing an alien threat in their town.

Drama
2025
Movie

Descendent

Descendent

5.8
2025

After a traumatic brain injury triggers terrifying visions of extraterrestrials and a newfound talent for drawing, a father-to-be begins to question his reality and becomes obsessed with the need to protect his family from an unseen threat.

Science Fiction
2021
Movie

Infinite

Infinite

6.6
2021

Evan McCauley has skills he never learned and memories of places he has never visited. Self-medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, a secret group that call themselves “Infinites” come to his rescue, revealing that his memories are real.

Genre : Science Fiction

Action
2018
Movie

Upgrade

Upgrade

7.5
2018

A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

Horror
2014
Movie

Spring

Spring

6.6
2014

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

Science Fiction
2023
Movie

Blood and Snow

Blood and Snow

6.2
2023

When researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?

Genre : Science Fiction

Science Fiction
2006
Movie

Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride

Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride

7.8
2006

A young bride in the midst of her wedding finds herself mysteriously transported to the TARDIS. The Doctor must discover what her connection is with the Empress of the Racnoss's plan to destroy the world.

Genre : Science Fiction

Action
2025
Movie

Afterburn

Afterburn

6.3
2025

Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates.

Romance
2025
Movie

Love Me

Love Me

6
2025

In a story that spans billions of years, a buoy and a satellite meet online long after humanity’s extinction. As they learn what life was like on Earth, they discover themselves and what it means to be alive and in love.

Genre : Romance