WALL-E (2008), Allegro non Troppo (1976), Genesis (2004), Planet of the Apes (1968), Fantasia (1940), Adaptation. (2002), Dinosaurs Alive! (2007), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Evolution movies.
Storyline: Cowboy James Franciscus seeks fame and fortune by capturing an Allosaurus living in the Forbidden Valley and putting it in a Mexican circus. His victim, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public. Another film featuring the stop-action special effects talents of Ray Harryhausen.—Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>
Plot Keywords: professor, cowgirl, paleontologist, old flame, little boy, dinosaur, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Now that zombies have taken over the world, the living have built a walled-in city to keep the dead out. But all's not well where it's most safe, as a revolution plans to overthrow the city leadership, and the zombies are turning into more advanced creatures.
Plot Keywords: rebel, zombie, capitalist, mercenary, prostitute, commander, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A million years ago in Africa, the last of the Australopithecines is on flight from the humans, who killed the rest of his clan. Alone, seeking others of his kind, he traverses steppes, deserts and mountains until he reaches the coast. But there are already humans, there.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: human, animal, apes, creature, bleak, eerie, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the classic sci-fi novel by H.G. Wells, scientist and inventor, Alexander Hartdegen, is determined to prove that time travel is possible. His determination is turned to desperation by a personal tragedy that now drives him to want to change the past. Testing his theories with a time machine of his own invention, Hartdegen is hurtled 800,000 years into the future, where he discovers that mankind has divided into the hunter - and the hunted.
Plot Keywords: professor, young woman, brother, humanoid, girlfriend, frenetic, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.
Plot Keywords: scientist, colleague, husband, humanoid, child, suspenseful, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two young rebellious scientists are told by their employers to halt groundbreaking work that has seen them produce new creatures with medical benefits by splicing together multiple organisms' DNA. They decide to secretly continue their work, but this time splicing in human DNA.
Plot Keywords: scientist, creature, husband, wife, brother, boss, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Mexican government hires two handymen (Fred Ward, Michael Gross) to battle huge man-eating worms plaguing an oil field.
Plot Keywords: hunter, partner, geologist, cab driver, witty, frightening, wild ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: At a time in prehistory when Neanderthals shared the Earth with early Homo sapiens, a band of cave-dwellers adopt blond and blue-eyed Ayla, a child of the "Others". As Ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage (unlike other women of the clan), she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of Broud, who will one day be clan leader. Based on Jean M. Auel's popular book, there is minimal narration; subtitles translate the Neanderthal gestures and primitive spoken language.—Susan Pudlo
Plot Keywords: bear, neanderthal, dark, earth, evolution, tribe, rescue ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Irresponsible 20-something Jenny arrives in Chicago to live with her older brother Jeff, a young film-maker living a happy existence with his novelist wife Kelly and their two-year-old son. Jenny's arrival shakes up their quiet domesticity as she and her friend Carson instigate an evolution in Kelly's life and career. Meanwhile, Jenny strikes up a rocky relationship with the family's baby sitter-cum-pot dealer.—Production
Plot Keywords: family, girl, amusing, charming, chicago, evolution, transformation ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Entertainers Mitchell and Petrillo (Martin & Lewis clones) parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief's sarong-clad daughter Nona, and mad scientist Dr. Zabor conducting experiments in evolution. Jealous of Mitchell's relations with Nona, Zabor has just the thing to make a monkey of him...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: performer, chief, native, mad scientist, gorilla, tribesman, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Academic freedom is being suppressed, says Ben Stein. He contends that professors from around the United States are being fired from their jobs for promoting, or even exploring the possibility of, intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinism. Stein interviews the expelled academics and other supporters of intelligent design. He also interviews the scientists in the mainstream, who support Darwinism. Stein links Darwinism to Nazism, Communism, eugenics and abortion. Vintage clips of educational films and Hollywood movies are used to illustrate points in a satirical way.—J. Spurlin
Plot Keywords: writer, actor, scientist, atheist, biologist, crafty, cheeky ...
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