Fantastic films about rulers

List of the best science fiction films about rulers according to the audience: Edge of Tomorrow, In Time, Iron Man 2, Ready Player One, Deadpool, Inception, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Okja.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:53

    Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, action, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as 'time keepers'.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:05

    With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA, India
    Duration01:58

    When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:59

      Deadpool tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.

      Markimdb: 8.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:28

        Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
        Duration01:45

        Scientist Will Rodman is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease which has slowly consumed his father. Will feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and tests his latest serum on apes, noticing dramatic increases in intelligence and brain activity in the primate subjects – especially Caesar, his pet chimpanzee.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:16

        Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.

        Markimdb: 8.8
        Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA

        An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
        CountrySouth Korea, USA
        Duration02:20

        A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:03

          The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, South Africa
          Duration02:17

          Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

          Markimdb: 8.6
          Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
          Duration02:49

            Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

              Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.

              Markimdb: 6.5
              Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA

              In the not-too-distant future, an all-seeing surveillance state conducts “dream audits” to collect taxes on the unconscious lives of the populace. Mild-mannered government agent James Preble travels to a remote farmhouse to audit the dreams of Arabella “Bella” Isadora, an eccentric, aging artist. Entering Bella’s vast VHS archive, which contains a lifetime of dreams, Preble stumbles upon a secret that offers him a chance at love—and hope for escape.

              Markimdb: 8.5
              Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:26

              As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment - the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:31

              When a chance encounter brings together the cynical Dell and the quick-witted Kimberly, the stage is set for a tempestuous love affair that unfolds like a puzzle. As the film zigzags back and forth in time-from a meteor shower in LA, to an encounter in a Paris hotel room, to a fateful phone call-an unforgettable portrait of a relationship emerges.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:48

              I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrefantastic, action, adventure
              CountryUSA, Japan, Canada
              Duration02:28

              When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

              Markimdb: 8
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain
              Duration02:26

              Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:26

              Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.

              Markimdb: 6.9
              Genrefantastic, drama
              CountryUSA

              On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrefantastic, action, drama, family, sport
              CountryUSA, India
              Duration02:07

                In the near-future, Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After Charlie's robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.

                Markimdb: 7.4
                Genrefantastic, drama, detective
                CountryGermany, USA
                Duration02:00

                Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:24

                After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.

                Markimdb: 6.2
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:31

                Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective
                CountryUSA, Canada

                Allies of the Shadows seek revenge against humanity. This movie sets up the series, "Crusade," the sequel to "Babylon 5."

                Markimdb: 7
                Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA, Australia
                Duration02:31

                A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                Duration01:29

                  On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

                  Markimdb: 8.6
                  Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:56

                  Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

                  Markimdb: 6.7
                  Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:24

                  When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.

                  Markimdb: 6.5
                  Genrefantastic, action, adventure, family
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:03

                  Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

                  Markimdb: 6.9
                  Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:47

                  Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma in the dream world. To save her, the dream-givers marshal all their resources, focusing on saving the soul of Emma's tragically broken father.

                  Markimdb: 6.8
                  Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:55

                  Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
                  CountryCanada, Germany, USA
                  Duration01:53

                  Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.

                  Markimdb: 7.1
                  Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA, Germany
                  Duration01:55

                  In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.

                  Markimdb: 7
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration02:04

                  A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

                  Markimdb: 6.6
                  Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
                  CountryUSA, Germany
                  Duration01:58

                    Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.

                    Markimdb: 7.5
                    Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure
                    CountryFrance, Germany, Spain, Belgium, USA
                    Duration01:52

                    A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genrefantastic, drama, military
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                    Duration01:44

                    A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.

                    Markimdb: 7.6
                    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
                    CountryUSA, Canada
                    Duration01:53

                    A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

                    Markimdb: 7.8
                    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:08

                    A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.

                    Markimdb: 6.9
                    Genrefantastic, comedy
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:37

                    Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler. When trying one of his own samples, washed down with water from the cooler, Fulton begins to act just like a twenty-year-old and believes his potion is working. Soon his wife and boss are also behaving like children.

                    Markimdb: 8
                    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:01

                      Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.

                      Markimdb: 7.4
                      Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective
                      CountryUSA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore
                      Duration02:52

                      A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

                      Markimdb: 6
                      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:30

                        Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.

                        Markimdb: 7.8
                        Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama
                        CountryBelgium, Germany, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA
                        Duration02:18

                          Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

                          Markimdb: 7.2
                          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                          CountryCanada, USA
                          Duration01:30

                          Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.

                          Markimdb: 8
                          Genrefantastic, adventure
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Hungary, Jordan
                          Duration03:34

                          During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

                          Markimdb: 7.5
                          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:19

                          A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.




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