Kill Switch (2017)

Director
Tim Smit

Main cast
Bérénice Marlohe; Charity Wakefield; Gijs Scholten van Aschat; Mike Reus; Tygo Gernandt

Genres
Sci-Fi

Description
A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.


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