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Plot Summary:
Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground, far away from inquisitive eyes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cyber, captivating, tense, mind bending, sad, intelligent
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The Titan (2018)
Plot Summary:
On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, rough, sad, psychedelic, mysterious, smart, disgusting, surprise ending, independent film
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Nemesis (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his humanity and decides to leave the force. His final assignment is to apprehend an old colleague who has stolen some data. However, there is more than meets the eye and Alex must question his allegiance.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, retro, apocalyptic, psychotronic, cult classic, independent film
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Death Machine (1994)
Plot Summary:
Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in a world of models, toys and magazines. When he is fired by Cale for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes the ultimate killing machine called the 'Warbeast' against Cale and those who would help her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cyber, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, cult horror, thrilling, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Southland Tales (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: surreal, futuristic, enigmatic, cult classic, cynical, apocalyptic, postmodern, allegory, mindfuck, mind bending
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Replicas (2018)
Plot Summary:
A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China, Puerto Rico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, intellectual, futuristic, clever, psychotronic, philosophical, sentimental, grindhouse, smart, cyber
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Zone 414 (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tense, captivating, disturbing, cyber, anamorphic, perverse, thrilling, tech noir, detective
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Morgan (2016)
Plot Summary:
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, clever, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, tricky, psychological, intense, grindhouse, mindfuck
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Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype cyborg developed for corporate espionage and assassination. She is filled with a liquid explosive called Glass Shadow. Pinwheel plans to eliminate the entire Kobayashi board of directors by using Casella.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, cyber, apocalyptic, erotic, suspense, tech noir, action thriller, spectacular, independent film
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Chappie (2015)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 266000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, stylized, emotional, entertaining, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, cyber, futuristic
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Upgrade (2018)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 201000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surprise ending, thought provoking, tech noir, neo noir, experimental, psychological, philosophical, twist ending, cyber
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Automata (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic, cyber, suspense, retro, mind bending, experimental
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Westworld (1973)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic resort, wealthy patrons can visit recreations of different time periods and experience their wildest fantasies with life-like robots. But when Richard Benjamin opts for the wild west, he gets more than he bargained for when a gunslinger robot goes berserk.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, philosophical, tense, futuristic, suspense, scary, stylized, serious, entertaining
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Altered Carbon (2018)
Plot Summary:
After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 185000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, cyber, erotic, romantic, intellectual, feel good
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Bloodshot (2020)
Plot Summary:
After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine - Bloodshot. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility to get revenge, only to discover that there's more to the conspiracy than he thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, exciting, captivating, entertaining, anime, smart, cyber, cult classic, action adventure
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Plot Summary:
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 415000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, action packed, serious, suspenseful, intense, action adventure, saga
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RoboCop (2014)
Plot Summary:
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, intense, rough, stylized, cyber, bleak, action packed, serious
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Terminator Salvation (2009)
Plot Summary:
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 374000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, intense, serious, apocalyptic, action packed, exciting, suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful
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Terminator Genisys (2015)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 290000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, entertaining, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, cyber, action adventure, surprise ending, bleak
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Kill Command (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes and his tight-knit unit, descends into a terrifying battle to the death, as the marines discover the island is overrun by an enemy that transcends the human concept of evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, intense, cyber, minimal cast, romantic, scenic, apocalyptic, smart, clever
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I, Robot (2004)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 567000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, philosophical, suspense, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, clever, entertaining, action packed, suspenseful
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The Circle (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, intense, grindhouse, exciting, tense, thought provoking, apocalyptic, cyber, action thriller
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Transcendence (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, thought provoking, philosophical, cerebral, exciting, tricky, suspenseful, tense, emotional, cyber
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Ex Machina (2014)
Plot Summary:
Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 575000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, futuristic, twist ending, mind bending, thought provoking, intellectual, tense, minimal cast, cerebral
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Extinction (2018)
Plot Summary:
A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, light, apocalyptic, smart, cyber, twist ending, avant garde, thought provoking, futuristic, grindhouse
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Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Plot Summary:
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. In a dystopian 2021, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits - and will kill him if the data is not removed in time - but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cyber, stylized, apocalyptic, bleak, suspenseful, tech noir, cult classic, retro, philosophical
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The Terminator (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 909000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tech noir, suspenseful, neo noir, serious, cult classic, action packed, cyber, apocalyptic, saga, action adventure
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Surrogates (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 179000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, surreal, cyber, exciting, entertaining, cerebral, action packed, psychological thriller
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 637000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Spain
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags: futuristic, neo noir, tech noir, thought provoking, detective, visually stunning, aesthetic, philosophical, entertaining, visual
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Plot Summary:
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 536000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, cyber, saga, action packed, epic, bad ending, apocalyptic, bleak, suspenseful
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Blade Runner (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 809000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking, cerebral, mind bending, philosophical, thinking, visually appealing