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Plot Summary:
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: art house, parody, intellectual, detective
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981)
Plot Summary:
Film opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the crowds how to welcome the invaders.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, allegory, corny, cult film
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Liquid Dreams (1991)
Plot Summary:
In a slightly future America, a woman goes to the big city to visit with her sister, who is dead in her apartment. In order to find out what happened to her sister, she gets a job working at a dance club, a lower notch in the strip joint circuit. Some of her colleagues begin showing up dead as she uncovers a sinister hierarchy in the strip club management that is harnessing the sexual activity for their own twisted ends.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, independent film, detective, weird, cult film
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Death Watch (1980)
Plot Summary:
Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular TV series, "Death Watch".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tech noir, cult classic, psychological, bleak, serious, neo noir, futuristic, disturbing, vintage
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Ares (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, cyber, low-budget
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Z.P.G. (1972)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future, a very smoggy and overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules and gets in a lot of trouble. (Z.P.G. stands for Zero Population Growth.).
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, experimental, grindhouse, frightening, thought provoking, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, controversial
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Genesis II (1973)
Plot Summary:
A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, exciting, thought provoking, serious, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma (1995)
Plot Summary:
The 21st-century tale centers on taciturn detective Lipton Cockton as he looks into a series of murders involving exploding victims. The main clue in the case is the white halter dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the subway vent scene in The Seven Year Itch. This clue directs Cockton to the highest levels of the super company LTD Prods. But though Cockton tries and tries, he cannot get there and ends up himself blown to smithereens.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Twilight of the Dogs (1995)
Plot Summary:
One upon a time in the future... a man and his cow fight against an evil cult leader.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Car Cemetery (1983)
Plot Summary:
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, allegory, avant garde, art house
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54 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
5 people trapped in a bunker after a nuclear and biological attack are forced to make an impossible decision - either one dies or they all die.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Goliad Uprising (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shannon Lark stars as Ariel Loner who uses her lovers to achieve her goal of thwarting the one man she hasn't been able to manipulate. Her web of seduction captures the handsome David (Aaron Weisinger) and leads him on a run for their lives as national security forces close in. It isn't until David is finally trapped that he realizes he's been used by the sultry Loner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: twisted
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The Humanity Bureau (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, road movie, serious, captivating, political
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Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Plot Summary:
Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, and after taking safeguards to preserve confidential material, each side agrees to allow it. As soon as the link is established the two become a new Super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: intelligent, philosophical, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cyber, suspense, psychotronic, depressing, political, surreal
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Air (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind struggle to preserve their own sanity and lives while administering to the vital task at hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, dark, ambiguous ending, apocalyptic, futuristic, tense, light, thought provoking, enigmatic
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Planet Earth (1974)
Plot Summary:
Planet Earth is a sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II (1973) made-for-TV movie, in which a NASA scientist, Dylan Hunt, is revived from suspended animation in the post-nuclear war United States. In Planet Earth, Dylan is now a sworn member of PAX, the colony of people who revived him. Dylan and his PAX team find another colony which is ruled by women and where all men are slaves. He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and organizes a rebellion. Dylan once again has a profound influence in the new world that he finds himself in, in the year 2233.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, exciting, offbeat, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Android Apocalypse (2006)
Plot Summary:
Machines have taken over, but left humans thinking that they are still the ones in charge. The androids need humans because of the human brain fluid; without it the android brains can't work. Until the mad scientist finds out how to make this brain fluid artificially that is.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, epic
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Asteroid (1997)
Plot Summary:
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog Blood are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War 4, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, surreal, humorous, futuristic, tense, disturbing, stylized, grindhouse, dark comedy, offbeat
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Hardware (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: bleak, apocalyptic, mindfuck, cyber, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, futuristic, atmospheric
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Anon (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as 'The Girl', Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tech noir, detective, tense, apocalyptic, exciting, mystic, twisted, psychological thriller, mind bending, futuristic
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Babylon A.D. (2008)
Plot Summary:
In Babylon A.D Vin Diesel stars as a veteran-turned-mercenary who is hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious young woman with a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, action packed, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cyber, exciting, atmospheric, rough, predictable
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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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Repo Men (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the best agents in the business, but when he becomes the recipient of an artificial heart, he finds himself in the same dire straits as his many victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bloody, suspense, absurd, twisted, thought provoking, visually appealing, cyber, surprise ending, serious
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THX 1138 (1971)
Plot Summary:
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bleak, philosophical, mindfuck, thought provoking, futuristic, psychological, cult classic, talky, apocalyptic, serious
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Judge Dredd (1995)
Plot Summary:
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, stylized, entertaining, cyber, tense, epic, suspense
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Brazil (1985)
Plot Summary:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 209000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: surreal, futuristic, psychological, dark comedy, cerebral, atmospheric, disturbing, thought provoking, mindfuck, black comedy
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Demolition Man (1993)
Plot Summary:
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been cryogenically frozen when wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, rough, entertaining, apocalyptic, humorous, epic
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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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Total Recall (2012)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police - controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen, the leader of the free world - Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter to find the head of the underground resistance and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 264000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mind bending, entertaining, exciting, suspense, cyber, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized