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Plot Summary:
A young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the murder of her boyfriend while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Hypersleep (2022)
Plot Summary:
The old and overcrowded penitentiaries are just a memory. Inmates now serve their sentence in a state of deep sleep that renders them harmless, and has drastically reduced recidivism. Until one day, a psychologist in charge of monitoring the mental state of inmates finds himself confronted with a prisoner over whom he's lost all control.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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57 Seconds (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Hungry for You (1996)
Plot Summary:
It's the year 2010, and half of all households receive virtual reality programming. However, someone has discovered how to use the VR receivers to murder men while being seduced into virtual sex with the seductive Viva. The FCC has contracted VR expert Rodney to track down the killer, placing himself on the killer's hit list.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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PROBE: The Zero Imperative (1994)
Plot Summary:
Former UNIT scientist Liz Shaw investigates a series of bizarre murders near a soon-to-be closed psychiatric hospital. When the hospital is suddenly saved by a wealthy businessman events seem to run out of Liz's control.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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Prisoner X (2016)
Plot Summary:
A CIA operative interrogates a time-traveling terrorist.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: novela
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Feedback (2002)
Plot Summary:
Feedback is a techno-thriller that takes place a few years from now. Set in a bleak and desolate world, this is the story of three friends caught up in a streak of bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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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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Dead by Midnight (1997)
Plot Summary:
Just when he's beginning to take his perfect life and marriage for granted, John (Timothy Hutton) discovers that he's the result of a failed government experiment to spawn a race of perfect assassins. But the closer he gets to finding out what went wrong, the weirder the truth becomes. Suzy Amis, John Glover, Benjamin Israeli, Reese Purser, Yvonne Zima, Christy Summerhays and Max Wright co-star in this taut made-for-television thriller.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Shifter (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman struggles with the painful and gruesome side effects of an experiment with time travel gone wrong that causes her to lose control and shift through time at random.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, intense, psychotronic, splatter, queer horror, weird
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7 Splinters in Time (2018)
Plot Summary:
A detective investigates a murder, only to find that the victim is... himself. Soon, he discovers multiple versions of himself, not all of them friendly.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective
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Time Travelers (1976)
Plot Summary:
In 1976, there's an outbreak of a disease that no one has seen before. All what they know is that resembles a disease that existed at around 1871, and that a Dr. Henderson was able to save most of his patients but the Chicago Fire destroyed his records. Dr. Earnshaw the doctor looking for a cure was approached by a man, Jeffrey Adams, who believes that he could help him. It seems that a Dr. Amos Cummings has prefected the art of time travel, and the plan is for Earnshaw and Adams to go back to 1871 and learn how Henderson cured his patients. But a glitch in the machines computers sends them the day before the fire not four days as intended.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Yesterday Machine (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, bizarre
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Fate (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the government shuts down his project on time travel, a brilliant quantum physicist must find a way to continue his research in order to travel back in time and prevent his fiance from being killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Cruel & Unusual (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, captivating, suspense, tense, retro, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Memory Lane (2012)
Plot Summary:
An orphaned war-veteran routinely travels between our world and the afterlife in search of his fiance's killer by stopping and starting his own heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Reset (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2025, a scientist on the verge of making a major discovery related to time travel is suddenly put in peril when a rival kidnaps her young son and demands a hefty ransom: her entire research.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, intense
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The Void (2001)
Plot Summary:
Physicist Eva Soderstrom discovers greedy industrialist Thomas Abernathy is on the verge of creating an artificial black hole in a laboratory on Earth. It's the same experiment that killed her father years earlier, except bigger. With the help of Dr. Price, Eva tries to stop Abernathy and, possibly, save the planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, semi serious, disaster movie
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Curvature (2017)
Plot Summary:
Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously resembling her own voice warns her that she’s in danger. Is it possible Helen has time travelled? And what could have led her to do something like that?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful
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Time Jumpers (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a young man finds a time machine device, his life spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, anthology
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12:01 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the life of beautiful research assistant Lisa Fredericks.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, mind bending, entertaining, detective, action thriller, action adventure, psychological, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend, Julie and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his memories. However, his time-traveling attempts to alter the past and save his one true love have unexpected and dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, mindfuck, thought provoking, absurd, psychological thriller, psychedelic
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The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around a man trying to uncover the mysterious death of his girlfriend and save an innocent man from the death chamber in the process, by using his unique power to time travel. However in attempting to do this, he also frees a spiteful serial-killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspense, mindfuck, intense, psychological thriller, talky, dark, slasher, unpredictable, surprise ending
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Infinity Chamber (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, tense, touching, disturbing, psychological, retro, psychedelic, surreal
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95ers: Time Runners (2013)
Plot Summary:
Time is unraveling, paradoxes are everywhere, and strangers with terrifying technologies are on the hunt. A thrilling, original, ultra indie full-length sci-fi movie that is the story of Sally Biggs, an FBI agent who has the power to rewind time. Her scientist husband has disappeared mysteriously, and the closer she gets to finding him, the more dangerous her life becomes. To save the future and her loved ones, Sally must enter a battlefield she never knew existed. Fortunately, she's a 95er. Surrounded by bizarre timespace paradoxes and hunted by terrifying forces from the future, Sally must discover the earth-shattering truth behind it all before her very being fades out of reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, gloomy, futuristic, independent film, interesting
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Slipstream (2005)
Plot Summary:
A scientist plots a bank robbery based around his newest invention -- a time travel gadget that will send its user 10 minutes into the past. Everything goes according to plan, until he encounters a group of thieves who've planned their heist for the same day.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Zambia, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse
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Thrill Seekers (1999)
Plot Summary:
Tom Merrick (Van Dien) works as a TV reporter when he's nearly killed in an accident while informing about a fire in the Evanston power plant. The sight of a creepy-looking man leaving the place accidentally saves his life, when he was meant to be killed with his crew.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, disaster movie
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ARQ (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, psychological, twist ending, suspense, futuristic, confusing, cerebral, exciting, mind bending
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The I Inside (2004)
Plot Summary:
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, inspirational, intellectual, confusing, dread
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Time Lapse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychological, tense, intellectual, suspense, cerebral, clever, confusing, mindfuck, enigmatic
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Time After Time (1979)
Plot Summary:
The Wildest Chase Of The Century! London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write The Time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper escaped capture fleeing his own time to take refuge in ours - with Wells himself in pursuit?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, clever, psychotronic, psychological, retro, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, mysterious, surreal