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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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The Capture (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists perform an unethical experiment bending both space and time –in the process they may have not only changed their lives but also the very fabric of the universe.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Deep Red (1994)
Plot Summary:
After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known as "Deep Red", the astonishing results attract the attention of the illustrious scientist Dr. Newmeyer. Disillusioned security expert Joe Keyes must team up with his estranged wife to protect the girl and her mother from the obsessed scientist who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: action thriller, neo noir, independent film
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Apex (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ex-cop Thomas Malone is serving a life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. He is offered a chance at freedom if he can survive a deadly game of Apex, in which six hunters pay for the pleasure of hunting another human on a remote island. He accepts, and once he arrives, all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger
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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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Displacement (2016)
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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The Speed of Thought (2011)
Plot Summary:
Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps the government by using his abilities. He is told by the agency that the telepathy is a side effect of Widmann's Disease, and that he will become insane in time and eventually die from the illness. However, Lazarus meets a woman with similar powers (Taryn Manning) who does not have any sign of the disease, launching Lazarus to confront the lies he has been told.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, thought provoking, cerebral
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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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Falcon Down (2001)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Air force officer Hank Thomas attempts to expose a military cover-up after a civiian airliner crashes.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, independent film, fast
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The Cure (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a young female scientist discovers that the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer years earlier, she attempts to release it to the world. Knowing that they make more money from chemotherapy drugs than the cure, the company does everything it can to stop her.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Seconds (1966)
Plot Summary:
A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like the intended person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of the intended person and the customer takes on a new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, tense, black and white, cerebral, grim, cult classic, psychedelic, psychological thriller, psychological
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Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a group of teenagers stumble upon a secret lab, they become part of a deadly experiment - The Recreator - evil human clones. Craig, Tracy and Derek come face to face with exact copies of themselves that have only one purpose; to find and kill their originals. With time running out it's up to the original group to destroy the lab and save themselves before they are replaced. Gregory Orr's exciting thriller brings science fiction to life with a sexy edge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, rough
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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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Termination Point (2007)
Plot Summary:
Top secret government experiments with time travel have been shut down and declared as too dangerous to continue. The lead scientist has disappeared with the technology and a government manhunt is underway. When his name appears on an airline manifest after the flight has departed, the government orders the plane to turn back. But the plane drops from the radar, disappearing into thin air! As special agents try to locate the plane, scientists must deal with the repercussions from the time ripples that threaten to destroy the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, tense, captivating
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Miami Magma (2011)
Plot Summary:
When an offshore-drilling rig in the Gulf bursts into flames and sinks, Antoinette Vitrini (Rachel Hunter) - a beautiful and insightful volcanologist - investigates the area with startling results. Confirming her theory that a long-dormant underground volcano exists in the region, Antoinette discovers that the illegal deep-sea drilling has awakened the beast. Now, catastrophic amounts of magma are about to be pumped out... right under the city of Miami. But as Antoinette and her team try to stop the impending disaster, they must also battle the corrupt company that caused the problem in the first place.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, disaster movie
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Fatal Conflict (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a lawless futuristic society, a rebel must prevent a tandem of renegades from destroying Los Angeles. An ex-star pilot is forced to stop a mad criminal and his gang after they've hi-jacked a huge space freighter with the intent of crashing it into Los Angeles destroying what is left of civilization. Time is running out.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy
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Epoch (2001)
Plot Summary:
Disaster strikes as a specialised team of investigators struggle to find out the truth about a strange monolith which sends out an intercontinental signal.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic, fast, disaster movie
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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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Bombshell (1997)
Plot Summary:
Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, psychological, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, 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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Millennium (1989)
Plot Summary:
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, tech noir, grindhouse, psychological, ambiguous ending
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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Starflight One, the world's first "hypersonic plane," which flies faster and higher than any other commercial jet. On the night of its maiden flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, a freak accident incolving an unauthorized rocket launch sends Starflight One out of the atmosphere and into a decaying orbit around the Earth. With no heat shielding and limited oxygen, it is up to the bravery of the crew and the ingenuity of NASA and the plane's designers to save the passengers trapped on board.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, suspense
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Futureworld (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse, captivating, depressing, tech noir, esoteric
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The Wave (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, inspirational, thought provoking, slasher, action thriller
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Dreamcatcher (2003)
Plot Summary:
Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the four of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, dark, slasher, apocalyptic, cult horror, mind bending, epic, mysterious
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Solar Crisis (1990)
Plot Summary:
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence (Freddy) and a Japanese pilot (as a back up if the Artificial Intelligence fail) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, anamorphic, independent film, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast
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Chain Reaction (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, entertaining, tech noir, cult classic, surprise ending
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Tape 407 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary, suspense, surprise ending, fake documentary
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Limitless (2011)
Plot Summary:
A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 603000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: clever, thought provoking, intellectual, philosophical, captivating, psychological, suspense, smart, suspenseful, psychological thriller
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 706000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: futuristic, captivating, teen, entertaining, touching, apocalyptic, sad, visual, action packed, visually stunning
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Lucy (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 525000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Taiwan, Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, philosophical, intellectual, serious, exciting, cerebral, entertaining, breathtaking, tricky