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Plot Summary:
An office building's security system goes after the employees to supply it's energy.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Dream House (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves into a sophisticated "home of the future," that offers all the latest modern conveniences--including automated household appliances, lights that turn themselves on and off, and a miswired ….
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic, tech noir
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Lifepod (1981)
Plot Summary:
The first interplanetary cruise ship malfunctions halfway to Jupiter, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon ship. A handful of people are trapped onboard.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Synapse (2021)
Plot Summary:
An addicted memory dealer is chased relentlessly by federal narcotics agents bent on keeping the secrets he has locked in his mind hidden.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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MindScans (2013)
Plot Summary:
While researching a story that centers around an interface that connects the brain to a virtual reality super-computer, investigative reporter Sara Lincoln struggles with the technology's social and moral implications as the lines between her ethics, the virtual world, and reality blur.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Incontrol (2017)
Plot Summary:
Incontrol follows a group of university students who discover a device that allows them to take control of others, and experience the world through someone else. As they push the machine's abilities to its limits, they begin to question the device itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Roswell: The Aliens Attack (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two aliens escape from 1947 Roswell, New Mexico and set out to sabotage the Earth. The lady alien finds she enjoys sex and likes to seduce soldiers. However, the male eventually falls in love with an Earthling and decides to stop the female from setting off a nuclear weapon the two had developed.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Black Road (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 2029, a cyborg drifter risks his life to protect a woman from her demented ex. Set in a lawless coastal town after Oregon secedes from the Union.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cyber, futuristic
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Homewrecker (1992)
Plot Summary:
An electronics genius programs a supercomputer to be the perfect female computer, but the computer becomes jealous of his estranged wife and tries to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Life Like (2019)
Plot Summary:
An idealistic attractive young couple acquires a stunning, life-like robot for guilt free help, but as the three grow closer, their perception of humanity will be altered forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, erotic, psychological, sincere, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic, crying, psychotronic
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Devil Winds (2003)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant meteorologist returns to his hometown in Oklahoma to try to stop the biggest tornado ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, disaster movie
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Shelter (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a cataclysmic event, five strangers sealed inside an emergency shelter with all the comforts of home must learn to cope with their situation and with each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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How to Make a Monster (2001)
Plot Summary:
Video game developer Clayton Software enlists the talents of a misfit group of programmers to develop the scariest computer combat game: EVILUTION. With four weeks to bring the game to market and a million-dollar bonus on the line, they utilize a telemetry suit to render a 3-D version of the onscreen player. But when a power surge gives the hard drive a mind of its own, the suit comes to life to play the game for real and the programming tam find themselves in the middle of a chilling virtual nightmare beyond their wildest imagination.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic, computer animated, spooky
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Omega Doom (1996)
Plot Summary:
After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of weapons. One robot, his evil circuits destroyed, enters a small town where a robot civil war is taking place.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, cyber, grindhouse, independent film, neo western, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Gunhed (1989)
Plot Summary:
High-concept Sci-Fi adventure about an island that actually is a computer called Kyron 5, itself created to design and manufacture super-advanced robots to be used as slaves for the rest of the world. One day Kyron decides that human beings are unnecessary, so it declares war on the world. But Kyron cannot be tamed, and after many lives are lost in the attempt, mankind decides to leave Kyron to its own devices.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cyber, apocalyptic, mecha, futuristic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Inside (2023)
Plot Summary:
An art thief becomes trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist goes awry. Imprisoned with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: interesting, one man show
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Immortal (2004)
Plot Summary:
New York City in the year 2095 where genetically altered humans live side by side with unaltered men and women.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy, absurd, atmospheric, cyber, mindfuck, psychotronic
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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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A.I. Rising (2018)
Plot Summary:
On a lonely mission to Alpha Centauri, Milutin is teamed up with Nimani 1345, a female cyborg designed to fulfill his every need. At first thrilled to be able to control her, Sebastian grows tired of having his desires fulfilled so easily. Longing for human intimacy, Sebastian alters Nimani's programmed responses, but in doing so he risks the mission's security — and his own life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Serbia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, sentimental, intellectual, cyber, corny, cult film
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Echo Dr. (2013)
Plot Summary:
When their home security system malfunctions, a family struggles to survive an attack against a state of the art patrol guard that believes they are intruders.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, exciting, serious, independent film, tech noir
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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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Natural City (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence into human host. This drives R to find a suitable host for his expiring cyborg Ria.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, cyber, exciting, bleak, serious, stylized, intellectual, experimental, apocalyptic, grindhouse
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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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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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Archive (2020)
Plot Summary:
2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, philosophical, clever, political, suspense, apocalyptic, tech noir
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The Machine (2013)
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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I Am Mother (2019)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, apocalyptic, philosophical, cyber, mindfuck, captivating, surprise ending, psychological, psychological thriller
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Delete (2013)
Plot Summary:
Delete imagines a disaster in our all-too-fragile digital world where all computers could become dangerously self-aware with one systematic purpose–to destroy mankind. Faced with possible extinction, there is only one way out–create a second artificial intelligence, just as alive, just as intelligent and just as dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, disaster movie
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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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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