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Plot Summary:
F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychedelic, retro, mind bending, realistic, surreal, tense, bleak, serious, futuristic
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The Color Out of Space (2010)
Plot Summary:
Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Colour Out of Space".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, neo noir, tense, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, mystical, futuristic, gothic
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Hellevator (2004)
Plot Summary:
Luchino's routine morning elevator ride up from her subterranean home on level 138 to her school many stories above turns horrific when the elevator operator is ordered to pick up two passengers from floor 99, the maximum security level. What starts as psychological manipulation soon turns wholly physical as both the cruel convicts and Luchino's own dysfunctional past are unleashed. And then every passenger must fight for his or her survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, suspenseful, futuristic, disturbing, suspense, cyber, horror comedy, independent film, exciting
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Swerve (2012)
Plot Summary:
In a future post-apocalyptic California, the new frontier is a vast nano-contaminated Zone cut off from the all-connected Grid and the ceaseless flows of bodies and information outside its borders. Only the insane or criminal would venture into this low-tech, body-corroding backwater: that's what Kaja has been told. But when her best and only friend Adelle disappears, apparently kidnapped and taken to the Zone by an anti-nanotech revolutionary group, Kaja is forced to enter this bizarre and alien world. There, where even fundamental matter and individual identity are up for grabs, as a virtual assassination team moves in for the kill, anti-technology cultists plot a takeover, and a mad cyberscientist prepares a vast mind-harvesting experiment, Adelle will begin to suspect that her entire brain is an elaborate organic computer program... But what, exactly, does it do?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, surreal, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, cyber
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Quarantine (1989)
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In a futuristic society being decimated by plague, a fascist movement seizes power and quarantines not only the plague victims, but anyone related to them. Rebels trying to assassinate a particularly reactionary senator stumble onto a computer programmer trying to track and eradicate the disease.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Index Zero (2014)
Plot Summary:
2035, United States of Europe. Some humans are not sustainable anymore.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse, bleak, serious, stylized, gloomy, futuristic
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The Dark Hour (2006)
Plot Summary:
The eight years boy Jesús has been living in a crumbling underground facility since he was born with eight survivors of an apocalyptical war: the leader Maria and her lover Pablo; the gays Lucas and Mateo; the astronomer Magdalena and the teenager Ana; the soldier Pedro and the lonely Judas. They are permanently is state of surveillance, threatened by the contaminated mutants The Strangers and once a day they have to lock themselves in their rooms without heating to protect against the dangerous ghosts The Invisibles that attack in the Cold Hour. They cannot go to the surface, destroyed by a nuclear war. When they need supplies, medications and ammunitions, they organize expeditions to a store. When the menace of The Invisibles affects the safety of the group of survivors, they need to reach the surface. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, rough, bleak, experimental, disturbing, splatter, hispanic, psychological horror
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Crash and Burn (1990)
Plot Summary:
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of th.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, mecha, cult film
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Class of 1999 (1990)
Plot Summary:
The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when he violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, retro, dark, grindhouse, cyber, cult classic, mindfuck, independent film, rough
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Johnny 2.0 (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Johnny Dalton awakens, after being beaten by a group of eco-terrorists who were vandalizing his lab at biotech firm Azina, his business partner Frank Donahue tells him him that 15 years have passed and Johnny is merely a clone of himself. He's been created to track down the real Dr. Dalton who has disappeared, taking with him Azine's most devastating discovery as well as the key to disarming Johnny's genetic time-bomb. Johnny is captured, however he finds an ally among the rebels in Nikki Holland, leading him to the real Dr. Dalton, who reveals secrets about Azine, Donahue and the mysterious Mr. Bosch that are far more shocking than anything they ever expected. This futuristic thriller takes the concept of genetic engineering to a whole new level, and into a frightening world that may be just over the horizon.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: cyber, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Eden Log (2007)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other option to reach the surface than to use REZO ZERO, secret observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, cyber, suspense, apocalyptic, surreal, twist ending
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The Gene Generation (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic world, Michelle lives everyday battling with DNA Hackers who use their skills to hack into people's bodies and kill them. She is an assassin, trying to keep her younger brother, Jackie, out of trouble. When Jackie gets involved in a petty crime of robbery, he propels himself into the world of DNA Hackers, Shylocks (Loan Sharks) and Gangs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Singapore, South Korea, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, cyber, futuristic, apocalyptic, action adventure, neo noir
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The Aerial (2007)
Plot Summary:
La Antena (English: The Aerial, 2007) is an Argentine drama film, written and directed by acclaimed film director Esteban Sapir. The film features Alejandro Urdapilleta, Rafael Ferro, Florencia Raggi, and others. The movie begins with a pair of hands typing on a typewriter. The denizens of a nameless city "in the year XX" have lost their voices. People communicate by mouthing out words that are spelled mid-air. The only person who has kept the use of her voice is La Voz ("the voice"), a singer working for the sole TV channel broadcast in the city, run by Mr. TV, who desires La Voz. La Voz wears a hood over her head that hides away her face. She has a son called Tomás, an eyeless little kid who nonetheless also has a voice (although this is kept a secret). Tomás lives next door to Ana, whom he one day befriends after a letter addressed to his house is erroneously delivered to hers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal, silent, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, expressionism, black and white, experimental, retro, mind bending
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Rubber's Lover (1996)
Plot Summary:
A powerful and secretive corporation is conducting underground psychic experiments utilizing Digital Direct Drive, otherwise known as DDD. While under the influence of the drug ether, the human subjects are outfitted in rubber suits and bombarded with DDD with extremely intense sound. Though the experiments are successful in unleashing psychic powers in the test subjects, the results are usually fatal. As a result, the corporation attempts to shut down the experiments against the wishes of Motomiya and Hitotsubashi who are in charge of the research. In a desperate attempt to salvage their work, the two researchers take over the lab and hold an innocent secretary hostage while they transform their fellow researcher into an ether addict and use him as the final human guinea pig for their experiments. The result has to be seen to be believed as his psychic powers are unleashed in a wave of ferocity that will leave you breathless.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: clever, psychedelic, disturbing, controversial, black and white, cyber, scary, psychological, atmospheric, rough
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Antiviral (2012)
Plot Summary:
After becoming infected with the virus that killed superstar Hannah Geist, Syd March must unravel the mystery surrounding her death to save his own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tech noir, suspenseful, cult classic, atmospheric, surreal, bleak, grindhouse, medical horror, futuristic
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Black Moon (1975)
Plot Summary:
There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, experimental, psychological, offbeat, psychedelic, art house, mind twisting, mindfuck
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer is a 1992 Japanese science fiction/horror film directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. It is a bigger-budget reworking of the same director's 1989 movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man, utilizing similar themes and ideas to the earlier film (a Japanese salaryman, played by cult actor Tomorowo Taguchi, finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.) It was not as well received as its predecessor but it did win the Critic's Award at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1992.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, cyber, surreal, extreme horror, experimental, controversial, cult horror, atmospheric, rough
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Megaville (1990)
Plot Summary:
In the future, national boundaries have been broken down and two giant super-states remain—the bleak, oppressive, and totalitarian "Hemisphere," and the sprawling and futuristic "Megaville." Megaville has an elected president, but the entire system is rife with corruption. All forms of media are encouraged in Megaville, but this freedom has aided moral decay with the distribution of pornography and violent movies. Outside Megaville lies the Hemisphere; whereas Megaville is clean and ordered, the Hemisphere is in a state of decay. Travel from the Hemisphere to Megaville is restricted with few exceptions to the powerful. An outwardly totalitarian regime governs the daily life of civilians in the Hemisphere and the people live in fear of the "CKS" (the secret police). All forms of media are illegal in the Hemisphere. CC wikipedia.org.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cyber, futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Ever Since the World Ended (2001)
Plot Summary:
Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain. Two of them use jury-rigged batteries to power a camera and make a documentary. We see a variety of approaches to survival, from the artist and engineer who trade for their needs, to the surfers and woodsmen who fish and hunt, to the scavengers, and a communal farm. We also see how the community deals with those who threaten it, and how the youth are growing up with different values from those who knew our world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, bleak, serious, sincere, atmospheric, suspense, realistic, independent film, thought provoking
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Descendents (2008)
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In an undefined future, the earth has been destroyed by man, and the air polluted with a mysterious virus that turns humans into zombies. Only a few children are immune to the disease and have adapted to these extreme conditions and survived. Camille, a nine year old girl wanders through these desolate wastelands, protecting herself from zombies and the armed military forces that roam the land killing anyone who might be infected. However, the little girl will find other kids like her that share a recurring dream of: they all have visions of the ocean as their destiny. Together they will try to survive the journey to the ocean in search of an escape from the military who seem to be as determined on their destruction as on the zombies. Written by David Pollison/Solos Website.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, natural horror, exciting, offbeat, lovecraft
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2084 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the government collapsed. Chaos... on a global scale.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, apocalyptic, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, bleak
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The Terror Within (1989)
Plot Summary:
Experiments in biological warfare have destroyed all but a few remnants of the human race. Alone in a lab, eight students work feverishly to create a vaccine before they are forced outside in search for food. It is then that the surviving scientists discover creatures mutated by the plague. Now they prepare to do battle against their worst fear: The Terror Within.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic, retro, mystic, cult horror, independent film, exciting
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Deadland (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of an eye, America has been plunged back into the Stone Age. Money is worthless, food is scarce, and those who once thought they were fortunate to survive the initial attack are now slowly being consumed from the inside out, the victims of an all-consuming nuclear scourge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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One Point O (2004)
Plot Summary:
Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Iceland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, enigmatic, cerebral, confusing, mindfuck, tricky, mind bending, suspenseful, cyber
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Timecrimes (2007)
Plot Summary:
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: twist ending, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, cerebral, mindfuck, tricky, confusing, mind twisting
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Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989)
Plot Summary:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, underground-production style as his first two films. Revolving around the transformation of people into grotesque hybrids of flesh and metal, Tetsuo is above all an overwhelming audiovisual experience, set to a brain-pounding score by Chu Ishikawa and complemented by suitably exaggerated sound effects.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, surreal, disturbing, black and white, experimental, splatter, independent film, art house, atmospheric
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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
Plot Summary:
Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. Barry Nyle. If she hopes to escape, she must journey through the darkest reaches of The Institute, but Nyle wonʼt easily part with his most gifted and dangerous creation.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, atmospheric, stylized, suspense, futuristic, psychedelic, mind bending, art house, mindfuck
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Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to the low budget first film ‘Cube.’ This time the prisoners find them selves in a more advanced cube environment that they must escape from before they are killed. A science fiction film where space and time have more than one path.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, scary, futuristic, clever, disturbing, tense, surreal, cerebral, mindfuck
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Cube (1997)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 244000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller, twist ending, cerebral, futuristic, clever, exciting
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Pi (1998)
Plot Summary:
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 185000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, cerebral, black and white, mind bending, independent film, atmospheric, psychedelic, philosophical, dark
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eXistenZ (1999)
Plot Summary:
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, twist ending, cerebral, disturbing, tense, philosophical, atmospheric