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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Plot Summary:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake
Duration: 108 min
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: memory, surrealism, dream, love, love story, memory loss, existentialism, loneliness, melancholy, couples, amnesia, relationships, introspection, borderline personality disorder, brainwashing, love and romance, couple relations, alternate reality, disorder, life changing, power of love, destiny, deja vu, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship
G.O.R.A. (2004)
Plot Summary:
A slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great « humanitarian spirit » by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A
Duration: 127 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Plot tags: abduction, space travel, fish out of water, distant planet, princess, save the world, escapades, rivalry, danger, imaginary, alien encounter, disorder, salesman, space, turk, evil alien, space wars, robot, spaceship, business, lgbt, escape, kidnapping, space race, hindu
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences
Duration: 113 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 514000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: time travel, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, memory loss, alternate reality, twists and turns, psychology, time traveler, changing the past or future, alternate universe, mind control, child abuse, destiny, life philosophy, insanity, supernatural ability, love, philosophy, time, supernatural, parallel universe, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unrequited love, haunted by the past
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood
Duration: 127 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 694000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: superhero, mad scientist, double life, superhuman powers, heroes, disguise, comic book, friendship, vigilante, fantasy world, multiverse, super villain, fight, life philosophy, student, good versus evil, mutant, villain, love of one's life, experiment, undercover, escapades, rage, imaginary, fighting crime
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)
Plot Summary:
Groundbreaking director Mamoru Oshii continues to push the boundaries of art and anime with this universally acclaimed cyber thriller following cyborg detective Batou as he tries to unravel the reasons for a murderous robot revolt in the year 2032. A quest for a killer that becomes a mind bending search for the meaning of life
Duration: 100 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, distopia, androids, investigation, robot, hacker, ghost in the shell, technology, imaginary, mind game, fighting crime, good versus evil, computers and web, escapades, innocence, loss of partner, uncover truth, philosophy, computer, mature, existentialism, cyberspace
2046 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love
Duration: 129 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany
Plot tags: melancholy, writers, writer's life, love, androids, road not taken, sensuality, haunted by the past, coincidence, old friend, destiny, memory, introspection, choice, mysterious place, looking for love, changing the past or future, lifestyle, understanding, identity crisis, imaginary, human nature, relationships, obsession, asian
I, Robot (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger
Duration: 115 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 567000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Plot tags: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, androids and robots, androids, hi-tech, technology gone awry, danger, computer, dystopia, fate of humanity, man versus machine, robot vs. robot, science runs amok, human versus robot, humanoid robot, dystopian future, technology, murder, imaginary, killer robot, revolution, police investigation
District B13 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb
Duration: 84 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Plot tags: martial arts, ghetto, gang, parkour, fight, undercover cop, tough guy, bomb, betrayal, race against time, urban ghetto, crime boss, heroes, danger, working undercover, revenge, dystopia, violence, hand to hand combat, distopia, vigilantism, bully, organized crime, escapades, corruption
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place in a alternate postwar period, in 1996, where Japan is divided. Hokkaido is ruled by the "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands are under US authority. A tall tower was built on Hokkaido, which could even be seen from Tokyo. In the summer of 1996, three middle-school students make a promise that they'll cross the border with a self-constructed plane and unravel the tower's secret, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, became mysteriously ill and transferred to Tokyo. Years later on the brink of another war Hiroki Fujisawa finds out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asks Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to wake her up
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Animation, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Plot tags: friendship, coma, teenage life, youth, apocalypse, life is a bitch, danger, haunted by the past, dystopian future, young love, teenager, working class, doom, thoughtful, coming of age, true love, violin, world war two, heroes, friends, androids and robots, orphan, society, wartime life, love
Appleseed (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?
Duration: 101 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Plot tags: cyberpunk, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, danger, dystopia, chaos, post apocalyptic, vestiges of humanity, save the world, genetic engineering, violent content, end of the world, graphic violence, robot, distopia, conspiracy, mature, heroes, rivalry, heroic mission, violence, mythology, partner, imaginary
Steamboy (2004)
Plot Summary:
After receiving a package from his Grandfather, Rei, a young inventor living in England during the mid-19th century, has his life thrown into disarray. The package contains a "Steam Ball", a device of incredible power, and a letter asking him to guard it. Rei must evade capture from the nefarious "O'Hara Foundation" who will do anything to steal the device and use it for their own nefarious means
Duration: 126 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: steampunk, betrayal, technology gone awry, heroic mission, rivalry, danger, inventions and discoveries, master villain, chases and races, chase, father son relationship, inventor, civil engineer, energy, heroes, desire, parents and children, airplane, police officer, train, cave, snow, kidnapping, ice, castle
Hellboy (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil
Duration: 122 min
IMDB Rating: 6.8/10
IMDB Votes: 345000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: supernatural, monster, superhero, good versus evil, supernatural ability, demon, occult, undercover, danger, goth, comic hero, mutant, steampunk, comic book, apocalypse, superhuman powers, devil, paranormal activity, superpower, fantasy world, vigilante, creature, world war two, assassin, escapades
Primer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next
Duration: 77 min
IMDB Rating: 6.7/10
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: time travel, time loop, time machine, parallel universe, changing the future, changing the past or future, science, inventor, paradox, time traveler, twists and turns, scientist, invention, time, experiment gone awry, plot twist, quantum physics, philosophy, greed, paranoia, mathematics, technology, identity crisis, mistrust, puzzle
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Plot Summary:
After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation
Duration: 119 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 239000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: alien, outer space, dystopia, lone hero, bounty hunter, space and aliens, tough guy, space opera, space, distant planet, one man army, technology, one against many, survival, dystopic future, alien invasion, lone wolves, warrior, space travel, intergalactic, fictional war, prison, cyberpunk, dystopian future, dark hero
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Plot Summary:
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out
Duration: 129 min
IMDB Rating: 6.6/10
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: conspiracy, gulf war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, mind control, assassin, sniper, senator, politics, assassination, surveillance, political corruption, paranoia, political intrigue, obsession, african american, corruption, spy, conspiracy theory, espionage, police investigation, state affairs, memory, villainess, domineering mother
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Plot Summary:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze
Duration: 124 min
IMDB Rating: 6.5/10
IMDB Votes: 469000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, end of the world, apocalypse, survival, climate change, post apocalypse, environmental, stranded, nature, climate, cataclysm, ecology, tsunami, environment, global warming, post apocalyptic, chaos, demolished city, scientist, forces of nature, ice age, evacuation, tornado
The Final Cut (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger
Duration: 95 min
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Plot tags: surveillance, distopia, cyberpunk, memory, twists and turns, existentialism, microchip, afterlife, dystopian future, social satire, machine, deception, fictional reality, loneliness, death, voyeurism, outer space, time travel, women, memory loss, underground, self discovery, machinery, torment, mind game
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Plot Summary:
When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link between the global robot attacks and missing men, Sky Captain and Polly decide to work together. They fly to the Himalayas in pursuit of the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf, the mastermind behind the robots
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Plot tags: steampunk, robot, heroic mission, alternate reality, mad scientist, airplane, transformation, alternate history, danger, save the world, aviation, kidnapping, distopia, zeppelin, apocalypse, alternate universe, battles, betrayal, death, aviator, good versus evil, cyberpunk, cyborgs, contact, end of the world
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Plot Summary:
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. It's a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against hordes of blood- thirsty zombies, stealthy Lickers, mutant canines and the most sinister foe yet
Duration: 94 min
IMDB Rating: 6.1/10
IMDB Votes: 208000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA, Canada, France
Plot tags: zombie, monster, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, post apocalypse, apocalypse, virus, mutant, distopia, survival horror, survival, evil corporation, undead, supernatural, heroes, chase, one woman army, dark heroine, strong female lead, resident evil, superhero, heroine, rescue, martial arts, disaster
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
Duration: 90 min
IMDB Rating: 6.0/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: memory loss, time loop, hospital, paranoia, murder, nightmare, uncover truth, mind game, puzzle, dishonesty, investigation, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, time travel, surrealism, mental disorder, chase, doctor, parallel universe, paradox, supernatural, killer, mysticism, autism, quantum physics
Casshern (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name
Duration: 142 min
IMDB Rating: 6.0/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Plot tags: dystopia, good versus evil, vengeance, mutant, superhero, artificial intelligence, rescue, tragic hero, heroic mission, laboratory, redemption, heroes, fictional war, martial arts, danger, life is a bitch, society, post apocalypse, distopia, professor, one man army, race against time, resurrection, father son relationship, genetic engineering
Immortal (2004)
Plot Summary:
New York City in the year 2095 where genetically altered humans live side by side with unaltered men and women
Duration: 103 min
IMDB Rating: 5.9/10
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, UK
Plot tags: cyberpunk, mythology, cyborgs, distopia, dystopian future, parallel universe, transformation, genetics, society, fantasy world, androids, technology, humanity, surrealism, dystopia, video game, heroes, battles, escapades, tombs and skeletons, mutant, spacecraft, mutation, mind reading, alien space craft
RRRrrrr!!! (2004)
Plot Summary:
37 000 years ago, two neighboring tribes lived in peace ... not fully in peace. While the tribe clean hair flowed peaceful days by keeping to herself the secret formula shampoo, Tribe Hair Sales lamented. Its leader decided to send a spy to steal the recipe
Duration: 98 min
IMDB Rating: 5.8/10
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Plot tags: caveman, absurd humor, investigation, rivalry, tribe, murder, ancient history, human nature, parents and children, friendship, seduction, self mutilation, love, fire, animal, dumb, dinosaur, perfection, false accusation, tribal chief, cave, undercover, family relations, working undercover, silly humor
The Forgotten (2004)
Plot Summary:
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity
Duration: 91 min
IMDB Rating: 5.8/10
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: memory loss, conspiracy, psychiatrist, mind game, memory, missing child, paranoia, delusion, twists and turns, abduction, grief, alien, experiment, kidnapping, chase, alien abduction, husband wife relationship, children, supernatural, space, estrangement, death of son, missing daughter, life is a bitch, loss of son
Blade: Trinity (2004)
Plot Summary:
For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed - The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting him, the original vampire, Dracula
Duration: 113 min
IMDB Rating: 5.8/10
IMDB Votes: 186000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: vampire, superhero, dracula, katana, vampire slayer, immortality, vampire hunter, supernatural, heroes, comic book, vampire vs vampire, good versus evil, blood, female vampire, transformation, martial arts, master warrior, mutant, vigilante, sword fight, avenger, imaginary, mythology, lone hero, multiverse
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Plot Summary:
When scientists discover something in the Arctic that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race
Duration: 101 min
IMDB Rating: 5.7/10
IMDB Votes: 209000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Plot tags: alien, monster, deadly creature, save the world, survival, predator, space, alien invasion, apocalypse, evil alien, first contact, creature, human sacrifice, cloning, creature feature, pyramid, danger, chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, winter, crossover, twists and turns, gory, cocoon, monster versus monster
Cube Zero (2004)
Plot Summary:
Cube Zero is the third film in the trilogy yet this time instead of a film about people trapped in a deadly cube trying to get out we see it from the eyes of someone who is controlling the cube and the torture of the victims inside. When the nerd can’t stand to see a woman suffer he himself enters the cube to try and save her
Duration: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 5.6/10
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Plot tags: parallel world, mathematics, trap, torture, isolation, survival, puzzle, escape room, rescue, claustrophobia, riddles and clues, gore, captivity, danger, confined, race against time, trapped, technology, paranoia, chess, cyberpunk, memory loss, gory, distopia, kidnapping
Dreamship Surprise: Period 1 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul, lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the spaceship Surprise -- Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty
Duration: 87 min
IMDB Rating: 5.5/10
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Plot tags: time travel, space travel, evil alien, mars, heroic mission, survival, save the world, escapades, rivalry, danger, dystopian future, gay, lgbt, monkey, bully, humour, martian, taxi driver, heroes, taxi, gays and lesbians, contests and competitions, spacecraft, knight, german humor
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004)
Plot Summary:
This prequel of the bone-chilling Tremors begins in the town of Rejection, Nev., in 1889, where 17 men die under mysterious circumstances. Spooked by recent events, the miners who populate the town leave in droves until there's nothing left but a shell of a community. It's up to the remaining residents to get to the bottom of the deaths -- but they must do so before they, too, are eradicated off the face of the planet
Duration: 101 min
IMDB Rating: 5.3/10
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Plot tags: small town, creature, wild west, creature feature, chase, life & death, redemption, giant monster, supernatural, escapades, goofy hero, human versus monster, rescue, rivalry, danger, heroic mission, monster, cowboy, kaiju, fictional city, giant creature, survival, apocalypse, alien, serial killer
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Plot Summary:
What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town
Duration: 93 min
IMDB Rating: 5.3/10
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: housewife, women, battle of the sexes, transformation, robot, suburban life, androids, twists and turns, gender, brainwashing, friendship, suburbs, stereotypes, uncover truth, dishonesty, couple relations, cyborgs, writers, lifestyle, husband wife relationship, small town, dark humor, machine, conspiracy, american dream