Best movies like 2030
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Plot Summary:
In a near future Vietnam where global warming and rising seawater levels have forced cultivation to be done on floating farms, a strong-willed woman has to make a critical decision about her ex-lover, a suspect of her husband's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, bleak, serious
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In a Spiral State (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the city of Los Angeles, millions of lives intersect everyday, but each individual is still isolated from the whole. A number of strange incidents occur to four men and four women, just as their own lives begin to spiral out of control. Surrounded by con artists, frauds, drug addicts, and homeless people, a story starts to form in a screenwriter's head. Little does he know, his characters seem to have come to life as well. Things takes a surprise turn, as these LA residents find themselves locked into a mystery together. While relating to quantum mechanics, our own spiral galaxy, and the struggle of human existence, an urban love story grows out of the vine of disconnection.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychedelic, neo noir, experimental, avant garde, transgressive
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Stand (2014)
Plot Summary:
After taking a wrong turn in their car, a young gay Russian couple witnesses what they believe is a vicious gay bashing; their quandary over what to do about it propels them into ever more dangerous territory. For Anton, the burden of what they may have witnessed outweighs Vlad's fear of probing too deeply into the incident. When the police prove indifferent, Anton talks his skeptical lover into launching their own amateur investigation into the incident. Their risky search for the truth has unexpected - and grim - consequences in this suspenseful drama that comments on the ongoing mistreatment of LGBT people in Russia.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, thought provoking, serious, independent film, bleak, crying, detective, queer cinema
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The Last Man on Planet Earth (1999)
Plot Summary:
During a war with Afghanistan, a weapon called the "Y-bomb" was used, which resulted in the deaths of 97% of the world's men. Feeling that they were better off without males, the women of Earth decided to outlaw men because they were too violent. 20 years later, scientist Hope Chase, fearing for the future of the species, conducts a cloning experiment to produce a new male of the species, whom she names Adam. When Adam reaches maturity, he soon finds himself on the run from the FBI, and hiding out with small rebel bands of the last remaining men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak, serious, psychotronic
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Last Kind Words (2012)
Plot Summary:
17-year old Eli moves with his family to the isolated farm of reclusive Waylon, a man whose dark past threatens to overtake him. Eli’s family works to restore the desolate fields, while he becomes fascinated with the forests. While on the farm, Eli meets the mysterious Amanda when she gives him an apple. The next day she extracts a promise from him to avoid the deep woods. Reeling from a violent encounter with his father, one night he breaks this promise and finds her body hanging from a tree.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, romantic, independent film, scary
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Yesterday Was a Lie (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hoyle a girl with a sharp mind and a weakness for bourbon -- finds herself on the trail of a reclusive genius. But her work takes a series of unforeseen twists as events around her grow increasingly fragmented... disconnected... surreal. With an ethereal lounge singer and her loyal partner as her only allies, Hoyle is plunged into a dark world of intrigue and earth-shattering cosmological secrets. Haunted by an ever-present shadow whom she is destined to face, Hoyle discovers that the most powerful force in the universe -- the power to bend reality, the power to know the truth -- lies within the depths of the human heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, surreal, independent film, tense, mind bending, surprise ending
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Scorched (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a climate change ravaged world in 2012, after 240 days without rain Sydney has only two weeks of water left. When the city is then ringed by severe bushfires, the question becomes, how do you fight fire when you have no water?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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At the Gate of the Ghost (2011)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from Japanese film called Rashomon, U Mong Pa Meung (The Outrage) takes place in a wood during Thai’s Lanna period where a mysterious murder happens. The story is told through three witnesses: a young monk, woodcutter and undertaker.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, non-linear
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My Husband's Double Life (2001)
Plot Summary:
A woman (Margaret Colin) discovers that her husband faked his death and assumed a new identity, while she struggled for 10 years as a single mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, suspenseful, sincere, mind bending, realistic
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Interstate 84 (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of Hap and the disturbed, young punk who tormented him. A tale of personal demons, shattered lives, and ultimate redemption.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, touching, suspenseful, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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Zenith (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a hellish future where human beings have become stupefied by the state of permanent happiness they have been genetically altered to experience, Jack offers relief via drugs that cause his customers the welcome phenomenon of pain. But when Jack receives a mysterious videotape of his dead father, he sets out to unmask the dangerous conspiracy that has created this dystopian world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, serious, experimental, independent film, futuristic, talky, mind bending
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Furia (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a desert town, sometime in the future, a repressive government regime restricts all forms of artistic expression. At night, Theo breaks the law, risking torture and death, to paint his work on public spaces. But when his lover Elia is arrested for committing the same crime, Theo allows himself to be captured hoping to somehow be reunited with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, atmospheric, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, dystopian
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The Coming Days (2010)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter Kuper, an energy conglomerate executive. Walter’s daughter, Cecilia, has joined the Black Storm terrorist group. Her sister Laura must choose between motherhood and the man she loves; their brother Philip has been called into fight for Germany in a hopeless war to secure the last remaining oil fields. Starring leading actors Daniel Brühl, Johanna Wokalek and Jürgen Vogel, "The Days to Come" asks provocative questions about the current state of things as it depicts personal and political realities in a scarily believable near–future.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, bleak, captivating, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
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Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? (2014)
Plot Summary:
Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, spiritual, saga, patriotic, epic, contemplative
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Red Cockroaches (2003)
Plot Summary:
First of a Trilogy: In a New York ravaged with acid rains, a man in his twenties meets a mysterious, yet familiar young woman who disrupts the banality of his day-to-day existence. Together, they will embark on a surreal journey with a devastating climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Cuba
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, surreal, futuristic, offbeat, independent film, psychological, mind bending, thought provoking
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Daybreak (1993)
Plot Summary:
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death in this cautionary tale from director Stephen Tolkin. But a gutsy rebel named Torch (Cuba Gooding Jr.) sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary. Moira Kelly co-stars as Gooding's love interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, 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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Fog and Night (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fog and the Night is the search of an investigator who has lost his confidence in his organization and whose happy"family father" order has been disrupted by his young lover.And introverted man due to his profession , not a big talker or well in expressing his feelings,Sedat is being consumed , going through the hardest time of his life , not able to silence his guilty conscience because he was unsuccessful in solving the murder of his partner , whom he saw a brother .His faith in his organization is shaken as he witness the schemes in machination inside the organization and between the organization and the state.Meanwhile , while trying to find his lover who has disappeared after falling for a former militant , he does not refrain from making use of the filthiest methods of his profession.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
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Into the White Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter Yukiho and the pawn shop owner's son Ryouji. As time goes by, more mysterious deaths surround Yukiho & Ryouji. Detective Sasagaki still unable to let go of the pawn shop owner case discovers startling details about Yukiho and Ryouji.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, twisted, realistic, suspenseful
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The Wannabe (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, he sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend and longtime mob groupie, Rose, by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Word of Honor (2003)
Plot Summary:
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army authority anxious to save its own face, an embarrassed federal government, and a threatened marriage, and entangled, furthermore, in his own past lives and present sense of guilt, must call on all his cleverness and his own inner toughness to fight his case.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
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Dark Planet (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two sides, one known as the Alphas and the other the Rebels, struggle in a brutal war on Earth and in outer space. When a habitable planet is discovered in orbit around a star that is on the far side of a dangerous wormhole, the two sides mysteriously set aside their differences and send a joint mission to explore the planet. The mission of the starship Scylla is soon beset by political intrigue and treachery, jeopardizing not only the mission, but the lives of the entire crew.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Small Town Conspiracy (2002)
Plot Summary:
Crime - Set in Florida at the close of 1941, this film noir follows small-town police chief John Haleran's (Zen Gesner) investigation of the murder of a young Japanese girl, a case that leads to a top secret government conspiracy. With the help of retired cop Taylor (William Morgan Sheppard), Haleran discovers a connection between the victim and an imminent Japanese attack. - Zen Gesner, Jeannetta Arnette, William Morgan Sheppard.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bleak
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Deadline (2012)
Plot Summary:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée, and his father's cancer diagnosis.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Ravagers (1979)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Quintet (1979)
Plot Summary:
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, grindhouse, disgusting, psychotronic
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Brave New World (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their lives or their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, philosophical, spiritual, tech noir, mystic, grindhouse, bleak
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Puzzlehead (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter has longed for. The resulting sci-fi love triangle is a Frankensteinian fable that traps all three in a web of deception and the ultimate betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense, surreal, cyber, bleak, independent film
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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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20 Years After (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, futuristic, dystopian, disaster movie
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The Rosary Murders (1987)
Plot Summary:
A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest (Donald Sutherland), who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, bleak, serious, neo noir, suspense, independent film, tense, rough, realistic