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Plot Summary:
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her “soul.”.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: cyber, exciting, serious, suspenseful, experimental, stylized
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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces (2008)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, epic, fast, detective, surprise ending
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Game Box 1.0 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Miserable after the shooting death of his girlfriend, video game tester Charlie immerses himself in his work. When a new 3D game comes in the mail, he becomes caught up in its bizarre fantasy world -- literally. Trapped inside the game, Charlie's only way out is to win a brutal fight-to-the-death battle.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense
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Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994)
Plot Summary:
Followup movie to the TV series about 250,000 aliens, or "newcomers" as they are known, who have by now settled alongside the humans in California. Most of the newcomers were slaves, and the slave masters are now looking for them. They send Aponso to earth to locate the slaves ready for the aliens to pick them up.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, saga, suspenseful, detective
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My Brother's Gun (1997)
Plot Summary:
A teenager finds a gun loaded with three bullets and shoots at the guard of a supermarket when he discovers it stealing a comic. In his escape along the road he meets a girl who has tried to commit suicide without success and both decide to take a trip to nowhere, escaping from their lives. Meanwhile, a police inspector starts the investigations of the case, interrogating the boy's family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy
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Dead or Alive: Final (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi) is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō (Show Aikawa) is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, exciting, rough, serious, stylized, suspenseful, heroic, cyber, crime drama
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The Red Spectacles (1987)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: surreal, anime, experimental, claymation, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, surprise ending
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Full Metal Yakuza (1997)
Plot Summary:
After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane (Tsuyoshi Ujiki) finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out. Takashi Miike directs this action-packed sci-fi thriller that takes its cues from the more mainstream Robocop but amps up the violence for maximum effect.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: controversial, cyber, rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, stylized, black comedy, dark comedy, weird
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Crossfire (2000)
Plot Summary:
Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with Kazuki, a young man who works with her. His sister is killed and a boy named Masaki suspected but the police don't arrest him. Junko tells Kazuki about her powers and takes revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, action thriller
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The Wolves (1971)
Plot Summary:
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 612
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: crime drama, atmospheric, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Sleep Dealer (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, futuristic, mindfuck, apocalyptic, existential, mind bending, intellectual
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The City of Lost Souls (2000)
Plot Summary:
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: disturbing, atmospheric, harsh, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic, stylized, crime drama, serious
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Act of Aggression (1975)
Plot Summary:
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang a man sets out to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, classic horror, exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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Sleepless Town (1998)
Plot Summary:
Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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WarGames: The Dead Code (2008)
Plot Summary:
Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, cyber, fast, ridiculous
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Chameleon (1998)
Plot Summary:
A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: action adventure, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, fast
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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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Arcade (1993)
Plot Summary:
Alex Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who lose are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain "Arcade" and takes over their minds.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tech noir, surprise ending, scary, exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cult film, nostalgic
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Nemesis 3: Time Lapse (1996)
Plot Summary:
Using footage left over from Nemesis 2 and a very thin story line sees Alex again fighting the cyborg mercenaries in 1998 East Africa. This time, Alex finds that she has 20 half sisters who are waiting for her to return to 2077. Central Command wants Alex captured alive and scanned to see if her DNA is a strong and more powerful strain than the normal. But Alex may be too tough for Farnsworth to capture.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, independent film
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Cyborg Soldier (2008)
Plot Summary:
A cyborg escapes the facility where he was created. With the help of a local sheriff, he tries to run from the dangerous scientists that created him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, scenic, action thriller
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TekWar (1994)
Plot Summary:
After four years, Jake Cardigan is prematurely awoken from his fifteen year cryogenic punishment to a world very different than the one he knew. Much more than before 'Tek', the highly-addictive electronic designer narcotic of the 21st century, seems to be prevalent. His wife has divorced him and disappeared together with their son. He wants them back and he wants justice for those undercover policemen who were murdered by unknown conspirators which led to his imprisonment for a crime he did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cyber, tech noir, exciting, serious, suspenseful, detective, futuristic
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2009: Lost Memories (2002)
Plot Summary:
There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a major city. A Korean resistance group fights for liberty, independence & the restoration of true history. Two cops, Japanese & Korean, investigate the group.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized, cyber
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Dream of a Warrior (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Dean a young detective, falls for a woman who seems to appear only in his dreams. When Dean discovers his amour is the real-life daughter of a Dr. Jang and that the been trapped in a time warp, he journeys back in time to save her. But first he must fend off a few hordes of superhuman swordsmen.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, suspense
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The Fighter (1983)
Plot Summary:
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, poliziottesco, suspense
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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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20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set 15 years after "Twentieth Century Boys," Kanna (Airi Taira) reunites with several main characters from the first film in an attempt to stop Friend's increasing influence over the world and continued plans to eliminate humanity, as detailed in the New Book of Prophecy.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, manga, anime, offbeat, weird
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Gatchaman (2013)
Plot Summary:
By the year 2050 AD, a mysterious organization called Galactor has occupied half of the Earth and threatens to exterminate the human race. Around the same time, the International Science Organization had uncovered mysterious stones that bear unusual powers. It is said that one person out of approximately eight million is able to harness the power of the stones; they are known as a "Receptor". Dr. Kozaburo Nambu gathers a team of these five lucky Receptors together. Known as the "Gatchaman" team, it is their mission to defeat Galactor.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, anime, captivating, tense, heroic, intense, scenic, serious
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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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Cyber Wars (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an insidious and deadly purpose.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Singapore
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cyber, suspense, tech noir, fast, serious, suspenseful
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Hackers (1995)
Plot Summary:
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, cyber, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining, cult classic, teen, funny, psychedelic
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Freejack (1992)
Plot Summary:
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: futuristic, entertaining, cyber, suspense, tech noir, grindhouse, anamorphic, disgusting, exciting, bleak