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Plot Summary:
Drifting aimlessly through life, Kaisi (Li Yi Feng) has racked up debts of several million having borrowed money from his friends. Lured with the promise of writing it all off, Kaisi leaves his ailing mother and childhood sweetheart Qing (Zhou Dongyu) to board the ship Destiny and attend a gambling party controlled by the mysterious Anderson (Michael Douglas). All players join the game with stars. For each game they lose, their opponent captures a star. Everyone is holding daggers behind their backs plotting dirty means by which to overcome their opponents. The game quickly deteriorates into a slaughter and Kaisi must battle save his own skin….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, surprise ending, disturbing, surreal, underground film, aesthetic, twisted
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Monster Run (2020)
Plot Summary:
Some strange things have always existed, you think it is a coincidence, or make up a reason to make it reasonable, in fact, because you do not want to admit. At the end of the season, she was regarded as an outlier because she could see monsters, until one day she saw monsters again in the supermarket where she worked and magically met Monster Hunter-Brother Meng. She discovered that there really were monsters in the world, and the two young men were involved in a new storm.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Rock Monster (2008)
Plot Summary:
A college student, traveling with his friends to a remote eastern-European village, unwittingly releases the Rock Monster from it's ancient slumber to wreak havoc on the surrounding countryside.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, disturbing, scary, offbeat, independent film, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
Plot Summary:
A hibernating species of giant carnivorous bird is awakened on a Japanese island shortly after the Japanese military encounters an unidentified mass moving beneath the water off-shore.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: daikaiju, natural horror, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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Queen Crab (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young girl steals her dad's growth experiment infused grapes and feeds them to a pet crab. Years later, the now gigantic crustacean attacks the town!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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Dark Island (2010)
Plot Summary:
After losing contact with its researchers on a remote island, a military corporation hires a group of scientists and soldiers to find out what went wrong. But when they arrive, the team quickly discovers that the weapons testing performed on the island has unleashed and powerful and deadly entity that will stop at nothing to destroy them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, scary, serious
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Beta Test (2016)
Plot Summary:
While testing the latest first person shooter from global game developer, Sentinel, video game champion Max Troy discovers the events happening within the game are being reflected in the real world. He soon determines that the game's protagonist is real-life Orson Creed, an ex-Sentinel employee who is being remotely controlled by the corporation for reasons unknown. As virtual and real worlds collide, Max and Creed must join forces to unravel the conspiracy before the game's sinister events escalate and overwhelm the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, art house, cyber, mockbuster, comic
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Haunters (2010)
Plot Summary:
Cho-In can control other people's minds when they are within his field of sight. Except one man.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, gloomy, psychotronic
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Avalon (2001)
Plot Summary:
In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that a more advanced level of the game exists somewhere, she gives up her loner ways and joins a gang of explorers. Even if she finds the gateway to the next level, will she ever be able to come back to reality?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: bleak, stylized, cyber, atmospheric, surreal, intellectual, suspenseful, serious, cerebral, apocalyptic
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The Shadow Men (1997)
Plot Summary:
Happily married couple Bob and Dez Wilson and their 12-year old son Andy are being attacked by a blinding light when driving home from a daytrip. They awaken a couple of hours later, seemingly unscathed but soon driven mad by recurring nightmares. It soon appears that they have been abducted by aliens as proved by their sons handycam that had suddenly started running right after the incident. This mysterious fact is discovered by even more mysterious Men In Black who start nagging the family up to the point of threatening to kill them. Laughed at by the police the threesome seek refuge at sf-writer Stan Mills' house and start fighting back.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, independent film
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King of the Lost World (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's action-adventure classic, four plane crash survivors encounter danger in a world that time forgot.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, mockbuster, natural horror, fast, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Webs (2003)
Plot Summary:
Richard Greico leads a team of electrical workers who stumble across a terrifying parallel universe. While investigating a strange power source in an abandoned building, the workers find themselves sucked into an underworld teeming with massive, man-eating, spider-like monsters. The bloodthirsty arachnid-human hybrids stalk and kill their victims one by one, leaving the dwindling group of survivors to fight back with just their wits and a handful of primitive weapons.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror
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Hydra (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transported to a deserted island where the super rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But this island isn't exactly deserted; it's actually home to Hydra the Beast!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, scary, suspense, fast
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Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)
Plot Summary:
Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla's bones, to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. If not, dire consequences will follow. However, Godzilla is once again on the rampage, and Mechagodzilla is Japan's only defense.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating, daikaiju, natural horror, psychotronic, cult film
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Zone 261 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A town in south of Sweden is isolated after a viral outbreak. The Swedes and immigrants still inside must band together to survive the onslaught.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, serious
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Devilman (2004)
Plot Summary:
A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying civilization. Close friends Akira (Hisato Izaki) and Ryo (Yusuke Izaki) wind up on different sides of this epic struggle. Akira’s inner strength allows him to maintain his identity and fight for good, but the weaker Ryo is completely overtaken by Satan himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, manga, romantic, scenic, anime, perverse, futuristic
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Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island (2009)
Plot Summary:
Higanjima is an eerie island occupied by vampires, from where none has ever come back alive. When teenager Akira hears that his missing brother has been seen in the island, he decides to investigate with several friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
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Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010)
Plot Summary:
In Liar game: Final Stage, Players are encouraged to trust each other to win the tournament. However, a mysterious player named X is secretly plotting to sabotage everyone of their chances to win the LGT.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama, surreal
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Alive (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, weird
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Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sean Barker became the unwilling host to an alien bio-armor known as the Guyver. A year ago he destroyed the Kronos Corporation, an organization of mutants who want the Guyver. Now he is trying to find why the Guyver unit forces him to fight and kill evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense, manga, perverse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)
Plot Summary:
A group of heroic warriors has only six days to save the planet in "Mortal Kombat Annihilation." To succeed they must survive the most spectacular series of challenges any human, or god, has ever encountered as they battle an evil warlord bent on taking control of Earth. Sequel to the film "Mortal Kombat," and based on the popular video game.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, dark, cult classic, fast, independent film, mystic
Similar in 81%
Deep Core (2000)
Plot Summary:
A powerful laser machine rips the core of the earth causing earthquakes and tsunamis, and only one man and his team can save the planet from destruction. Will they succeed? Action, suspense and disaster for fans of the genre.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, tense, apocalyptic, action packed, independent film, disaster movie
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24 Hours to Live (2017)
Plot Summary:
An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, China, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, exciting, enigmatic, suspenseful, psychological, perverse, action thriller, action adventure, surprise ending
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Survival Quest (1988)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss has been killed by one of the city slickers, he coaxes his team into exterminating all of them. They will have to rely on their wits and on each other in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, retro, independent film, realistic
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Fist of the North Star (1995)
Plot Summary:
From the immensely popular FIST OF THE NORTH STAR comic book series, comes a new hero. The fate of mankind rests with superhuman warrior Kenshiro who roams the wastelands of the future waging a battle against overwhelming evil. With the spiritual guidance of his dead father, Kenshiro fights to free his stolen love from the brutal tyrant Lord Shin. Through his struggle he must confront his destiny.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: stylized, exciting, serious, suspenseful, anime, cult classic, apocalyptic, perverse, bleak, surprise ending
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What Happened to Monday (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, psychological thriller, mindfuck, non-linear, political, intellectual
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Underworld (2003)
Plot Summary:
Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-loving male werewolf, Michael, who wants to end the war.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 282000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, dark, scary, futuristic, stylized, action packed, saga, visual, cult classic
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The Running Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed
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As the Gods Will (2014)
Plot Summary:
Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. He and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: surreal, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, manga, touching, visual, cult classic, aesthetic
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Remains (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on two lone survivors of a bizarre accident that reduced most of the world's population to zombies. They take refuge in a vacant casino and fight a losing battle against the undead.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, futuristic, scenic, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious
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Left Behind (2014)
Plot Summary:
A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful, biblical, suspense, christian film, apocalyptic, inspirational, spiritual