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Plot Summary:
In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, cyber, low-budget
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The Prize of Peril (1983)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: mysterious, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cynical
Similar in 78%
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004)
Plot Summary:
France. A near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, stylized, controversial, apocalyptic, surprise ending, independent film
Similar in 86%
A Violent Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the learned petit-bourgeois from Bastia, shift from delinquency to political radicalization and then to clandestinity, comes back to his mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Death Watch (1980)
Plot Summary:
Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular TV series, "Death Watch".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: tech noir, cult classic, psychological, bleak, serious, neo noir, futuristic, disturbing, vintage
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Dropa (2019)
Plot Summary:
A government assassin comes out of retirement to hunt down the alien responsible for killing the former members of his team.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, independent film, action adventure, contemplative
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Escape From Raqqa (2019)
Plot Summary:
Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, so he plans with some friends a high-risk extraction operation to get his family back.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Turkey
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Black Road (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 2029, a cyborg drifter risks his life to protect a woman from her demented ex. Set in a lawless coastal town after Oregon secedes from the Union.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cyber, futuristic
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Chrysalis (2007)
Plot Summary:
Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak, futuristic, cyber, thought provoking, medical drama, serious, stylized
Similar in 87%
Omega Doom (1996)
Plot Summary:
After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of weapons. One robot, his evil circuits destroyed, enters a small town where a robot civil war is taking place.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, cyber, grindhouse, independent film, neo western, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Close Enemies (2018)
Plot Summary:
Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense, crime drama
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LX 2048 (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Lithuania, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, thought provoking, touching, unusual plot structure, suspense
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Immortal (2004)
Plot Summary:
New York City in the year 2095 where genetically altered humans live side by side with unaltered men and women.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, dark fantasy, absurd, atmospheric, cyber, mindfuck, psychotronic
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Looker (1981)
Plot Summary:
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, futuristic, psychological, serious, erotic, cult classic, surprise ending, exciting
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Kafka (1991)
Plot Summary:
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, black and white, philosophical, cerebral, cult classic, mindfuck, dark comedy, psychological, atmospheric, stylized
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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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, mindfuck, intellectual, suspense, philosophical, apocalyptic, tense, thought provoking, bloody
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Canal Street (2018)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, spiritual, sad, independent film
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Air (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind struggle to preserve their own sanity and lives while administering to the vital task at hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, dark, ambiguous ending, apocalyptic, futuristic, tense, light, thought provoking, enigmatic
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Virtuality (2009)
Plot Summary:
Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. But as the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them to question if someone onboard might be a killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, space horror, intellectual, cyber, serious, stylized
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Planet Earth (1974)
Plot Summary:
Planet Earth is a sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II (1973) made-for-TV movie, in which a NASA scientist, Dylan Hunt, is revived from suspended animation in the post-nuclear war United States. In Planet Earth, Dylan is now a sworn member of PAX, the colony of people who revived him. Dylan and his PAX team find another colony which is ruled by women and where all men are slaves. He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and organizes a rebellion. Dylan once again has a profound influence in the new world that he finds himself in, in the year 2233.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, exciting, offbeat, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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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.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking, apocalyptic, non stop action, harsh, sincere, bloody
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Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Plot Summary:
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, tense, surprise ending, captivating, grindhouse, psychotronic, philosophical, corny
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Nirvana (1997)
Plot Summary:
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cyber, apocalyptic, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
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Strange Days (1995)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: tech noir, futuristic, cyber, serious, mindfuck, psychological, neo noir, noir, suspense, apocalyptic
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Automata (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic, cyber, suspense, retro, mind bending, experimental
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Impostor (2001)
Plot Summary:
Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, psychological thriller, thought provoking, cyber, mindfuck, intense
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THX 1138 (1971)
Plot Summary:
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: bleak, philosophical, mindfuck, thought provoking, futuristic, psychological, cult classic, talky, apocalyptic, serious
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Elysium (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max (Matt Damon) is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 466000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cyber, serious, stylized, exciting, political, captivating, bleak, suspenseful, entertaining
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Gattaca (1997)
Plot Summary:
Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 318000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: futuristic, thought provoking, intellectual, neo noir, psychological, philosophical, suspenseful, clever, mindfuck, visually stunning
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V for Vendetta (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: futuristic, philosophical, stylized, captivating, intense, exciting, neo noir, political, visually stunning, visual
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Equilibrium (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 343000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: futuristic, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric, clever, cerebral, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cult classic