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Plot Summary:
A science-fiction story of a billionaire's private space exploration program returning to Earth with an abducted extraterrestrial from a newly discovered alien planet.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, apocalyptic
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Royal Kill (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fearsome warrior from the Kingdom of Samarza arrives in America to assassinate a high school girl. The girl does not know it, but she is the last living heir to the Kingdom. A noble guard arrives in America to protect the young princess.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Martian Land (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, mankind lives on Mars, in cities that resemble those once found on Earth, protected from the alien atmosphere by dome-like force-fields. When a massive sandstorm breaks through the dome and destroys Mars New York, those in Mars Los Angeles must figure out how to stop the storm before it wipes them out next.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockbuster, apocalyptic, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
War of the Worlds: Annihilation (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mother and son find themselves faced with a brutal alien invasion where survival will depend on discovering the unthinkable truth about the enemy.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, harsh, mockbuster
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Beyond The Sky (2018)
Plot Summary:
A documentary filmmaker travels to a UFO convention in New Mexico where he meets a local artist with a dark secret. As they follow a trail of clues they discover disturbing sightings and question all they believe when they become immersed in the enigmatic culture of the Pueblo Indians.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, disclosure, tense, captivating, suspense, intense, documentary filmmaking
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Four Assassins (2011)
Plot Summary:
Four assassins meet in a hotel suite to resolve unfinished business. A tense drama set in the cosmopolitan world of Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, crime drama, realistic, contemplative, talky, stylized
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Die Fighting (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a team of Shaolin-trained kung fu actors is about to get their break in Hollywood, a mysterious and sadistic Director forces them to run a gauntlet through Los Angeles. The Director films their every move as they prove their prowess by provoking a rogues' gallery of underworld thugs and martial artists.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, twisted
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The Devil's Dominoes (2008)
Plot Summary:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Incoming (2018)
Plot Summary:
The International Space Station is now a prison - the ultimate black site. No one's getting out. And no one knows it's there. But when the imprisoned terrorists take over the Station and turn it into a missile aimed at Moscow, only a shuttle pilot and a rookie doctor can stop them. Their task is complicated by a rogue CIA agent (Scott Adkins) who has his own plans for the station and the terrorists within.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Serbia, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, rough
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Showdown at Area 51 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two aliens who crash on Earth must find a buried weapon that will destroy the planet and their own society if not stopped.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, tense
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2012: Damnation (2011)
Plot Summary:
A UFO is shot down over Russia in the 1970s and the wreckage is taken to a secret research facility. When the Soviet Union collapses, the alien technology falls into the hands of a mysterious terrorist organisation, which uses it to create a devastating doomsday weapon. A team of secret agents is sent to stop the carnage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful
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Misfire (2014)
Plot Summary:
WKBA kickboxing champion and hard-action star Gary Daniels (The Expendables) takes to the screen in a border-crossing, barrier smashing all-action explosion that pits his will to live against the merciless murder machine of a Mexican drug cartel. Hardened DEA agent Cole finds himself sucked into the deadly underworld of Tijuanna in search of his ex-wife, a journalist who may have gone too far in search of a story. She’s been abducted by a charismatic Cartel boss who publicly aspires to public office while privately slaughtering anyone who gets in his way. Now, in a place where two cultures clash and life is cheaper than bullets, Cole is about to discover the cost of shooting to kill when you Misfire.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 819
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Path of Destruction (2005)
Plot Summary:
The movie opens with a faulty nanotechnology experiment that results in a massive, deadly explosion. The company's CEO manages to sidestep blame by framing a meddling young reporter (Katherine), who now holds the only surviving evidence needed to expose the truth. All the while, the dangerous nanoparticles - having escaped from the explosion into the stratosphere - threaten to destroy nearby cities with wildly destructive weather patterns. Among the chaos of the storms, and on the run from the authorities, Katherine must - with the help of a young scientist - get the evidence to the government to enlist their help before it's too late...and the deadly disaster turns worldwide.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Invasion Roswell (2013)
Plot Summary:
After the American Army shot down a UFO in 1947, generations of elite commandos were secretly trained to deal with the aliens' feared return. However, the extra-terrestrials never came back and the elite force was disbanded. Sixty-six years after the Roswell crash, the aliens are invading Earth and only the over-the-hill retired commandos can stop them.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, tense, apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, serious
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Dominion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Earth's position in the universe has become of vital strategic importance to those who have, until now, only studied us from the far reaches of space. Knowing our weaknesses, they have planned their attack, and now, in just 5 days, life on Earth will change forever. Robert Casey, a retired US Intelligence agent turned UFO investigator, races to discover the truth about the Dominion and what it has in store for the human race. Time is running out.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Survivor (2014)
Plot Summary:
During their search for a habitable planet the last living humans crash-land on a barren world, inhabited by bloodthirsty aliens and mysterious post-apocalyptic warriors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, exciting, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic
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Body Armour (2007)
Plot Summary:
A burned-out bodyguard is hired to protect the man he hates the most: an international assassin who destroyed his career and ruined his life. Forced to put his personal feelings on hold, the bodyguard must use all his skills and years of experience to keep the assassin alive in the face of constant danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Stash House (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, dark, serious, realistic
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Judicial Indiscretion (2007)
Plot Summary:
Monica Barrett, a successful Federal judge, learns she is on the President's shortlist to fill the new vacant spot on the Supreme Court. When her lover turns out to be a male prostitute, Monica's life is shattered by blackmail and sexual intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Terrible Angels (2012)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to question, leaving Ben to decide whether to go on with the investigation or leave Linda to the fate of the prison system.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological, realistic
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Pig (2011)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes up alone in the middle of the desert with a black hood on his head and his hands tied behind his back. At death's door, he is discovered by a woman living alone in the desert and is nursed back to health. Upon regaining consciousness, the man realizes he has amnesia, and has no idea who he is. His only clue, a piece of paper in his pocket with the name "Manny Elder" on it, sends him on a journey to Los Angeles to discover his past. But things and people are not what they seem and clues lead to something bigger and more unusual than the man could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, surprise ending, captivating, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, twisted, mind bending, serious, independent film
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The Phoenix Incident (2015)
Plot Summary:
A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, mockumentary, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, fake documentary
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City Under Siege (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sunny is a naïve circus performer who dreams of inheriting his father's knife-throwing skills. However, his hostile colleagues continue to bully him, relegating him to a lowly clown. On a tour to Malaysia, Cheung and other performers discover a cave occupied by the Japanese army during World War II. Instead of finding treasure, the performers - including Sunny - are sprayed with a mysterious chemical that turns them into superhuman mutants.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 984
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, crime drama, offbeat, humorous, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Fall of Hyperion (2008)
Plot Summary:
A NASA scientist discovers that a group meteorites is heading towards Earth. Along the way, they will collide with the space station Hyperion, whose 12 astronauts are trapped and inside which there is a thermonuclear heart.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Drone Wars (2016)
Plot Summary:
When drones arrive in a flash, slaughtering humanity and stripping the Earth of its resources, a small team of scientists hiding in Los Angeles works to expel the drone menace once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Seeds of Destruction (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the seeds from the original Garden of Eden are carelessly released into today's toxic climate, the plant is transformed by our contaminated environment into a writhing mass of foliage that wreaks havoc over earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, psychotronic, disaster movie
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End of the World (2018)
Plot Summary:
As mass of solar storms causes tsunamis, volcanoes, and flooding, a city-dwelling family attempts to flee to the relative safety of a group of high-elevation caves several miles away.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, apocalyptic, exciting, suspense, intense, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Pandemic (2009)
Plot Summary:
A slow-paced, action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, disaster movie, awful
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Crawl or Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, space horror, captivating, suspense
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Terminal Invasion (2002)
Plot Summary:
Aliens in human disguise commandeer a rural airport during a snowstorm. To survive, the people trapped inside must determine which of their own is not of this Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, exciting, suspense, tense, disturbing, fast, cult film
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Knowing (2009)
Plot Summary:
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 245000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, twist ending, surprise ending, thought provoking, absurd, mindfuck