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Plot Summary:
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: christian film, intellectual, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, light, clever, enigmatic, unusual plot structure
Best tv shows and movies like Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998):
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Transmorphers: Fall of Man (2009)
Plot Summary:
In this prequel to Transmorphers -- a sci-fi thriller that borrows heavily from the plot of Transformers -- planet Earth is in peril thanks to a rogue army of alien robots, and it's up to a small group of humans to mount a crippling counterattack. Can Sheriff Hadley Ryan (Bruce Boxleitner), a doctor (Jennifer Rubin) and an ex-Marine (Shane Van Dyke) find the automatons' Achilles' heel before they.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, mockbuster, computer animated, apocalyptic
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Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2306… 12 years ago, Captain Kirk was swept away by the Nexus. One year later, Commander Scott was reported missing along with the USS Jenolen. The remaining USS Enterprise crew have split. Captain Spock and Doctor McCoy are on Khitomer, continuing their work towards peace the Klingon Empire. Captain Sulu and the Excelsior are on a mission beyond the Alpha Quadrant. Captain Chekov, feels his career has stalled, leaving him to ponder retirement. Captain Uhura, Director of Starfleet Linguistics, feels there may be something missing in her life.Now, Chekov and Uhura, with John Harriman, former Captain of the Enterprise-B, come together for the dedication of a new ship. However, their reunion is cut short when they receive a distress call from an all-too-familiar planet, where they meet up with an almost-forgotten face, and in an instant, something happens that presses the three friends to embark on a mission that will forever change their lives….
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, atmospheric, intellectual, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007)
Plot Summary:
This latest installment of Babylon 5 is in two parts: the first, is about an entity that has possessed a worker. It wants to be exorcised but Col. Lochley prevents the priest & sends it & the host both back to Earth. The second is about Galen trying to dupe President Sheridan into assassinating the future Centauri President to stop him possibly attacking Earth in 30 years time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, stylized, enigmatic, semi serious, breathtaking, intellectual, epic, saga, offbeat, bleak
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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, talky, stylized, intense, serious, bleak, suspenseful, clever, intellectual
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Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)
Plot Summary:
The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to find the culprit. Otherwise the space station will fail in its role to bring all the races together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, intellectual, epic, saga, serious, suspenseful, erotic, tense, light, sexy
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Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Plot Summary:
When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, atmospheric, stylized, apocalyptic, uplifting, epic, saga, futuristic, vintage
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Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
Plot Summary:
SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy aboard the Odyssey. The International Oversight committee have their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: witty, exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, futuristic, intense, epic, saga, fast
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Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, intellectual, exciting, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, light
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Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007)
Plot Summary:
A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, tense, serious, stylized, independent film, atmospheric, suspenseful, philosophical, thought provoking
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Wing Commander (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher Blair and Todd "Maniac" Marshall as they arrive at the Tiger Claw and are soon forced to stop a Kilrathi fleet heading towards Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, uplifting, action adventure, disgusting, fast, futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, serious, humorous
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Andromeda (2000)
Plot Summary:
Andromeda is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt. The series premiered on October 2, 2000 and ended on May 13, 2005. Andromeda was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and produced by Tribune Entertainment and Fireworks Entertainment. It was distributed by Global TV in Canada and syndicated in the United States on WGN and other channels. It was picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. halfway through season four. Andromeda is one of two TV series based upon concepts Roddenberry had created as early as the 1960s and 1970s. The name Dylan Hunt had also been used for the hero of two TV movie pilots Roddenberry had produced in the mid-1970s, Genesis II and Planet Earth, which had a similar premise. The other series posthumously created from Roddenberry's notes is Earth: Final Conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, apocalyptic, funny, retro, uplifting, serious, telenovela
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Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999)
Plot Summary:
Allies of the Shadows seek revenge against humanity. This movie sets up the series, "Crusade," the sequel to "Babylon 5.".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: intellectual, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, light, thought provoking, clever, enigmatic
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Babylon 5 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, it's goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, saga, suspense, philosophical, retro, uplifting, apocalyptic, futuristic, offbeat, bleak
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Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sixty days on and Rygel is retrieving pieces of John and Aeryn from the sea bed. The Diagnosan re-crystalises them and they start getting to know the local species. Meanwhile, Scorpius and Sikozu are aboard a Peacekeeper Command Carrier on a recon mission. They attack a Scarren ship, which provokes the Scarrens into declaring war on The Peacekeepers.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, witty, talky, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, intense, epic
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Space: Above and Beyond (1995)
Plot Summary:
Space: Above and Beyond is a short-lived mid-1990s American science fiction television show on the FOX Network, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. Originally planned for five seasons, it ran only for the single 1995–1996 season. It was nominated for two Emmy Awards and one Saturn Award. It was ranked "50" in IGN's top 50 Sci-Fi TV Shows, described as "yet another sci-fi show that went before its time". Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet fighters.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, cliffhanger, atmospheric, thrilling, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Crusade (1999)
Plot Summary:
Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped. To that end, the Victory class destroyer Excalibur has been sent out to look for anything that could help the search for a cure.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, thrilling, futuristic, exciting, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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Star Trek Continues (2013)
Plot Summary:
The USS Enterprise's historic five-year mission continues with all new episodes of the original series. "Star Trek: Continues", a new Trek series, beams down with exciting adventures of the Federation's most heroic crew led by Captain James T. Kirk. The lighting and color of the highly accurate sets accentuate the equally detailed props and costumes, matching the original series that ran from 1966-69! With acting and stories that also replicate the original series, the adventures are sure to dazzle even the most die hard Trek fans. Witness now the untold morality plays that explore the final frontier and more importantly... the human condition. Fans of the original series will especially enjoy the pilot episode as a familiar guest star from the original series reprises his role in a sequel entitled "Pilgrim of Eternity".
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, independent film, futuristic
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Plot Summary:
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired. The film and series were developed by Glen A. Larson and Leslie Stevens, based upon the character Buck Rogers created in 1928 by Philip Francis Nowlan that had previously been featured in comic strips, novellas, a serial film, and on television and radio.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, touching, saga, tense, captivating, uplifting, epic, apocalyptic
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Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cerebral, bleak, tense, talky, intense, exciting, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful
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Farscape (1999)
Plot Summary:
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, exciting, bleak, cliffhanger, funny, retro, uplifting, mysterious, apocalyptic
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998)
Plot Summary:
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, christian film, intellectual, tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy, lovecraft
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Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating, stylized, anime, mecha
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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
Plot Summary:
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Gou'ald kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Gou'ald hosts.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic
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Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Plot Summary:
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. This film is adapted from a television series that aired on ABC from September 17, 1978, to August 17, 1980. The first and fifth episodes of the series were edited into this theatrical feature film. Taken together, the two episodes ran 148 minutes, without commercials, while the film runs 125 minutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychotronic, epic, stylized, vintage, tv series pilot, cult film
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Star Trek (2009)
Plot Summary:
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 616000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: futuristic, epic, stylized, exciting, entertaining, intellectual, action packed, visually stunning, intense, suspenseful
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Plot Summary:
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate, where his closest colleagues are Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), squadron leader Col. Wilma Deering (former model Erin Gray, looking oh-so-foxy), the wisecracking robot Twiki (voiced by cartoon legend Mel Blanc), and a portable computer-brain named Dr. Theopolis, who's carried by Twiki like oversized bling-bling.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, uplifting, saga, cult classic, futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012)
Plot Summary:
The first Cylon war has been raging for 10 years and a young Ensign William Adama joins the fleet. He's disappointed not to be assigned to a fighter but to a freighter, and his co-pilot isn't too keen on having a rookie flying his aircraft as he has only a short time before he again becomes a civilian. Their cargo is a civilian scientist, Dr. Becca Kelly, but they no sooner leave than she has new orders for them and a new destination. Although she’s less than forthcoming about the details of her mission, Adama is keen, particularly as it involves going into Cylon controlled space. However, nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, light, entertaining, tense, intense, serious, suspenseful, action packed, stylized
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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002)
Plot Summary:
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, futuristic, stylized, bleak, serious, suspenseful, exciting, intellectual, epic, saga
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Stargate: Continuum (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: clever, entertaining, suspenseful, exciting, futuristic, epic, saga, serious, light, romantic
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Dune (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence—a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential—only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 733000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense, captivating, tense, atmospheric, visual, action adventure, philosophical, futuristic, visually stunning