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Plot Summary:
In this post-apocalyptic-western, Alexander Dante has lived the past 10 years in exile for the killing of Edwin, his beloved brother. Then one day he's astounded to receive a letter, purportedly from Edwin. The letter states Edwin now lives in the distant village shown on the enclosed map. At first, Alexander dismisses the letter as a hoax but there's something about the letter that rings true. He treks through a hard and hostile land that at long last opens up into a tranquil village. There, he's stunned to confront the impossible: his brother is very much alive. Alexander is overjoyed to see his brother but he is tormented as he knows he has killed him. Now Alexander must root out the truth -- whatever the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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West of Thunder (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1899, a mysterious stranger's arrival on the outskirts of the Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation seems to coincide with a series of horrific events that closely mirror the atrocity brought to the Lakota natives during the Wounded Knee Massacre.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, spiritual
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The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998)
Plot Summary:
The time is the 21st century, after the fall of the Galactic Republic. Technology is at a standstill, families have been dismantled, and those who have survived the destruction now live in a savage age ruled by evil warlords. When a young sister of an outlaw is kidnapped and held captive in another galaxy, an interplanetary scheme is hatched - one that threatens the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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5 Card Stud (1968)
Plot Summary:
The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: retro, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, light, clever, enigmatic, feel good
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The Tangle (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, The Tangle, an A.I. utilising airborne nanotech, connects the world. It is a benevolent guardian, returning law and order to society. To ensure that The Tangle never turns rogue, a government agency watches over the tech from within safe rooms, locations impermeable to the nanobots that make up The Tangle. When field agent Margot Foster is found dead in one of these rooms, the agency needs to investigate the first murder in years.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Prototype (1983)
Plot Summary:
An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tech noir
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Meteo (1990)
Plot Summary:
Eckermann called Little Cloud, works in the Meteorological Office, but prefers to daydream in his bathtub. On his office computer he elaborates an absolute method for safe winning.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Heatwave! (1974)
Plot Summary:
The residents of an isolated mountain town must band together to survive during a devastating heat wave.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Wild Horses (2015)
Plot Summary:
Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case, and uncovers evidence that suggests that the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs. When Scott’s estranged son unexpectedly returns home during the investigation, Samantha becomes even more convinced that the Briggs family was involved, and will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy’s death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, detective, neo western
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Mayday (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war. Even though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she realizes that she's not the killer they want her to be, and times running out for her to get home.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surreal, anamorphic
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (2001)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Drama, Family, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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The Scent of Rain & Lightning (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to revisit old wounds while discovering the destructive power of hate and the true cost of family secrets fully revealing themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, extraordinary
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Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? (2014)
Plot Summary:
Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, spiritual, saga, patriotic, epic, contemplative
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The Immortal Wars: Rebirth (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rebirth takes place during the early brutal stages of Dominion Industries. In this story watch Olive and other deviants undergo a series of deadly experiments lead by Laurie Harvey and her team.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
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Lockdown 2025 (2021)
Plot Summary:
When martial law is declared, a family seeks shelter in the safety of its own home during a nationwide lockdown for a highly contagious virus.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Deal (2022)
Plot Summary:
A mother fights to save her ailing daughter after a global pandemic worse than any seen before ravaged the planet, leaving resources so scarce you must pay for them with your life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Rapture (1991)
Plot Summary:
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God — only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, psychological, biblical, philosophical, stylized, talky, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful
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The Man Called Noon (1973)
Plot Summary:
Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune hidden somewhere. Niland, a scheming judge, and Peg Cullane, a greedy will do everything to prevent Noon and Rimes from achieving their end while Fan Davidge, a woman living in a ghost town, will support them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: UK, Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
Plot Summary:
Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, brutal, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, historical drama, spaghetti western, wild
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Lone Star (1996)
Plot Summary:
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: neo western, witty, tense, sincere, touching, realistic, philosophical, neo noir, cerebral, independent film
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Breaking Free (1995)
Plot Summary:
When troubled, cynical teen Rick chooses service at a camp for the blind over serving time at a correctional facility, he thinks he's found the easy way out. Instead, it's the way to a new life. Friendship. Step by step, as Rick helps a blinded Gymnast rediscover the joys of competition through equestrian show jumping, they begin to take control of the most important journey of all... a journey called life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, realistic, semi serious
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I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
Plot Summary:
After the human race has been wiped out, Del lives in an empty town, content in his solitude and the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until he meets young Grace, who wants to stay with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, surprise ending, bleak, dark, suspenseful, visually stunning, road movie, sad, realistic
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Brimstone (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the menacing inferno of the old American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, UK, USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: suspense, brutal, epic, costume drama, disturbing, dark, psychological, southern gothic, period piece, cult classic
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Breakheart Pass (1975)
Plot Summary:
At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, entertaining, intense, rough, serious, crime thriller, realistic
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Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
Plot Summary:
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: philosophical, stylized, serious, futuristic, talky, captivating, thought provoking, spiritual, apocalyptic, patriotic
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Quintet (1979)
Plot Summary:
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, grindhouse, disgusting, psychotronic
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Embers (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social, realistic
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Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)
Plot Summary:
The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to the mounting energy crisis - found abandoned amongst ruins, a miraculous motor that could seemingly power the World. But, the motor is dead... there is no one left to decipher its secret... and, someone is watching. It’s a race against the clock to find the inventor and stop the destroyer before the motor of the World is stopped for good. A motor that would power the World. A World whose motor would be stopped. Who is John Galt?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, philosophical, absurd, thought provoking, serious, captivating, spiritual, political, saga, patriotic
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Ever Since the World Ended (2001)
Plot Summary:
Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain. Two of them use jury-rigged batteries to power a camera and make a documentary. We see a variety of approaches to survival, from the artist and engineer who trade for their needs, to the surfers and woodsmen who fish and hunt, to the scavengers, and a communal farm. We also see how the community deals with those who threaten it, and how the youth are growing up with different values from those who knew our world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, bleak, serious, sincere, atmospheric, suspense, realistic, independent film, thought provoking
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Last Light (2022)
Plot Summary:
Separated across continents, petro-chemist Andy Yeats and his family must survive the deadly effects of a sudden global oil crisis and find the mastermind behind it all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags:
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High Plains Drifter (1973)
Plot Summary:
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, brutal, rough, serious, black comedy, realistic