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Plot Summary:
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Action, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: cyber, weird, cult film
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Riot Girls (2019)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate 1995, a mysterious disease has wiped out all of the adults. In this new age, two gangs are pitted against each other in a brutal war for territory, resources and survival. .
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, brutal, rough, colorful, queer cinema, colourful
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Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young boy gets jolted with electricity as he's climbing a cable pylon. As he gets older, he experiences intense fits of violence in which bolts of electricity burst from his fists. Elsewhere in Tokyo, there is an electronics wizard who also happens to be a vigilante with a taste for electric weapons. When the pair catch each others attention, the result is a battle that will light up the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, art house, black and white, deep, twisted, offbeat
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Dead or Alive: Final (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi) is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō (Show Aikawa) is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, exciting, rough, serious, stylized, suspenseful, heroic, cyber, crime drama
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Death Powder (1986)
Plot Summary:
Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a reality-altering substance, which casts them into a frightening nether-world of interconnected subjectivity.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: cyber, controversial, experimental, avant garde, psychotronic
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Droid Gunner (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the future, the threat of global takeover by cyborg units has forced Earth to outlaw their use. But when four female androids are smuggled to Earth, Jack Ford is assigned to track them down. An adventurous chase takes him from the mean streets of Phoenix to the depths of New Angeles, an underwater city, and into the diabolical clutches of a maniacal kingpin and his criminal army.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Heatseeker (1995)
Plot Summary:
A kickboxing champion is forced to fight cyborgs in a tournament when the company kidnaps his fiancee.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, independent film
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Legend Of The Roller Blade Seven (1992)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world where rollerblading is the chief means of travel, the evil Pharoah sends his minions outside the Wheel Zone to abduct a psychic. The psychic has been trained in the way of the samurai, but has shunned her training to become a Passive. Once abducted, her brother joins forces with others to try and rescue her, but they face many challenges from the Dark Side.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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RoboGeisha (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, futuristic, captivating, surreal, splatter, entertaining, bloody, cyber, horror comedy
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Casshern (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: stylized, intense, exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, anime, cerebral, cyber, mindfuck, futuristic
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Kill Mode (2020)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2027, eight years after the first outbreak of The Sickness, a highly contagious, adaptive and lethal virus. The world is now run by a pharmaceutical corporation called The Company, which distributes a treatment for the virus but charges a high price for it, putting the majority of people in a state of poverty and dependence.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Robo Warriors (1996)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2036 and Earth has been invaded: hope lies with the last Robo Warrior - a towering fighting machine.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mecha, independent film
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Battletruck (1982)
Plot Summary:
It’s the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of Corlie, who has run away from the villainous Straker, he takes her to the peaceful community of Clearwater. Unfortunately for the citizens of Clearwater, Straker fully intends to get Corlie back.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, retro, road movie, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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TC 2000 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in the future the environmental overkill had come. Many people had died. The rich were able to build the underworld, the poor had to stay on the surface building gangs to survive. Jason Storm, an underworld guard gets knowledge of a conspiracy to kill all people on the surface. He needs to flee to the surface, and wins Sumai, a respected martial arts master, as his ally to stop the dirty plot.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, futuristic
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The Blood of Heroes (1989)
Plot Summary:
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. However now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl he and his team find they have one last chance for glory.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, apocalyptic, intense, exciting, serious, cult classic, futuristic, cyber, perverse, action packed
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Prototype (1992)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles - 2057 - a lawless, war-torn terrain and home to Chandra, a beautiful but deadly young woman, and Hawkiins, a tough ex-soldier whose career was terminated by crippling wounds. No longer lovers, the pair still share erotic and disturbing psychosexual derams. After a brilliant research scientist experiments on Hawkins, he is dramatically transformed into the Prototype - half-man, half-robotic machine and all-warrior. But, when the experiment gets badly out of control, the deadly Prototype escapes and goes hunting for Chandra, his prime target for elimination. In an explosive climax, the ultimate battle commences to determine whether mankind or machines will survive to rule the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, experimental
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Programmed to Kill (1987)
Plot Summary:
International terrorist leader, Fatima, is critically injured when she attempts to hijack a jumbo jet and is thwarted by Eric Matthews and his anti-terrorist organization, The Retaliators. Fatima is taken to a top-secret research institute, where she is turned into a lethal cyborg and programmed to hunt down the members of her own terrorist group. In the heat of battle, her computerized brain malfunctions, and she turns her lethal vengeance on the Retaliators. Now Eric Matthews and his team must match human cunning against deadly technology.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Gunhed (1989)
Plot Summary:
High-concept Sci-Fi adventure about an island that actually is a computer called Kyron 5, itself created to design and manufacture super-advanced robots to be used as slaves for the rest of the world. One day Kyron decides that human beings are unnecessary, so it declares war on the world. But Kyron cannot be tamed, and after many lives are lost in the attempt, mankind decides to leave Kyron to its own devices.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cyber, apocalyptic, mecha, futuristic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Cherry 2000 (1987)
Plot Summary:
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of 'The Zone', Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, cult classic, apocalyptic, grindhouse, futuristic, road movie, psychotronic, tech noir, cyber, serious
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The Gene Generation (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic world, Michelle lives everyday battling with DNA Hackers who use their skills to hack into people's bodies and kill them. She is an assassin, trying to keep her younger brother, Jackie, out of trouble. When Jackie gets involved in a petty crime of robbery, he propels himself into the world of DNA Hackers, Shylocks (Loan Sharks) and Gangs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Singapore, South Korea, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, cyber, futuristic, apocalyptic, action adventure, neo noir
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Stryker (1983)
Plot Summary:
The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make her talk through brutal torture. The hero (Stryker) unites with some of the remaining "good guys" and the Amazons and frees the woman. They go on to a "Road Warrior" type of concluding battle with the bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Cybernator (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the future, an L.A. cop whose girlfriend is a stripper uncovers a conspiracy concerning killer cyborgs.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Robot Wars (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2041, the rebel Centros are a plague to the survivors of the great toxic gas scare of 1993. A renegade Megarobot pilot and an archaeologist must team up (despite personal differences, a reluctant romance, and official pressure to cease and desist) to thwart the Centro's attempts to resurrect a hidden Megarobot, with which they can challenge the prevailing order.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, cult classic, mecha, cult film
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A.P.E.X. (1994)
Plot Summary:
A time-travel experiment in which a robot probe is sent from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes terribly wrong thrusting one of the project scientists,into a plague ravaged alternate time-line whose war weary inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots from the future.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, independent film, serious
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Radioactive Dreams (1984)
Plot Summary:
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, stylized, apocalyptic, surreal, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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Road Wars (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the earth’s water supply is depleted, the survivors form roving road gangs, armed to the teeth and desperate to find and protect water supplies. But when a new breed of blood-drinking humans emerges, the survivors must contend with a whole new threat to their existence.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockbuster, disaster movie
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Shepherd (1998)
Plot Summary:
aka Cybercity It's the year 2017, the Earth's surface is destroyed and its citizens flee to an underground wasteland ruled by warring religious cults. In this sinful cybercity, Mercenary Dakota's (C. Thomas Howell) family is murdered by a perverse virtual prophet (Roddy Piper) bent on world domination. Seeking justice, Dakota, beautiful assissin Lilith (Heidi Von Palleske) and an arsenal of hi-tech weaponry battle for the Earth's most precious resource - Humanity. It's time for the false prophets to meek their makers! Packed with innovative special effects and teeth-clenching action, "CyberCity" will make you rethink the millennium.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Defense Condition 4 (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, action adventure, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, unusual plot structure
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Returner (2002)
Plot Summary:
After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly (Anne Suzuki), travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro), to discover and prevent the start of the war. However, trouble ensues when the two protagonists are forced to deal with a Japanese mafia boss, named Mizoguchi (Goro Kishitani), who is somehow involved in the start of the war by keeping the first alien spaceship and its alien pilot captive, while our two heroes race against the clock to find a way to stop the oncoming destruction from the vengeance-seeking alien invasion fleet on its way to Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, cult classic, stylized, futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, scenic, cyber, serious, fast
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity are advised by the Oracle to find the Keymaker who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo's recurrent dreams depicting Trinity's death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 621000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: saga, philosophical, futuristic, reflective, mind bending, cyber, exciting, stylized, action packed, cerebral
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Plot Summary:
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 536000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, cyber, saga, action packed, epic, bad ending, apocalyptic, bleak, suspenseful