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Plot Summary:
A Mexican science fiction film where the over-population problem has been solved by programming people to operate in either day or night, and not both.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: intellectual, surprise ending
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The Lifeforce Experiment (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sciene fiction directed by Piers Haggard.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Limb Salesman (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel Goode is The Limb Salesman-- a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, and Goode is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Centrespread (1981)
Plot Summary:
The story of a photographer's struggle in the glamorous world of nude modelling.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Penitent Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Penitent Man tells the story of psychologist Dr. Jason Pyatt, a man devoted to his work - a man torn from his family. With his struggling marriage and mounting bills, Jason is at a crossroads with the life he has chosen and the life he could have. When one of his clients - the mysterious Mr. Darnell - walks into his office and paints him a repentant tale of future economic and moral collapse, Jason's eyes are forever opened. With the help of his best friend Ovid, he embarks on a personal mission to change the course of his future, and possibly the world, forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, realistic
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Target (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2020, a group of wealthy Moscovites travel to an abandoned astrophysics complex, rumoured to have enough power to halt the process of aging.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, realistic, mind bending, serious, independent film
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Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
Plot Summary:
Record store clerk Nick Brady begins to experience strange visions from an entity he calls VALIS that cause him to uproot his family and move to Los Angeles where he becomes a successful music company executive. Nick finds himself drawn into a dangerous political-mystical conspiracy of cosmic proportions.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, surreal, semi serious, atmospheric, spiritual, offbeat, humorous, contemplative
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Realive (2016)
Plot Summary:
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, captivating, mind bending, realistic, surreal
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Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
Plot Summary:
This movie is about a rocket pilot named Pirx who is hired to go on a mission to evaluate some nonlinears (robots) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and his crew, made up of nonlinears and humans, are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn. Upon returning to Earth there is an inquest to determine if Pirx was responsible for the "accident." In the end, it is found that one of the robots caused the malfunction in an attempt to kill the human crewmembers and Pirx is cleared of all charges. In this tale Lem puts forth the idea that what is perceived a human weakness is in fact an advantage over a perfect machine. Pirx defeats the robot, because a human can hesitate, make wrong decisions, have doubts, but a robot cannot. A similar idea is present in Isaac Asimov's Robot Series, where putting a robot in a position where it cannot chose between the Three laws of robotics fries its positronic brain.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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Terminus (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following a near-fatal accident, David Chamberlain makes an unprecedented discovery that will not only determine the fate of his family, but of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, mind bending, apocalyptic
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The Coming Days (2010)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter Kuper, an energy conglomerate executive. Walter’s daughter, Cecilia, has joined the Black Storm terrorist group. Her sister Laura must choose between motherhood and the man she loves; their brother Philip has been called into fight for Germany in a hopeless war to secure the last remaining oil fields. Starring leading actors Daniel Brühl, Johanna Wokalek and Jürgen Vogel, "The Days to Come" asks provocative questions about the current state of things as it depicts personal and political realities in a scarily believable near–future.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, bleak, captivating, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
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The Gladiators (1969)
Plot Summary:
Some time in the future, East and West have stopped maintaining standing armies and nuclear weapons. Instead, to settle their differences they pit different teams of crack combat specialists against each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: mysterious, independent film, thought provoking, serious, captivating, contemplative, stylized
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Rain Without Thunder (1992)
Plot Summary:
This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, journalists and other key figures discuss Allison's case, they reveal how American society reached this totalitarian state.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film, thought provoking, bleak, serious, futuristic, realistic, disturbing, political drama
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White Dwarf (1995)
Plot Summary:
In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting halves of eternal day vs. eternal night. One is a Victorian-styled colony, the other a medieval kingdom. Both leave Rampart in a state of constant wonder, as he finds his way among humans and aliens, strange dreams and even stranger reality, a dark keep and a red sea, and more universal matters of war and peace, good and bad, love and hate and sickness and health.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, serious, futuristic
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Advantageous (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, futuristic, bleak, serious, captivating, existential, psychological, realistic, apocalyptic, cyber
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Executive Order (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Sleep Dealer (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, futuristic, mindfuck, apocalyptic, existential, mind bending, intellectual
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Brave New World (1980)
Plot Summary:
An acclaimed TV miniseries based on the classic sci-fi novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, philosophical, tech noir, frightening
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Blueprint (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also herself, beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom, in this way, she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being. In fact a blueprint: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment on nothing is as it was before.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, sincere
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Where Have All the People Gone (1974)
Plot Summary:
A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, spooky, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, crying, psychotronic, corny
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Days of Eclipse (1988)
Plot Summary:
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: spiritual, poetic, avant garde
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Hard to Be a God (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position. As if the question were: what would you do in God's place? Director's statement Aleksei wanted to make this film his entire life. The road was a long one. This is not a film about cruelty, but about love. A love that was there, tangible, alive, and that resisted through the hardest of conditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: surreal, thought provoking, serious, black and white, philosophical, art house, captivating, futuristic, dark, realistic
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A.I. Rising (2018)
Plot Summary:
On a lonely mission to Alpha Centauri, Milutin is teamed up with Nimani 1345, a female cyborg designed to fulfill his every need. At first thrilled to be able to control her, Sebastian grows tired of having his desires fulfilled so easily. Longing for human intimacy, Sebastian alters Nimani's programmed responses, but in doing so he risks the mission's security — and his own life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Serbia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, sentimental, intellectual, cyber, corny, cult film
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Clara (2018)
Plot Summary:
An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, romantic, enigmatic, breathtaking, mystical, touching, spiritual, realistic, powerful
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Proximity (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young NASA JPL scientist is abducted by extraterrestrials but when no one believes his story he becomes obsessed with finding proof which leads him on a journey of discovery.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, intellectual, mysterious, captivating, independent film
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Contagion (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st Century, terrorists have developed a new way to strike: disease. Not only have they created a deadly Level Four Ebola virus, their first victim is the President of the United States. The virus is particularly contagious and is spreading. If a cure cannot be found, the only chance for saving the world from epidemic is for the army to destroy the hospital and the town where the victims, including the President, are currently contained. The clock is ticking. As doctors search for a cure the military seeks to annihilate them all in a race to stop the deadly path of the contagion. Can the spread be stopped before its too late?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, intellectual, disaster movie
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Puzzlehead (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter has longed for. The resulting sci-fi love triangle is a Frankensteinian fable that traps all three in a web of deception and the ultimate betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense, surreal, cyber, bleak, independent film
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Replicas (2018)
Plot Summary:
A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China, Puerto Rico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, intellectual, futuristic, clever, psychotronic, philosophical, sentimental, grindhouse, smart, cyber
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A Distant Thunder (1978)
Plot Summary:
Patty is lying awake one night in a church basement, distraught and scared. She is to be executed the next morning for refusing to take the Mark of the Beast. Patty knows what lies ahead if she takes the mark but can still not believe in Christ.When those around her try to comfort her and encourage her to accept the Lord, she lashes out at them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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No Blade of Grass (1970)
Plot Summary:
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them. Adaptation of John Christopher's novel The Death of Grass (1956).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, offbeat, depressing, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, tense, bleak, serious, captivating
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Plot Summary:
A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 319000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, philosophical, sentimental, fairy tale, intellectual, atmospheric, captivating, touching, futuristic, tech noir