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Plot Summary:
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, allegory, avant garde, art house
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The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981)
Plot Summary:
Film opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the crowds how to welcome the invaders.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surreal, allegory, corny, cult film
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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004)
Plot Summary:
France. A near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, stylized, controversial, apocalyptic, surprise ending, independent film
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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (2005)
Plot Summary:
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which leads to death. They have no way of fighting against this infection filled with fear and despair. The media calls the disease "the Lemming Syndrome".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: experimental, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, futuristic, allegory
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A Time of Roses (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2011, historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model, Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Kamikaze 1989 (1982)
Plot Summary:
In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: art house, parody, intellectual, detective
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The Broken Key (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a near future, due to the effects of an uncompromising law on the eco-sustainability of supports, paper has become a rare item, a luxury possession, controlled by the "Big Z": Zimurgh Corporation.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Golem (1980)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters are already there as the species of the future - but one of them is suspected by the doctors of being a human being. That is Golem in reverse.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, bleak, serious, futuristic, stylized, psychotronic, eighties
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Run Like Hell (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the year of 2008, war and sickness have overtaken the planet. The deranged government declares single women a threat to the human race. Singles women are imprisoned. The corrupt warden is determined to keep the prisoners locked up.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Aftershock (1990)
Plot Summary:
An alien visits Earth during World War III, learns English by absorbing a dictionary, and meets good and bad earthlings.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, 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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Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st century, prisoners aboard penitentiary space ships explore unknown worlds. Scope, one of the prisoners is sent on a planet though to be lifeless, until he found "Humans" on it.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mysterious, apocalyptic, bizarre, cult film
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Recon 2020: The Caprini Massacre (2004)
Plot Summary:
Soldiers land on Caprini and confront diabolical villains.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, stylized, apocalyptic, bleak, independent film
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The Last Battle (1983)
Plot Summary:
The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" (played by Jean Reno) on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black and white, bleak, apocalyptic, atmospheric, experimental, stylized, retro, anamorphic, serious, suspenseful
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The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
Plot Summary:
Many years after a nuclear war destroyed much of human kind, the survivors have created a new society where much of the work done by artificial beings referred to derisively by humans as "clickers". Humans are producing fewer and fewer children and are less than a year away from having more artificial beings than humans. Most vociferous about the evolving situation is the Order of Flesh and Blood, an organization that is out to ensure that humans remain dominant. Among them is Capt. Kenneth Cragis who becomes very concerned that his sister Esme has formed a relationship with one of the artificial beings. He quickly forms a close relationship with Esme's friend Maxine Megan. Soon, they learn a great secret that affects them both directly.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, grindhouse, intelligent, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film
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10,000 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
10,000 Days ago, Comet 23 struck Earth with the magnitude of all the nuclear weapons in the world sending the planet into a deep freeze. Now, 27 years in the future, those who survived are locked in an epic battle of life or death.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, suspenseful, visually appealing, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, surreal, psychotronic
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Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1987)
Plot Summary:
Brother and sister endure alone together in a post-apocalyptic Outback until the sudden arrival of a stranger.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, surreal, retro, psychotronic, independent film, weird, dystopian
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Dystopia (2018)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2037. Our world is dying, slowly, from a virus that has rendered mankind infertile. Not a single child has been born in 25 years. Governments are now powerless puppets for the biggest corporations and Biocorp, the world's biggest, keeps promising a cure that never comes.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, exciting
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The Time Travelers (1964)
Plot Summary:
A time travel experiment that was supposed to produce a window into time turns out to be a portal instead. One of the experimenters steps through into a not-too-distant-future world that has been destroyed by nuclear war. Some of the others follow, but then the portal phases out and they can't get back. Things just get worse after that. They run across a rocket that has landed to escape pursuing enemies, bearing scientists who survived the war, and many android "slaves." The time travellers are invited to escape when the ship is again ready to blast off - but just before that happens, the scientits' enemy returns and fires on the sitting-duck ship. A very bad day for the scientists turns terminal at that point, and the 20th-century Earthlings barely escape with their skins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, mysterious, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Urban Warriors (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three technicians working in an underground laboratory discover that a nuclear war has destroyed most of the aboveground world. After a brief search for food, the trio find that gangs of murderous mutants want them for their next meal. Will the scientists be able to find other uncontaminated humans to rebuild civilization with, or will they all end up as mutant chow?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, grindhouse
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The Last Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Mary Shelley.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, exciting
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Genesis (2018)
Plot Summary:
After an apocalyptic event, the remnants of humanity create an artificial intelligence to save them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic
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Strange New World (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, cult film
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After Armageddon (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two men, who are polar opposites, must come to terms with being the last two humans on Earth in a post-Apocalyptic world.
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Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Island City (1994)
Plot Summary:
A 21st-century genetic experiment goes chaotic, creating a race of genetically-violent mutants.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping her hunt down the criminal psychopath Plughead. But Plughead who has tangled with Danner before has his own plans as he is forcing a female scientist to help him manufacture life extending longevity chips which he intends to sell to rich and powerful clients.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tech noir, independent film, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Encrypt (2003)
Plot Summary:
2068, the ozone layer is gone and the world is a wasteland. A band of mercenaries attempt to break into a Estate that is guarded by a automated defence system called "Encrypt" in order to steal priceless artwork.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, tech noir, futuristic
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Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)
Plot Summary:
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help of her teenage companion Emily (Leonie Mellinger), D tries to make her way, and in order to cope, she often escapes into a fantasy world in which she lives in genteel Victorian surroundings in the 19th century.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, bleak, serious, futuristic, stylized
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Mutant World (2014)
Plot Summary:
A decade after a disastrous meteor impact wipes out most of society, a group of survivalists emerge to find themselves on a twisted version of the old Earth, with a nascent society besieged by vicious marauders, ferocious mutants, and the dreadful symptoms of a post-apocalyptic environment.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, scary
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Harrison Bergeron (1995)
Plot Summary:
"All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers around a young man (Harrison) who is smarter than his peers, and is not affected by the usual "Handicapping" which is used to train all Americans so everyone is of equal intelligence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: philosophical, apocalyptic, tech noir, offbeat, futuristic, disturbing, contemplative, semi serious, surprise ending, black comedy