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Plot Summary:
After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to penetrate the toxic & off-limits Plague Zone and bring her back alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Frogtown II (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown, the Mutant-Frog leader of Frogtown kidnaps a professor and forces him to make a serum that will turn everyone into Frogs, they also kidnap some people to test the serum on. And courageous Sam Hell will have to save them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Sci-Fi, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: natural horror, independent film, cult film
Similar in 86%
Warriors of the Apocalypse (1984)
Plot Summary:
After a nuclear war with civilization's death as a result leads an adventurer, a group of hikers on their search for the Mountain of Life. On their way they meet pygmy tribes, brutal gangs and amazon women.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic
Similar in 85%
Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the future, a warrior nun on roller skates must rescue a seer, who is to be sacrificed by a band of mutants.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: surreal, apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film
Similar in 78%
Darkdrive (1997)
Plot Summary:
Set in some distant future, one man must restore order when a mainframe system crashes in a virtual reality prison where computers control the inmates thoughts.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tech noir, surprise ending, futuristic, independent film
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The Last Warrior (1984)
Plot Summary:
After a nuclear holocaust, as the rest of society regresses to primitivism, a small, "elite" group that has managed to escape radioactive contamination takes it upon itself to exterminate those it sees as "unfit", including certain members of its own group.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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The Roller Blade Seven (1991)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic society, a sword-wielding roller skater fights evil ninjas, punk roller skaters and is sent on an important rescue mission.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film
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Future Justice (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the future Saturn's moon of Titan houses a prison where Earth's worst criminals are kept awaiting their return to Earth for trial and execution. One of those criminals, Python Diamond, is being flown back to Earth, escorted by five members of the military police. Upon their return to Earth, they find that a cataclysmic nuclear war has reduced the world to a near-lifeless husk. Searching for survivors and any clue as to the cause of the destruction leads the six to a warehouse bunker housing scientists who constitute Earth's last remaining hope for the future. Unfortunately, their landing spacecraft drew the attention of one of the gangs that roam the ruined countryside in search of food and resources, leading them straight to the carefully hidden and well-provisioned shelter. The gang lays siege to the warehouse, fighting their way inside in a bloody battle that takes lives on both sides.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 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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Omega Cop (1990)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1999. John Travis is the toughest cop alive... In fact the only cop alive. He and his elite force stand between murderous mutants and the remains of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, 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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Wheels of Fire (1985)
Plot Summary:
The Future is now. There are no rules and no place to hide from the deadly Highway Warriors who ravage the roads in machines of destruction.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, soap opera, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Lawless Land (1988)
Plot Summary:
Action-adventure set in a world of the near-future, where young love is forbidden among the lower classes. Nevertheless, one couple defies their police-state world to fight and hold on to whatever love they can find.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film
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The Sisterhood (1988)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2021 AD. Women have been enslaved by a brutal army of men who survived the nuclear holocaust. Their only hope for freedom is in the hands of a nomadic band of fierce she-warriors: The Sisterhood.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, cult film
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Empire of Ash (1988)
Plot Summary:
In post-nuclear "New Idaho," a lone warrior teams up with a girl to help rescue the girl's sister from a hostile warrior clan.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Sci-Fi, Action, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film
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Karate Cop (1991)
Plot Summary:
John Travis is the last honest cop in a future dominated by terroristic martial-arts gangs who fight gladiator-style in arenas.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, campy
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Future World (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young boy searches a future world wasteland for a rumored cure for his dying mother.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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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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Equalizer 2000 (1987)
Plot Summary:
In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: futuristic, slasher, apocalyptic, independent film, cult film
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Dune Warriors (1991)
Plot Summary:
After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave enough to fight back; she bands together five warriors to save her town and their precious water.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, perverse, psychotronic, independent film, neo western
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Phoenix the Warrior (1988)
Plot Summary:
Big hair, big guns, big personalities, and a serious lack of wardrobe. She-Wolves of the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic story that features women--lots and lots of women--who leave little to the imagination as they battle each other in various junkyards and gravel pits to determine the fate of the entire world.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, independent film, offbeat, psychotronic, cult film
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The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
Plot Summary:
Only a few people still live in New York in 2015. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, depressing, grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic
Similar in 75%
Cold Harvest (1999)
Plot Summary:
A bounty hunter protects his dead brother's wife in a lawless world after a comet has devastated much of earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, fast, wild
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Cyberjack (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the near future Nassim, terrorist leader, storms computer company headquarters. His aim is deadly computer virus that could bring him world domination. Nick, company janitor and ex-cop, will get in his way.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Steel Frontier (1995)
Plot Summary:
Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of New Hope, the only place around with a working oil refinery. Ever since a megalomaniac general and his followers took over the place, life has been miserable. Then a stranger, a man-of-few-words, comes to town. A quick-drawing gunslinger, he first joins the conquerors. As time passes, however, it rapidly becomes apparent that he really sides with the townsfolk, and when the time is right, he leads them into a violent uprising.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, scenic, perverse, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Gangland (2001)
Plot Summary:
In post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, an evil pack of outlaws is systematically turning civilians into prisoners and slaves. Worse yet, the spread of a terrifying deadly flesh-eating virus threatens to destroy all of humanity. As good and evil ferociously battle for power and control, three heroes race against time to find the cure for the virus... before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, independent film, fast, futuristic
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Ultra Warrior (1990)
Plot Summary:
After the nuclear holocaust, one man rises from the ashes to become the leader of a ragged gang of survivors. They soon discover that their greatest challenge is yet to come; they must fight a battle for the ages against the evil minions of The Bishop.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, tense, bleak, serious, futuristic
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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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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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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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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