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Plot Summary:
Deep in the Mariana Sea Trench, a corporate underwater mining complex has been built - an industrial Atlantis. When an accident in a dry-dock chamber kills several miners an investigator is sent to find the cause and immediately finds out that it was not an accident. He becomes caught in the middle of a deadly conflict between the miners and the corporation, and fights to stay alive and uncover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, bleak
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Phase IV (2002)
Plot Summary:
Journalism student Simon Tate thinks it's strange when four students at the university suddenly die in "unrelated" accidents. When his friend, Dr. Benjamin Roanic, becomes the prime suspect and is suddenly murdered, Simon sets out to prove his innocence. He soon discovers the students were Roanic's test subjects in a secret drug test program, and had been cured of AIDS. He is forced to run for his life, when a pharmaceutical company tries to prevent him from revealing the truth behind "Phase IV".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, experimental, stylized, mystical, psychotronic
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Flesh Wounds (2011)
Plot Summary:
On a remote U.S. Army facility a group of scientists vanish while conducting experiments with a top secret weapon. An elite covert ops team commanded by Lt. Tyler (Kevin Sorbo) is sent on a rescue mission that quickly turns deadly. With time running out and the death count rising, Tyler's team must hunt and destroy a predator unlike any they have ever encountered or become its next victim.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious
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For the Cause (2000)
Plot Summary:
The ultimate showdown on a forbidden planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, stylized, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Viral Assassins (1997)
Plot Summary:
To some, it’s murder. To them, it’s just work. The Troma Team is proud to present Robert Larkin’s intense sci-fi thriller Viral Assassins. In the not so distant future, a terminal disease will make cancer look like the common cold. The government’s solution to this epidemic is to make carrying the disease a capital crime, punishable by death through a team of highly trained assassins. This not only lowers the risk of the disease spreading but also greatly lowers health costs for the average Joe. But what happens if the government becomes infected? The only hope for a vaccine is trapped within the diseased body and mind of a government lab technician. Unfortunately, the government hires their most dedicated and trigger-happy assassin to eliminate her. Will the assassin uphold the government’s heinous order, or will he jeopardize his own life, reputation and health insurance by eliminating her?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, mockbuster, exciting, bleak, political thriller
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Interceptor Force 2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future a new team of specially trained government soldiers called an Interception Team contend with the latest hostile alien encounter. When an alien scout ship crashes in eastern Russia, Sean Lambert and his elite force are dispatched to investigate. They come face-to-face with a seemingly invincible seven-foot tall, shape shifting foe hell-bent on blowing up a Russian nuclear power plant in an effort to destroy mankind through a nuclear winter. The stakes become personal when the alien discovers it was Lambert who killed its mate four years ago (Interceptor Force). A major battle ensues as the Interceptor Team look to save the Earth from alien annihilation.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious
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Frost Giant (2010)
Plot Summary:
A team searching for a long-lost ship in the Arctic unwittingly unleash an alien creature that looks like it's made of ice.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary, exciting, disaster movie
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Infected (2008)
Plot Summary:
A pair of newspaper reporters receive help from an unlikely accomplice in their effort to stave off an alien invasion.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic, bleak, fast, computer animated, disaster movie
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Dragon Fighter (2003)
Plot Summary:
The movie begins in Southern England in the Middle Ages and then six knights are seen riding in horses towards a destroyed town. They see the remains of burned buildings and dead people until they come upon a mother and her dead baby. She quickly dies and then a rhino-sized dragon flies overhead, the knights follow right behind, vowing to kill the creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, exciting, suspense, captivating, fast
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Post Impact (2004)
Plot Summary:
Meteor Bay-Leder 7 struck earth on October 18th, 2012. Causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and a dust cloud that soon covered most of the Northern hemisphere, it changed the face of our planet forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak, fast, disaster movie
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Roar (2014)
Plot Summary:
After his photojournalist brother gets killed by a white tigress in the jungles of the Sundarbans, Pandit and his team of commandos enter the prohibited core area of the forest to avenge his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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2010: Moby Dick (2010)
Plot Summary:
That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville’s classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring “Xena” alum Rene O’Connor as the (traditionally male) narrator. But the boat — now a high-tech submarine — is also bigger, and Capt. Ahab is as determined as ever to settle the score and take down the mighty sea mammal that maimed him.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, creepy, scary, independent film
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Phantom Force (2004)
Plot Summary:
A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Dark Waters (2003)
Plot Summary:
Moneyless, ocean-exploring gigolo and his worldly lady-friend are forced to take part in looking into the possibility that aggression - utilizing marine life - is being planned.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, fast, psychotronic
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New Alcatraz (2001)
Plot Summary:
Paleontologist Robert Trenton (Dean Cain) is called to Northeastern Antarctica near the Indian Ocean to help the FBI build an underground maximum-security military base and prison for the world's most dangerous criminals and terrorists. The prison is dubbed "New Alcatraz" by the staff. While building the prison, the staff accidentally awaken and unleash a prehistoric Boa Constrictor from its 200 year hibernation. The snake escapes unnoticed until the staff notice a massive hole chewed in the five-foot thick concrete walls. Soon, the staff, and prisoners begin disappearing as they are brutally hunted and eaten by the snake. The FBI agents, Trenton and the rest of the prisoners try to escape, but are hampered as they don't have many weapons. They begin to give up hope as most of the survivors die. However, Trenton manages to blow up the snake underground before escaping to the surface with the only other survivor being his wife.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, scary, cult film
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The Neptune Factor (1973)
Plot Summary:
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, experimental
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Assassin (1986)
Plot Summary:
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Control Factor (2003)
Plot Summary:
An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, surprise ending
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Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996)
Plot Summary:
In a not-too-distant future, a lethal virus sweeps across Europe, prompting the creation of quarantine refugee camps in the United States. Police officers Delon (Natasha Henstridge) and Lemieux (Christopher Lambert) learn of a grisly murder in the Boston camp and team up to investigate. Suspecting the ruthless killer is infected with the virus, the pair have just hours to stop him before he becomes contagious and infects the entire population.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, apocalyptic, futuristic, scary, exciting, atmospheric, clever
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Digital Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, fast, computer animated
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Raging Sharks (2005)
Plot Summary:
An oceanic observation station is in desperate trouble after a sudden shark attack wrecked the oxygen supply. The accompanying ship, a coast guard cruiser, and other ships in and around the Bermuda triangle are attacked as well. The US Navy sends a submarine to investigate, but soon they too are under attack.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, natural horror, suspense, psychotronic, campy
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Shark Hunter (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. The scientists are wrong. In the darkness of the deep, an underwater research station has been viciously destroyed. Now a tough team of daring divers led by Spencer Northcutt [Antonio Sabato Jr. "Melrose Place"] is taking an experimental sub to war. It's killer instinct vs. sophisticated technology, deadly jaws vs. harpoon-tipped torpedoes, mega-shark vs. modern man is a thrilling extreme deep sea fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, fast, psychotronic
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The Rift (1990)
Plot Summary:
An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously dissapeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, scary, serious, futuristic, retro, captivating, fast, cult film
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Deep Shock (2003)
Plot Summary:
When an unknown underwater object disables an American nuclear-powered submarine and attacks a submerged Arctic research complex, a scientific expedition flies to the North Pole to investigate these incidents as well as the sudden, inexplicable rise in temperature that threatens to melt the ice cap and flood the surface of the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic, disaster movie
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The Eliminator (2004)
Plot Summary:
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed crashes and explosions. Varley tries to leave the lake and collect his prize money but is drugged and kidnapped by Dawson and thrown into a different world: a world where survival means everything and no-one follows the rules. Surrounded by heavily-armed men, he soon learns that he and six other victims have been assembled to be contestants in the ultimate survival game: they will be hunted nightly by hunters with rifles until there is one remaining survivor, who will win a $10,000,000 cash prize!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed, independent film, serious, realistic, fast
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Super Eruption (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Yellowstone National Park scientist and a thrill-seeking ranger join forces to plug-up a volatile super volcano that threatens to wipe out the entire United States.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, apocalyptic, mockbuster, rough, disaster movie
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Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
Plot Summary:
Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so close that it shift our course closer to the sun, causing rapid extreme heating, hopefully only mid-term. Nathan warns his sister, TV journalist Carly, and she her lover, police detective Tom. He brings his unruly daughter Kim, her ex-con lover C.J. and her mother, nurse Bonnie, when Nathan offers a flight to a friend's Arctic weather station. Tom takes charge of a dangerous trip to the airport, as everywhere on earth things catch fire and people fight for water, transport and sheer looting.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, disaster movie
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Maximum Velocity (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a comet passes the Earth it causes a cataclysmic storm. Only a disbanded government unit with a secret weather-manipulating weapon can try to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, rough, independent film, disaster movie
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Descendents (2008)
Plot Summary:
In an undefined future, the earth has been destroyed by man, and the air polluted with a mysterious virus that turns humans into zombies. Only a few children are immune to the disease and have adapted to these extreme conditions and survived. Camille, a nine year old girl wanders through these desolate wastelands, protecting herself from zombies and the armed military forces that roam the land killing anyone who might be infected. However, the little girl will find other kids like her that share a recurring dream of: they all have visions of the ocean as their destiny. Together they will try to survive the journey to the ocean in search of an escape from the military who seem to be as determined on their destruction as on the zombies. Written by David Pollison/Solos Website.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental, natural horror, exciting, offbeat, lovecraft
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Biohazard: Patient Zero (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two young scientists are swept up in a government plot to suppress the truth about a biological disaster at a genetic research facility.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, suspense, psychological, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic
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Silent Venom (2009)
Plot Summary:
The only thing more terrifying than Snakes on a Plane is "Snakes on a Submarine," and that's exactly what we get in this claustrophobic, sub-aquatic thriller starring Luke Perry. Lieutenant Commander O'Neill (Perry) was piloting a retired submarine to its final port when Admiral Wallace (Tom Berenger) diverted the crew for one last mission: rescue an imperiled army research team before they meet a watery death. In order to reach the researchers and their top secret cargo while avoiding detection by a hostile enemy fleet, Lieutenant Commander O'Neill orders his crew to "run silent" in the depths. That silence is soon broken, however, when the cargo proves to be two genetically altered leviathans. Now, far beneath the ocean floor, a new kind of predator emerges to prove just how vulnerable man truly is when there's nowhere left to run.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, fast, natural horror, ridiculous