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Plot Summary:
Only Special Forces agent Jack Slater and his computer programming sidekick can save the world from Armageddon when the supercomputer masterminding America's nuclear initiatives goes berserk with power and decides to launch the missiles.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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The Chain Reaction (1980)
Plot Summary:
Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, independent film, cult film, disaster movie
Similar in 85%
Expect to Die (1997)
Plot Summary:
The military has been testing a new Virtual Reality fighting simulator, but testing is abruptly canceled when a soldier loses his life during the action. Its creator, Dr. Vincent MacIntyre, goes underground to continue developing the device, until detective Justin Blake and his partner Stone break into the syndicate to stop them. However, they are too late, and the new simulator is even deadlier than the first!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Dead Fire (1997)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2062. The Earth is no longer inhabitable and has been left in ruins. On-board the space station USS Legacy in orbit around Earth, the Earth's population are in suspended animation whilst the space station is under military control and scientists are working on a project to make Earth inhabitable again. After disobeying orders, trying to apprehend a out-of-control soldier on a rampage, tough soldier Captain Cal Brody is sentenced by his commanding officer, Colonel Alexa Stant, to guard the stasis chamber where the Earth's population is in suspended animation for 3 months. But the USS Legacy is taken over by criminal Max Durbin and a group of escaped convicts, who have been freed by Alexa from the prison colony on Earth and Alexa decides to help them. Cal sets out to stop Max and Alexa's scheme and believes he is the only man who can stop Max, who plans to use Cal's scientist girlfriend Kendall Foster experiment to make the Earth inhabitable again.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Crackerjack 2 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Police officer Jack Wild discovers that the well-known international terrorist Hans Becker is on a train, carrying a wealthy business man and his girlfriend. Without a second to loose Jack hires a helicopter to drop him down onto the train to try and stop whatever scheme Becker is planning.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Action
Country: Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger
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Foxtrot Six (2019)
Plot Summary:
Escalating climate change is turning the world economy upside down. With crops dying and food price spiking, FOOD has replaced oil as the world's most valuable commodity. Among the very few lands still left fertile, Indonesia is quickly rising as the next economic superpower, when its government is suddenly and ruthlessly overtaken by a popular rogue political party. In just three days, six former Marines must work together, find their long-lost brotherhood, stop a nationwide government- sanctioned genocide, and save millions of lives, for one last shot at redemption. Or die trying.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Indonesia, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, apocalyptic, futuristic
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Free Fall (1999)
Plot Summary:
A psycho is blowing up planes to make a deadly point to crash investigator Renee Brennan.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Orion's Key (1996)
Plot Summary:
After two archaeologists discover an ancient alien artifact in Africa, they must run for their lives from both the unstoppable guardian and protector that awakens as a result, and their greedy, madman employer, both of whom want the artifact.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film
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Assault on Dome 4 (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this science-fiction action opus, intergalactic extremist Alex Windham has seized control of Dome 4, a scientific outpost on another planet, after escaping from a penal colony on Mars. Windham is forcing the staff of Dome 4 to construct new weapons that he can use to destroy his enemies, but what he doesn't know is that one of his captives is the wife of interstellar lawman Chase Moran, and Mor.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film
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Shadow Warriors (1995)
Plot Summary:
It began as an experiment. The ultimate bodyguard - half man, half machine - programmed to do anything. Anything! Global Cybernetics, Inc. is making technological history. They can create a bio-mechanical, plasma-driven, Techno-Sapien - the best security system money can buy. But building one requires a human corpse. And when GCI's bodyguard, Taylor is mysteriously gunned down, he becomes the company's 7.4 million dollar prototype, the "TS-4.".
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lethal Target (1999)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, campy
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The Secret War of Jackie's Girls (1980)
Plot Summary:
An improbable story, but entertaining, of five American women pilots recruited in to the British RAF before the USA joined the war to fly a new top secret aircraft, which turns out to be helicopters, with a Hollywood mansion standing in for a British stately home.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Cyclone (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rick has developed the ultimate motorcycle, the Cyclone. It is a $5 million bike equipped with rocket launchers and laser guns. Rick meets his fate and it is up to his girlfriend Teri to keep the Cyclone from falling into the wrong hands. Teri can trust no one but herself.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: natural horror, independent film, exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, crying, psychotronic
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Stranglehold (1994)
Plot Summary:
Deep inside the nation's top chemical weapons facility, a brilliant terrorist takes a Congresswoman hostage. The Navy can't stop him. The Air Force can't reach him. The Coast Guard can't kill him. Only one man can do the job: special agent Ryan Cooper. He's in a race against time to save the world, facing his greatest challenge yet!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: 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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Dance to Death (2017)
Plot Summary:
Deadly dance tournament is carried out in the city survived after nuclear apocalypse. Energy is extracted from the loser for the city to survive. A young guy from the street is forced to take part in the tournament and falls in love with girl who volunteered to participate in the battle. Will they survive or the arena will take their lives?.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 979
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, futuristic, bleak, dark
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Painkiller Jane (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jane, a young soldier, is exposed to a biochemical weapon that endows her with self-healing powers. She uses her abilities to fight crime while eluding the military.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, action adventure
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Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990)
Plot Summary:
An alien policeman comes to Earth to hunt down a renegade of his own race.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious, corny, cult film
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Medusa's Child (1997)
Plot Summary:
Fuming over the departure of his wife Vivian and the cutting of his research funding, crazy nuclear scientist Rogers Henry constructs Medusa, a thermonuclear bomb capable of generating a continent-sized electro-magnetic pulse; such EMP could effectively destroy a computer-based society. He dupes Vivian into bringing it to the Pentagon to exact his final revenge on the government, rigging it so it will explode before its count-down if Vivian's pacemaker isn't within fifteen feet of it. Medusa arms itself in the air aboard Scott Nash's 737 cargo plane, and with Hurricane Sigrid about to hit the coast, nobody wants to let them land. Based on the novel by John J. Nance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Sons of Liberty (2013)
Plot Summary:
A special operations unit races to find and prevent the construction of a devastating micro nuclear device created by a group of radical mercenaries whose political beliefs blur the line between terrorist and revolutionary.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, serious, captivating, rough, stylized
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Last Stand (2000)
Plot Summary:
A small band of desperate freedom fighters must topple a vicious dictator before he destroys mankind's last hope.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, tense, suspense, independent film, bleak
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Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1991)
Plot Summary:
Scientists at a secret underground complex have found a way to travel to another dimension. Three dimension-travellers are the first to go through the gate - but are soon attacked by something that interrupts the communication with Earth. This horrible something uses the gate to travel back to the underground complex. Most of the staff are evacuated, except four heavily-armed militaries and Dr. Casserly and Dr. Summerfield who just can't stand each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, space horror, suspense, classic horror, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Shadowchaser (1992)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future, a group of terrorists with an android leader storm a hospital when the President's daughter is inside, taking her hostage. To find a way of freeing her, the police decide to consult the architect who designed the building, but he's currently in jail for some crime, and the punishment of the future is to be frozen solid for one's sentence. The cops accidentally thaw out the wrong guy, a football player who decides to keep the mistake a secret and help the police in exchange for his freedom. Will he be able to defeat the terrorists and rescue the hostages, despite not knowing the first thing about architecture?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Cyborg Soldier (2008)
Plot Summary:
A cyborg escapes the facility where he was created. With the help of a local sheriff, he tries to run from the dangerous scientists that created him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, scenic, action thriller
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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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Project Shadowchaser II (1994)
Plot Summary:
Terrorists led by an android take over a nuclear plant and threaten to launch a missile at Washington. While the authorities desperately attempt to negotiate, the terrorists persue their real goal. A plant worker, her son and a tough-guy repair man have other ideas, and attempt to stop the terrorists from inside the plant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, low-budget
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Live Wire 2: Human Timebomb (1995)
Plot Summary:
A computer chip turns an FBI agent into a lethal weapon.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Freedom Strike (1998)
Plot Summary:
When a peace treaty between America and Syria is thwarted, the renegade head of the Syrian army retaliates in a major way. He steals a nuclear weapon that only the Freedom Strike team can stop! Cue an action-packed race against time to save the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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WarGames (1983)
Plot Summary:
High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions! Together with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: clever, futuristic, tense, cyber, suspenseful, political, suspense, psychological, inspirational, philosophical
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Soldier (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors who lead out a peaceful existence. The peace is broken as the new soldiers land on the planet to eliminate the colony, which Sergeant Todd must defend.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, suspense, entertaining, scenic, tech noir, grindhouse, anamorphic, perverse, cult classic
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Crash Dive (1996)
Plot Summary:
The crew of the nuclear submarine USS Ulysses rescues supposed victims of a boat disaster, but the victims turn out to be terrorists intent on capturing nuclear weapons aboard the sub. Only a former SEAL, now a submarine consultant, can save the crew by sliding aboard while the sub is underwater. The term "crash dive" refers to the sudden dropping of a sub to escape detection, an act that a nuclear sub is never supposed to make. Of course, it comes into play in this film.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful