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Plot Summary:
In the near future Steve (Sam Jones) takes a job as a tow truck driver that has to battle a gang of baddies led by Nelson (Don Swayze).
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Battle Queen 2020 (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the frozen eternal winter of a post-asteroid impact, mankind's last remnants cling to a fragile existence. One woman must rise to the challenge, to free her people from the ever widening chasm separating the Haves from the Have-nots. She is...Battle Queen 2020.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film, cult film
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Fists of Iron (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Dale Hartwell's best friend gets killed, he swears revenge on the bloodthirsty promoter and fighter who did it.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Knight Rider 2010 (1994)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT".
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic
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Hostile Environment (1999)
Plot Summary:
Toxic waste has contaminated the world's fresh water supply. A select few with the ability to de-contaminate the supply now control the world. Minna rules the de-contaminators from a giant warship, forcing desperate land dwellers to trade anything and everything for meager water rations. The dwellers seek a leader to battle Minna's tyrannical rule. Jennifer, daughter of the rebel leader, implores outcast Mike Erikson to lead the battle against the warship. Help also comes from an unexpected source in the from of Jennifer's brother Rocky.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic
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Raiders of the Sun (1992)
Plot Summary:
Bloodthirsty factions rule the barren earth. It's the 21st Century and a biological disaster has ruined the planet. Here, in a world where gunpowder is more valuable than gold, a few hundred survivors wage the final conflict for power and control. Yet among them rises a new warrior, destined to shape the aeons which will follow -- a man who stops at nothing to achieve his ends, and for whom courage is the only commodity.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, cult 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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Badlands 2005 (1988)
Plot Summary:
In 1995, a severe drought forced Americans to flee the West for the cities. Water became more precious than gold. Now in 2005, settlers are coming back, meeting new challenges, and age-old adversaries. A U.S. Marshal and his cyborg partner patrol the American West. A hard-as-nails female boss heads two U.S. Marshals (one human, one bionic) in Badlands 2005, a concept where the near future sees water as a more precious commodity than gold. The West of America has been deserted after droughts a decade earlier, and now a re-population program is underway.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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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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Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
Plot Summary:
It's the year 3000 and a nuclear war has turned the earth into a desert wasteland. A group of survivors living in a cave run out of water and desperately need to locate a new supply. The last guy they sent out to find water never returned, and now his 10 year old son Timmy wants to join the next search team. They think they know where there's an untapped well of water, but to get there they have to travel through dangerous terrain controlled by a savage gang of motorcyclists under the bloodthirsty reign of 'Crazy Bull'. On their mission, Timmy and his team run into a lonesome stranger named Alien (Robert Iannucci) who may be able to help them against the marauding motorcyclists. Can the struggling survivors looking for water in this barren world defeat Crazy Bull and his exterminating minions? Hang on tight - the battle has just begun!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Silencers (1996)
Plot Summary:
U.S. Senator is assassinated by Men in Black, mysterious organization which surpresses all knowledge about UFOs. Agent Rafferty from U.S. Secret Service will confront them and discover the sinister truth. The only person that can help him comes from another world.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, homoerotic, campy
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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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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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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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Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Plot Summary:
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, cult classic, rough, suspenseful, black comedy, serious, psychotronic, slasher, horror comedy
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Hands of Steel (1986)
Plot Summary:
A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic, classic horror, action adventure, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, fast
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Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Plot Summary:
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, futuristic, depressing, slasher, social, saga, classic horror, space horror, natural horror
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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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Alien Nation (1988)
Plot Summary:
A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilisation. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, allegory, detective, retro, tech noir, grindhouse, black comedy
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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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Connors' War (2006)
Plot Summary:
They'll never see him coming... It's Personal. It's War. A blinded ex special agent is given his sight back by a special serum in order for him to stop a nuke that's hidden somewhere in the city. Things are just starting to complicate.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bloody, intense, action packed
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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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2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)
Plot Summary:
After a nuclear war, society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, stylized, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, cult classic, action adventure, bleak
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Plot Summary:
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, apocalyptic, futuristic, grindhouse, cult classic, action packed, action adventure, exciting, bleak, stylized
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American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993)
Plot Summary:
After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is followed by an immortal killer robot through all the dangers, and only one guy tries to help her survive and protect her from the killing machine.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, tech noir, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, exciting, rough
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Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
Plot Summary:
Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When Seth (Michael Jai White), the supercomputer controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All hell breaks loose as Luc battles Seth and a deadly team of perfect soldiers in a struggle that pits man against machine and good against evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: futuristic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, tech noir, cult classic, fast, scary
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Barb Wire (1996)
Plot Summary:
A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood, who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, apocalyptic, futuristic, suspenseful, cult classic, slasher, action adventure, disgusting
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Plot Summary:
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 415000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, action packed, serious, suspenseful, intense, action adventure, saga
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The Terminator (1984)
Plot Summary:
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 909000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tech noir, suspenseful, neo noir, serious, cult classic, action packed, cyber, apocalyptic, saga, action adventure
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Plot Summary:
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity are advised by the Oracle to find the Keymaker who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo's recurrent dreams depicting Trinity's death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 621000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: saga, philosophical, futuristic, reflective, mind bending, cyber, exciting, stylized, action packed, cerebral
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Plot Summary:
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: exciting, apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, tense, suspenseful, cyber, action packed, breathtaking, cult classic