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Plot Summary:
The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his behaviour, the world enters its biggest crisis since the Cold War. As journalists try to find out more about Enak and his backstory in communist Poland, they discover that he possesses the ability to influence people's sub-consciousness.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, France, Germany
Duration: 81 min
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Possibility of an Island (2008)
Plot Summary:
La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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In My Room (2018)
Plot Summary:
Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One morning the world looks the same as always, but mankind has disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, surreal, controversial, art film
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Une femme d'extérieur (2000)
Plot Summary:
Françoise breaks up with Jacques after living with him for fifteen years. She's left alone with their three children, a lovely home, and her nursing job at a hospital. Françoise quickly refuses to assume responsibility for this new situation beyond her control. She starts going out, living by night… hanging out in new places, ready for chance encounters.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min
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All the Fine Promises (2003)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her mother Marianne, a young cellist discovers that her father had a mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Axiliad (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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How to Get from Here to There (2019)
Plot Summary:
Upon the death of his mother, a gay man in blue-collar America returns to his childhood home. There he discovers a cardboard time machine that he made when he was a boy. As he uses it to get glimpses of his future, he ponders the weight of his life's choices.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, sexy, queer cinema
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Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business (1996)
Plot Summary:
A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags:
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The History of Time Travel (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fictional documentary about the creation of the world's first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: slasher, mockumentary, psychotronic
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Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)
Plot Summary:
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Last Words (2020)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2085 and no human babies have been born in over a decade. A group of disparate survivors respond to a call to meet in Athens, where the film’s narrator Jo, a boy of African descent, aims to make the world’s last film.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
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Hard to Be a God (1989)
Plot Summary:
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany, France, Soviet Union, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: philosophical, surreal, disturbing, grotesque, weird, eighties
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Passion Fever (1969)
Plot Summary:
This and The Hot Month of August, both made in Greece, were acquired by DORIS WISHMAN for release in the United States. However, she somehow or other lost the dialogue sheets needed for dubbing the films into English. With the original dialogue a mystery, and not understanding Greek in the first place, the Grand Dame of Sexploitation simply re-invented the entire plot blissfully dubbing it away without any clue as to what was really being said, and then adding some steamy sex scenes with her own anonymous adulterers to liven things up.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Chicas (2010)
Plot Summary:
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Beyond the Stars (1989)
Plot Summary:
This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the first man on the moon. Paul is avoided by other astronauts nowadays, because he was very rude and rebuffing when he returned from space. Only slowly Eric learns, that he discovered something during his excursion on the moon, that he keeps as a secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, futuristic, independent film
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Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
Plot Summary:
Record store clerk Nick Brady begins to experience strange visions from an entity he calls VALIS that cause him to uproot his family and move to Los Angeles where he becomes a successful music company executive. Nick finds himself drawn into a dangerous political-mystical conspiracy of cosmic proportions.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, surreal, semi serious, atmospheric, spiritual, offbeat, humorous, contemplative
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Realive (2016)
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Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, captivating, mind bending, realistic, surreal
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Message From The Future (1981)
Plot Summary:
From the year 3005, a delegate from the future arrives in 1985 to convince the present leaders make certain World War III happens, which he guarantees will make for a better future. Having already caused natural disasters and catastrophes by coming back from the future, he now tries to force his message on the world press and TV.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
Plot Summary:
This movie is about a rocket pilot named Pirx who is hired to go on a mission to evaluate some nonlinears (robots) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and his crew, made up of nonlinears and humans, are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn. Upon returning to Earth there is an inquest to determine if Pirx was responsible for the "accident." In the end, it is found that one of the robots caused the malfunction in an attempt to kill the human crewmembers and Pirx is cleared of all charges. In this tale Lem puts forth the idea that what is perceived a human weakness is in fact an advantage over a perfect machine. Pirx defeats the robot, because a human can hesitate, make wrong decisions, have doubts, but a robot cannot. A similar idea is present in Isaac Asimov's Robot Series, where putting a robot in a position where it cannot chose between the Three laws of robotics fries its positronic brain.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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The Coming Days (2010)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter Kuper, an energy conglomerate executive. Walter’s daughter, Cecilia, has joined the Black Storm terrorist group. Her sister Laura must choose between motherhood and the man she loves; their brother Philip has been called into fight for Germany in a hopeless war to secure the last remaining oil fields. Starring leading actors Daniel Brühl, Johanna Wokalek and Jürgen Vogel, "The Days to Come" asks provocative questions about the current state of things as it depicts personal and political realities in a scarily believable near–future.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: serious, bleak, captivating, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
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Rain Without Thunder (1992)
Plot Summary:
This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, journalists and other key figures discuss Allison's case, they reveal how American society reached this totalitarian state.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film, thought provoking, bleak, serious, futuristic, realistic, disturbing, political drama
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Transit (2018)
Plot Summary:
The German troops are just outside Paris. Georg escapes to Marseille at the last moment. His luggage contains the legacy of a writer named Weidel, who took his own life out of fear of persecution. This legacy comprises a manuscript, some letters and the Mexican Embassy’s assurance of a visa. Only those who can prove that they will leave are allowed in this port town, and this means you need an entry permit from a potential host country. Assuming the identity of Weidel, Georg tries to obtain one of the few scarce passages on a ship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, tense, sentimental, sincere, captivating, philosophical, art house, cerebral, thought provoking, interesting
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Creative Control (2015)
Plot Summary:
Smooth advertising executive David is in a relationship with yoga teacher Juliette. Then his eye is caught by Sophie, the girlfriend of his best friend Wim, a fashion photographer. Things get completely out of hand during a campaign for augmented reality-glasses, for which David designs an avatar of the coveted Sophie.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, stylized, atmospheric, mind bending, semi serious, dorama, realistic, black and white, clever
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Three Colors: Red (1994)
Plot Summary:
Part-time model Valentine meets a retired judge who lives in her neighborhood after she runs over his dog. At first the judge gifts Valentine with the dog, but her possessive boyfriend won't allow her to keep it. When she returns with the dog to the judge's house, she discovers him listening in on his neighbors' phone conversations. At first Valentine is outraged, but her debates with the judge over his behavior soon leads them to form a strange bond.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: colorful, atmospheric, art house, visual, cerebral, philosophical, enigmatic, psychological, touching, intellectual
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Brave New World (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their lives or their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, philosophical, spiritual, tech noir, mystic, grindhouse, bleak
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No Blade of Grass (1970)
Plot Summary:
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them. Adaptation of John Christopher's novel The Death of Grass (1956).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, offbeat, depressing, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, tense, bleak, serious, captivating
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Testament (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: depressing, bleak, disturbing, emotional, tense, apocalyptic, thought provoking, serious, touching, realistic
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The Day After (1983)
Plot Summary:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several family farms situated next to nearby nuclear missile silos.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious, thought provoking, psychotronic, suspense, bleak, rough
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High-Rise (2015)
Plot Summary:
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, surreal, absurd, futuristic, art house, brutal, artsy, stylized, cerebral
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft. A British science-fiction film from director Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, stylized, independent film, cult classic, erotic, meditative, disturbing, serious, art house
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Plot Summary:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, atmospheric, psychological, political, bleak, apocalyptic, cult classic, suspenseful, independent film