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Plot Summary:
Meet Evolver, the ultimate toy for the Cyberpunk generation, a virtual-reality game brought to fierce, three-dimensional life. With each battle, Evolver lives up to his name. He becomes faster, smarter and deadlier. Meet Kyle Baxter (Ethan Randall) the teenage video game whiz who wins the first ever Evolver robot. Suddenly, some fatal accidents begin to happen. With help from Jamie Saunders (Cassidy Rae), a beautiful rival game player, Kyle digs up a terrifying missing link: Evo was created from a scrapped U.S. Defense Robotics Department. Designed to infiltrate enemy encampments, he has the capacity to adapt to any situation, and he's programmed to leave no survivors. By the time Kyle and Jamie discover this, Evo has evolved to his most advanced and dangerous state and will stop at nothing until he annihilates the young man who is his one undefeated opponent.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, scary, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, splatter
Best tv shows and movies like Evolver (1995):
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Carver's Gate (1996)
Plot Summary:
The world is a bleak desolate place where the people live in elevated cities. As the ground is uninhabitable, the citizens spend most of their lives wasting their time in virtual reality. Carver is a dream-breaker whose job is to enter the world of VR and fix what is wrong. And what is wrong is that his gal pal Dinah has been murdered in VR which should not be possible. But Carver soon finds that Dinah has constructed a transducer which allows people to enter VR without other equipment, but creates a rift. That rift causes people to enter VR, but also allows the creatures from the game to enter the real world.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, futuristic
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Eyeborgs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Are government surveillance cameras intended to keep us safe actually killing people? Is it a plot by the government to suppress the opposition, or have our terrorist enemies secretly gained control of our security system and are now using it against us? Following another major terrorist attack the US instigates an intense government surveillance program in which every camera in the country is linked into a single, all-seeing network called the ODIN system (for Optical Defense Intelligence Network). The system includes millions of mobile, robotic surveillance cameras known as "Eyeborgs," which watch everyone for suspicious behavior, all in the name of security, law enforcement and keeping America safe. An agent for the Department of Homeland Security grows suspicious of the system after a series of odd murders in which the physical evidence doesn't match up to what the video records show. Now he must work outside the system to find out who is really controlling the Eyeborgs.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: bleak, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective, cult classic, computer animated, cult film
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Homewrecker (1992)
Plot Summary:
An electronics genius programs a supercomputer to be the perfect female computer, but the computer becomes jealous of his estranged wife and tries to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Mandroid (1993)
Plot Summary:
In his hidden laboratory deep in Russia, Dr. Karl Zimmer has invented the Mandroid, a humanoid robot which follows the motions of a man in a special control suit. He has offered the invention to the USA, who have sent Smith and Wait from the CIA for inspection. However Zimmer's partner Drago has different plans, wants to sell Mandroid to the military. The night he tries to steal Mandroid, he becomes exposed to the highly toxic Superconn. But he can flee and won't give up on Mandroid, even though he's terribly disfigured.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, scary, bleak, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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Subterano (2003)
Plot Summary:
Eleven souls, trapped in an underground carpark, are attacked by deadly, remote controlled toys. Only a few will survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Real Playing Game (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a future not too far away, Steve Battier, an elderly, terminally ill multi-millionaire, accepts the offer of a company - RPG - that in exchange for a high monetary sum, provides a very select group of clientèle the chance to be young again. For 10 hours, 10 millionaires from around the world, men and women of fame and power, are transferred to attractive and healthy younger bodies, to live in a world of temporary rejuvenation, in a game of real thrills, where every hour someone must die.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, futuristic
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Crash and Burn (1990)
Plot Summary:
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of th.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, mecha, cult film
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Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the original movie, the cyborg-teachers were all destroyed. Well that's what we thought, but there's one more rogue military robot out there determined to clean up the education system.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, surprise ending, splatter, psychotronic, nostalgic
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Class of 1999 (1990)
Plot Summary:
The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when he violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, retro, dark, grindhouse, cyber, cult classic, mindfuck, independent film, rough
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Replikator (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two rival corporations are developing replication technology which would enable the cloning of human tissue. The technology falls into a criminal group. Ludo Ludovic and Kathy Moskow with the help of a cop try to stop the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, neo noir, cult film
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Arcade (1993)
Plot Summary:
Alex Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who lose are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain "Arcade" and takes over their minds.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tech noir, surprise ending, scary, exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, cult film, nostalgic
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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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T-Force (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st Century, cybernetic research has developed advanced robots with human traits, whioch are widely used in the service industry. They have also been turned into cyber cops with a licence to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, campy
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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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The Terminators (2009)
Plot Summary:
A small band of resistance fighters battle the cyborgs that have taken control of the planet.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, mockbuster, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, fast
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Prototype (1992)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles - 2057 - a lawless, war-torn terrain and home to Chandra, a beautiful but deadly young woman, and Hawkiins, a tough ex-soldier whose career was terminated by crippling wounds. No longer lovers, the pair still share erotic and disturbing psychosexual derams. After a brilliant research scientist experiments on Hawkins, he is dramatically transformed into the Prototype - half-man, half-robotic machine and all-warrior. But, when the experiment gets badly out of control, the deadly Prototype escapes and goes hunting for Chandra, his prime target for elimination. In an explosive climax, the ultimate battle commences to determine whether mankind or machines will survive to rule the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, experimental
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Programmed to Kill (1987)
Plot Summary:
International terrorist leader, Fatima, is critically injured when she attempts to hijack a jumbo jet and is thwarted by Eric Matthews and his anti-terrorist organization, The Retaliators. Fatima is taken to a top-secret research institute, where she is turned into a lethal cyborg and programmed to hunt down the members of her own terrorist group. In the heat of battle, her computerized brain malfunctions, and she turns her lethal vengeance on the Retaliators. Now Eric Matthews and his team must match human cunning against deadly technology.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Storm Watch (2002)
Plot Summary:
America's best player is being pulled in to the ultimate cyber-terror. The game's mastermind has stolen his identity, put him on the FBI's Most Wanted List, and is blackmailing him to take a part in a real twisted plan of world destruction. With just hours left, can the code be broken to save the world from total annihilation?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing, tech noir
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Alien Dawn (2012)
Plot Summary:
2012. The dawn of destruction. As giant alien machines enslave and feed off humanity, the few remaining survivors band together to form a armed militia that will be the last stand against total extinction (IMDB.com).
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film
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The Day the Earth Stopped (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the world's major capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, bleak, mockbuster, apocalyptic, serious, disaster movie
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The Dead Undead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Good Vampires battle Zombie Vampires while trying to hide their own identity and prevent the infection from spreading.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, independent film
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Syngenor: Synthesized Genetic Organism (1990)
Plot Summary:
A scientist engineers a group of genetically engineered cyborgs for use as "super soldiers" to fight U.S. wars in the Middle East. However, things get ugly when the cyborgs malfunction and turn on their creators.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, independent film, scary, stylized, fast, surprise ending
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Automatic (1995)
Plot Summary:
Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, bleak
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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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Android Insurrection (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future high-tech man colonized the world and leaves all the dirty work of an army of androids and robots. Now, somewhere rebelling robots, and a heavily armed special forces, led by Major Fox well to look after things. Locally it is found that the problem is bigger than expected: namely, the machine themselves have tinkered machines, and with these new Combat robots is no joke. Luckily, keeping an even few androids to people.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, cyber
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Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group of human survivors eking out an existence in an old military outpost.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, space horror, apocalyptic, tech noir, scary, surprise ending
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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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Shepherd (1998)
Plot Summary:
aka Cybercity It's the year 2017, the Earth's surface is destroyed and its citizens flee to an underground wasteland ruled by warring religious cults. In this sinful cybercity, Mercenary Dakota's (C. Thomas Howell) family is murdered by a perverse virtual prophet (Roddy Piper) bent on world domination. Seeking justice, Dakota, beautiful assissin Lilith (Heidi Von Palleske) and an arsenal of hi-tech weaponry battle for the Earth's most precious resource - Humanity. It's time for the false prophets to meek their makers! Packed with innovative special effects and teeth-clenching action, "CyberCity" will make you rethink the millennium.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Slime City Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dirty bomb has decimated New York City s financial district and reduced midtown to a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The neighborhood known as Slime City has been evacuated, except for the homeless, and in the ruins of a soup kitchen four squatters discover a supply of food that transforms them into hideous slime creatures, driven to murder! Meanwhile, a greedy developer who has set his sights on Slime City hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, exciting, futuristic, splatter
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Eve of Destruction (1991)
Plot Summary:
Eve is a military robot made to look exactly like her creator, Dr. Eve Simmons. When she is damaged during a bank robbery, the robot becomes an unstoppable killing machine. Colonel Jim McQuade is assigned to stop the robot and with the help from Dr. Simmons they have to predict where she will go next.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious, exciting, tech noir, independent film, bleak, fast, psychological