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Plot Summary:
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Across the Line (2015)
Plot Summary:
Out of the approximately 600 players in the National Hockey League, thirty are Black. Mattie Slaughter, a hockey phenom from the rural Black community of North Preston, wants to make it thirty-one. To reach his goal, Mattie needs to keep his nose clean and avoid trouble. Hard to do though, when you go to a school where racism taints every interaction, your older brother is a hustler and you’re crushing on a girl who’s already hooked up.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Querô: A Damned Report (2007)
Plot Summary:
Querô is an orphan teenager, living alone near the docks in Santos, Brazil. Her mother, a prostitute, died when he was a baby, and he was raised in the bordello where she worked. He also doesn't know who his father is. Believing he rules his own destiny, he refuses to compromise with anyone else, the corrupt policemen always chasing him, the oppressive discipline in the juvenile institution Febem, or the drug dealers who try to lure him. But this independence has a price.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Realive (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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Ten Years (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, independent film, mockumentary, banned
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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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The Gladiators (1969)
Plot Summary:
Some time in the future, East and West have stopped maintaining standing armies and nuclear weapons. Instead, to settle their differences they pit different teams of crack combat specialists against each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 547
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: mysterious, independent film, thought provoking, serious, captivating, contemplative, stylized
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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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2149: The Aftermath (2016)
Plot Summary:
In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Noughts + Crosses (2020)
Plot Summary:
In an alternate history where black “Cross” people rule over white “Noughts”, young couple Sephy and Callum are divided by their colour but united by love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Hidden Reserves (2016)
Plot Summary:
The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, becomes a victim of the very corporations he is representing. Degraded to a henchman he grimly struggles to get back on the job market. He fights to climb the social ladder. In the process he realizes that there are other values than income and success. He decides against his previous ideology and for another human being, for Lisa Sokulowa. They don’t have a future. But they celebrate a small triumph against the dominance of the ruling system.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Grain (2017)
Plot Summary:
The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the city’s agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis - and, as a result, by massive crop failure. Professor Erol Erin, a seed genetics specialist learns of Cemil Akman, a fellow scientist. Apparently, Cemil wrote a thesis about the recurrent crisis affecting genetically modified seeds - but the work was banned by the corporation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden, Qatar
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, realistic, black and white
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The Northlander (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed of hope. The future of Last Arc is for him to discover, Cygnus ventures into a hostile landscape in search of an answer for his people. On this journey of encountering many traps and dangers, Cygnus discovers what has been hunting him is his identity.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic, independent film
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The White King (2016)
Plot Summary:
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Dragon Day (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Duke Evans, out of work NSA analyst, is evicted from his home he moves his family to his grandfather's old cabin. However here they are also threatened when a hellish cyber-attack is unleashed on the US rendering anything with a computer chip useless. He must now keep his family alive, fight off would be thieves and a newly corrupted government and ultimately make the hardest decision of his life- to survive. Written by Patterson, Matt (V).
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied their civil and economic rights. 10,000 Black Men Named George, the title, refers to the fact Pullman porters were often called "George" by white passengers, which was considered a racial slur.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, tense, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, entertaining
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After We Leave (2019)
Plot Summary:
A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, philosophical, serious, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, intense, visually appealing
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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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Puzzlehead (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter has longed for. The resulting sci-fi love triangle is a Frankensteinian fable that traps all three in a web of deception and the ultimate betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense, surreal, cyber, bleak, independent film
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Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)
Plot Summary:
The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to the mounting energy crisis - found abandoned amongst ruins, a miraculous motor that could seemingly power the World. But, the motor is dead... there is no one left to decipher its secret... and, someone is watching. It’s a race against the clock to find the inventor and stop the destroyer before the motor of the World is stopped for good. A motor that would power the World. A World whose motor would be stopped. Who is John Galt?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, philosophical, absurd, thought provoking, serious, captivating, spiritual, political, saga, patriotic
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Aniara (2018)
Plot Summary:
A ship carrying settlers to a new home in Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Denmark, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tragic ending, psychological, tense, philosophical, captivating, psychological thriller, atmospheric, realistic, dread, existential
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The Commons (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in a gripping vision of the near future, THE COMMONS is an absorbing character-driven relationship drama and a story about motherhood as the ultimate act of faith in humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Plot Summary:
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, tense, surprise ending, captivating, grindhouse, psychotronic, philosophical, corny
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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 Thinning (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic future where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test, two students discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: touching, disturbing, cynical, exciting, brutal, tense, futuristic, captivating
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Plot Summary:
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized, clever, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological
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Stalker (1979)
Plot Summary:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded desires are granted.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral, thought provoking, meditative, psychological, gloomy, mind bending
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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
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Plot Summary:
A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 319000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, philosophical, sentimental, fairy tale, intellectual, atmospheric, captivating, touching, futuristic, tech noir