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Plot Summary:
A PhD student investigates unusual seismic activity in Los Angeles, leading to a cabal of elitist scientists, who plan to weaponize Nikola Tesla's most secret research to manipulate thought patterns and earthquakes.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: intellectual, clever, tense, exciting, thought provoking, christian film, captivating
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MindGamers (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of young bio-engineers discover they can use quantum physics to transfer motor-skills between human brains. Believing this to be a first step towards a new intellectual freedom, they freely distribute the technology. But as the mysterious past of one of their group is revealed, dark forces emerge that threaten to subvert this technology into a means of mass control. DxM takes the mind-bender thriller to the next level with an immersive narrative and breath-taking action.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, weird
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Solar Flare (2008)
Plot Summary:
Riley is a math genius who is fascinated by math and the universe; his mom is a woman just trying to.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, bleak, serious, disaster movie
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Incontrol (2017)
Plot Summary:
Incontrol follows a group of university students who discover a device that allows them to take control of others, and experience the world through someone else. As they push the machine's abilities to its limits, they begin to question the device itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Never Let Go (2015)
Plot Summary:
A whiplash thriller in the lean, mean TAKEN tradition from Howard J. Ford, Director/Co-Writer, of the past FrightFest favourites THE DEAD and THE DEAD 2: INDIA. Former FBI agent, now single mother Lisa Brennan, takes a holiday to escape an unhappy love affair and painful family memories. But in a heartbeat is not only faced with a daughter kidnapped by human traffickers, but also faces murder charges and must keep one step ahead of the foreign police. Fasten your seatbelts for spectacular twists, startling turns and breathless suspense in a jolt-a-minute journey no mother should go on!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Morocco, Spain, UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Prodigy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he begins to understand the extent of her capabilities and the fate that has been planned for her, he struggles to overcome her defenses before it is too late for them both.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: suspense, thought provoking, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, intellectual, mystical, psychological thriller, psychological, bizarre
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Dropa (2019)
Plot Summary:
A government assassin comes out of retirement to hunt down the alien responsible for killing the former members of his team.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, independent film, action adventure, contemplative
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The Power of Few (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama, interesting
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Crosshairs (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hired to enact revenge on a man who savagely beat a beautiful Russian débutant, Jack Verlaine is pressed between his newly acquired job and a persistent man named, Brill, who offers him a chance to advance higher in his seedy career. But when an estranged lover reappears in Verlaine's regimented existence, he soon realizes the new elements in his life may be just a plot to uncover his true identity.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
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Scavengers (2013)
Plot Summary:
A team of space scavengers discovers superior alien technology that threatens the balance of the known universe. Hotly pursued by a rival crew of intergalactic mercenaries, the Revelator crew must fight through the deepest reaches of space to locate and protect the life-altering device.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, serious, futuristic
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Megastorm (2009)
Plot Summary:
Through his Atmospheric Research Institute, Robert Terrell (Treat Williams) has finally fulfilled his lifelong dream of completing "weather creation" technology, which has been a landmark event. However, during a test run, a team composed of Dr. Jonathan Kirk, Carly Meyers and Dr. Jack Hoffman send a blast of energy into the ionosphere, driving the planet into unexpected natural disasters. The experiment also causes a damage of the weather control laboratory which causes the police led by the detective Devon Williams to begin the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political, disaster movie
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Path of Destruction (2005)
Plot Summary:
The movie opens with a faulty nanotechnology experiment that results in a massive, deadly explosion. The company's CEO manages to sidestep blame by framing a meddling young reporter (Katherine), who now holds the only surviving evidence needed to expose the truth. All the while, the dangerous nanoparticles - having escaped from the explosion into the stratosphere - threaten to destroy nearby cities with wildly destructive weather patterns. Among the chaos of the storms, and on the run from the authorities, Katherine must - with the help of a young scientist - get the evidence to the government to enlist their help before it's too late...and the deadly disaster turns worldwide.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Toxin (2015)
Plot Summary:
A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller
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Beta Test (2016)
Plot Summary:
While testing the latest first person shooter from global game developer, Sentinel, video game champion Max Troy discovers the events happening within the game are being reflected in the real world. He soon determines that the game's protagonist is real-life Orson Creed, an ex-Sentinel employee who is being remotely controlled by the corporation for reasons unknown. As virtual and real worlds collide, Max and Creed must join forces to unravel the conspiracy before the game's sinister events escalate and overwhelm the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, art house, cyber, mockbuster, comic
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Einstein's God Model (2016)
Plot Summary:
For thousands of years, evidence of life after death has eluded mankind. Science is about to change that. With the help of a physicist, a blind medium, and Thomas Edison’s final experiment, Brayden Taylor embarks on a quest to contact his deceased fiancee. For his love to transcend dimensions, he must defy the laws of quantum physics. He must defy the balance nature demands. He must defy ... Einstein’s God Model.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, suspense
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Cross: Rise of the Villains (2019)
Plot Summary:
Armed with an explosive powerful ancient cross amulet, Callan is back with his extraordinary team of weapons experts to defend Los Angeles from its biggest threat yet—super villains Muerte and Drago. Callan will have to join forces with his once mortal enemy, Gunnar, to try to save the city.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, breathtaking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Echo Dr. (2013)
Plot Summary:
When their home security system malfunctions, a family struggles to survive an attack against a state of the art patrol guard that believes they are intruders.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, exciting, serious, independent film, tech noir
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Replicas (2018)
Plot Summary:
A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China, Puerto Rico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, intellectual, futuristic, clever, psychotronic, philosophical, sentimental, grindhouse, smart, cyber
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Agent Revelation (2021)
Plot Summary:
An ancient dust that controls humans is unleashed, but mysteriously affects Jim Yung who gains superpowers. Jim is taken to an underground base where he's trained to be an operative to take on an imminent alien threat and learn why aliens have returned to Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998)
Plot Summary:
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, christian film, intellectual, tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy, lovecraft
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Fall of Hyperion (2008)
Plot Summary:
A NASA scientist discovers that a group meteorites is heading towards Earth. Along the way, they will collide with the space station Hyperion, whose 12 astronauts are trapped and inside which there is a thermonuclear heart.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Annihilation Earth (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two scientists fight to save the planet after a group of terrorists destroy a particle accelerator.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, fast, disaster movie
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The Moment After (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the twinkling of an eye, a mass disappearance has occurred. Moments after the turmoil and confusion, the FBI is called in to investigate and locate the missing persons. For Agent Adam Riley (David White), it is personal. For Agent Charles Baker (Kevin Downes), it doesn't matter, it's just a job.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christian film, biblical
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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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Kill Switch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, futuristic, psychological, independent film, surprise ending
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Chain Reaction (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, entertaining, tech noir, cult classic, surprise ending
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Predestination (2014)
Plot Summary:
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 298000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, clever, confusing, twist ending, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking, stylized, mind blowing, cerebral
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Prison Break: The Final Break (2009)
Plot Summary:
The movie covers the events which occurred in between the downfall of The Company and the finale of the series. It details the arrest and incarceration of Sara Tancredi, the final escape plan which Michael devises for Sara. It also reveals the ultimate fate of Gretchen Morgan.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, clever, intense, exciting, rough, realistic, tense, serious, enigmatic
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The Island (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 325000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, action packed, apocalyptic, intense, thought provoking, entertaining
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Transcendence (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, thought provoking, philosophical, cerebral, exciting, tricky, suspenseful, tense, emotional, cyber
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Looper (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 596000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, clever, thought provoking, mind bending, exciting, neo noir, tense, confusing, cerebral, suspenseful