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Plot Summary:
In spring 1938 in the mountains in the north of Chile a fiery UFO, later named "Chilean Sphere ", fell down. The investigation of this episode, made by a film crew, has led to a sensational discovery. It appeared that before the Second World War (in the thirties) in the USSR a secret space program had been developed. The Soviet scientists and military authorities managed to launch the first spacecraft 23 years prior to Jury Gagarin's flight! "The First on the Moon" tells about everyday life, heroic deeds and tragedy of the first group of the Soviet cosmonauts. It is the first Russian film shot in a very rare genre 'mockumentary' or 'documentary fiction'.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: semi documentary, clever, serious, realistic, surreal, avant garde, mockumentary, fake documentary, weird
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Cold Ground (2017)
Plot Summary:
1976: Two young journalists leave for the French-Swiss border to investigate a strange case of cattle mutilations and record testimonies for a TV channel. Yet, once they get there, the scientific team they were supposed to meet has gone missing. Escorted by a first-aider, a British biologist and an American forensic investigator, Melissa and David will go looking for the missing team deep into the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockumentary
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The Third Planet (1991)
Plot Summary:
Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film adaptation ('Stalker'), 'Tretya planeta' tells the story of a father seeking a cure for his ill daughter by venturing into an area known only as "The Zone" to request help from the mysterious healers that dwell within its forbidden borders.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal
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The Falls (1980)
Plot Summary:
The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: experimental, art house, mockumentary, offbeat, humorous, captivating, surreal, stylized, not serious, independent film
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Murder by Moonlight (1989)
Plot Summary:
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, surprise ending
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Alternative 3 (1977)
Plot Summary:
Purporting to be an investigation into the UK's contemporary "brain drain", Alternative 3 uncovered a plan to make the Moon and Mars habitable in the event of climate change and a terminal environmental catastrophe on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, fake documentary
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The Night Visitor 2: Heather's Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to Jennifer Blanc's cult hit 2013 film "The Night Visitor". Directed by that film's star Brianne Davis, The Night Visitor 2:HEATHER'S STORY runs parallel to the original Night Visitor, telling the story of Heather, a special young girl, who must protect her family and the planet from the same other-earthly being. The sequel delves deeper into the mysteries that plagued the Stevens family and their son Ricky with the help of psychic and medium Daniel.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Black Night (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a world overtaken by eternal darkness, the buttoned down entomologist abandons his phantoms to embrace the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark, disturbing, controversial, art house, deep, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, weird
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The Distance (2014)
Plot Summary:
A heist film unlike any you've ever seen. In his second film (following his debut Finisterrae), Sergio Caballero plays fast and loose with all the laws of genre filmmaking. The ‘distance’ in the title is the ultimate MacGuffin - the term coined by Hitchcock for the thing the characters are pursuing, but which for the audience is completely meaningless. The fact that everyone communicates by telepathy enables Caballero to ‘speak’ a lingua franca made up of many different languages: from the Russian of the dwarves and the guard, to the German of the artist and the Chinese of the guard with the brazier.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, stylized, realistic, art house, offbeat, psychotronic, avant garde, mind bending
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Moon Rainbow (1983)
Plot Summary:
After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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1974 (2016)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple disappeared in 1974, their 8mm tapes reveal one of the most horrifying events in Mexican history.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, mockumentary, spooky, lovecraft
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4 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, captivating, surreal, realistic, art house, heartfelt, experimental, tense, atmospheric
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City Zero (1988)
Plot Summary:
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, heartfelt, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Alien Overlords (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man learns about alien agendas from a dying agent and feels compelled to warn the world about the impending danger.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, psychological, philosophical, mind bending, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Mermaids: The Body Found (2011)
Plot Summary:
A story that imagines how these real-world phenomena may be related. In this story, startling amateur video and photographic evidence, as well as additional audio recordings, suggests whales weren’t the only creatures affected by the Navy’s sonar. The film follows the two scientists who tracked the whale beachings for years and delivers first-hand, on-camera accounts of what they claim to have discovered in the aftermath of one particular beaching. Their story is nothing less than fantastical: they claim to have found the remains of a mermaid.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: computer animated, captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, mockumentary, controversial, fake documentary
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Lunopolis (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lunopolis is a 2009 direct-to-video science fiction film directed by Matthew Avant. The film is presented in found footage style and takes place in the weeks preceding the rumored events of the 2012 prophecies. Two documentary filmmakers discover a mysterious device and begin to unravel a conspiracy involving the moon, time travel, and a very powerful organization who will stop at nothing to protect their secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, contemplative, psychological, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, weird, fake documentary
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Decoder (1984)
Plot Summary:
F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychedelic, retro, mind bending, realistic, surreal, tense, bleak, serious, futuristic
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Bodom (2014)
Plot Summary:
For the 50th anniversary of the Lake Bodom murders, two media students obsessed with the case launch a journalistic investigation. The footage they have left behind only raises new questions.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, surprise ending, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockumentary, realistic, independent film
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Alien Origin (2012)
Plot Summary:
A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, mockumentary, independent film, fake documentary
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The Unknown (2000)
Plot Summary:
Five young field-biologists are sent to northern Sweden to investigate effects of a large forest fire. However, what was thought to be some weeks of camping and easy work soon turns into a nightmare as they find the remains of a mysterious creature and take it in for examination.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, disturbing
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Hard to Be a God (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position. As if the question were: what would you do in God's place? Director's statement Aleksei wanted to make this film his entire life. The road was a long one. This is not a film about cruelty, but about love. A love that was there, tangible, alive, and that resisted through the hardest of conditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: surreal, thought provoking, serious, black and white, philosophical, art house, captivating, futuristic, dark, realistic
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Dark Planet (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two sides, one known as the Alphas and the other the Rebels, struggle in a brutal war on Earth and in outer space. When a habitable planet is discovered in orbit around a star that is on the far side of a dangerous wormhole, the two sides mysteriously set aside their differences and send a joint mission to explore the planet. The mission of the starship Scylla is soon beset by political intrigue and treachery, jeopardizing not only the mission, but the lives of the entire crew.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Fourth Kind (2009)
Plot Summary:
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, mockumentary, atmospheric, creepy, psychological, intense, serious
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Digging Up the Marrow (2014)
Plot Summary:
He’s one of the hardest working filmmakers in the genre business.......So what’s HATCHET man Adam Green been up to this past year apart from working on his sit-com ‘Holliston’, writing KILLER PIZZA and prepping EXORCISM ON CROOKED LAKE? The answer is this documentary starting out exploring genre-based monster art and then taking an odd turn into the blurring of fantasy and reality. Because halfway through producing this treatise with cinematographer Will Barratt at his L.A. ArieScope Pictures offices, they are contacted by former policeman William Dekker who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real. That they live in world just below our own named The Marrow and he knows where one of the entrances to this dark hidden universe is. Green of course is intrigued and so the monster hunting expedition begins… to become something else far more frightening than he ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, horror comedy, tense, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, scary
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The Phoenix Incident (2015)
Plot Summary:
A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, mockumentary, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, fake documentary
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Ever Since the World Ended (2001)
Plot Summary:
Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain. Two of them use jury-rigged batteries to power a camera and make a documentary. We see a variety of approaches to survival, from the artist and engineer who trade for their needs, to the surfers and woodsmen who fish and hunt, to the scavengers, and a communal farm. We also see how the community deals with those who threaten it, and how the youth are growing up with different values from those who knew our world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, bleak, serious, sincere, atmospheric, suspense, realistic, independent film, thought provoking
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old girl in the secluded wilderness and take it upon themselves to find her. Linking the case of the missing girl and the missing students together, the detectives race to piece enough information together to find them alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, tense, serious, suspense, fake documentary
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Apollo 18 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies it's authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, mockumentary, scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting, space horror, atmospheric, spooky
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Solaris (1972)
Plot Summary:
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, mind bending, enigmatic, psychedelic, intellectual, futuristic, surreal, psychological
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Moon (2009)
Plot Summary:
With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 372000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, philosophical, futuristic, bleak, cerebral, mind bending, minimal cast, mindfuck, intense
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Europa Report (2013)
Plot Summary:
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, cerebral, suspense, suspenseful, lovecraft, space horror, philosophical, futuristic, realistic