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Plot Summary:
When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Paradox Alice (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a team is sent on a dangerous mission to Europa to retrieve and bring water back to a dying Earth. Their operation unexpectedly goes awry, jeopardizing not only the lives of those on board but also on earth, resulting in the possible extinction of the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Robot World (2015)
Plot Summary:
50 years from now, a pilot (Ian Rowe) is sent 60 light years across the galaxy through a new device capable of crossing the extra spatial dimensions. His mission is to orbit and reconnoiter the planet then return home. The planet is known to be populated by intelligent life. Once at his destination the pilot has to perform an emergency landing and becomes marooned on the alien planet, and soon discovers the planets only inhabitants are predatory machines.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, independent film
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Teleios (2017)
Plot Summary:
A deep space mining vessel has been adrift for two years. It is suspected the crew brutally killed each other, but the reason for the bloodbath is unknown. A rescue crew is sent to find if there are any survivors, what happened and why.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense
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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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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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Backstabbing for Beginners (2018)
Plot Summary:
An idealistic young employee at the U.N. investigates the grizzly murder of his predecessor – and uncovers a vast global conspiracy that may involve his own boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, cynical, tense, captivating, suspense
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Hover (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying sentinel drones, a handful of locals discover a sinister connection between sick farmland inhabitants and the tech that’s meant to be protect them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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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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G-Loc (2020)
Plot Summary:
With Earth virtually destroyed, Bran Marshall flees to Rhea, a nearby planet now hostile towards "Earthers". Escaping onto a Rhean supply ship, he finds the crew slaughtered, with the only survivor a female warrior named Ohsha. As the two try to kill one another, the ship is damaged by meteorites. Bran and Ohsha must join forces to salvage the craft before it impacts the planet below — and the humans that live there.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Assassinaut (2019)
Plot Summary:
Assassinaut is a science-fiction adventure film about a young girl who braves the alien wilderness of a faraway planet to save the President of Earth from a murderous astronaut.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Atlantis Down (2010)
Plot Summary:
2025 - The Shuttle Program has been privatized and the shuttle Atlantis relegated to glorified taxi between space stations. Its crew is on a routine mission, conducting experiments - little do they know - they are the experiment. Written by Max Bartoli.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, futuristic, captivating, psychological
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Missions (2017)
Plot Summary:
The first manned mission to Mars is now approaching the red planet. The crew includes top-flight scientists and a young female psychiatrist, responsible for their mental health. But just as they are about to land, something goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Settlers (2021)
Plot Summary:
Remmy and her parents, refugees from Earth, have found peace on the Martian outskirts until strangers appear in the hills beyond their farm. Told as a triptych, the film follows Remmy as she struggles to survive in an uneasy landscape.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, minimal cast
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A. I. Tales (2019)
Plot Summary:
The film is made up of futuristic, high concept stories about artificial intelligence. Whether it's love found in time of over-population or exploration of the unknown and space-travel, "A.I. Tales" has a bit of something for every fan of the genre. Altogether, these stories provide a one-of-a-kind experience and a unique view of the near future.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic, cyber
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After the End (2017)
Plot Summary:
After years on his own in a post-pandemic Oklahoma, a 17 year-old doomsday prepper meets a pregnant girl who brings companionship, but also the danger of a gun-wielding group of survivors hellbent on building a new world.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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The Beyond (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered wormhole known as the Void. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency races to discover what the astronauts encountered on their first of its kind interstellar space journey.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cerebral, mockumentary, thought provoking
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The Challenger Disaster (2019)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion dollar multi-delayed Challenger launch, convinced the O-ring seals will fail and kill everyone on board. The Company, Marshall Space Flight and NASA made a business decision. He made a human decision.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Feng Shui (2018)
Plot Summary:
Park Jae-sang was a royal geomancer, who helps people designate propitious site for houses, store and even graves under the belief that a grave in a good site will bring future fortune for descendants. But he loses his family because he exposed a conspiracy about crown Prince's grave site. Park Jae-sang plans to make a revenge of his family and learns that there is a much bigger conspiracy about propitious grave site; the place that would make grave owner's son the King of Joseon.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Killing Reagan (2016)
Plot Summary:
Killing Reagan explores the events surrounding the assassination attempt on president Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr. Based on the best-selling book, the film begins in the final months leading up to the 1980 presidential election, and explores the challenges Reagan faced to define himself as a leader. Meanwhile, an aimless and deranged Hinckley is unraveling, leading to the fateful day in March 1981 when these disparate figures collided.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Solitary (2020)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes up inside a room to discover he's a prisoner sent into space to form Earth's first colony, and worse - his cell mate Alana is hell bent on destroying everything.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Capsule (2015)
Plot Summary:
Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is alone in space with a malfunctioning capsule. He has limited contact with the UK, some unusual communication with the US and some unorthodox communication with Roscosmos deep in Soviet Russia. Who will help him? Will he make the right choice?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Proximity (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young NASA JPL scientist is abducted by extraterrestrials but when no one believes his story he becomes obsessed with finding proof which leads him on a journey of discovery.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, intellectual, mysterious, captivating, independent film
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Moonhaven (2022)
Plot Summary:
Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future, finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Approaching the Unknown (2016)
Plot Summary:
Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, tense, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing
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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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Pandemic (2009)
Plot Summary:
A slow-paced, action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, disaster movie, awful
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Marooned (1969)
Plot Summary:
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a Hurricane headed towards the launch site and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts capsule.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, exciting, suspense, futuristic, melancholic, serious, grindhouse, inspirational, talky
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X-15 (1961)
Plot Summary:
X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, experimental
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Man's landing on the moon was our greatest technological achievement. The Apollo 11 mission was truly the stuff of dreams. For the first time, our species walked on another celestial body. Even more remarkable was their ability to make it back. This is the story of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing. Drama with digitally remastered original footage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, uplifting, sincere
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The Challenger (2013)
Plot Summary:
Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 explosion.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, intellectual, contemplative, microfilm