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Plot Summary:
In a desert town, sometime in the future, a repressive government regime restricts all forms of artistic expression. At night, Theo breaks the law, risking torture and death, to paint his work on public spaces. But when his lover Elia is arrested for committing the same crime, Theo allows himself to be captured hoping to somehow be reunited with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, atmospheric, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, dystopian
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2030 (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a near future Vietnam where global warming and rising seawater levels have forced cultivation to be done on floating farms, a strong-willed woman has to make a critical decision about her ex-lover, a suspect of her husband's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspenseful, bleak, serious
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Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Plot Summary:
Recluse Smith (Sam Neill) is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions. Written by Mike Welsch.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, political, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tragic ending, independent film
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Lost in Siberia (1991)
Plot Summary:
The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, UK
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Bitter Sugar (1996)
Plot Summary:
A patriot (René Lavan) with a rebellious brother falls in love with a dissident's daughter (Mayte Vilán) in Castro's Cuba.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Dominican Republic, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black and white, tense, serious, realistic, crying, inspirational, rough, sexy, thought provoking, intellectual
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Revengers Tragedy (2002)
Plot Summary:
Revengers Tragedy is a film adaptation of the 1606 play The Revenger's Tragedy It was directed by Alex Cox and adapted for the screen by Cox's fellow Liverpudlian, Frank Cottrell Boyce. The film stars Christopher Eccleston as the revenge-obsessed Vindice, with Derek Jacobi and Eddie Izzard.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, atmospheric, serious, apocalyptic, clever, futuristic, realistic, contemplative, cynical
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Red Rose (2014)
Plot Summary:
A politically complacent middle-aged man and a young pro-democracy activist debate about the future of their country while hiding from the police, in this fascinating drama that blends scripted scenes with on-the-ground footage from Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Iran, Greece
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic
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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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Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt? (2014)
Plot Summary:
Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving behind a wake of despair. One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way. Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him. He swore by his life. They swore to find him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, spiritual, saga, patriotic, epic, contemplative
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Swan Song (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, futuristic, captivating, disturbing, intellectual, apocalyptic, existential, inspirational, weird
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Red Cockroaches (2003)
Plot Summary:
First of a Trilogy: In a New York ravaged with acid rains, a man in his twenties meets a mysterious, yet familiar young woman who disrupts the banality of his day-to-day existence. Together, they will embark on a surreal journey with a devastating climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Cuba
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, surreal, futuristic, offbeat, independent film, psychological, mind bending, thought provoking
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Daybreak (1993)
Plot Summary:
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death in this cautionary tale from director Stephen Tolkin. But a gutsy rebel named Torch (Cuba Gooding Jr.) sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary. Moira Kelly co-stars as Gooding's love interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Summer Palace (2006)
Plot Summary:
Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom. Was the only Asian film selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in 2006. In September of 2006, director Lou Ye was barred from making movies for five years because the film incorporated footage of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations and wasn't screened for Chinese officials. The Chinese government also demanded that all copies of the film be confiscated.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional, bleak, realistic, contemplative, sexual, controversial, sexy
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Index Zero (2014)
Plot Summary:
2035, United States of Europe. Some humans are not sustainable anymore.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse, bleak, serious, stylized, gloomy, futuristic
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It's All About Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of everything happening around them, their love is worth fighting for. It's All About Love is a fresh take on modern love and future life as two lovers struggle in a conspiracy of epic proportions.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, France, Canada, Spain, USA, Japan, Sweden, UK, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: philosophical, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, stylized, touching, realistic, apocalyptic, tech noir, atmospheric
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World's End (2010)
Plot Summary:
Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, depleting the female population. In a barbaric environment where bio fuel, batteries, bullets and people are currency and marauders roam free, Wes tries to escape to a mythical world run on cold fusion "Plutopia", a place that may only exist in the mind. THE BILL IS DUE. 'Downstream' is a view of the not so distant future. We follow a young man (everyone's son) as he pays the price for society's decadence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, surreal, apocalyptic, captivating, psychological, bleak, suspenseful
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One Hundred Mornings (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive this crisis.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, disturbing
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Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)
Plot Summary:
An epic love story: Olanna and Kainene are glamorous twins, living a privileged city life in newly independent 1960s Nigeria. The two women make very different choices of lovers, but rivalry and betrayal must be set aside as their lives are swept up in the turbulence of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing
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The Black Pimpernel (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 826
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Mexico, Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, emotional, realistic
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The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Plot Summary:
In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sensual, sexy, apocalyptic, disturbing, erotic, frightening, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful, contemplative
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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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Freedom (2000)
Plot Summary:
Freedom is a short-lived 2000 American science fiction television show on the UPN network. There were 12 episodes filmed but only 7 were aired in the US. Some episodes were further aired internationally, and the full series is still occasionally broadcast in Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak, futuristic
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Regular Lovers (2005)
Plot Summary:
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, black and white, touching, captivating, suspenseful, political, art house, contemplative, crying
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Rumors of Wars (2014)
Plot Summary:
A suspenseful, genre-bending film with two converging storylines. An aspiring college journalist records events in a diary about the turmoil of a society due to the insertion of a RFID chip mandated by the government. ? Years later in the rubble of a post apocalyptic society filled with decay and violence, the diary finds its way into to the hands of an officer in the New World Army who uncovers the truth about the past and discovers everything he stood for was a lie. But what will he do now?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, christian film, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, futuristic
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Plot Summary:
British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, sexy, offbeat
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20 Years After (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, futuristic, dystopian, disaster movie
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Equals (2015)
Plot Summary:
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: artsy, touching, intellectual, harsh, intense, bleak, emotional, suspense, visually appealing, futuristic
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The Giver (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, futuristic, philosophical, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful, melancholic, intense, teen, apocalyptic
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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