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Plot Summary:
A man tries to cure his friend of his video-game obsession by using a virtual reality machine. When the device traps his friend in a virtual world, he goes in to help him fight for his life.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Max Cloud (2020)
Plot Summary:
A space cruiser crashes on a planet that is home to an intergalactic prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, entertaining, stylized, surreal
Similar in 79%
Korean Terminator (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Korean riff on The Terminator.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult film
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Tomorrow Ever After (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shaina lives 600 years in the future. War, greed, prejudice, poverty, pollution, violence, loneliness, depression – these are things that she’s read about in history books. When an accident in a physics experiment sends her on a time-travel journey to our times, she assumes that everyone around her is honest, generous and caring, as she recruits the help that she needs to get back home.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Spacejacked (1997)
Plot Summary:
The luxury space cruiser Star Princess' maiden voyage is sabotaged when the treacherous second make, Alex Barnes (Corbin Bernsen), kills the captain and "spacejacks" the ship. Barnes then severs communications with Earth and activates a bomb which will blow up the liner unless he is given access to the wealthy passengers' bank accounts. But he mistakenly underestimates the courage of the first mate, Ryan Taylor (Steve Bonds) and an adventurous young passenger, Dawn Taggert (Amanda Pays), who together risk life and limb to try to save the Star Princess and her passengers from inevitable destruction.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Future Cops (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2043, an evil crime lord (The General/M. Bison) is trying to take over the world. Only one government official stands in his way, and plans to send him to prison, so The General and his minions Kent (Ken), Thai King (Sagat), and Toyota (E. Honda) travel to the year 1993 to kill the official before he has a chance to get into office. During a battle with The General's minions, the Future Cops Lung (Ryu), Broom Man (Guile), Ti Man (Vega), and Ah-Sing (Dhalsim) hear of their evil plan and devise a plan of their own to travel back in time to protect the official.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody, weird
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Knight Rider 2010 (1994)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT".
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 937
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic
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Sci-Fighter (2004)
Plot Summary:
A well-meaning genius creates a virtual reality game that leaves his grandson trapped within when a virus invades. The boy's father (Don Wilson) enters the virtual fighting game in order to combat the virus and save his son before they're both trapped forever.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, cult film
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Darkdrive (1997)
Plot Summary:
Set in some distant future, one man must restore order when a mainframe system crashes in a virtual reality prison where computers control the inmates thoughts.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tech noir, surprise ending, futuristic, independent film
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RocketJump: The Show (2015)
Plot Summary:
A behind-the-scenes look at the RocketJump production team (Video Game High School) as they create phenomenal action-comedy short films. Each half-hour episode of the series will chronicle the filmmaking behind RocketJump’s newest short and will include an exclusive look at the short film itself.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Dollman (1991)
Plot Summary:
Brick Bardo is a traveller from outer space who is forced to land on Earth. Though regular sized on his home planet, he is doll-sized here on Earth, as are the enemy forces who have landed as well. While Brick enlists the help of an impoverished girl and her son, the bad guys enlist the help of a local gang. When word leaks out as to his location, and all hell breaks loose. Brick is besieged by an onslaught of curious kids, angry gang members, and his own doll-sized enemies, and he must protect the family who has helped him and get off the planet alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: demonic, retro, dark, slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, exciting, rough
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Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (2020)
Plot Summary:
A small town video game store clerk must go from zero to hero after accidentally unleashing the forces of evil from a cursed Colecovision game.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, bloody
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The Posthuman Project (2014)
Plot Summary:
Denny Burke is finally about to graduate high school. Senior year has been one bad thing after another: a broken leg, a broken heart, and — worst of all — a broken home. With four of his closest friends, Denny goes on one last rock-climbing trip to prove he’s ready to start his adult life… On their trip the five teens receive a genetic boost beyond anything they’d ever imagined. Denny’s soon faced with the first big decision of his adult life: does he give up these powers and stay a normal teenager, or does he keep them…and graduate from the human race?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Red Faction: Origins (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2125, Alec Mason led the Martian Colonies to freedom in the hit action game Red Faction: Guerrilla. Now, Syfy and THQ are teaming up to continue the saga of conflict on Mars 25 years later in an all-new Original Movie, Red Faction: Origins. Stargate Universe's Brian J. Smith stars as Jake Mason, son of revolutionary hero Alec Mason (Terminator 2's Robert Patrick) and a Red Faction ranger. Fighting to preserve Martian freedom, Jake encounters a powerful new enemy in a dangerous and mysterious group led by the charismatic Adam Hale (Torchwood's Gareth David-Lloyd) and holding secrets that will rock the Mason clan. Jake must now battle the relentless regime and somehow reunite a family torn apart by war. Red Faction: Origins also stars Battlestar Galactica's Kate Vernon and The Tudors' Tamzin Merchant, and will feature music from Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, futuristic, scenic, anime, psychotronic
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The Girl from Monday (2005)
Plot Summary:
A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, clever, witty, cynical, stylized, independent film, offbeat, biting, crying, freeze frame
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Circuitry Man (1990)
Plot Summary:
In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips which can be plugged directly into the brain. Lori, a female body guard steals a case of such chips and flees underground Los Angeles with Danner, a pleasure android so that they can smuggle the chips to New York. In pursuit is Plughead, a dangerous criminal so named because of the many sockets and ports which decorate his scalp so that he can test and use the chips that he is after.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cyber, tech noir, apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic
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Prison Ship (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with lesbian guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, futuristic, light, feel good, absurd, disturbing, spoof, grindhouse, cult classic
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Real Men (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs. John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper. The story follows their adventures over the course of a week, in which Ritter develops some guts and Belushi gets in touch with his sensitive side.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: clever, absurd, semi serious, inspirational, suspenseful, light, action comedy, spy comedy, light hearted, crying
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Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002)
Plot Summary:
To Chinese restaurant delivery boy 'Ju', the only joy in life is spending time at the electronic game room. One day, 'Ju' who was engrossed in an electronic game as usual, is advised to log-on to a game called RESURRECTION OF THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL. The match selling girl of Andersen's fairytale is revived through the game, and 'Ju' is drawn into the little girl's virtual reality. As reality and cyberspace interchange, 'Ju', like in the famous fairytale, is given the mission to save the little girl from danger and lead her to a peaceful death. However, the two are not only confronted by a gigantic force called the System, that attempts to stop them, but other obstacles that place their lives in danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, stylized, cyber, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, cult film
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Metalloid Vol. 1: Origins (2018)
Plot Summary:
High-schooler Finnigan Greed has found a stone that gives him superpowers. As he tries to hide his powers and new identity, he meets a new friend, Jordan Peralta, who just so happens to have similar powers.
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IMDB Votes:
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sad
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Cicak Man 3 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set after 7 years of the event of Cicakman 2: Planet Hitam. Metrofulus superhero, Cicakman had disappeared, many people say Cicakman is dead or retire. So, The new superhero has emerged known as Superbro has become a major superhero in Metrofulus and he is venerated by many people. The man named Man (Zizan Razak) has found a box left by former Cicakman (Saiful Apek) at the Cicakman monument.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Spy Kids: Armageddon (2023)
Plot Summary:
When the children of the world’s greatest secret agents unwittingly help a powerful game developer unleash a computer virus that gives him control of all technology, they must become spies themselves to save their parents and the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Game Over, Man! (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: action comedy, absurd, funny, humorous, not serious, anamorphic, perverse, buddy comedy, talky, gay cinema
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The Call Up (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once the group are attacked by enemy combatants, they soon realize this is no game after all. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot ‘em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it’s for real.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic, mind bending, scenic
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Storm Watch (2002)
Plot Summary:
America's best player is being pulled in to the ultimate cyber-terror. The game's mastermind has stolen his identity, put him on the FBI's Most Wanted List, and is blackmailing him to take a part in a real twisted plan of world destruction. With just hours left, can the code be broken to save the world from total annihilation?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 753
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing, tech noir
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Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
Plot Summary:
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious, stylized, spy comedy, action adventure, spoof, cult classic
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Blasted (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a former childhood friend crashes Sebastian's bachelor party and makes it all about himself, only an alien invasion can make them put aside their bad blood and reunite as the kick-ass laser-tag duo they once were.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The World's End (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 295000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: witty, absurd, humorous, funny, parody, spoof, dark comedy, cult classic, suspense, horror comedy
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Ant-Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 710000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, light, humorous, witty, serious, funny, psychotronic, epic, saga
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Pixels (2015)
Plot Summary:
Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, exciting, semi serious, cute, parody, light, romantic, retro
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Free Guy (2021)
Plot Summary:
A bank teller realizes he's a background character in an open world action game.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 410000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, heroic, captivating, exciting, feel good, uplifting, action comedy, surprise ending, fairy tale