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Plot Summary:
An ex-model teams up with a soldier to thwart aliens who are propelling global warming to make Earth habitable for their species.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, computer animated, disaster movie
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Alien Opponent (2010)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a small-town junkyard offers a cash reward to whomever can kill her uninvited, space-suited alien guest when its spacecraft crash-lands into her barn. Every wacko within 100 miles turns out, and before long, the junkyard is transformed into a war zone of man vs. man vs. machine vs. alien vs. God only knows what.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, futuristic
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Battle Planet (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the not-so-distant future, Captain Jordan Strider, a Special Forces Officer in the New World Alliance, is chosen for a top-secret mission. Sent to a desolate planet, Terra 219, to arrest possible traitors to the Alliance, Strider must survive with only a government issued experimental suit as protection. He quickly learns of a plan to end all humanity.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, touching, scenic, experimental
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Starship: Rising (2014)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt planetary federation… The ultimate weapon of destruction.... One starship captain stands between them….and intergalactic armageddon. STARSHIP: RISING - RISE UP OR DIE In the distant future, an immortal bionic leader, the product of genetic engineering, has ruled over the universe for 200 years. An uprising is being staged by those preserving natural birth.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, bleak, captivating, exciting, tense
Similar in 87%
The Cat (1992)
Plot Summary:
A cat from outer space teams up with a young girl and an old man to fight a murderous alien that possesses people.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, weird
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Gargantua (1998)
Plot Summary:
Marine biologist Jack Ellway and his son Brandon are drawn to the Polynesian island of Malau to study the effects of recent seismic activity on the area's marine life. Along with the local doctor Alyson Hart, they soon become caught up in the investigation of a series of recent drownings with unexpected results. As Jack explores the surrounding ocean for a mysterious marine creature, Brandon discovers and befriends a three-foot-long baby creature that is able to leave the ocean and walk on land. As more dangerous and giant creatures come onto the island, and the military begins to take offensive action, Jack must risk everything to save the creatures, the island and his son. Written by ADAM G. THOMAS.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, disaster movie
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Code Red (2001)
Plot Summary:
A psychologically disturbed solider is forced to come out of retirement to find his brother who has disappeared in the jungle but nothing can prepare him for the alien nightmare he is plunged into.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Iron Invader (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alien bacteria arrives on a meteorite and infects metal, animating a giant iron statue that goes on a killing rampage in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, psychotronic
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Xtro II: The Second Encounter (1991)
Plot Summary:
Scientists at a secret underground complex have found a way to travel to another dimension. Three dimension-travellers are the first to go through the gate - but are soon attacked by something that interrupts the communication with Earth. This horrible something uses the gate to travel back to the underground complex. Most of the staff are evacuated, except four heavily-armed militaries and Dr. Casserly and Dr. Summerfield who just can't stand each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, space horror, suspense, classic horror, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Battle: New York, Day 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Laura Sommers is hearing voices in her head and consults with a psychiatrist. The therapy is suddenly cut short when New York City is rocked by an alien invasion.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Evilution (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, futuristic
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Raptor (2001)
Plot Summary:
When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating, natural horror, independent film, fast, cult film
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AVH: Alien vs. Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A journalist named Lee Custler (William Katt) is out jogging when a flying object passes behind him and crashes. Sheriff Joel Armstrong (Collin Brock) picks him up and they go to check it out. They find an abandoned caravan close to where the object crashed. As they discover the object and realize it is a spaceship, an Alien emerges. The Alien (resembling a giant spider with a lizard-like head and torso) then chases them, after which Lee flees to the car. However Armstrong makes a stand, trips, falls and is killed by the Alien that then leaves. A terrified Tammy finds Lee and they call the local authorities but their car is destroyed by the Alien.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, captivating, suspenseful, splatter
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Deep Evil (2004)
Plot Summary:
An alien microbe lands in remote Siberia in the 1950's. In the year 2004, US scientist working at a top secret underground lab in Alaska clone the microbe. A garbled distress signal is heard from the lab just before a complete lock down of the facility. This is the last word sent out from the scientists. A team of scientists and military personnel are in charge of finding out what went wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense, apocalyptic, cliffhanger
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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 Day the Earth Stopped (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the world's major capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, bleak, mockbuster, apocalyptic, serious, disaster movie
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Slayer (2006)
Plot Summary:
An elite commando squad led by longtime soldier buddies Hawk and Grives run afoul of lethal and powerful vampires in a South American rain forest. Grieves gets turned into a vampire and becomes leader of a savage roving herd. Moreover, Hawk has to rescue his scientist ex-wife Dr. Laurie Williams from the bloodsuckers' evil clutches.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fast
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Phantom Force (2004)
Plot Summary:
A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Crimson Force (2005)
Plot Summary:
The crew of the first manned mission to Mars crash land on the surface in search of a clean everlasting power source they believe to be hidden somewhere beneath the ground. However, the crew find themselves in the middle of a civil war between the High Priest of Mars' royal guards and the High Priestess' warriors. The crew is divided with one half deciding to help the High Priest make peace with Earth and the other side with the High Priestess who is secretly plotting to kill her husband and invade Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, futuristic
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The Slime People (1963)
Plot Summary:
After Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, tense, suspense, grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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Zombie Wars (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fifty years after a world-wide zombie epidemic had begun, a small group of rebel soldiers learn that intelligent zombies have begun breeding humans for food. The soldiers plan an all-out war to rid the Earth of the flesh-eating monsters for good, as the rest of the surviving world's population struggles to survive against the zombie hordes.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bleak, scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film, serious
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H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find the one weapon that will turn the tide for mankind.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: intense, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, suspense, futuristic, perverse, exciting, thought provoking, breathtaking
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Syngenor: Synthesized Genetic Organism (1990)
Plot Summary:
A scientist engineers a group of genetically engineered cyborgs for use as "super soldiers" to fight U.S. wars in the Middle East. However, things get ugly when the cyborgs malfunction and turn on their creators.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, independent film, scary, stylized, fast, surprise ending
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Night Feeders (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four deer hunters encounter a horde of carnivorous aliens in a remote countryside and fight to survive the night.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, offbeat
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Alien Lockdown (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, fast
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AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster, independent film
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Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sean Barker became the unwilling host to an alien bio-armor known as the Guyver. A year ago he destroyed the Kronos Corporation, an organization of mutants who want the Guyver. Now he is trying to find why the Guyver unit forces him to fight and kill evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense, manga, perverse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Threshold (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alien seeds hitch a ride to earth in a space shuttle crew and begin to grow. When their numbers reach the Threshold amount they will be an unstoppable swarm.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, disaster movie
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Crawl or Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, space horror, captivating, suspense
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Code Red (2013)
Plot Summary:
A female doctor struggling to find her daughter after a long lost World War II biological weapon explodes on a U.S. military base in Bulgaria, turning people into mutant zombies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious, suspense, scary, psychological, exciting, stylized
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Slime City Massacre (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dirty bomb has decimated New York City s financial district and reduced midtown to a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The neighborhood known as Slime City has been evacuated, except for the homeless, and in the ruins of a soup kitchen four squatters discover a supply of food that transforms them into hideous slime creatures, driven to murder! Meanwhile, a greedy developer who has set his sights on Slime City hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the creatures.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 655
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, scary, exciting, futuristic, splatter