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Plot Summary:
The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, becomes a victim of the very corporations he is representing. Degraded to a henchman he grimly struggles to get back on the job market. He fights to climb the social ladder. In the process he realizes that there are other values than income and success. He decides against his previous ideology and for another human being, for Lisa Sokulowa. They don’t have a future. But they celebrate a small triumph against the dominance of the ruling system.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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District C-11 (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2019, where the world is under martial law, two rookie cops are tasked to patrol District C-11 where death is just a bullet away.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, political thriller
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The Door into Summer (2021)
Plot Summary:
A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004)
Plot Summary:
France. A near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, stylized, controversial, apocalyptic, surprise ending, independent film
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2307: Winter's Dream (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 2307, a future soldier is sent on a mission to hunt down the leader of the humanoid rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Demon Sex (2005)
Plot Summary:
Scientists on Earth experiment with advanced DNA from an ancient alien skull, hoping to crack its genetic code for the good of humankind. But aliens want to steal the code to prevent their species from going extinct, so they enlist human women to obtain the formula through seduction -- or the use of deadly force. Brinke Stevens, Vesper Almasy and Tuesday Coren star in this erotic horror tale.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, scary, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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Actual Reality (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hacker guy meets girl online in virtual reality. Guy realizes girl is a cop. Girl realizes guy is a girl. All hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, melancholic, contemplative, cerebral
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The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
Plot Summary:
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind --- with bizarre and frightening results.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cyber, surreal, intelligent, psychological, atmospheric, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending
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2149: The Aftermath (2016)
Plot Summary:
In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic
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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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Executive Order (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Kill Mode (2020)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2027, eight years after the first outbreak of The Sickness, a highly contagious, adaptive and lethal virus. The world is now run by a pharmaceutical corporation called The Company, which distributes a treatment for the virus but charges a high price for it, putting the majority of people in a state of poverty and dependence.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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The Northlander (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2961, the time is after humanity and nature has recovered the land. A hunter named Cygnus is called to rise above his duty. He provides for Last Arc, a once nomadic band of survivors in need of food and water that is now growing scarce. The answer must be found before a group of outlandish Heretics descend upon them. Cygnus must voyage across the treacherous landscape to defend his people. Sent by Nova, the matriarch of the band, she acts based on her vision for Cygnus to find a seed of hope. The future of Last Arc is for him to discover, Cygnus ventures into a hostile landscape in search of an answer for his people. On this journey of encountering many traps and dangers, Cygnus discovers what has been hunting him is his identity.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic, independent film
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Dark Space (2013)
Plot Summary:
College friends Devin, Jack, Shelly, Kristy, Shaun, and Flower rent a spacecraft to autopilot them to Centauri Five for a holiday break. Impatient over the rental agency restricting the ship’s speed to 10x, Devin and the others convince Shaun to remove the craft’s constrictor device. Doing so damages the computer’s automated systems, as well as the ability to send a distress beacon, causing the six friends to crash land on an uncharted alien planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, futuristic, scenic, scary
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10,000 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
10,000 Days ago, Comet 23 struck Earth with the magnitude of all the nuclear weapons in the world sending the planet into a deep freeze. Now, 27 years in the future, those who survived are locked in an epic battle of life or death.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, suspenseful, visually appealing, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Dystopia (2018)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2037. Our world is dying, slowly, from a virus that has rendered mankind infertile. Not a single child has been born in 25 years. Governments are now powerless puppets for the biggest corporations and Biocorp, the world's biggest, keeps promising a cure that never comes.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, exciting
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Quarantine (1989)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic society being decimated by plague, a fascist movement seizes power and quarantines not only the plague victims, but anyone related to them. Rebels trying to assassinate a particularly reactionary senator stumble onto a computer programmer trying to track and eradicate the disease.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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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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Genesis (2018)
Plot Summary:
After an apocalyptic event, the remnants of humanity create an artificial intelligence to save them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic
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Island City (1994)
Plot Summary:
A 21st-century genetic experiment goes chaotic, creating a race of genetically-violent mutants.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Humanity Bureau (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, road movie, serious, captivating, political
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The White King (2016)
Plot Summary:
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Armageddon Tales (2021)
Plot Summary:
After surviving a worldwide pandemic, two men with different agendas, two women from a survival colony, and young girl and a man each form alliances as they cross post-apocalyptic landscapes.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping her hunt down the criminal psychopath Plughead. But Plughead who has tangled with Danner before has his own plans as he is forcing a female scientist to help him manufacture life extending longevity chips which he intends to sell to rich and powerful clients.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tech noir, independent film, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Mutant World (2014)
Plot Summary:
A decade after a disastrous meteor impact wipes out most of society, a group of survivalists emerge to find themselves on a twisted version of the old Earth, with a nascent society besieged by vicious marauders, ferocious mutants, and the dreadful symptoms of a post-apocalyptic environment.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, scary
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Time Jumpers (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a young man finds a time machine device, his life spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, anthology
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Embers (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social, realistic
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Harrison Bergeron (1995)
Plot Summary:
"All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers around a young man (Harrison) who is smarter than his peers, and is not affected by the usual "Handicapping" which is used to train all Americans so everyone is of equal intelligence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: philosophical, apocalyptic, tech noir, offbeat, futuristic, disturbing, contemplative, semi serious, surprise ending, black comedy
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Incorporated (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, intellectual, interesting
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Iron Girl: Ultimate Weapon (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in the near future in a lawless world. Kurisu Saotome (Kirara Asuka) is a beautiful woman, but she is also a deadly bounty hunter. She wears an armored suit, possessing great power, and she is known as Iron Girl. Kurisu Saotome doesn't remember who she really is or where she comes from. To regain her memory, she continues her lonely battle.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful