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Plot Summary:
A resistance movement rises against a totalitarian regime.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film, art film, black and white
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Ice (1970)
Plot Summary:
"An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are rhetorical sequences that explain the philosophy of radical action and restrain the melodrama inherent in the thriller genre." Written by Laurence Kardish, Museum of Modern Art.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: independent film, fake documentary
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The Spring (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man and his son stumble onto a modern-day fountain of youth while camping in the woods.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Nothing (2017)
Plot Summary:
Vague moving shapes framing the black screen could be anything, but what they depict is nothing.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: San Marino
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: art house, black and white
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In My Room (2018)
Plot Summary:
Armin, in his fourties, is a freelancer with lots of time and little money. He’s not really happy, but can’t picture living a different life. One morning the world looks the same as always, but mankind has disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, surreal, controversial, art film
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Bipedalism (2005)
Plot Summary:
The main character is crazy about about depicting various anomalies in art. Accidentally he finds a cinematography archive which makes him advance a completely new theory on the reasons why humans became bipedal. Yufit proceeds with the plot by describing a scientist struggling against the epidemic wave of anomalies in the physical and mental world thematically started in his other films. This time the struggle takes place on the background of paleoanthropology, psychoanalysis and modern art. As materials of the Museum of Anthropology and other archives are included in the film, it oversteps the boundary between a feature film and documentary.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands, Russia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, avant garde
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By Day and by Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican science fiction film where the over-population problem has been solved by programming people to operate in either day or night, and not both.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: intellectual, surprise ending
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Anti-Clock (1979)
Plot Summary:
A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity. ‘Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing cinema and video techniques, Arden and Bond have created a movie that captures the anxiety and sense of danger that has infiltrated the consciousness of so many people in western society.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: mysterious, disturbing, experimental, independent film, weird, masterpiece
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A Time of Roses (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2011, historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model, Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Limb Salesman (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel Goode is The Limb Salesman-- a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, and Goode is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice. A story of forbidden love in a dystopian future.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Meteo (1990)
Plot Summary:
Eckermann called Little Cloud, works in the Meteorological Office, but prefers to daydream in his bathtub. On his office computer he elaborates an absolute method for safe winning.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Late for Dinner (1991)
Plot Summary:
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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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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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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Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, surreal, psychotronic
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The Freedom of Silence (2011)
Plot Summary:
It's the year 2030, and the government has outlawed Christianity. Enter Zach Thompson, a brave man who teams up with a friend to hack into the government's computer system to reclaim religious freedom for Americans.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Brave New World (1980)
Plot Summary:
An acclaimed TV miniseries based on the classic sci-fi novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, philosophical, tech noir, frightening
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Car Cemetery (1983)
Plot Summary:
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, allegory, avant garde, art house
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Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death (1973)
Plot Summary:
In 2062, the last remaining humans battle each other in between hump sessions as their supply of clean, breathable air (supplied by a pipeline that's running dry) dwindles to nothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird
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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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Hard to Be a God (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position. As if the question were: what would you do in God's place? Director's statement Aleksei wanted to make this film his entire life. The road was a long one. This is not a film about cruelty, but about love. A love that was there, tangible, alive, and that resisted through the hardest of conditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: surreal, thought provoking, serious, black and white, philosophical, art house, captivating, futuristic, dark, realistic
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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)
Plot Summary:
A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet. After a disastrous crash-landing Ross awakes to learn that Kane lies near death and that they apparently have returned to Earth, as evidenced by the presence of the Council director and his staff. Released to the custody of his wife, he soon learns things are not as they seem.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychedelic, psychotronic, tragic ending, vintage, weird
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Creative Control (2015)
Plot Summary:
Smooth advertising executive David is in a relationship with yoga teacher Juliette. Then his eye is caught by Sophie, the girlfriend of his best friend Wim, a fashion photographer. Things get completely out of hand during a campaign for augmented reality-glasses, for which David designs an avatar of the coveted Sophie.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, stylized, atmospheric, mind bending, semi serious, dorama, realistic, black and white, clever
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Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Plot Summary:
In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will never be read.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychedelic, depressing, spiritual, mind blowing, poetic, twisted, eighties
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A Distant Thunder (1978)
Plot Summary:
Patty is lying awake one night in a church basement, distraught and scared. She is to be executed the next morning for refusing to take the Mark of the Beast. Patty knows what lies ahead if she takes the mark but can still not believe in Christ.When those around her try to comfort her and encourage her to accept the Lord, she lashes out at them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Plot Summary:
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized, clever, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological
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High-Rise (2015)
Plot Summary:
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, surreal, absurd, futuristic, art house, brutal, artsy, stylized, cerebral
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Stalker (1979)
Plot Summary:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded desires are granted.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral, thought provoking, meditative, psychological, gloomy, mind bending
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft. A British science-fiction film from director Nicolas Roeg and starring David Bowie.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surreal, stylized, independent film, cult classic, erotic, meditative, disturbing, serious, art house
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Melancholia (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, surreal, art house, philosophical, apocalyptic, psychedelic, depressing, art film
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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