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Plot Summary:
A scientific experiment in rapid-cell growth goes awry when a lab assistant steals the developed serum and injects it into his pregnant girl friend. The result is a child that grows through adulthood and will die within days, if a cure cannot be found.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
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After Last Season (2009)
Plot Summary:
A team of scientists is developing a new technology that captures the thoughts of a human subject and changes them into images. Still in its infancy, the technology changes thoughts into simple images and shapes. Two company interns (Matthew Andrews and Sarah Austin) have the chance to test the technology while they pursue a degree in neurosurgery. They study at a university along with other students (Anne Plaven). A brain surgeon named Dr. Marlen introduces the students to real life situations as several unexplained deaths take place around the city. When Andrews and Austin test the new technology at their company, Austin sees flashes of events in her mind. The events relate to the killings in the city. The flashes lead to new and dangerous discoveries. The students may not survive the experiment.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: experimental, atmospheric, controversial, stylized, independent film, contemplative, cult classic, disgusting, 3d animation, offbeat
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96 Souls (2016)
Plot Summary:
A university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions -- making his situation even worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: spiritual, serious, captivating, suspenseful, light, psychotronic, independent film
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Cloned (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2008, a married couple is distraught over losing their 8 year old son in a boating accident. However, when the mother suddenly sees another child who looks identical to her dead child, the Mother investigates the fertility clinic who aided her with her pregnancy and discovers that they cloned her child in an experiment dubbed "Baby 2000". She also discovers that they still have the genes to develop another child for them and faces the question of whether the couple wants another identical child.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tech noir
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Hysteria (1997)
Plot Summary:
Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the psychiatrist in charge of an insane asylum. He has connected his inmates into a group mind where they share each other's psychoses, dreams and sexuality with all the scary and titillating implications imaginable! Like his highly acclaimed cult classic MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, director Rene Daalders provocative excursion into sci fi-horror filmmaking looks at first glance like a classic grindhouse movie, but it is up to much more. In addition to its operatic mayhem, HYSTERIA is a mind-expanding reflection on individual vs. group consciousness, power, control, and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, independent film, psychological
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Arctic Heart (2016)
Plot Summary:
A timid young grad student madly in love with her scientist boss offers her body to his research.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: light, enigmatic, humorous, captivating, medical drama
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Ring of Deception (2017)
Plot Summary:
Single mom Julie Stevens' life is turned upside-down when international con man Martin moves to her neighborhood. As Julie begins to open up to Martin's charms, another woman - Sloane - is determined to kill Martin for having left her and robbed her blind. Will Julie survive Martin's affections and Sloane's revenge?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Errors of the Human Body (2012)
Plot Summary:
Canadian scientist Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden, Germany. His contribution to their most important project - a human regeneration gene-has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years. Errors of the Human Body is about one man's quest for redemption from his own disturbing past, set within the mysterious world of genetic engineering.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspenseful, bleak, captivating, suspense, serious, independent film, weird
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Chimera Strain (2018)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the immortal Turritopsis jellyfish.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Cerebrum (2021)
Plot Summary:
To make ends meet, Tom signs on as a guinea pig at a home-based lab, but when he commits a crime he cannot remember, he must risk his own sanity to reveal the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Flowers for Algernon (2000)
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, intellectual, contemplative, medical drama, crying, weeping, period drama
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Acceptable Risk (2001)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious medical researcher discovers a mold that he believes could be the foundation of a miracle cure for degenerative disease.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mystical, scary, mind bending, cult film
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Implanted (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, a struggling young woman, agrees to volunteer as a test subject and be implanted with the LEXX nanochip for a pharmaceutical company experiment. She hopes that the money received for her participation will solve her financial troubles. When the implant turns sinister and orders her to commit crimes, Sarah is plunged into a murderous spiral with only one choice: to live or die.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Red 11 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A human lab rat in a sinister medical research facility tries to buy his way out of debt to the company while under the influence of experimental psychoactive drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 584
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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The Unborn (1991)
Plot Summary:
A couple who cannot have children joins an in-vitro fertilization program. While she is with child, she finds strange occurrences happening within her body. The horror surrounding the child comes to light when the parents find that their child has been part of a mad experiment.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, medical horror, bleak, suspenseful, scary, mystic, horror comedy, cult classic, queer horror, independent film
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Genesis II (1973)
Plot Summary:
A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, exciting, thought provoking, serious, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Devil Winds (2003)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant meteorologist returns to his hometown in Oklahoma to try to stop the biggest tornado ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, disaster movie
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Dark Storm (2006)
Plot Summary:
On a secret military base a group of scientists have made a discovery unequaled since the invention of the A-bomb; code-named Eruptor, it's a device that supercharges Dark Matter and uses it to change the molecular structure of its target, thereby eradicating it. But when the Eruptor malfunctions and a leading scientist on the project is blasted with Dark Matter, he receives incredible abilities.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Vindicator (1986)
Plot Summary:
An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machine that, because of his programming must destroy anything that comes near him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, gothic, suspense
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Warning Sign (1985)
Plot Summary:
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: slasher, sad, tech noir, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, weird, disaster movie
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Plague (1979)
Plot Summary:
An outbreak of a bacteria called M-3 causes people to die in extreme pain via body spasms. A woman who is a carrier escapes from a hospital and goes on the run, spreading the plague to people she encounters, and onto food in fast food stops etc. She has no idea however that she is a carrier, and as such may carry a cure.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, atmospheric, independent film
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The Soviet Sleep Experiment (2019)
Plot Summary:
Russian researchers in the late 1940s keep five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental stimulant. Based on the popular internet horror story (Creepypasta) “The Russian Sleep Experiment”.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Deep (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, deep
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Cradle of Lies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Following a whirlwind romance, a woman begins to unravel the dark secrets of her husband's past when his obsession to produce a male heir turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Orbiter 9 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Helena, a young woman on a deep space mission, has been alone for 20 years. Her parents abandoned ship after a technical malfunction made it impossible for all three of them to reach their intended destination. Alex, an isolated engineer, is about to enter her life and turn her world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, surprise ending, exciting, suspense, clever, twisted
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Mother/Android (2021)
Plot Summary:
Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a stronghold of the android uprising—in hopes of reaching safety before giving birth.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dramatic, suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, surprise ending, serious, captivating, futuristic, tragic ending, emotional
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The Final Cut (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, mindfuck, intellectual, suspense, philosophical, apocalyptic, tense, thought provoking, bloody
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Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
Plot Summary:
Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so close that it shift our course closer to the sun, causing rapid extreme heating, hopefully only mid-term. Nathan warns his sister, TV journalist Carly, and she her lover, police detective Tom. He brings his unruly daughter Kim, her ex-con lover C.J. and her mother, nurse Bonnie, when Nathan offers a flight to a friend's Arctic weather station. Tom takes charge of a dangerous trip to the airport, as everywhere on earth things catch fire and people fight for water, transport and sheer looting.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, disaster movie
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These Final Hours (2013)
Plot Summary:
What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, atmospheric, serious, grindhouse, emotional, philosophical, touching, offbeat
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Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst super-storm in history: a category 6 twister.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Genome Hazard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, action thriller