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Plot Summary:
Lunopolis is a 2009 direct-to-video science fiction film directed by Matthew Avant. The film is presented in found footage style and takes place in the weeks preceding the rumored events of the 2012 prophecies. Two documentary filmmakers discover a mysterious device and begin to unravel a conspiracy involving the moon, time travel, and a very powerful organization who will stop at nothing to protect their secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, contemplative, psychological, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, weird, fake documentary
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Defcon 2012 (2010)
Plot Summary:
On October 30, 2009 an independent filmmaker and his cast and crew are reported missing a month before the release of their controversial film predicting the end of the world. Authorities have reason to believe the film's 2012 doomsday scenario may have something to do with their disappearance. An agent for CEA (Central Extraterrestrial Agency) discovers the footage to the film and watches the film on September 10, 2012, three months before the world is to come to an end.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, retro, mockbuster
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Bigfoot Wars (2014)
Plot Summary:
After the sheriff of the small town of Boggy Creek receives reports of attacks from a vicious beast bearing resemblance to the legendary Sasquatch, he enlists the help of an expert survivalist (The Outsider's C. Thomas Howell) and sets out to hunt down the creature. However, as they wander into the wilderness they discover that an entire tribe of Sasquatches awaits them. Now the enraged creatures descend from the hills and into the town to declare war upon its citizens.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Groom Lake (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Kate discovers she has a terminal illness, she persuades boyfriend Andy to visit Groom Lake, a reputed hotbed of alien activity, hoping to discover proof of life beyond this terrestrial sphere. Soon, the pair crosses paths with desperate government scientists, eccentric locals and a surprising -- and inspiring --conspiracy of epic proportions.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, independent film, campy, cult film
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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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Timequest (2000)
Plot Summary:
A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse
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Zenith (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a hellish future where human beings have become stupefied by the state of permanent happiness they have been genetically altered to experience, Jack offers relief via drugs that cause his customers the welcome phenomenon of pain. But when Jack receives a mysterious videotape of his dead father, he sets out to unmask the dangerous conspiracy that has created this dystopian world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, serious, experimental, independent film, futuristic, talky, mind bending
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Mermaids: The Body Found (2011)
Plot Summary:
A story that imagines how these real-world phenomena may be related. In this story, startling amateur video and photographic evidence, as well as additional audio recordings, suggests whales weren’t the only creatures affected by the Navy’s sonar. The film follows the two scientists who tracked the whale beachings for years and delivers first-hand, on-camera accounts of what they claim to have discovered in the aftermath of one particular beaching. Their story is nothing less than fantastical: they claim to have found the remains of a mermaid.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: computer animated, captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, mockumentary, controversial, fake documentary
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Legends from the Sky (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Native American Veteran, burdened by survivor's guilt after a disastrous military tour, is forced to search for his missing grandfather after his ancestral land is mysteriously taken over by an unknown federal organization.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Necessary Evil (2008)
Plot Summary:
A scientist is testing a demonic drug on people in his secret lab. A cop and a female reporter try to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, demonic
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Alien Tracker (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. Cole is the Alien Tracker who's in hot pursuit of the escaped convicts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating
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Earthling (2010)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious atmospheric event, a small group of people wake up to realize that their entire lives have been a lie. They are in fact aliens disguised as humans. Now they have to make a choice. Live amongst men, or try to find a way back home.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, tense, offbeat, serious, independent film
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This Is Not My Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
This Is Not My Life is a 2010 New Zealand television mystery thriller which originally aired on Television New Zealand's TV ONE channel on Thursday nights. Set in the 2020s, the show centres on Alec Ross who awakes one morning to find that he doesn't know who or where he is and doesn't recognise his wife or children. The story is set in the fictional town of Waimoana. The series is written by Rachel Lang and Gavin Strawhan and directed by Robert Sarkies and Peter Salmon. Thirteen episodes have been produced. Though the show only lasted one season, it has been announced American network ABC has purchased the series to adapt for an American audience.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, tense, captivating, psychological, mind blowing, exciting, suspenseful
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Swerve (2012)
Plot Summary:
In a future post-apocalyptic California, the new frontier is a vast nano-contaminated Zone cut off from the all-connected Grid and the ceaseless flows of bodies and information outside its borders. Only the insane or criminal would venture into this low-tech, body-corroding backwater: that's what Kaja has been told. But when her best and only friend Adelle disappears, apparently kidnapped and taken to the Zone by an anti-nanotech revolutionary group, Kaja is forced to enter this bizarre and alien world. There, where even fundamental matter and individual identity are up for grabs, as a virtual assassination team moves in for the kill, anti-technology cultists plot a takeover, and a mad cyberscientist prepares a vast mind-harvesting experiment, Adelle will begin to suspect that her entire brain is an elaborate organic computer program... But what, exactly, does it do?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, surreal, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, cyber
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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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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Plot Summary:
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France, Austria, UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, stylized, atmospheric, mind bending, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, offbeat, experimental
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Time Chasers (1994)
Plot Summary:
An inventor comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil C.E.O.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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Idaho Transfer (1973)
Plot Summary:
A crew of young researchers escape into the future to avoid the shutdown of their project. They find that some type of 'eco-crisis' disaster has de-populated the area around their lab (in rural Idaho) and, by implication, the nation or maybe the world. Stranded in the barren future, in their travels they encounter an abandoned freight train possibly full of corpses (maybe, it isn't very clear). One of them travels further into the future and meets a family in a futuristic automobile, implying that that humankind has recovered from the disaster (or have they?).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, weird
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Johnny 2.0 (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Johnny Dalton awakens, after being beaten by a group of eco-terrorists who were vandalizing his lab at biotech firm Azina, his business partner Frank Donahue tells him him that 15 years have passed and Johnny is merely a clone of himself. He's been created to track down the real Dr. Dalton who has disappeared, taking with him Azine's most devastating discovery as well as the key to disarming Johnny's genetic time-bomb. Johnny is captured, however he finds an ally among the rebels in Nikki Holland, leading him to the real Dr. Dalton, who reveals secrets about Azine, Donahue and the mysterious Mr. Bosch that are far more shocking than anything they ever expected. This futuristic thriller takes the concept of genetic engineering to a whole new level, and into a frightening world that may be just over the horizon.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: cyber, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Encrypt (2003)
Plot Summary:
2068, the ozone layer is gone and the world is a wasteland. A band of mercenaries attempt to break into a Estate that is guarded by a automated defence system called "Encrypt" in order to steal priceless artwork.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, tech noir, futuristic
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Absence (2013)
Plot Summary:
Doctors are baffled when an expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. Police investigate the situation as a missing child, and only her husband and brother trust her version of events.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, mockumentary, psychological horror, independent film, fake documentary
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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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Pig (2011)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes up alone in the middle of the desert with a black hood on his head and his hands tied behind his back. At death's door, he is discovered by a woman living alone in the desert and is nursed back to health. Upon regaining consciousness, the man realizes he has amnesia, and has no idea who he is. His only clue, a piece of paper in his pocket with the name "Manny Elder" on it, sends him on a journey to Los Angeles to discover his past. But things and people are not what they seem and clues lead to something bigger and more unusual than the man could have ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, surprise ending, captivating, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, twisted, mind bending, serious, independent film
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The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997)
Plot Summary:
A 1950s author (Terumi Matthews) is transported to 1990s Brooklyn, where she meets a woman (Nicole Zaray) who reads about her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, stylized, independent film, mind bending, serious, experimental, contemplative, non-linear, art house, noir
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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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Hangar 18 (1980)
Plot Summary:
During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies it's existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret hangar 18 and the accident is claimed to incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, exciting, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, bad ending, suspense
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The Phoenix Incident (2015)
Plot Summary:
A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, mockumentary, captivating, suspense, psychotronic, fake documentary
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Gemini Division (2008)
Plot Summary:
Gemini Division is an American science fiction series of five-to-seven minute long episodes created by Electric Farm Entertainment which went into production in March 2008. Based on an original story by Brent Friedman the online series was developed by Joshua Stern. The show currently airs on NBC.com as part of their online content lineup. The series began August 18, 2008. The series stars Rosario Dawson, who worked with Electric Farm Entertainment on the Webby nominated cult internet series Afterworld. J Alex Reed and Duane Loose will be showrunners, while Brent Friedman and Stan Rowgow serve as executive producers. The writing staff includes Brent Friedman, Andy Black, Lawrence Frank, and Jacqui Zambrano. Stan Rogow is also credited as Director and is presumed to direct a number of the episodes with the rest being directed by Neal Israel. Web content development is being managed by producers Ben Raab and Deric Hugues web content producers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, futuristic
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Area 51 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, talky, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending
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Pandemic (2009)
Plot Summary:
A slow-paced, action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, disaster movie, awful
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The Frankenstein Theory (2013)
Plot Summary:
From the makers of The Last Exorcism comes a boldly original vision of horror. What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction...a nightmare from which there is no waking.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, mockumentary, grindhouse, fake documentary