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Plot Summary:
Javier is an actor with an affinity for writing. When he begins his love story with Luisita, he does not know where the truth begins and ends. Fifteen years later he has converted his story into literature that relates his tragic love story in a creative way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Cuba
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, surreal, stylized, mind bending, offbeat, futuristic, talky
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Mars et Avril (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in a futuristic environment, "Mars et Avril" tells the story of an elderly musician and his instrument maker who both become obsessed with the same woman. She agrees to be the model for their next musical instrument but then gets lost in a virtual world on the way to Mars.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, psychological, avant garde, independent film, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized, fairy tale
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Lie (2009)
Plot Summary:
Henry is an introverted young artist who, seeking to escape the banality and violence of urban life, begins to blur the distinction between fantasy and reality.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, stylized, exciting, erotic, psychological, sexy, mind bending, bleak, realistic
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The Third Planet (1991)
Plot Summary:
Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film adaptation ('Stalker'), 'Tretya planeta' tells the story of a father seeking a cure for his ill daughter by venturing into an area known only as "The Zone" to request help from the mysterious healers that dwell within its forbidden borders.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Virtual Encounters 2 (1998)
Plot Summary:
A nerdish computer-type stumbles upon a virtual computer program that puts the viewer right into the experience. His roommate convinces him to use it as a sex-type program and sell folks various sexual "experiences." Meanwhile, the nerd aspires to date a girl he's too shy to approach, and hopes the virtual encounter program will help him out.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, independent film, sexy, sexploitation film
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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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Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the gruesome events on Caprini, Sharp and his elite team of tough, witty and trigger happy space Marines must now head out to the icy planet Mezzo to investigate further Ma'har activities. What they will encounter will defy their imaginations as they tackle giant man eating snow worms, an underground city of Cyborgs, a slew of murderous alien entities and maybe, finally, the ever elusive Ma'hars.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, stylized, exciting, bleak, independent film, campy
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Golem (1980)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters are already there as the species of the future - but one of them is suspected by the doctors of being a human being. That is Golem in reverse.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, bleak, serious, futuristic, stylized, psychotronic, eighties
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TekWar: TekLab (1994)
Plot Summary:
The actual sword of Excalibur has been stolen in London, and futuristic detectives Jake Cardigan and Sid Gomez are assigned to track it down and to find out who is trying to block the British reign from its rightful heir.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective, futuristic
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The Distance (2014)
Plot Summary:
A heist film unlike any you've ever seen. In his second film (following his debut Finisterrae), Sergio Caballero plays fast and loose with all the laws of genre filmmaking. The ‘distance’ in the title is the ultimate MacGuffin - the term coined by Hitchcock for the thing the characters are pursuing, but which for the audience is completely meaningless. The fact that everyone communicates by telepathy enables Caballero to ‘speak’ a lingua franca made up of many different languages: from the Russian of the dwarves and the guard, to the German of the artist and the Chinese of the guard with the brazier.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, stylized, realistic, art house, offbeat, psychotronic, avant garde, mind bending
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Real (2013)
Plot Summary:
Koichi and Atsumi are lovers who have known each other all their lives. A year ago, however, a suicide attempt by Atsumi left her in a coma. Through 'sensing', a type of neurosurgical procedure allowing contact with the intentional aspect of a comatose patient's mind, Koishi tries to find out why Atsumi tried to kill herself, and to bring her back to consciousness. He enters her subconscious, and is told to find a picture of a plesiosaur she drew when she was a child. It turns out that a childhood incident buried in their past will bring their minds together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, surreal, mind bending, emotional, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic, gloomy, manga
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Glenn, the Flying Robot (2010)
Plot Summary:
Henry and Jack are two famous and talented pianists: they are rivals and try to outdo each other in the various music events where they regularly compete. The former friends will clash with no mercy, from contest to contest until the day a domestic robot, GLENN, enters their lives. GLENN will jeopardize everybody and everything around them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, offbeat, serious
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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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Lolita 2000 (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sex is banned but lolita becomes a sexual rebel and broadcasts erotic adventures throughout the universe while satisfying her own forbidden fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, bleak, serious, futuristic, sexual, sexy
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Lathe of Heaven (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is confused at first but soon decides to use him for his own gain. The 2002 adaptation discards a significant portion of the original plot, some essential characters, and much of the philosophical underpinnings of the book and the original PBS production. Ursula K. Le Guin disapproved of the A&E production, and stated that she found it "misguided and uninteresting".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intelligent, offbeat, futuristic, bleak
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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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TekWar: TekLords (1994)
Plot Summary:
Drug lords take over the empire left by convicted Sonny Hokori.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cyber, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective
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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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Red Cockroaches (2003)
Plot Summary:
First of a Trilogy: In a New York ravaged with acid rains, a man in his twenties meets a mysterious, yet familiar young woman who disrupts the banality of his day-to-day existence. Together, they will embark on a surreal journey with a devastating climax.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Cuba
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, surreal, futuristic, offbeat, independent film, psychological, mind bending, thought provoking
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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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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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High Moon (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future where the countries of Earth have established colonies to mine the Moon's resources. When a new life form is discovered, chaos erupts as various factions race to uncover and exploit its powerful secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious, surreal, offbeat
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Alien Intruder (1993)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 2022, a group of convicts sentenced to life in prison are led on a mission into uncharted deep space by Commander Skyler (Williams) to salvage a lost ship. As incentive to go on this dangerous mission, the convicts are given the opportunity to spend their weekends in a virtual reality world where they could live out their sexual fantasies with any woman they choose. However, a woman who is not part of the program appears in it (Scoggins), kills each virtual woman and seduces each convict. When she begins to appear outside the program, the men quickly turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, offbeat, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, black and white
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Virtual Encounters (1996)
Plot Summary:
Happy birthday, Amy. Amy's boyfriend Michael gave her the deluxe, super-duper virtual encounter. This is his way of removing her inhibitions and allowing her to fulfill the desires hidden deep inside. He finds he has a real tiger by the tail.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, sensual, erotic, serious, futuristic, stylized, independent film
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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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Replikator (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two rival corporations are developing replication technology which would enable the cloning of human tissue. The technology falls into a criminal group. Ludo Ludovic and Kathy Moskow with the help of a cop try to stop the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, neo noir, cult film
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Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)
Plot Summary:
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help of her teenage companion Emily (Leonie Mellinger), D tries to make her way, and in order to cope, she often escapes into a fantasy world in which she lives in genteel Victorian surroundings in the 19th century.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, bleak, serious, futuristic, stylized
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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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Happy End (2009)
Plot Summary:
Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm, a story that becomes increasingly bizarre and eventually apocalyptic, leading us down a narrative path of labyrinthine complexity. The resulting film is an extraordinary feat of imagination and daring, set against the backdrop of a world on the verge of destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, mind bending, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, offbeat, non-linear
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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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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