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Plot Summary:
Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become invloved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don't want them to stick their noses into this.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 959
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Lethal Target (1999)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, campy
Similar in 76%
Final Equinox (1995)
Plot Summary:
The mob and the government race to be the first to recover a stolen alien artifact with unparalleled powers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, futuristic
Similar in 84%
Peacemaker (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two aliens arrive on Earth trying to kill each other. This is not easy, since they seem to be able to regenerate lost body parts and survive bullet wounds. Both of them happen to meet a young pathologist Dori Caisson, and each alien tells her that he is a peacemaker (an intergalactic cop) and that the other one is a bad guy. Whom can she trust?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, cult film
Similar in 86%
The Cat (1992)
Plot Summary:
A cat from outer space teams up with a young girl and an old man to fight a murderous alien that possesses people.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, weird
Similar in 76%
Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990)
Plot Summary:
An alien policeman comes to Earth to hunt down a renegade of his own race.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful, semi serious, corny, cult film
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Humanity's End (2008)
Plot Summary:
The year is 3313. Mankind is being systematically massacred throughout the galaxy by an invading species. All hope is lost until the last strand of pure human DNA is found on a remote planet in the far reaches of the galaxy. Now, an epic battle will be waged across time and space to save and protect the last of the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, futuristic
Similar in 81%
Code Red (2001)
Plot Summary:
A psychologically disturbed solider is forced to come out of retirement to find his brother who has disappeared in the jungle but nothing can prepare him for the alien nightmare he is plunged into.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Iron Invader (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alien bacteria arrives on a meteorite and infects metal, animating a giant iron statue that goes on a killing rampage in a small town.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, psychotronic
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Chrome Angels (2009)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Elliotsville. It’s like your typical American small town, except the residents are kinda robots. Okay, they’re not so much kinda, they’re pretty much robots. So what happens when you take that set-up and add a gang of sexy female bikers (cause if they were fat and ugly, it just wouldn’t be any fun) and some gun-toting redneck types (I know what you’re thinking: what, there are other types of rednecks?) into the mix?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, retro, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 76%
Heatstroke (2008)
Plot Summary:
An ex-model teams up with a soldier to thwart aliens who are propelling global warming to make Earth habitable for their species.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, computer animated, disaster movie
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Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in San Diego, the movie follows the desperate acts of Bill Templer head of a covert defense agency perpetrating a terrifying fraud on the American public - involving the imminent invasion of aliens - by leaking to the press a satellite image of an alien armada poised to strike earth. As terror of an alien attack spreads, the President of the United States orders the launching of Peacemaker, a surveillance satellite retrofitted with a nuclear warhead. Templer's elaborate plot is threatened when police detective Kevin Anjanette discovers that the alien images were faked. To protect his scheme, Templer swiftly unleashes the lethal head of his security, Ava Zurich, onto Anjanette. But it's soon revealed that an alien force actually does exist and is poised to strike if Peacemaker is used. In order to protect mankind from total annihilation, Anjanette must race to abort the nuclear bomb that will trigger the alien attack.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Similar in 82%
The Invader (1997)
Plot Summary:
Good alien from a dying race must impregnate an Earth woman to avoid extinction of his race. Bad alien whose race helped wipe out good alien's race doesn't want to see this happen.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystic, independent film, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 86%
Attack of the Unknown (2020)
Plot Summary:
A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 89%
The Sender (1998)
Plot Summary:
A psychic father and daughter band together with an "angel" in an attempt to save Earth from an extraterrestrial Armageddon. This suspenseful thriller ties together strange occurrences from 1965 in the Bermuda Triangle (where an American fighter pilot supposedly encountered a spaceship) and government hush-up conspiracies.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, psychotronic
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Specimen (1996)
Plot Summary:
After his grandmother's death, 24-year-old Mike Hillary sets off in search of who he thinks is his real father. Little does he suspect the real scenario: his late mother was impregnated by aliens, and now they've sent someone down to bring back their "specimen"--dead or alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Alien Species (1996)
Plot Summary:
Huge Motherships from an alien species sneak ominously into orbit around Earth. Lethal bat-winged fighters descend on the planet. Citizens are abducted. Homes are destroyed. The invasion has begun! A small town sheriff, two deputies and a professor discover the alien plan. With the secret to destroy the attacking ships, there's a chance they could stop the alien invasion... for now!!!!.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, fast, cult film
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Battle: New York, Day 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Laura Sommers is hearing voices in her head and consults with a psychiatrist. The therapy is suddenly cut short when New York City is rocked by an alien invasion.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 769
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
Similar in 82%
The Apocalypse (1997)
Plot Summary:
A salvage pilot and a bartender go up against a crazed computer programmer and the head of a criminal gang who have equipped a spaceship with nuclear warheads and plan to crash it into Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, cute, independent film, scary, rough, serious, disaster movie
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Alien Siege (2005)
Plot Summary:
Alien Siege is a 2005 Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie about an alien race that comes to Earth seeking a cure to a deadly virus, for which the antidote is human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fast
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AVH: Alien vs. Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A journalist named Lee Custler (William Katt) is out jogging when a flying object passes behind him and crashes. Sheriff Joel Armstrong (Collin Brock) picks him up and they go to check it out. They find an abandoned caravan close to where the object crashed. As they discover the object and realize it is a spaceship, an Alien emerges. The Alien (resembling a giant spider with a lizard-like head and torso) then chases them, after which Lee flees to the car. However Armstrong makes a stand, trips, falls and is killed by the Alien that then leaves. A terrified Tammy finds Lee and they call the local authorities but their car is destroyed by the Alien.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, captivating, suspenseful, splatter
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Shadowchaser (1992)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future, a group of terrorists with an android leader storm a hospital when the President's daughter is inside, taking her hostage. To find a way of freeing her, the police decide to consult the architect who designed the building, but he's currently in jail for some crime, and the punishment of the future is to be frozen solid for one's sentence. The cops accidentally thaw out the wrong guy, a football player who decides to keep the mistake a secret and help the police in exchange for his freedom. Will he be able to defeat the terrorists and rescue the hostages, despite not knowing the first thing about architecture?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Cyberjack (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the near future Nassim, terrorist leader, storms computer company headquarters. His aim is deadly computer virus that could bring him world domination. Nick, company janitor and ex-cop, will get in his way.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 77%
Alien Dawn (2012)
Plot Summary:
2012. The dawn of destruction. As giant alien machines enslave and feed off humanity, the few remaining survivors band together to form a armed militia that will be the last stand against total extinction (IMDB.com).
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film
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The Shadow Men (1997)
Plot Summary:
Happily married couple Bob and Dez Wilson and their 12-year old son Andy are being attacked by a blinding light when driving home from a daytrip. They awaken a couple of hours later, seemingly unscathed but soon driven mad by recurring nightmares. It soon appears that they have been abducted by aliens as proved by their sons handycam that had suddenly started running right after the incident. This mysterious fact is discovered by even more mysterious Men In Black who start nagging the family up to the point of threatening to kill them. Laughed at by the police the threesome seek refuge at sf-writer Stan Mills' house and start fighting back.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 78%
Phantom Force (2004)
Plot Summary:
A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
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Ancient Warriors (2003)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful, independent film
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Crimson Force (2005)
Plot Summary:
The crew of the first manned mission to Mars crash land on the surface in search of a clean everlasting power source they believe to be hidden somewhere beneath the ground. However, the crew find themselves in the middle of a civil war between the High Priest of Mars' royal guards and the High Priestess' warriors. The crew is divided with one half deciding to help the High Priest make peace with Earth and the other side with the High Priestess who is secretly plotting to kill her husband and invade Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, futuristic
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Nostradamus (2000)
Plot Summary:
A medieval cult travels to the 20th centrury and kills people, in an attempt to bring about the end of the world. The policeman Michael Nostrand must stop them, but what does his fate truly hold?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, informative, independent film, detective
Similar in 78%
AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster, independent film
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The X Files (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, scary, cerebral, psychological, neo noir, psychological thriller, political, apocalyptic, novela