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Plot Summary:
After two archaeologists discover an ancient alien artifact in Africa, they must run for their lives from both the unstoppable guardian and protector that awakens as a result, and their greedy, madman employer, both of whom want the artifact.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Orion's Key (1996):
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Warriors of the Apocalypse (1984)
Plot Summary:
After a nuclear war with civilization's death as a result leads an adventurer, a group of hikers on their search for the Mountain of Life. On their way they meet pygmy tribes, brutal gangs and amazon women.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic
Similar in 89%
Phoenix (1995)
Plot Summary:
When a mining colony is taken over by genetically altered androids, an elite attack team is sent in to take down the android leader.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film, serious, psychotronic
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Assault on Dome 4 (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this science-fiction action opus, intergalactic extremist Alex Windham has seized control of Dome 4, a scientific outpost on another planet, after escaping from a penal colony on Mars. Windham is forcing the staff of Dome 4 to construct new weapons that he can use to destroy his enemies, but what he doesn't know is that one of his captives is the wife of interstellar lawman Chase Moran, and Mor.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film
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Memory Run (1995)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2015, and big brother is everywhere. The search for immortality is over. Science has finally achieved the impossible, undermining the most basic aspect of life: that Mind, Body, and Soul must be one, Those who benefit from this new technology will wake up to a new and youthful beginning - the rest of humankind must live a bad dream and wake up to a living nightmare that goes beyond life, beyond death, and beyond redemption.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, independent film
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Project Shadowchaser III (1995)
Plot Summary:
It has been 25 years since the ore spaceship Siberia was last heard from. Unfortunately, it is now on a collision course with the communications station Comstat 5 which is orbiting Mars. After one successful maneuver to avoid the Siberia, it rams Comstat 5 and the crew soon finds that the Siberia crew is dead and the reason that it has been missing for 25 years. But that reason is trying to destroy them all as it destroyed the Siberia crew.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film
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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
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Future Fear (1997)
Plot Summary:
An able-bodied scientist has found a cure for the plague from outer space which has eradicated almost all life on the planet. A mad general who wants to repopulate the planet with a new race sends a special female assassin to take him out.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film
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Droid Gunner (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the future, the threat of global takeover by cyborg units has forced Earth to outlaw their use. But when four female androids are smuggled to Earth, Jack Ford is assigned to track them down. An adventurous chase takes him from the mean streets of Phoenix to the depths of New Angeles, an underwater city, and into the diabolical clutches of a maniacal kingpin and his criminal army.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, psychotronic, independent film
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Heatseeker (1995)
Plot Summary:
A kickboxing champion is forced to fight cyborgs in a tournament when the company kidnaps his fiancee.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, independent film
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Aftershock (1990)
Plot Summary:
An alien visits Earth during World War III, learns English by absorbing a dictionary, and meets good and bad earthlings.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film
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Doomsday (2015)
Plot Summary:
Achilles, a normal man infected with a disease that will bring down the Erebus rulers (human/machine hybrids) escapes back in time from 2410 to the present day where he has a chance to stop the Erebus from ever rising to power. However he is followed by the Erebus-7 who will stop at nothing to hunt him down.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Space Marines (1996)
Plot Summary:
Space pirates, led by diabolical Colonel Fraser, take over a cargo ship carrying anti-matter explosive and an important official. Space marines, led by Captain Gray, must stop their evil plans.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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Alien Conquest (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sibling astronomers discover Martians are threatening to attack Earth, but no one believes them—until Martians land and nearly destroy all of New York City. As the siblings try to make it out of the city with their families, they discover the Martians have no immunity against the diseases of Earth, and must now figure out how to infect the invading army to eradicate the aliens before all of Earth is destroyed first.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, mockbuster
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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
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T-Force (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st Century, cybernetic research has developed advanced robots with human traits, whioch are widely used in the service industry. They have also been turned into cyber cops with a licence to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, campy
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Cyborg Soldier (2008)
Plot Summary:
A cyborg escapes the facility where he was created. With the help of a local sheriff, he tries to run from the dangerous scientists that created him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, scenic, action thriller
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Cyborg Cop III (1995)
Plot Summary:
A cop tries to stop a scientist's experiments to turn students into cyborg-mercenaries. Contains violence and strong language.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, tech noir, independent film
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Prototype (1992)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles - 2057 - a lawless, war-torn terrain and home to Chandra, a beautiful but deadly young woman, and Hawkiins, a tough ex-soldier whose career was terminated by crippling wounds. No longer lovers, the pair still share erotic and disturbing psychosexual derams. After a brilliant research scientist experiments on Hawkins, he is dramatically transformed into the Prototype - half-man, half-robotic machine and all-warrior. But, when the experiment gets badly out of control, the deadly Prototype escapes and goes hunting for Chandra, his prime target for elimination. In an explosive climax, the ultimate battle commences to determine whether mankind or machines will survive to rule the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, experimental
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Project Shadowchaser II (1994)
Plot Summary:
Terrorists led by an android take over a nuclear plant and threaten to launch a missile at Washington. While the authorities desperately attempt to negotiate, the terrorists persue their real goal. A plant worker, her son and a tough-guy repair man have other ideas, and attempt to stop the terrorists from inside the plant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, low-budget
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Velocity Trap (1999)
Plot Summary:
In a desolate and treachorous region of space known as the Velocity Run, a heavily armored ship passes every six months. It carries billions of Universal Dollars between the colonies and the Central Bank on Earth. Hard currency has returned due to rampant electronic crime. Now a team of highly trained mercenaries are about to commit the perfect crime in a place where evidence and witnesses have no chance of survival. In this deadly corridor of space, a single man must stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast
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Programmed to Kill (1987)
Plot Summary:
International terrorist leader, Fatima, is critically injured when she attempts to hijack a jumbo jet and is thwarted by Eric Matthews and his anti-terrorist organization, The Retaliators. Fatima is taken to a top-secret research institute, where she is turned into a lethal cyborg and programmed to hunt down the members of her own terrorist group. In the heat of battle, her computerized brain malfunctions, and she turns her lethal vengeance on the Retaliators. Now Eric Matthews and his team must match human cunning against deadly technology.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995)
Plot Summary:
It has been 73 years since Alex failed and the Humans lost the Cyborg Wars. Since then, the Humans have been enslaved. Scientists have developed a new DNA strain, which could signal the end of the Cyborgs, and they inject it into a volunteer. When the Cyborgs learn of the woman and the baby they list both for termination.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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Cybernator (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the future, an L.A. cop whose girlfriend is a stripper uncovers a conspiracy concerning killer cyborgs.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Robot Wars (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2041, the rebel Centros are a plague to the survivors of the great toxic gas scare of 1993. A renegade Megarobot pilot and an archaeologist must team up (despite personal differences, a reluctant romance, and official pressure to cease and desist) to thwart the Centro's attempts to resurrect a hidden Megarobot, with which they can challenge the prevailing order.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, cult classic, mecha, cult film
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A.P.E.X. (1994)
Plot Summary:
A time-travel experiment in which a robot probe is sent from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes terribly wrong thrusting one of the project scientists,into a plague ravaged alternate time-line whose war weary inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots from the future.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, independent film, serious
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Cyborg Cop (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ex-DEA agent Jack receives an emergency message from his brother Phillip, whose team was ambushed on the Caribbean island of St. Keith. Jack goes to St. Keith to find his brother, who has been turned into a cyborg by the drug runner he was after.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, suspenseful, semi serious, tech noir, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, humorous, fast
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American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993)
Plot Summary:
After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is followed by an immortal killer robot through all the dangers, and only one guy tries to help her survive and protect her from the killing machine.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, tech noir, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, exciting, rough
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Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012)
Plot Summary:
The first Cylon war has been raging for 10 years and a young Ensign William Adama joins the fleet. He's disappointed not to be assigned to a fighter but to a freighter, and his co-pilot isn't too keen on having a rookie flying his aircraft as he has only a short time before he again becomes a civilian. Their cargo is a civilian scientist, Dr. Becca Kelly, but they no sooner leave than she has new orders for them and a new destination. Although she’s less than forthcoming about the details of her mission, Adama is keen, particularly as it involves going into Cylon controlled space. However, nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, light, entertaining, tense, intense, serious, suspenseful, action packed, stylized
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Plot Summary:
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 415000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, action packed, serious, suspenseful, intense, action adventure, saga
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Stargate (1994)
Plot Summary:
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 202000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, entertaining, visual, visually stunning, epic, cult classic, tense, philosophical, atmospheric