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Plot Summary:
When the apocalypse arrives, it takes the form of a biochemical virus. All social structures break down and a new world order emerges from the heart of the desert. As chaos sets in, we follow the adventures of some unlikely survivors, all searching for the elusive cure at Phoenix Point.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Dead Man Walking (1988)
Plot Summary:
After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to penetrate the toxic & off-limits Plague Zone and bring her back alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Treachery and Greed on the Planet of the Apes (1980)
Plot Summary:
A television movie made from two segments of the TV Series Planet of the Apes (1974), Planet of the Apes: The Horse Race (1974) and Planet of the Apes: The Tyrant (1974).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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Shangri-La: Near Extinction (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mankind is nearly extinct in this post-apocalyptic creature thriller. Most humans died from a deadly plague and the ice age they manufactured to eradicate it. A man named Vargas leads a group of survivors on a quest to reach Shangri-La, the last safe haven on Earth. However, they must fight through the cold, a mutant cult and a pack of deadly creatures to get there.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Rotor DR1 (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world where half the population is dead or missing and the sky is full of autonomous drones, a 16-year-old boy named Kitch sets out to find his father, joined by DR1, his drone companion.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Night Visitor 2: Heather's Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to Jennifer Blanc's cult hit 2013 film "The Night Visitor". Directed by that film's star Brianne Davis, The Night Visitor 2:HEATHER'S STORY runs parallel to the original Night Visitor, telling the story of Heather, a special young girl, who must protect her family and the planet from the same other-earthly being. The sequel delves deeper into the mysteries that plagued the Stevens family and their son Ricky with the help of psychic and medium Daniel.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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A Town Has Turned to Dust (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic desert hamlet, a ruthless town boss lynches a falsely accused Native American teen, setting the stage for revolt and a clash with a troubled, drunken sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, disaster movie
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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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The Love War (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two different alien races are at war. Representatives of each race have landed on Earth to battle it out here, but they've taken human form and they can only spot other aliens through the use of special glasses.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic
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Legend Of The Roller Blade Seven (1992)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world where rollerblading is the chief means of travel, the evil Pharoah sends his minions outside the Wheel Zone to abduct a psychic. The psychic has been trained in the way of the samurai, but has shunned her training to become a Passive. Once abducted, her brother joins forces with others to try and rescue her, but they face many challenges from the Dark Side.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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The Exotic Time Machine (1998)
Plot Summary:
On board a space station in the near future, Leon falls into its time portal and lands in the boudoir of Marie Antoinette. He observes a dalliance of the queen with her maid, Mimi; then the queen finds him, suspects he's the king's spy, and seduces him. The king catches them in flagrante delicto and sends Leon to the Bastille. Back in space, Daria tries to rescue Leon, but she whizzes to Arabia, where she meets Shahrazad and Aladdin. She reaches France just as Mimi frees Leon from the Bastille. By way of Capone's Chicago, all three go back to the future where they find fascists in charge. To save freedom and fulfill her destiny, Mimi must go back to King Louis's court.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sensual, independent film, psychotronic
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The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
Plot Summary:
Many years after a nuclear war destroyed much of human kind, the survivors have created a new society where much of the work done by artificial beings referred to derisively by humans as "clickers". Humans are producing fewer and fewer children and are less than a year away from having more artificial beings than humans. Most vociferous about the evolving situation is the Order of Flesh and Blood, an organization that is out to ensure that humans remain dominant. Among them is Capt. Kenneth Cragis who becomes very concerned that his sister Esme has formed a relationship with one of the artificial beings. He quickly forms a close relationship with Esme's friend Maxine Megan. Soon, they learn a great secret that affects them both directly.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, grindhouse, intelligent, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film
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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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10,000 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
10,000 Days ago, Comet 23 struck Earth with the magnitude of all the nuclear weapons in the world sending the planet into a deep freeze. Now, 27 years in the future, those who survived are locked in an epic battle of life or death.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, suspenseful, visually appealing, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Farewell to the Planet of the Apes (1980)
Plot Summary:
A television movie made from two segments of the TV Series Planet of the Apes (1974), Planet of the Apes: Tomorrow's Tide (1974) and Planet of the Apes: Up Above the World So High (1974).
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Back to the Planet of the Apes (1980)
Plot Summary:
Three twentieth century astronauts travel through a time warp and crash on Earth in 3085 A.D.. One of the astronauts is killed in the impact, and the two survivors, Alan Virdon and Pete Burke, find that they have returned to an Earth where their loved ones are long dead, where technological civilization has fallen, and where humanity is subjugated by intelligent, talking simians who live in jungle cities and preside over pastoral hinterlands. The two astronauts are captured by horse-riding gorillas (the ape army) and taken before an orangutan tribunal. They are deemed a threat to ape security and sentenced to death. The two condemned men are visited in their cell by a curious chimpanzee named Galen, who is fascinated by their accounts of an advanced human civilization centuries past. After Galen accidentally kills a gorilla and is charged with murder, Virdon, Burke, and Galen all escape the ape city and are fugitives hunted by a determined gorilla named Urko. Virdon manages to salvage.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic
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3022 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space awakens to find earth has suffered an extinction-level event.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, visually appealing, apocalyptic, existential
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Atomic Apocalypse (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the nuclear bombs dropped and welcome to the future, where there’s no fuel or power, and society is a barbaric mess. Survivors Kate, husband Sam, and daughter Suzi are searching for a rumoured bunker that people say is full of food and medicine. En route, they meet the solitary Joe, who may not have the group’s best interests at heart. Kate will have to do everything possible to protect her family.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, suspense, suspenseful
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Dystopia (2018)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2037. Our world is dying, slowly, from a virus that has rendered mankind infertile. Not a single child has been born in 25 years. Governments are now powerless puppets for the biggest corporations and Biocorp, the world's biggest, keeps promising a cure that never comes.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, exciting
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The Time Travelers (1964)
Plot Summary:
A time travel experiment that was supposed to produce a window into time turns out to be a portal instead. One of the experimenters steps through into a not-too-distant-future world that has been destroyed by nuclear war. Some of the others follow, but then the portal phases out and they can't get back. Things just get worse after that. They run across a rocket that has landed to escape pursuing enemies, bearing scientists who survived the war, and many android "slaves." The time travellers are invited to escape when the ship is again ready to blast off - but just before that happens, the scientits' enemy returns and fires on the sitting-duck ship. A very bad day for the scientists turns terminal at that point, and the 20th-century Earthlings barely escape with their skins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, mysterious, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Terror Within II (1990)
Plot Summary:
In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutant breaks inside humanity's final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the earth's surface.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Last Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Mary Shelley.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, exciting
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Strange New World (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, cult film
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After Armageddon (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two men, who are polar opposites, must come to terms with being the last two humans on Earth in a post-Apocalyptic world.
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Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Island City (1994)
Plot Summary:
A 21st-century genetic experiment goes chaotic, creating a race of genetically-violent mutants.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Damnation Alley (1977)
Plot Summary:
A small group of survivors at a military installation who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are living. Hopefully their specially built vehicles will protect them against the freakish weather mutated plant and animal life and other dangers along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, surprise ending, road 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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Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
Plot Summary:
Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won't be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000 years into the future, where they encounter aliens who are looking for a planet to colonize.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, vintage, campy, cult film
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Road Wars (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the earth’s water supply is depleted, the survivors form roving road gangs, armed to the teeth and desperate to find and protect water supplies. But when a new breed of blood-drinking humans emerges, the survivors must contend with a whole new threat to their existence.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockbuster, disaster movie
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Collision Earth (2020)
Plot Summary:
A large meteor shower unexpectedly bombards planet Earth. Scientists rush to the scene of the first impact and the race is on to find a solution to save humanity.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, apocalyptic, disaster movie