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Plot Summary:
La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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Enak (1993)
Plot Summary:
The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his behaviour, the world enters its biggest crisis since the Cold War. As journalists try to find out more about Enak and his backstory in communist Poland, they discover that he possesses the ability to influence people's sub-consciousness.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, France, Germany
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Cloned (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2008, a married couple is distraught over losing their 8 year old son in a boating accident. However, when the mother suddenly sees another child who looks identical to her dead child, the Mother investigates the fertility clinic who aided her with her pregnancy and discovers that they cloned her child in an experiment dubbed "Baby 2000". She also discovers that they still have the genes to develop another child for them and faces the question of whether the couple wants another identical child.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tech noir
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Life As a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story of a doctor named Tomasz who questions his beliefs, faith and morality as his end is near, so he makes all efforts to find dignity in his imminent death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, tricky, clever, intellectual, existential
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Svart hav (1980)
Plot Summary:
In a dystopian future set in the northern part of Norway, a big corporation have stripped the sea of fish leaving locals without food and income.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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I Love You, I Love You (1968)
Plot Summary:
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: existential, disturbing, anthology, avant garde, weird, cult film
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Last Words (2020)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2085 and no human babies have been born in over a decade. A group of disparate survivors respond to a call to meet in Athens, where the film’s narrator Jo, a boy of African descent, aims to make the world’s last film.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Killed by Lightning (2002)
Plot Summary:
An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehistoric past and a violent death collide in the subconsciousness of the scientist to give birth to an unexpected theory of the origins of human beings.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: Russia, Netherlands, Switzerland
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, neorealism
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Sweetwater (1988)
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Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join other displaced survivors who were driven from their homes. After Lisa gives birth to another child and Allan has a fling with the prostitute Mary Diamond, he trades Lisa for a gun. Allan leads a resistance group trying to retake their city who would rather fight and die than live in exile.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Petrov's Flu (2021)
Plot Summary:
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: absurd, surreal, suspenseful, thought provoking, enigmatic, visual, comedy drama, twist ending, art house, weird
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Lola and the Sea (2019)
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Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have not seen each other for two years, undertake a journey all the way to the Belgian coast. They realize the outcome of the journey may not be the one they were both expecting.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, queer cinema
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In Your Image (2004)
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Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The daughter she gives birth to is therefor almost identical to her. The child starts to grow rapidly and slowly replaces mom in the household.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic
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Friendship's Death (1987)
Plot Summary:
A robot messenger (Tilda Swinton) is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970. Sullivan, a British journalist, (Bill Paterson) comes to her aid when she is found wandering without papers following a bombing and grants her refuge in his hotel room. But there she tells him she is a robot, sent as a peace envoy from another planet. He is not sure whether to believe her story or not, but finds her unusual view of the world appealing. They examine the human condition in a series of incredibly insightful and entertaining conversations.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, thought provoking, suspense, cult classic, independent film, minimal cast
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Oasis (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Scottish chaplain embarks on an epic journey through space. Based on Michel Faber's 'The Book Of Strange New Things'.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, apocalyptic
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Grain (2017)
Plot Summary:
The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the city’s agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis - and, as a result, by massive crop failure. Professor Erol Erin, a seed genetics specialist learns of Cemil Akman, a fellow scientist. Apparently, Cemil wrote a thesis about the recurrent crisis affecting genetically modified seeds - but the work was banned by the corporation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden, Qatar
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, realistic, black and white
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Transit (2018)
Plot Summary:
The German troops are just outside Paris. Georg escapes to Marseille at the last moment. His luggage contains the legacy of a writer named Weidel, who took his own life out of fear of persecution. This legacy comprises a manuscript, some letters and the Mexican Embassy’s assurance of a visa. Only those who can prove that they will leave are allowed in this port town, and this means you need an entry permit from a potential host country. Assuming the identity of Weidel, Georg tries to obtain one of the few scarce passages on a ship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, tense, sentimental, sincere, captivating, philosophical, art house, cerebral, thought provoking, interesting
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Brave New World (1980)
Plot Summary:
An acclaimed TV miniseries based on the classic sci-fi novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, philosophical, tech noir, frightening
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Bokeh (2017)
Plot Summary:
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on Earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, psychedelic, depressing, independent film, cerebral, aesthetic, minimal cast, psychological
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Finch (2021)
Plot Summary:
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, apocalyptic, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, futuristic, contemplative, inspirational, road movie, minimal cast
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Blueprint (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order to preserve her art and also herself, beyond death, for all posterity, she has herself cloned. Her daughter Siri, whom, in this way, she turns into her virtual twin, learns as a child that she is the world's first cloned human being. In fact a blueprint: a blueprint of her mother. From that moment on nothing is as it was before.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 893
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, sincere
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On the Beach (2000)
Plot Summary:
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: tense, apocalyptic, serious, suspense, exciting, gloomy, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Days of Eclipse (1988)
Plot Summary:
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania for relocating and eliminating whole ethnic groups and classes of people. These desperately unhappy people are unable to find any pleasure in this diverse companionship, but instead are antagonistic to it, and often resort to desperate measures in their doomed attempts to ease their pain.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: spiritual, poetic, avant garde
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Hard to Be a God (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position. As if the question were: what would you do in God's place? Director's statement Aleksei wanted to make this film his entire life. The road was a long one. This is not a film about cruelty, but about love. A love that was there, tangible, alive, and that resisted through the hardest of conditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: surreal, thought provoking, serious, black and white, philosophical, art house, captivating, futuristic, dark, realistic
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After We Leave (2019)
Plot Summary:
A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, philosophical, serious, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, intense, visually appealing
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Malevil (1981)
Plot Summary:
In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, weird, eighties
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Brave New World (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their lives or their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, philosophical, spiritual, tech noir, mystic, grindhouse, bleak
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Aniara (2018)
Plot Summary:
A ship carrying settlers to a new home in Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Denmark, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tragic ending, psychological, tense, philosophical, captivating, psychological thriller, atmospheric, realistic, dread, existential
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Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Plot Summary:
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, tense, surprise ending, captivating, grindhouse, psychotronic, philosophical, corny
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Stalker (1979)
Plot Summary:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded desires are granted.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral, thought provoking, meditative, psychological, gloomy, mind bending
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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
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Melancholia (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, surreal, art house, philosophical, apocalyptic, psychedelic, depressing, art film