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Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, a US soldier finds himself inexplicably transported to Mars in the midst of a war between two alien races.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, mockbuster, tense, captivating, psychotronic, hood
Best tv shows and movies like Princess of Mars (2009):
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Battle Planet (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the not-so-distant future, Captain Jordan Strider, a Special Forces Officer in the New World Alliance, is chosen for a top-secret mission. Sent to a desolate planet, Terra 219, to arrest possible traitors to the Alliance, Strider must survive with only a government issued experimental suit as protection. He quickly learns of a plan to end all humanity.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, touching, scenic, experimental
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Starship: Rising (2014)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt planetary federation… The ultimate weapon of destruction.... One starship captain stands between them….and intergalactic armageddon. STARSHIP: RISING - RISE UP OR DIE In the distant future, an immortal bionic leader, the product of genetic engineering, has ruled over the universe for 200 years. An uprising is being staged by those preserving natural birth.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, bleak, captivating, exciting, tense
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Purple Death from Outer Space (1966)
Plot Summary:
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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Dark Space (2013)
Plot Summary:
College friends Devin, Jack, Shelly, Kristy, Shaun, and Flower rent a spacecraft to autopilot them to Centauri Five for a holiday break. Impatient over the rental agency restricting the ship’s speed to 10x, Devin and the others convince Shaun to remove the craft’s constrictor device. Doing so damages the computer’s automated systems, as well as the ability to send a distress beacon, causing the six friends to crash land on an uncharted alien planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, futuristic, scenic, scary
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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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Termination Point (2007)
Plot Summary:
Top secret government experiments with time travel have been shut down and declared as too dangerous to continue. The lead scientist has disappeared with the technology and a government manhunt is underway. When his name appears on an airline manifest after the flight has departed, the government orders the plane to turn back. But the plane drops from the radar, disappearing into thin air! As special agents try to locate the plane, scientists must deal with the repercussions from the time ripples that threaten to destroy the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, tense, captivating
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Scavengers (2013)
Plot Summary:
A team of space scavengers discovers superior alien technology that threatens the balance of the known universe. Hotly pursued by a rival crew of intergalactic mercenaries, the Revelator crew must fight through the deepest reaches of space to locate and protect the life-altering device.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, serious, futuristic
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The Advanced Guard (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of aliens arrive on Earth as part of an advance invasion force. Their mission is to kidnap a small sample of humans and run them through a series of rigorous tests to determine if they would make suitable slaves. Harper, one of the alien experimenters, has beceme frustrated with her planet's endless cycle of conquest and extermination and begins to feel some sympathy for her human captives. While the prisoners see a glimmer of hope in the compassionate alien, will it be any use in stopping the enormous attack fleet just a few days from Earth?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cyber, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Lifeform (1996)
Plot Summary:
When the Viking space capsule suddenly returns to Earth from its long ago trip to Mars, it brings with it an intelligent visitor that is part "Alien" and part "ET". Encased in armor, it extends a human like form from its shell to examine its surroundings and shows an interest in humans including a soft caress of a female scientist prior to the Army killing it. This only enrages its sibling.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Hunter Prey (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Prometheus has dropped out of orbit. Communications and life support systems are down. Situation Critical: Status of Crew and Prisoner unknown. With orders to catch their Alien Prisoner alive the surviving crew of the spaceship Prometheus pursue a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with their escaped prisoner on a deserted and barren planet. But, who is the hunter and who is its prey?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, independent film
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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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Epoch (2001)
Plot Summary:
Disaster strikes as a specialised team of investigators struggle to find out the truth about a strange monolith which sends out an intercontinental signal.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic, fast, disaster movie
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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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Age of Tomorrow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mankind must fight to survive as Earth is invaded by hostile UFOs bent on destroying the planet. As the epic battle wages on, astronauts sneak aboard the mothership where they discover a portal to the aliens' home world. They manage to alert Earth before they are brutally murdered. Left with no other choice, Earth sends an elite military team of science and combat specialists through the portal where they attempt to stop the invasion from the inside out.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockbuster, captivating, suspense
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Alien Origin (2012)
Plot Summary:
A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, mockumentary, independent film, fake documentary
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American Warships (2012)
Plot Summary:
When an alien force wages war on Earth, only the crew of the USS Iowa - the last American battleship, stands in their way.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, mockbuster, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Invaders from Mars (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, scary, slasher, grindhouse, creepy, cult classic, serious
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Countdown (1967)
Plot Summary:
A scientist (James Caan) replaces a military officer (Robert Duvall) as an astronaut on a space-race moonshot.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, mysterious, psychotronic, cult film
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Android Insurrection (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future high-tech man colonized the world and leaves all the dirty work of an army of androids and robots. Now, somewhere rebelling robots, and a heavily armed special forces, led by Major Fox well to look after things. Locally it is found that the problem is bigger than expected: namely, the machine themselves have tinkered machines, and with these new Combat robots is no joke. Luckily, keeping an even few androids to people.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, cyber
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Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set against the backdrop of a UNSC military academy, a group of highborn cadets are training to be the next generation of soldiers in the UNSC’s ongoing war with insurrectionists in the outer colonial planets. Among these cadets, Thomas Lasky struggles with his doubts about this war, and with the burden of expectations he may not be able to carry. As Lasky comes to terms with his potential as a military leader, the terrifying alien alliance known as the Covenant arrives and turns his world upside down. Inspired by the Master Chief, he must decide what it means to be a hero.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, serious, enigmatic, talky, saga, brutal, exciting, light
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Red Planet (2000)
Plot Summary:
Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, space horror, psychotronic, intellectual, breathtaking
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Battle of Los Angeles (2011)
Plot Summary:
In February 1942 Us forces engaged an unidentified flying object above Los Angeles. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, tense, intellectual, independent film, fast, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Deadly Skies (2006)
Plot Summary:
The sky is literally falling in this thriller as one of the nation's leading astronomers, Madison Kelsey believes she is tracking a huge rogue asteroid rocketing toward earth. However, she can't get anyone in authority to take her seriously because the mysterious asteroid exists only in the mathematical calculations of her computer program and it's not yet visible. With only hours remaining until probable impact, Madison enlists the aid of discredited former Air-Force Colonel, Richard Donovan. Together they hatch a plan to resurrect a mothballed military laser in order to blast the asteroid out of the sky before it destroys the planet. The only problem with their plan, the laser is under guard in the middle of an Air Force base and the guards have orders to shoot to kill.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, erotic, disaster movie
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Interceptor Force (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the near future the US Government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained for action in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force, they are the last line of defense.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, scary, fast
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They Are Among Us (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film concerns a sleepy town that is populated mostly by aliens who have been pretending to be humans for a lengthy period of time in order to eventually strip the planet of resources they need to live.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting
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Mission to Mars (2000)
Plot Summary:
When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, suspense, sentimental, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, anamorphic, psychological, psychological thriller
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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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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002)
Plot Summary:
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, futuristic, stylized, bleak, serious, suspenseful, exciting, intellectual, epic, saga
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John Carter (2012)
Plot Summary:
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 283000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: epic, entertaining, exciting, surprise ending, futuristic, heroic, action packed, action adventure, captivating, cult classic