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Plot Summary:
A CIA operative interrogates a time-traveling terrorist.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: novela
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Painkillers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Led by Major John Cafferty, a squad of US soldiers are sent on a mission,deep into the mountainous regions of Afghanistan with orders to extract a mysterious top secret package. Now they are back home in a military hospital because they have no memory of what happened to them, or even who they are. In time, they start to recall the strange events that occurred: apparitions that appeared, luring some of them to their deaths and readings of a powerful electromagnetic energy from a strange unearthly power source. But there is no time to dwell on the past, they need to face the bitter truth about how they ended up in Afghanistan to begin with and the betrayals that wiped out their minds and nearly destroyed their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense
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57 Seconds (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Everywhen (2013)
Plot Summary:
A boy must fight his way from an alternate reality, back to his own, to save his suicidal 5-year old brother; when 3 billion people are reported missing.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags:
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Apex (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ex-cop Thomas Malone is serving a life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. He is offered a chance at freedom if he can survive a deadly game of Apex, in which six hunters pay for the pleasure of hunting another human on a remote island. He accepts, and once he arrives, all hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger
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Dimension 5 (1966)
Plot Summary:
An American intelligence agent, aided by a Chinese-American female agent, uses a time-travel belt to thwart Chinese operatives who are attempting to import to Los Angeles the materials to make an atomic bomb.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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PROBE: The Zero Imperative (1994)
Plot Summary:
Former UNIT scientist Liz Shaw investigates a series of bizarre murders near a soon-to-be closed psychiatric hospital. When the hospital is suddenly saved by a wealthy businessman events seem to run out of Liz's control.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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Starquest II (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sci-fi thriller directed by Fred Gallo.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Displacement (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the murder of her boyfriend while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Feedback (2002)
Plot Summary:
Feedback is a techno-thriller that takes place a few years from now. Set in a bleak and desolate world, this is the story of three friends caught up in a streak of bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Kanam (2022)
Plot Summary:
A struggling young musician, along with his two friends, with the help of a quantum physicist goes back in time to prevent the death of his mother. What happens next?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags:
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Deceived (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a remote space observatory perched high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a needle frantically scratches erratic lines on a strip chart recorder confirming an extraterrestrial signal. Emmett Shaw, the powerful, charismatic billionaire who owns the observatory, rushes to the station, hungry to expose the discovery. This is the biggest moment in human history and he is the man responsible for it all. With the goal of immediately sharing the signal with the entire world, he brings along two leading journalists--Kara Walsh, an extremely attractive, top-notch investigative reporter who begrudgingly owes her career to Shaw, and Reverend Fletcher, a new age visionary with the hottest radio show in the country. Also accompanying Shaw is Jack Jones, a scruffy but brilliant computer technician whose pessimistic and often sarcastic attitude ruffles many feathers in the group--especially Smitty's, the program director, who happens to be Jack's ex-girlfriend and the only Christian in the group.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Outwaters (2022)
Plot Summary:
Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: spooky, experimental, avant garde
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Lucid Dream (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, tricky, twist ending, detective
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The Time Tunnel (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 2006, an experiment of the Department of Energy in hot fusion to produce energy releases a storm in time along 240 minutes, changing history. Only the personnel in the core of the laboratory know the true story and now they need to fix points in the history that have been punctually changed. The bureaucrat and former Marine Doug Phillips is a family man that is recruited by his friend Flynn to join an expedition to 1944 due to his great knowledge of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Germany. The team formed by Doug, Flynn, Toni Newman, J.D. and Wix is assigned to find a monk from 1546 that has been accidentally transported to the spot and is the carrier of Black Plague.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags:
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Time Travelers (1976)
Plot Summary:
In 1976, there's an outbreak of a disease that no one has seen before. All what they know is that resembles a disease that existed at around 1871, and that a Dr. Henderson was able to save most of his patients but the Chicago Fire destroyed his records. Dr. Earnshaw the doctor looking for a cure was approached by a man, Jeffrey Adams, who believes that he could help him. It seems that a Dr. Amos Cummings has prefected the art of time travel, and the plan is for Earnshaw and Adams to go back to 1871 and learn how Henderson cured his patients. But a glitch in the machines computers sends them the day before the fire not four days as intended.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Yesterday Machine (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, bizarre
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Fate (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the government shuts down his project on time travel, a brilliant quantum physicist must find a way to continue his research in order to travel back in time and prevent his fiance from being killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Cruel & Unusual (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, captivating, suspense, tense, retro, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Gateway (2018)
Plot Summary:
A particle physicist grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, interesting
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Volition (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mind bending, exciting, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, twist ending, realistic, dramatic, independent film
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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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Xchange (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a company called Xchange owns a mind transference technology that enables instantaneous travel by swapping bodies with someone at the destination. A member of the privileged corporate class ("Corpie") Xchanging for the first time unwittingly switches bodies with a terrorist. Forced to hide in a limited life span cloned body with just 2 days remaining, he races against time to stop the terrorist and regain his body.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, erotic, tech noir, cyber
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The Sticky Fingers of Time (1997)
Plot Summary:
A 1950s author (Terumi Matthews) is transported to 1990s Brooklyn, where she meets a woman (Nicole Zaray) who reads about her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, stylized, independent film, mind bending, serious, experimental, contemplative, non-linear, art house, noir
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Curvature (2017)
Plot Summary:
Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously resembling her own voice warns her that she’s in danger. Is it possible Helen has time travelled? And what could have led her to do something like that?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful
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Millennium (1989)
Plot Summary:
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, tech noir, grindhouse, psychological, ambiguous ending
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The Wave (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, inspirational, thought provoking, slasher, action thriller
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The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend, Julie and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his memories. However, his time-traveling attempts to alter the past and save his one true love have unexpected and dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, mindfuck, thought provoking, absurd, psychological thriller, psychedelic
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Infinity Chamber (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, tense, touching, disturbing, psychological, retro, psychedelic, surreal
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95ers: Time Runners (2013)
Plot Summary:
Time is unraveling, paradoxes are everywhere, and strangers with terrifying technologies are on the hunt. A thrilling, original, ultra indie full-length sci-fi movie that is the story of Sally Biggs, an FBI agent who has the power to rewind time. Her scientist husband has disappeared mysteriously, and the closer she gets to finding him, the more dangerous her life becomes. To save the future and her loved ones, Sally must enter a battlefield she never knew existed. Fortunately, she's a 95er. Surrounded by bizarre timespace paradoxes and hunted by terrifying forces from the future, Sally must discover the earth-shattering truth behind it all before her very being fades out of reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, gloomy, futuristic, independent film, interesting
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Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, intense, tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful