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Plot Summary:
A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ultra-advanced technologies to try to uncover the secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic
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The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)
Plot Summary:
A break-in and sabotage attempt occurs at a top secret research institute and the culprit is cornered and captured. The problem is that he's been badly injured and claims to have lost his memory entirely. A cat-and-mouse game ensues between investigator Tuxan, the mystery intruder Welles and the people who sent him on the mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 838
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, political, exciting, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 82%
Black River (2001)
Plot Summary:
Burned-out Hollywood screenwriter Bo Aikens (Jay Mohr) is fed up with life in Los Angeles. He heads out of the hustle and bustle of the big city and arrives in picturesque Black River in Northern California, seeking relaxation and artistic inspiration. In small, idyllic Black River, nearly everyone is happy, contented, and welcoming of strangers. But despite the beautiful setting, Bo begins to feel unsettled after several disturbing incidents. He discovers that all of his money has been transferred to a bank account in Black River, and a house has been purchased for him by someone on "his" instructions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, apocalyptic, surprise ending, corny
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Sherlock Holmes (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes and Watson are on the trail of a criminal and scientific mastermind who seems to control monsters and creations which defy belief.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, visually appealing, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster, thought provoking, romantic, intense, serious
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Timequest (2000)
Plot Summary:
A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse
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Earth II (1971)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace. However, that peace is shattered when the Chinese send up a nuclear bomb that is orbiting just a few miles away from the station. Can the crew disarm the bomb before it detonates, not only destroying the station but setting off World War III?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: uplifting, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Alien Tracker (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. Cole is the Alien Tracker who's in hot pursuit of the escaped convicts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating
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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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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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Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1991)
Plot Summary:
Before they can complete renovations on their new inn, Widower (Ben Wilson) and daughter (Hillary) are visited by a woman seeking immediate lodging for her strange group of travellers. Why they won't stay at the hotel in town is just the first of many mysteries surrounding the group that lead Wilson to a startling discovery affecting his family and neighbours.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark, intelligent, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, cult film
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Prometheus Trap (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the future, mankind's quest for answers will take them to the edge of the universe... but the knowledge they seek should never be known. In deep space, the military cruiser Venom is diverted from its mission to investigate a derelict freighter ship, the Prometheus. On board, all of the crew are dead - victims of sabotage - and its only cargo is a weapon that will change the course of time and their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, stylized, offbeat, bleak
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The Eavesdropper (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen deaf patients took part in an experimental clinical trail aimed at hearing restoration. Within days, fourteen of the fifteen participants in the trial become violently psychotic, ultimately taking their lives to stop violent side effects brought on by the treatment. This is the story of the sole survivor of the experiment, Patient #14 - Liza Raines, who participation in the experiment gave her super-normal hearing abilities - particularly, the ability to hear the frequency emitted by the brain when it thinks. When her life is suddenly thrown into jeopardy, Liza is forced to use her ability against those set on covering up the fact that she even existed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental
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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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Idaho Transfer (1973)
Plot Summary:
A crew of young researchers escape into the future to avoid the shutdown of their project. They find that some type of 'eco-crisis' disaster has de-populated the area around their lab (in rural Idaho) and, by implication, the nation or maybe the world. Stranded in the barren future, in their travels they encounter an abandoned freight train possibly full of corpses (maybe, it isn't very clear). One of them travels further into the future and meets a family in a futuristic automobile, implying that that humankind has recovered from the disaster (or have they?).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, weird
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Johnny 2.0 (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Johnny Dalton awakens, after being beaten by a group of eco-terrorists who were vandalizing his lab at biotech firm Azina, his business partner Frank Donahue tells him him that 15 years have passed and Johnny is merely a clone of himself. He's been created to track down the real Dr. Dalton who has disappeared, taking with him Azine's most devastating discovery as well as the key to disarming Johnny's genetic time-bomb. Johnny is captured, however he finds an ally among the rebels in Nikki Holland, leading him to the real Dr. Dalton, who reveals secrets about Azine, Donahue and the mysterious Mr. Bosch that are far more shocking than anything they ever expected. This futuristic thriller takes the concept of genetic engineering to a whole new level, and into a frightening world that may be just over the horizon.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: cyber, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Fatal Error (1999)
Plot Summary:
Seven executives die while on a video conference call, the victims of a rapidly spreading virus. Dr. Samantha Craig (Janine Turner) and disgraced doctor Nick Baldwin (Antonio Sabato Jr.) investigate, tracking the disease to a rival firm able to spread computer viruses to humans. They also discover the virus has killed before and is continuing on its deadly path, unless someone can stop it.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tech noir, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Momentum (2003)
Plot Summary:
A trio of men with telekinetic powers led by Adrian Geiger rob an armored car. However the skeptical FBI agents Jordan Ripps and her partner Frank McIntyre do not believe in the testimony of the witnesses about there powerful skills. Meanwhile, the former FBI agent Raymond Addison is chasing Geiger.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Lightspeed (2006)
Plot Summary:
Government agent Daniel Leight has his radiation treatments sabotaged. He soon finds that he can now move at super speeds but only by risking metabolic damage which could prove to be fatal. 'Lightspeed' must now use his powers to go after old friend turned terrorist who is now a mutant half-snake called Python.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, epic, fast
Similar in 85%
TekWar (1994)
Plot Summary:
After four years, Jake Cardigan is prematurely awoken from his fifteen year cryogenic punishment to a world very different than the one he knew. Much more than before 'Tek', the highly-addictive electronic designer narcotic of the 21st century, seems to be prevalent. His wife has divorced him and disappeared together with their son. He wants them back and he wants justice for those undercover policemen who were murdered by unknown conspirators which led to his imprisonment for a crime he did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cyber, tech noir, exciting, serious, suspenseful, detective, futuristic
Similar in 77%
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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Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jane Doe sets out to track down a killer who is targeting fellow CSA agents.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting
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White Wall (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, everything has changed. Basic human rights have become the rarest of luxuries. No one knows when this started but everyone knows how. The VXII, the deadliest virus ever created, spread like wildfire and decimated the majority of the world's population. The non-infected survivors now cling to life in four quarantined cities behind a wall. Shawn Kors and his brother, Jude, survived the VXII only to grow up in a squalid internment camp for orphaned children. Under the care of the militia, they were pitted against other children in backwoods death matches. Shawn, Jude, and the few who escaped became notorious for their incredible fighting skills. They have since parted ways. Shawn now makes a comfortable living as a janitor at the local medic station. He spends his days dreaming of curing the VXII. When Shawn discovers the discarded body of a fellow internment camp friend, he is forced out of hiding and pulled into a rabbit hole of conspiracy and violence.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, independent film, exciting
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Dark Planet (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two sides, one known as the Alphas and the other the Rebels, struggle in a brutal war on Earth and in outer space. When a habitable planet is discovered in orbit around a star that is on the far side of a dangerous wormhole, the two sides mysteriously set aside their differences and send a joint mission to explore the planet. The mission of the starship Scylla is soon beset by political intrigue and treachery, jeopardizing not only the mission, but the lives of the entire crew.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Megaville (1990)
Plot Summary:
In the future, national boundaries have been broken down and two giant super-states remain—the bleak, oppressive, and totalitarian "Hemisphere," and the sprawling and futuristic "Megaville." Megaville has an elected president, but the entire system is rife with corruption. All forms of media are encouraged in Megaville, but this freedom has aided moral decay with the distribution of pornography and violent movies. Outside Megaville lies the Hemisphere; whereas Megaville is clean and ordered, the Hemisphere is in a state of decay. Travel from the Hemisphere to Megaville is restricted with few exceptions to the powerful. An outwardly totalitarian regime governs the daily life of civilians in the Hemisphere and the people live in fear of the "CKS" (the secret police). All forms of media are illegal in the Hemisphere. CC wikipedia.org.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cyber, futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Assassin (1986)
Plot Summary:
A retired agent from an Intelligence Agency is contacted by the Agency in order to stop an ultra-secret robot who is killing some government officials. That will be not an easy task, because the robot looks human and it was specifically built to be an efficient killer, not to mention that it is almost invulnerable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Bombshell (1997)
Plot Summary:
Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, psychological, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, independent film
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Running Against Time (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he can't return to his present time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Lifepod (1993)
Plot Summary:
Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why the ship blew up and how it relates to them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, disaster movie
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Contagion (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st Century, terrorists have developed a new way to strike: disease. Not only have they created a deadly Level Four Ebola virus, their first victim is the President of the United States. The virus is particularly contagious and is spreading. If a cure cannot be found, the only chance for saving the world from epidemic is for the army to destroy the hospital and the town where the victims, including the President, are currently contained. The clock is ticking. As doctors search for a cure the military seeks to annihilate them all in a race to stop the deadly path of the contagion. Can the spread be stopped before its too late?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 801
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, intellectual, disaster movie
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The Vector File (2002)
Plot Summary:
A geo-political thriller where Gerry Anderson finds that sometimes, everybody really is out to get you. Gerry's daughter, Mattie, accidentally prints out a DNA code that in the wrong hands can end the human race. The chase is on - the Russians, whose DNA code it is that Mattie has in her backpack, and a group of terrorists compete to get the code from the person they all assume has it, Gerry. With all this going on, Gerry's estranged wife Margaret is worried for her daughter's safety and finds herself another target in the race to find the code.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, futuristic, serious, suspenseful
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Cypher (2002)
Plot Summary:
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, stylized, enigmatic, sexy, thought provoking, suspense, futuristic, intense