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Plot Summary:
Scientist Will Rodman is determined to find a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease which has slowly consumed his father. Will feels certain he is close to a breakthrough and tests his latest serum on apes, noticing dramatic increases in intelligence and brain activity in the primate subjects – especially Caesar, his pet chimpanzee.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 551000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, exciting, suspense, intellectual, emotional, apocalyptic, serious, captivating, stylized, entertaining
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
Plot Summary:
The world is shocked by the appearance of two talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a U.S. spacecraft. They become the toast of society; but one man believes them to be a threat to the human race.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, bleak, depressing, slasher, social, saga, classic horror, action adventure, space horror
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, depressing, slasher, social, saga, classic horror, space horror, natural horror, exciting
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Planet of the Apes (1968)
Plot Summary:
An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: philosophical, twist ending, mind bending, futuristic, suspense, visually stunning, mind blowing, suspenseful, retro, depressing
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Plot Summary:
Astronaut Brent is sent to rescue Taylor but crash lands on the Planet of the Apes, just like Taylor did in the original film. Taylor has disappeared into the Forbidden Zone so Brent and Nova try to follow and find him. He discovers a cult of humans that fear the Apes' latest military movements and finds himself in the middle. Tension mounts to a climactic battle between ape and man deep in the bowels of the planet.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, depressing, suspense, psychotronic, allegory, slasher, social, saga, grindhouse
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Skyline (2010)
Plot Summary:
When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, thought provoking, intellectual, epic
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Daybreakers (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save humankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, apocalyptic, tense, serious, suspenseful, bloody, splatter
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Carriers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back roads of the American West to the pounding beat of a vacation soundtrack. Their aim is to retreat to secluded utopian beach in the Gulf of Mexico, where they could peacefully wait out the pandemic and survive the apocalyptic disease. Their plans take a grim turn when their car breaks down on an isolated road starting a chain of events that will seal the fate of each of them in an inexorable and horrifying voyage of hell through a western landscape populated by only the hideous dead or the twisted living.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, road movie, suspenseful, psychological, apocalyptic, melancholic, absurd, serious, intense
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
Plot Summary:
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 269000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, suspense, serious, absurd, intense, apocalyptic, tense, psychotronic, action adventure
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 461000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, tense, suspense, intense, emotional, apocalyptic, suspenseful, thought provoking, captivating
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Insurgent (2015)
Plot Summary:
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 251000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, intense, teen, apocalyptic, entertaining, romantic, saga, thought provoking, intellectual
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Snowpiercer (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 382000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, thought provoking, futuristic, allegory, philosophical, tense, bleak, mindfuck, visually stunning, apocalyptic
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Plot Summary:
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. It's a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against hordes of blood- thirsty zombies, stealthy Lickers, mutant canines and the most sinister foe yet.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 208000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA, Canada, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, gothic, scary, suspense, splatter, action packed, exciting, rough, serious, stylized
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I, Robot (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 567000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, philosophical, suspense, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, clever, entertaining, action packed, suspenseful
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The Time Machine (2002)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, serious, stylized, psychotronic, thought provoking, suspense, apocalyptic, smart
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Elysium (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max (Matt Damon) is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 466000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cyber, serious, stylized, exciting, political, captivating, bleak, suspenseful, entertaining
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Plot Summary:
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 706000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: futuristic, captivating, teen, entertaining, touching, apocalyptic, sad, visual, action packed, visually stunning
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 490000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, entertaining, teen, apocalyptic, saga, bleak, slasher, action adventure, serious
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Gattaca (1997)
Plot Summary:
Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 318000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: futuristic, thought provoking, intellectual, neo noir, psychological, philosophical, suspenseful, clever, mindfuck, visually stunning
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Planet of the Apes (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by Ruthless General Thade.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 226000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: futuristic, twist ending, bad ending, intense, suspense, surprise ending, exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious
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War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Plot Summary:
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 276000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, futuristic, intense, compassionate, epic, psychotronic, sad, apocalyptic
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Jurassic Park (1993)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspense, breathtaking, exciting, epic, entertaining, suspenseful, visually stunning, saga, spectacular, scary
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Jurassic World (2015)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 670000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: entertaining, scenic, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic, serious, suspense, epic, saga, action adventure
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Godzilla (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises from the sea to combat malevolent adversaries that threaten the survival of humanity. The creatures leave colossal destruction in their wake, as they make their way toward their final battleground: San Francisco.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 432000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, psychotronic, saga, action adventure, epic, psychological, breathtaking
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Children of Men (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 522000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, bleak, apocalyptic, captivating, political, intense, road movie, emotional
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The Omega Man (1971)
Plot Summary:
Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, apocalyptic, intense, suspenseful, scary, bad ending, cult classic, grindhouse, depressing
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28 Days Later (2002)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 436000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, tense, dark, suspense, psychological, disturbing, creepy
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Oblivion (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 547000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mind bending, captivating, suspense, visually appealing, apocalyptic, exciting, mindfuck, visually stunning, tense
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Blade Runner (1982)
Plot Summary:
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 809000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking, cerebral, mind bending, philosophical, thinking, visually appealing
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Equilibrium (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 343000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: futuristic, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric, clever, cerebral, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cult classic
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In Time (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his mother from dying. He ends up on the run from a corrupt police force known as 'time keepers'.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 438000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, clever, philosophical, suspense, stylized, serious, thought provoking, apocalyptic, exciting, entertaining