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Plot Summary:
Mankind is nearly extinct in this post-apocalyptic creature thriller. Most humans died from a deadly plague and the ice age they manufactured to eradicate it. A man named Vargas leads a group of survivors on a quest to reach Shangri-La, the last safe haven on Earth. However, they must fight through the cold, a mutant cult and a pack of deadly creatures to get there.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Solar Impact (2019)
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Solar debris crashes down to Earth, causing widespread destruction and unleashing solar radiation around the world. As genetic mutations rapidly spread, a group of friends must fight to stay alive and escape the chaos.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
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Project Legion (2022)
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A former marine awakens to an apocalyptic sight outside of his window and barricades himself from evil creatures that surround his apartment door and terrorize the city.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Tin Can (2020)
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As the world faces a deadly plague, humanity's hope for a cure lies with a scientist who awakens imprisoned in a metal chamber. She desperately works to escape her confined cell to save the last of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
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Defcon 2012 (2010)
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On October 30, 2009 an independent filmmaker and his cast and crew are reported missing a month before the release of their controversial film predicting the end of the world. Authorities have reason to believe the film's 2012 doomsday scenario may have something to do with their disappearance. An agent for CEA (Central Extraterrestrial Agency) discovers the footage to the film and watches the film on September 10, 2012, three months before the world is to come to an end.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, retro, mockbuster
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Phoenix Point (2005)
Plot Summary:
When the apocalypse arrives, it takes the form of a biochemical virus. All social structures break down and a new world order emerges from the heart of the desert. As chaos sets in, we follow the adventures of some unlikely survivors, all searching for the elusive cure at Phoenix Point.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Arcadia (2016)
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In the not too distant future where a deadly disease has gripped the world, Arcadia has been built as safe disease-free haven for the privileged. Outside Arcadia, the average life lasts merely 40 years - unless they can earn a place amongst the elite.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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Rotor DR1 (2015)
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In a post-apocalyptic world where half the population is dead or missing and the sky is full of autonomous drones, a 16-year-old boy named Kitch sets out to find his father, joined by DR1, his drone companion.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Over run by the alien Kryslum Empire, a devastated Earth is victim of their slow terra-forming technologies. With the human race enslaved and on the brink of destruction, four misfits join forces to start the rebellion that will bring upon a new dawn for human survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 48 min
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Ice (1998)
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After the whole North of the Equator freezes below zero, a group of people in Los Angeles risk their lives while trying to "escape" from the city's hostile conditions, in order to take a ship to a hotter place on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Doomsday (2015)
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Achilles, a normal man infected with a disease that will bring down the Erebus rulers (human/machine hybrids) escapes back in time from 2410 to the present day where he has a chance to stop the Erebus from ever rising to power. However he is followed by the Erebus-7 who will stop at nothing to hunt him down.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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Many years after a nuclear war destroyed much of human kind, the survivors have created a new society where much of the work done by artificial beings referred to derisively by humans as "clickers". Humans are producing fewer and fewer children and are less than a year away from having more artificial beings than humans. Most vociferous about the evolving situation is the Order of Flesh and Blood, an organization that is out to ensure that humans remain dominant. Among them is Capt. Kenneth Cragis who becomes very concerned that his sister Esme has formed a relationship with one of the artificial beings. He quickly forms a close relationship with Esme's friend Maxine Megan. Soon, they learn a great secret that affects them both directly.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, grindhouse, intelligent, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film
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10,000 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
10,000 Days ago, Comet 23 struck Earth with the magnitude of all the nuclear weapons in the world sending the planet into a deep freeze. Now, 27 years in the future, those who survived are locked in an epic battle of life or death.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, suspenseful, visually appealing, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Farewell to the Planet of the Apes (1980)
Plot Summary:
A television movie made from two segments of the TV Series Planet of the Apes (1974), Planet of the Apes: Tomorrow's Tide (1974) and Planet of the Apes: Up Above the World So High (1974).
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Plot Summary:
Three twentieth century astronauts travel through a time warp and crash on Earth in 3085 A.D.. One of the astronauts is killed in the impact, and the two survivors, Alan Virdon and Pete Burke, find that they have returned to an Earth where their loved ones are long dead, where technological civilization has fallen, and where humanity is subjugated by intelligent, talking simians who live in jungle cities and preside over pastoral hinterlands. The two astronauts are captured by horse-riding gorillas (the ape army) and taken before an orangutan tribunal. They are deemed a threat to ape security and sentenced to death. The two condemned men are visited in their cell by a curious chimpanzee named Galen, who is fascinated by their accounts of an advanced human civilization centuries past. After Galen accidentally kills a gorilla and is charged with murder, Virdon, Burke, and Galen all escape the ape city and are fugitives hunted by a determined gorilla named Urko. Virdon manages to salvage.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic
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Dystopia (2018)
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It is the year 2037. Our world is dying, slowly, from a virus that has rendered mankind infertile. Not a single child has been born in 25 years. Governments are now powerless puppets for the biggest corporations and Biocorp, the world's biggest, keeps promising a cure that never comes.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, exciting
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The Time Travelers (1964)
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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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The Terror Within II (1990)
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, cult horror, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Without Warning (1994)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: depressing, bad ending, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disaster movie
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Based on a novel by Mary Shelley.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Robo Warriors (1996)
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 494
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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Plot Summary:
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, cult film
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Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
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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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Shelter (2015)
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After a cataclysmic event, five strangers sealed inside an emergency shelter with all the comforts of home must learn to cope with their situation and with each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, scary
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Robot Wars (1993)
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, cult classic, mecha, cult film
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Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
Plot Summary:
Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won't be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000 years into the future, where they encounter aliens who are looking for a planet to colonize.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
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Doomsday Prophecy is a 2011 sci-fi disaster television film by Jason Bourque starring Jewel Staite, Alan Dale and A.J. Buckley.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
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IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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