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Plot Summary:
A master jewel thief in 21st century Los Angeles targets the illegal emerald smuggling operations of a highly-connected crime syndicate. During what he believes to be a routine heist, cat burglar Harry Maxwell discovers that his target, notorious criminal Sanchez Boon is also the target of a police raid. In attempting to evade both the law and Boon's well-armed men, Harry meets Pandora Grimes, one of dozens of young women Boon kidnapped to work in his factory. When Boon sets a group of social deviants free and hijacks a space transport ship and its crew, only Harry and Pandora's cunning can save the hundreds of innocent people aboard.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Clonehunter (2012)
Plot Summary:
2525 A.D. Man has colonized the stars. The wealthy and powerful implant their brains in cloned versions of themselves to gain immortality. As a side-effect, occasionally a clone develops mutant abilities. A clonehunter and his new partner have to track down a clone who threatens to destroy the planet unless the rich man he was cloned for gives him all his wealth.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Big Mess (1971)
Plot Summary:
Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: experimental, independent film, bizarre
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The Moon (1965)
Plot Summary:
Science fiction/documentary film about man's voyages to the moon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags:
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Spaceflight IC-1 (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2015, a spaceship, the IC-1, travels through outer space looking for a suitable planet to settle on. The commander, Captain Ralston, is stern and brutal in which one cadet, Steven, plots a revolt to turn the leadership of the command over to him.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags:
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A Time of Roses (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2011, historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model, Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the gruesome events on Caprini, Sharp and his elite team of tough, witty and trigger happy space Marines must now head out to the icy planet Mezzo to investigate further Ma'har activities. What they will encounter will defy their imaginations as they tackle giant man eating snow worms, an underground city of Cyborgs, a slew of murderous alien entities and maybe, finally, the ever elusive Ma'hars.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, stylized, exciting, bleak, independent film, campy
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Haphead (2015)
Plot Summary:
Maxine works at a factory making haptic inputs. After she steals one her favorite rabbit-ninja game beats skills directly into her muscle memory. When a fellow haphead causes her father's death she uses her new deadly skills to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, weird, dystopian
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Run Like Hell (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the year of 2008, war and sickness have overtaken the planet. The deranged government declares single women a threat to the human race. Singles women are imprisoned. The corrupt warden is determined to keep the prisoners locked up.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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The End of Eternity (1987)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and Boris Ivanov.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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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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TekWar: TekLords (1994)
Plot Summary:
Drug lords take over the empire left by convicted Sonny Hokori.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cyber, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, detective
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Mindgame Trilogy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to "Mindgame" (1998) which follows the fate of the three prisoners after their escape from their asteroid prison cell. Sontaran Sarg faces death against overwhelming odds on a desolate battleground, Draconian Merq faces trial after receiving an unusual "gift" and the human pilot finds herself stranded in space in a crippled fighter and a rapidly depleting oxygen supply.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film, low-budget
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The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
Plot Summary:
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind --- with bizarre and frightening results.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cyber, surreal, intelligent, psychological, atmospheric, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending
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Swerve (2012)
Plot Summary:
In a future post-apocalyptic California, the new frontier is a vast nano-contaminated Zone cut off from the all-connected Grid and the ceaseless flows of bodies and information outside its borders. Only the insane or criminal would venture into this low-tech, body-corroding backwater: that's what Kaja has been told. But when her best and only friend Adelle disappears, apparently kidnapped and taken to the Zone by an anti-nanotech revolutionary group, Kaja is forced to enter this bizarre and alien world. There, where even fundamental matter and individual identity are up for grabs, as a virtual assassination team moves in for the kill, anti-technology cultists plot a takeover, and a mad cyberscientist prepares a vast mind-harvesting experiment, Adelle will begin to suspect that her entire brain is an elaborate organic computer program... But what, exactly, does it do?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, surreal, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, cyber
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Hidden Reserves (2016)
Plot Summary:
The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, becomes a victim of the very corporations he is representing. Degraded to a henchman he grimly struggles to get back on the job market. He fights to climb the social ladder. In the process he realizes that there are other values than income and success. He decides against his previous ideology and for another human being, for Lisa Sokulowa. They don’t have a future. But they celebrate a small triumph against the dominance of the ruling system.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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3022 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space awakens to find earth has suffered an extinction-level event.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, visually appealing, apocalyptic, existential
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Quarantine (1989)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic society being decimated by plague, a fascist movement seizes power and quarantines not only the plague victims, but anyone related to them. Rebels trying to assassinate a particularly reactionary senator stumble onto a computer programmer trying to track and eradicate the disease.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Fatal Conflict (2000)
Plot Summary:
In a lawless futuristic society, a rebel must prevent a tandem of renegades from destroying Los Angeles. An ex-star pilot is forced to stop a mad criminal and his gang after they've hi-jacked a huge space freighter with the intent of crashing it into Los Angeles destroying what is left of civilization. Time is running out.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy
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Android (1982)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric scientist Dr .Daniel and his shy assistant Max lead a quiet life on their space station, carrying out illegal research on androids, until they receive an unwelcome visit from three fugitives one of whom is female. Both Dr. Daniel and Max show an interest in her, but one of the other visitors has more sinister intentions.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic, mysterious, disturbing, tech noir, cyber, offbeat
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Car Cemetery (1983)
Plot Summary:
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, allegory, avant garde, art house
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Island City (1994)
Plot Summary:
A 21st-century genetic experiment goes chaotic, creating a race of genetically-violent mutants.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping her hunt down the criminal psychopath Plughead. But Plughead who has tangled with Danner before has his own plans as he is forcing a female scientist to help him manufacture life extending longevity chips which he intends to sell to rich and powerful clients.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tech noir, independent film, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Replikator (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two rival corporations are developing replication technology which would enable the cloning of human tissue. The technology falls into a criminal group. Ludo Ludovic and Kathy Moskow with the help of a cop try to stop the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, neo noir, cult film
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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
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Firestorm (1996)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2024, a fierce battle rages between a ruthless villain and an android resistance group.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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New Crime City (1994)
Plot Summary:
Ricks is a criminal who is revived after execution to go into a futuristic prison to get a virus that the big prison gang has created. The prison is a squared off area of LA that the prisoners are put into and allowed to do as they please. Ricks soon meets up with Darla and they search the prison city for the psychotic Ironhead and his virus that he plans to unleash on the city of LA.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mutant World (2014)
Plot Summary:
A decade after a disastrous meteor impact wipes out most of society, a group of survivalists emerge to find themselves on a twisted version of the old Earth, with a nascent society besieged by vicious marauders, ferocious mutants, and the dreadful symptoms of a post-apocalyptic environment.
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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Cybernator (1991)
Plot Summary:
In the future, an L.A. cop whose girlfriend is a stripper uncovers a conspiracy concerning killer cyborgs.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Harrison Bergeron (1995)
Plot Summary:
"All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers around a young man (Harrison) who is smarter than his peers, and is not affected by the usual "Handicapping" which is used to train all Americans so everyone is of equal intelligence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: philosophical, apocalyptic, tech noir, offbeat, futuristic, disturbing, contemplative, semi serious, surprise ending, black comedy