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Plot Summary:
A scientist plots a bank robbery based around his newest invention -- a time travel gadget that will send its user 10 minutes into the past. Everything goes according to plan, until he encounters a group of thieves who've planned their heist for the same day.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Zambia, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse
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Lifeline (2017)
Plot Summary:
What if you could use time travel to save your life? Welcome to "LIFELINE," the new YouTube Red Original Series about the Lifeline insurance agency, whose specially trained agents jump forward in time to prevent the deaths of their clients.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: tense, non-linear, exciting, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, futuristic
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Trancers 6: Life After Deth (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a return to the groundbreaking original film's premise, Jack Deth is back - traveling back in time and into the body of his own daughter, Josephine (Zette Sullivan), on a mission to save her life and save the world from the most lethal Trancers yet. Jack/Jo must adapt and survive being a girl while avoiding many assassination attempts by more powerful and dangerous zombie-like Trancers than he's ever faced before.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending, exciting, tense, disturbing, cult classic, cult film, sequel to cult 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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Antibody (2002)
Plot Summary:
After a terrorist with an implanted nuclear detonator gets shot, a team of scientists must defuse the bomb by miniaturizing themselves and going into his bloodstream. His organism's antibodies start to mass against them.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, exciting, captivating, suspense
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Interceptor Force 2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future a new team of specially trained government soldiers called an Interception Team contend with the latest hostile alien encounter. When an alien scout ship crashes in eastern Russia, Sean Lambert and his elite force are dispatched to investigate. They come face-to-face with a seemingly invincible seven-foot tall, shape shifting foe hell-bent on blowing up a Russian nuclear power plant in an effort to destroy mankind through a nuclear winter. The stakes become personal when the alien discovers it was Lambert who killed its mate four years ago (Interceptor Force). A major battle ensues as the Interceptor Team look to save the Earth from alien annihilation.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious
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Dragon Fighter (2003)
Plot Summary:
The movie begins in Southern England in the Middle Ages and then six knights are seen riding in horses towards a destroyed town. They see the remains of burned buildings and dead people until they come upon a mother and her dead baby. She quickly dies and then a rhino-sized dragon flies overhead, the knights follow right behind, vowing to kill the creature.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, exciting, suspense, captivating, fast
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Alien Siege (2005)
Plot Summary:
Alien Siege is a 2005 Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie about an alien race that comes to Earth seeking a cure to a deadly virus, for which the antidote is human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fast
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Clockstoppers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Until now, Zak Gibbs' greatest challenge has been to find a way to buy a car. But when he discovers an odd wristwatch amidst his father's various inventions and slips it on -- something very strange happens. The world around him seems to come to a stop, everything and everybody frozen in time. Zak quickly learns how to manipulate the device and he and his quick-witted and beautiful new friend, Francesca, start to have some real fun.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, tense, teen, fast
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Blast (2004)
Plot Summary:
A terrorist posing as environmentalist hijacks an oil rig off the coast of California with the intent of detonating an electromagnetic bomb over the US.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, fast, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Judgment Day (1999)
Plot Summary:
This sci-fi thriller finds the world in imminent danger when a collision in outer space sends huge pieces of interstellar debris on a path headed straight for Earth. A scientist has designed a system that would stop the largest meteor fragments from striking the earth, but a fanatical religious cult have made it their business to stop him. A convicted murderer (Ice-T) with ties to the group must now join forces with an FBI agent (Suzy Amis) to free the scientist from the cult's clutches and prevent millions of needless deaths. Mario Van Peebles and Linden Ashby appear in supporting roles.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, surprise ending, disaster movie
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Diplomatic Siege (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. But while watching video monitors from inside a long-forgotten surveillance room, Steve witnesses a surprising deadly takeover of the building by the Serbian Liberation Front.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, independent film
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Tunnel (2002)
Plot Summary:
An ex-SAS agent and a thief battle for their lives as air runs out in a maze of abandoned mine tunnels while they're searching for $200 million in stolen diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
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Alien Hunter (2003)
Plot Summary:
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast
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Project Viper (2002)
Plot Summary:
Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from its creator, the military calls on a covert troubleshooter to destroy it before it decimates a small town in its path, and then the rest of the world. The space shuttle Olympus is on a routine mission, but with a far-from-routine payload: "Project Viper," an experimental hybrid of human genes and computer chips, designed to adapt to any environment, particularly that of Mars. But as the shuttle crew prepares to launch the prototype into space, something unexpected occurs. Soon the astronauts are dead, and the Secretary of Defense orders the remaining prototype destroyed. To do the job, he calls on devil-may-care special agent Mike Connors (Patrick Muldoon).
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, fast
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Alien Lockdown (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, fast
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12:01 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the life of beautiful research assistant Lisa Fredericks.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: retro, mind bending, entertaining, detective, action thriller, action adventure, psychological, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003)
Plot Summary:
20 years after a set of events, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is still going strong. Now Brandon Miller a TEC operative, believes that they have a responsibility to change history hoping that the world will be better but Ryan Chan another Tec operative stops him but kills the woman he loves in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
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Guyver: Dark Hero (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sean Barker became the unwilling host to an alien bio-armor known as the Guyver. A year ago he destroyed the Kronos Corporation, an organization of mutants who want the Guyver. Now he is trying to find why the Guyver unit forces him to fight and kill evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense, manga, perverse, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Time Runner (1993)
Plot Summary:
During the alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992, where attempt after attempt is made to catch and kill him.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, independent film, fast, surprise ending, weird
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Deadly Skies (2006)
Plot Summary:
The sky is literally falling in this thriller as one of the nation's leading astronomers, Madison Kelsey believes she is tracking a huge rogue asteroid rocketing toward earth. However, she can't get anyone in authority to take her seriously because the mysterious asteroid exists only in the mathematical calculations of her computer program and it's not yet visible. With only hours remaining until probable impact, Madison enlists the aid of discredited former Air-Force Colonel, Richard Donovan. Together they hatch a plan to resurrect a mothballed military laser in order to blast the asteroid out of the sky before it destroys the planet. The only problem with their plan, the laser is under guard in the middle of an Air Force base and the guards have orders to shoot to kill.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, erotic, disaster movie
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Interceptor Force (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the near future the US Government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained for action in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force, they are the last line of defense.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, scary, fast
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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
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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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Retrograde (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two time travelers with opposing views are sent back to the present aboard a research ship in the Antarctic to prevent a global biological disaster from occuring.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, apocalyptic, cult classic, fast, surprise ending, independent film
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Dark Breed (1996)
Plot Summary:
Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all infected with an alien parasite, and they were trying to bring its eggs back to Earth. The eggs were lost in an accident, and both Saxon and the astronauts are trying to locate them. What could the government want them for?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, serious, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Retroactive (1997)
Plot Summary:
A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, road movie, suspenseful, intense, serious, disturbing, psychological, cerebral, retro
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Predestination (2014)
Plot Summary:
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 298000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, clever, confusing, twist ending, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking, stylized, mind blowing, cerebral
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Deja Vu (2006)
Plot Summary:
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 324000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tricky, twisted, suspense, confusing, psychological thriller, clever, surprise ending, mindfuck
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Next (2007)
Plot Summary:
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 165000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, mind bending, stylized, action packed, serious, suspenseful, clever, bad ending, suspense, surprise ending