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Plot Summary:
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Gou'ald kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Gou'ald hosts.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic
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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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Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2306… 12 years ago, Captain Kirk was swept away by the Nexus. One year later, Commander Scott was reported missing along with the USS Jenolen. The remaining USS Enterprise crew have split. Captain Spock and Doctor McCoy are on Khitomer, continuing their work towards peace the Klingon Empire. Captain Sulu and the Excelsior are on a mission beyond the Alpha Quadrant. Captain Chekov, feels his career has stalled, leaving him to ponder retirement. Captain Uhura, Director of Starfleet Linguistics, feels there may be something missing in her life.Now, Chekov and Uhura, with John Harriman, former Captain of the Enterprise-B, come together for the dedication of a new ship. However, their reunion is cut short when they receive a distress call from an all-too-familiar planet, where they meet up with an almost-forgotten face, and in an instant, something happens that presses the three friends to embark on a mission that will forever change their lives….
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, atmospheric, intellectual, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, talky, stylized, intense, serious, bleak, suspenseful, clever, intellectual
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Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)
Plot Summary:
The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to find the culprit. Otherwise the space station will fail in its role to bring all the races together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, intellectual, epic, saga, serious, suspenseful, erotic, tense, light, sexy
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Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
Plot Summary:
SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy aboard the Odyssey. The International Oversight committee have their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: witty, exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, futuristic, intense, epic, saga, fast
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998)
Plot Summary:
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: christian film, intellectual, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, light, clever, enigmatic, unusual plot structure
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Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of Soul Hunters come to Babylon 5 demanding the return of something that was stolen from them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, intellectual, exciting, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, light
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Wing Commander (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher Blair and Todd "Maniac" Marshall as they arrive at the Tiger Claw and are soon forced to stop a Kilrathi fleet heading towards Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, uplifting, action adventure, disgusting, fast, futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, serious, humorous
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Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (2008)
Plot Summary:
The 10 webisodes, entitled "The Face of the Enemy," tell a story that takes place between seasons 4.0 and 4.5 of Battlestar and follow Lt. Gaeta when he is sent off in a Raptor with a handful of strangers and one of them mysteriously dies. The psychological human-vs.-Cylon struggle is played out in the restrictive confines of a Raptor as everyone is a suspect, and paranoia sets in among the group.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, suspenseful, tense, stylized
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Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sixty days on and Rygel is retrieving pieces of John and Aeryn from the sea bed. The Diagnosan re-crystalises them and they start getting to know the local species. Meanwhile, Scorpius and Sikozu are aboard a Peacekeeper Command Carrier on a recon mission. They attack a Scarren ship, which provokes the Scarrens into declaring war on The Peacekeepers.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, witty, talky, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, intense, epic
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Crusade (1999)
Plot Summary:
Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped. To that end, the Victory class destroyer Excalibur has been sent out to look for anything that could help the search for a cure.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, thrilling, futuristic, exciting, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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Star Trek Continues (2013)
Plot Summary:
The USS Enterprise's historic five-year mission continues with all new episodes of the original series. "Star Trek: Continues", a new Trek series, beams down with exciting adventures of the Federation's most heroic crew led by Captain James T. Kirk. The lighting and color of the highly accurate sets accentuate the equally detailed props and costumes, matching the original series that ran from 1966-69! With acting and stories that also replicate the original series, the adventures are sure to dazzle even the most die hard Trek fans. Witness now the untold morality plays that explore the final frontier and more importantly... the human condition. Fans of the original series will especially enjoy the pilot episode as a familiar guest star from the original series reprises his role in a sequel entitled "Pilgrim of Eternity".
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, independent film, futuristic
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Stargate Universe (2009)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, while simultaneously trying to explore and to survive in their unknown area of the universe.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, tense, cliffhanger, epic, saga, thrilling, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Flash Gordon (2007)
Plot Summary:
Flash Gordon is an American science fiction television series that debuted on Sci Fi in the United States on August 10, 2007 and continued airing new episodes through February 8, 2008. It has also appeared on the United Kingdom Sci Fi Channel and SPACE in Canada. The series was developed by Peter Hume, who served as executive producer/show runner and wrote the first and last episodes, among others.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, saga, epic, fast, futuristic
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Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Plot Summary:
Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction TV series and a prequel to the original Star Trek set 100 years before. The series premiered September 26, 2001 on the UPN television network with the final episode airing on May 13, 2005. The series takes place in the 22nd century aboard Earth's first warp 5 capable starship Enterprise NX-01 designed for long-range exploration of the galaxy and captained by Jonathan Archer. The NX designation indicates that this Enterprise is an experimental prototype.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, serious, intellectual, erotic, epic, saga, futuristic, suspenseful, cult film
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Farscape (1999)
Plot Summary:
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, exciting, bleak, cliffhanger, funny, retro, uplifting, mysterious, apocalyptic
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998)
Plot Summary:
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, christian film, intellectual, tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy, lovecraft
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Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating, stylized, anime, mecha
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MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (1994)
Plot Summary:
Hunting artifacts attributed to Zenon (an ancient scientist from Atlantis), MacGyver and his old professor end up searching for the lost city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Stargate SG-1 (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, epic, captivating, funny, retro, uplifting, saga
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Stargate Atlantis (2004)
Plot Summary:
With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to contact Earth, but their explorations unexpectedly reawaken the Ancients' deadly enemies, The Wraith, who hunger for this new prey. Now with the help of newfound local allies like Teyla Emmagan, the Atlantis Team sets about to uncover their new home's secrets even as their war of survival against the Wraith begins.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, epic, action adventure, funny, saga, thrilling, serious, suspenseful
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Star Trek (2009)
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The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 616000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: futuristic, epic, stylized, exciting, entertaining, intellectual, action packed, visually stunning, intense, suspenseful
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Plot Summary:
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter recruit for the Earth Defense Directorate, where his closest colleagues are Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor), squadron leader Col. Wilma Deering (former model Erin Gray, looking oh-so-foxy), the wisecracking robot Twiki (voiced by cartoon legend Mel Blanc), and a portable computer-brain named Dr. Theopolis, who's carried by Twiki like oversized bling-bling.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, uplifting, saga, cult classic, futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012)
Plot Summary:
The first Cylon war has been raging for 10 years and a young Ensign William Adama joins the fleet. He's disappointed not to be assigned to a fighter but to a freighter, and his co-pilot isn't too keen on having a rookie flying his aircraft as he has only a short time before he again becomes a civilian. Their cargo is a civilian scientist, Dr. Becca Kelly, but they no sooner leave than she has new orders for them and a new destination. Although she’s less than forthcoming about the details of her mission, Adama is keen, particularly as it involves going into Cylon controlled space. However, nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, light, entertaining, tense, intense, serious, suspenseful, action packed, stylized
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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002)
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After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, futuristic, stylized, bleak, serious, suspenseful, exciting, intellectual, epic, saga
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Stargate: Continuum (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: clever, entertaining, suspenseful, exciting, futuristic, epic, saga, serious, light, romantic
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Stargate (1994)
Plot Summary:
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 202000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, entertaining, visual, visually stunning, epic, cult classic, tense, philosophical, atmospheric
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Dark Matter (2015)
Plot Summary:
The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to become a war zone. With no idea whose side they are on, they face a deadly decision. Will these amnesiacs turn their backs on history, or will their pasts catch up with them?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, action adventure, mind blowing, ambiguous ending, serious, bleak, interesting, canadian science fiction
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 131000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: futuristic, epic, saga, exciting, apocalyptic, anamorphic, sentimental, intellectual, cult classic, action adventure
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Enemy Mine (1985)
Plot Summary:
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cult classic, stylized, serious, suspenseful, retro, sad, intelligent, exciting, talky