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Plot Summary:
During their search for a habitable planet the last living humans crash-land on a barren world, inhabited by bloodthirsty aliens and mysterious post-apocalyptic warriors.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, exciting, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic
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Astro (2018)
Plot Summary:
A science-fiction story of a billionaire's private space exploration program returning to Earth with an abducted extraterrestrial from a newly discovered alien planet.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, apocalyptic
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Blast Vegas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Thieving Spring Breakers steal an ancient relic that unleashes a disastrous curse upon Las Vegas. Stars: Frankie Muniz, Maggie Castle, and Barry Bostwick.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, romantic, scenic, humorous, semi serious, disaster movie
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Martian Land (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, mankind lives on Mars, in cities that resemble those once found on Earth, protected from the alien atmosphere by dome-like force-fields. When a massive sandstorm breaks through the dome and destroys Mars New York, those in Mars Los Angeles must figure out how to stop the storm before it wipes them out next.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockbuster, apocalyptic, psychotronic
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Atlantis Down (2010)
Plot Summary:
2025 - The Shuttle Program has been privatized and the shuttle Atlantis relegated to glorified taxi between space stations. Its crew is on a routine mission, conducting experiments - little do they know - they are the experiment. Written by Max Bartoli.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, futuristic, captivating, psychological
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Incoming (2018)
Plot Summary:
The International Space Station is now a prison - the ultimate black site. No one's getting out. And no one knows it's there. But when the imprisoned terrorists take over the Station and turn it into a missile aimed at Moscow, only a shuttle pilot and a rookie doctor can stop them. Their task is complicated by a rogue CIA agent (Scott Adkins) who has his own plans for the station and the terrorists within.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Serbia, USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, rough
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Wastelander (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic landscape, an ex-soldier wanders in search of his lost home and family. Along the way, he joins a makeshift group of survivors who convince him to lead them through the wasteland. But when a band of pillaging raiders comes after them, they must fight to survive in this cruel dystopia.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, independent film
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The Blackout (2019)
Plot Summary:
No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something did go wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from the Space. What military forces find outside the Ring is shocking. There are dead corpses everywhere: in stores, in cars, on roads, in hospitals and railway stations. Who or what is destroying all life on Earth? How long will the last outpost of mankind survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychedelic, action thriller, action adventure
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The Lost Future (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to re-establish the human race as masters of Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: stylized, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, captivating, melancholic, tense, light, feel good, action thriller
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Hunter Prey (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Prometheus has dropped out of orbit. Communications and life support systems are down. Situation Critical: Status of Crew and Prisoner unknown. With orders to catch their Alien Prisoner alive the surviving crew of the spaceship Prometheus pursue a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with their escaped prisoner on a deserted and barren planet. But, who is the hunter and who is its prey?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, independent film
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Thirst (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of wayward teens at a wilderness boot camp must fight for their lives against the attacks of a ruthless blood-sucking alien. The attacks begin after they discover a strange "orb" in the middle of the desert. With no communication, and nowhere to hide, they realize their only chance for survival is to fight.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, spooky
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AVH: Alien vs. Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A journalist named Lee Custler (William Katt) is out jogging when a flying object passes behind him and crashes. Sheriff Joel Armstrong (Collin Brock) picks him up and they go to check it out. They find an abandoned caravan close to where the object crashed. As they discover the object and realize it is a spaceship, an Alien emerges. The Alien (resembling a giant spider with a lizard-like head and torso) then chases them, after which Lee flees to the car. However Armstrong makes a stand, trips, falls and is killed by the Alien that then leaves. A terrified Tammy finds Lee and they call the local authorities but their car is destroyed by the Alien.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, captivating, suspenseful, splatter
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The Last Boy (2019)
Plot Summary:
The world at an end, a dying mother sends her young son on a quest to find the place that grants wishes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, apocalyptic, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, mystical, road movie, dark, minimal cast
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Mandrake (2010)
Plot Summary:
An expedition led by adventurer Darren McCall and funded by the wealthy Harry Vargas braves the impenetrable jungle to retrieve a fabled bejeweled dagger from an ancient burial ground. But pulling the dagger from its rightful resting place awakens the long-dormant plant creature - part plant, part animal, and all bloodthirsty -- and sends it on a feeding frenzy from which there seems scant hope of survival or escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, captivating, psychotronic
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Deadly Descent: The Abominable Snowman (2013)
Plot Summary:
Friends go on a snowy adventure and come face to face with a deadly creature.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, christmas horror, scary, exciting, serious, independent film
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Morlocks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ferocious humanoid creatures from the future come back to the present to devour humans.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, psychotronic
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The 13th Unit (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, serious
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Android Insurrection (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future high-tech man colonized the world and leaves all the dirty work of an army of androids and robots. Now, somewhere rebelling robots, and a heavily armed special forces, led by Major Fox well to look after things. Locally it is found that the problem is bigger than expected: namely, the machine themselves have tinkered machines, and with these new Combat robots is no joke. Luckily, keeping an even few androids to people.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, cyber
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AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster, independent film
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The Colony (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, anamorphic
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Dragonquest (2009)
Plot Summary:
When an ancient warlord summons a mythological beast, a young hero must complete a series of quests to awaken the dragon that will defeat the monster.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, mockbuster, mythical
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Edge of Extinction (2020)
Plot Summary:
15 years after a global apocalypse, mankind is on the verge of extinction. Civilisation no longer exists, food is scarce and most eke out a living by stealing and killing. One boy clings onto life in the desolate British countryside, where staying away from others has been key to his survival. But this self-imposed isolation comes to an abrupt end when he crosses paths with another group of survivors and faces an enemy far more savage than any of them could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: disturbing, apocalyptic, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, splatter
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Drone Wars (2016)
Plot Summary:
When drones arrive in a flash, slaughtering humanity and stripping the Earth of its resources, a small team of scientists hiding in Los Angeles works to expel the drone menace once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Oceans Rising (2017)
Plot Summary:
A scientist builds a massive ark after his warnings of an Earth-destroying flood are ignored. But when it's evident the disaster will occur, those who maligned the scientist now turn to him in desperation, boarding the ark and seeking his answers before the world drowns in a never ending sea.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, mockbuster, disaster movie
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Deadland (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of an eye, America has been plunged back into the Stone Age. Money is worthless, food is scarce, and those who once thought they were fortunate to survive the initial attack are now slowly being consumed from the inside out, the victims of an all-consuming nuclear scourge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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The Wandering Earth (2019)
Plot Summary:
When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the Solar System using gigantic engines, moving it to a new home located four light years away, an epic journey that will last thousands of years.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, philosophical, epic, political, entertaining, apocalyptic
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After Earth (2013)
Plot Summary:
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 207000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, inspirational, captivating, intense, teen, suspense
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Predators (2010)
Plot Summary:
A mercenary reluctantly leads a motley crew of warriors who soon come to realize they've been captured and deposited on an alien planet by an unknown nemesis. With the exception of a peculiar physician, they are all cold-blooded killers, convicts, death squad members... hunters who have now become the hunted.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 241000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, futuristic, suspense, exciting, visually appealing, rough, stylized, splatter, action packed
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Pitch Black (2000)
Plot Summary:
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 251000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, harsh, tense, dark, light, exciting, atmospheric, intense
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Polar Storm (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a piece of the massive comet "Copernicus" collides with the Earth, it knocks the planet off of its axis and unleashes a disaster never before witnessed. Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) and his highly trained research team are the only ones who can re-align the axis. With his wife and teenage son in mortal danger, Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) calls on his crack research team to help realign the planet's axis before the effects of the catastrophe are irreversible.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, apocalyptic, suspense, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Meteor Apocalypse (2010)
Plot Summary:
A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, biblical, disaster movie