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Plot Summary:
A group of scientists perform an unethical experiment bending both space and time –in the process they may have not only changed their lives but also the very fabric of the universe.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
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57 Seconds (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Power (1968)
Plot Summary:
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, suspense, slasher, tech noir, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Dreammaster: The Erotic Invader (1996)
Plot Summary:
On a quest to unravel the mysteries of recurring nightmares, four college grad students experiment on each other, monitoring and attempting to manipulate their dreams. Grant, the most troubled of the quartet, is disturbed by the sensual Devora, an erotic fantasy figure who torments and teases him in the most vivid of dreams. Determined to help him, Grant's friends enter the twilight world of his sleeping mind, only to discover that Devora's curse of eternal pleasure is irresistible.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, crying, independent film, weeping
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The Scribbler (2014)
Plot Summary:
Suki is a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using "The Siamese Burn," an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being "cured," she's haunted by a thought... what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind blowing, tense
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Displacement (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the murder of her boyfriend while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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Cerebrum (2021)
Plot Summary:
To make ends meet, Tom signs on as a guinea pig at a home-based lab, but when he commits a crime he cannot remember, he must risk his own sanity to reveal the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns Dr James Xavier, ably portrayed by Ray Milland. He has invented a serum for improving human vision. When his funding is cut he proceeds to experiment on himself -- with horrifying results. From the director who gave you Swamp Women, The Wasp Woman, and The Beast with a Million Eyes!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychedelic, tense, harsh, disturbing, grindhouse, talky
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Naked Souls (1996)
Plot Summary:
Edward is busy trying to unlock the secrets of reading and recording people's thoughts. He is very involved with his work leaving little room for girlfriend Britt. Longstreet comes along and offers Edward a place to do his research and have unlimited funding. There are, however, ulterior motives as Edward is also somehow unlocking the secrets of eternal life.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, bleak, serious, tense, suspense, sexy, independent film, suspenseful, slasher, hot
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Identicals (2015)
Plot Summary:
Identicals is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir
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Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a group of teenagers stumble upon a secret lab, they become part of a deadly experiment - The Recreator - evil human clones. Craig, Tracy and Derek come face to face with exact copies of themselves that have only one purpose; to find and kill their originals. With time running out it's up to the original group to destroy the lab and save themselves before they are replaced. Gregory Orr's exciting thriller brings science fiction to life with a sexy edge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, rough
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Implanted (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sarah, a struggling young woman, agrees to volunteer as a test subject and be implanted with the LEXX nanochip for a pharmaceutical company experiment. She hopes that the money received for her participation will solve her financial troubles. When the implant turns sinister and orders her to commit crimes, Sarah is plunged into a murderous spiral with only one choice: to live or die.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Void (2001)
Plot Summary:
Physicist Eva Soderstrom discovers greedy industrialist Thomas Abernathy is on the verge of creating an artificial black hole in a laboratory on Earth. It's the same experiment that killed her father years earlier, except bigger. With the help of Dr. Price, Eva tries to stop Abernathy and, possibly, save the planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, semi serious, disaster movie
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The Eavesdropper (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen deaf patients took part in an experimental clinical trail aimed at hearing restoration. Within days, fourteen of the fifteen participants in the trial become violently psychotic, ultimately taking their lives to stop violent side effects brought on by the treatment. This is the story of the sole survivor of the experiment, Patient #14 - Liza Raines, who participation in the experiment gave her super-normal hearing abilities - particularly, the ability to hear the frequency emitted by the brain when it thinks. When her life is suddenly thrown into jeopardy, Liza is forced to use her ability against those set on covering up the fact that she even existed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, experimental
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Black Death (1992)
Plot Summary:
On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital -- by the plague, as the terrified coroners find out. While trying to keep this from the public to avoid a panic, epidemic commissioner Dr. Nora Hart has to investigate Sarah's identity and find everyone who had contact with her. If she misses a single person, the plague could kill half the city in a few days!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, apocalyptic
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Dark Storm (2006)
Plot Summary:
On a secret military base a group of scientists have made a discovery unequaled since the invention of the A-bomb; code-named Eruptor, it's a device that supercharges Dark Matter and uses it to change the molecular structure of its target, thereby eradicating it. But when the Eruptor malfunctions and a leading scientist on the project is blasted with Dark Matter, he receives incredible abilities.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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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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The Lazarus Effect (2015)
Plot Summary:
Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, enigmatic, intense, creepy, surprise ending, psychological, dark
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The Manhattan Project (1986)
Plot Summary:
Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, suspense, feel good, action adventure, serious, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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The Soviet Sleep Experiment (2019)
Plot Summary:
Russian researchers in the late 1940s keep five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental stimulant. Based on the popular internet horror story (Creepypasta) “The Russian Sleep Experiment”.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Killer Rats (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Brookedale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits atop a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret - a secret known by only one person. There's something living in the tunnels - something that's developed a taste for human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film, psychological thriller, surprise ending, natural horror
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Plot Summary:
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, medical horror, mind bending, psychotronic, psychological, retro, psychedelic
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Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Plot Summary:
Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, and after taking safeguards to preserve confidential material, each side agrees to allow it. As soon as the link is established the two become a new Super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: intelligent, philosophical, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cyber, suspense, psychotronic, depressing, political, surreal
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Intersect (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, lovecraft, psychological, suspenseful, ambiguous ending
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Bombshell (1997)
Plot Summary:
Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, psychological, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, independent film
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Futureworld (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse, captivating, depressing, tech noir, esoteric
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Infinity Chamber (2016)
Plot Summary:
A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, tense, touching, disturbing, psychological, retro, psychedelic, surreal
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Android Apocalypse (2006)
Plot Summary:
Machines have taken over, but left humans thinking that they are still the ones in charge. The androids need humans because of the human brain fluid; without it the android brains can't work. Until the mad scientist finds out how to make this brain fluid artificially that is.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, epic
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Push (2009)
Plot Summary:
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, intense, suspenseful, serious, action packed, apocalyptic, sweet, epic, action thriller
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Brainstorm (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, meditative, futuristic, psychological, philosophical, intense, cyber, tense, serious, cerebral
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Limitless (2011)
Plot Summary:
A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 603000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: clever, thought provoking, intellectual, philosophical, captivating, psychological, suspense, smart, suspenseful, psychological thriller