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Plot Summary:
A mother fights to save her ailing daughter after a global pandemic worse than any seen before ravaged the planet, leaving resources so scarce you must pay for them with your life.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Branded (2017)
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In this post-apocalyptic-western, Alexander Dante has lived the past 10 years in exile for the killing of Edwin, his beloved brother. Then one day he's astounded to receive a letter, purportedly from Edwin. The letter states Edwin now lives in the distant village shown on the enclosed map. At first, Alexander dismisses the letter as a hoax but there's something about the letter that rings true. He treks through a hard and hostile land that at long last opens up into a tranquil village. There, he's stunned to confront the impossible: his brother is very much alive. Alexander is overjoyed to see his brother but he is tormented as he knows he has killed him. Now Alexander must root out the truth -- whatever the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
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Falling Fire (1997)
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In the not so distant future mankind has squandered their resources. A team of specialists is sent to the nearby asteroid field to retrieve an asteroid that will serve to replenish some of our natural resources. However, unbeknownst to the team, there is a killer on board determined to take control of the asteroid and destroy all mankind.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder (2023)
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In an effort to reunite with his daughter after a period of absence, a father takes her on a road trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Along the way they encounter some interesting characters and obstacles while sorting out their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Prototype (1983)
Plot Summary:
An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tech noir
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Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar (2022)
Plot Summary:
A father and daughter team of space scavengers race against a band of evil mercenaries to reach a legendary lost freighter called the Deepstar. Along their trek through the universe, they encounter monsters, aliens, robots, and something even worse.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Little Fish (2020)
Plot Summary:
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, philosophical, futuristic, cute
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Teleios (2017)
Plot Summary:
A deep space mining vessel has been adrift for two years. It is suspected the crew brutally killed each other, but the reason for the bloodbath is unknown. A rescue crew is sent to find if there are any survivors, what happened and why.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense
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Prototype (2022)
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In the near future, life-like androids with artificial intelligence have been created to help people with menial household tasks. The prototype, One, created by Roger Marshall and tested by his family, proves to be popular but flawed. Roger has been working on a new model, Two, whose improved features show promise of its super-human abilities. As tensions rise between Roger and wife Shelley, the androids malfunction and the lives of the whole family are soon in danger of Two's sinister plans.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Warning (2021)
Plot Summary:
Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, apocalyptic
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Daisy Winters (2017)
Plot Summary:
An eleven year-old girl's unconventional yet deeply loving relationship with her mother is harshly broken. Along her journey, including her quest to discover her father, she learns how to embrace every moment with determination and unrelenting self-confidence.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Time Tunnel (2006)
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In 2006, an experiment of the Department of Energy in hot fusion to produce energy releases a storm in time along 240 minutes, changing history. Only the personnel in the core of the laboratory know the true story and now they need to fix points in the history that have been punctually changed. The bureaucrat and former Marine Doug Phillips is a family man that is recruited by his friend Flynn to join an expedition to 1944 due to his great knowledge of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Germany. The team formed by Doug, Flynn, Toni Newman, J.D. and Wix is assigned to find a monk from 1546 that has been accidentally transported to the spot and is the carrier of Black Plague.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 54 min
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The People (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure. Following two children who disappear to play in the woods, she finds that this is actually a community of extraterrestrials with mild paranormal powers who are attempting to repress and deny their heritage for fear of arousing prejudice and hatred in their human neighbors. Based on a series of novels by the late Zenna Henderson.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, semi serious, cult film
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White Dwarf (1995)
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In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting halves of eternal day vs. eternal night. One is a Victorian-styled colony, the other a medieval kingdom. Both leave Rampart in a state of constant wonder, as he finds his way among humans and aliens, strange dreams and even stranger reality, a dark keep and a red sea, and more universal matters of war and peace, good and bad, love and hate and sickness and health.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 690
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, serious, futuristic
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The Immortal Wars: Rebirth (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rebirth takes place during the early brutal stages of Dominion Industries. In this story watch Olive and other deviants undergo a series of deadly experiments lead by Laurie Harvey and her team.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
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Lockdown 2025 (2021)
Plot Summary:
When martial law is declared, a family seeks shelter in the safety of its own home during a nationwide lockdown for a highly contagious virus.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Brave New World (1980)
Plot Summary:
An acclaimed TV miniseries based on the classic sci-fi novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, philosophical, tech noir, frightening
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After Armageddon (2016)
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Two men, who are polar opposites, must come to terms with being the last two humans on Earth in a post-Apocalyptic world.
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Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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54 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
5 people trapped in a bunker after a nuclear and biological attack are forced to make an impossible decision - either one dies or they all die.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death (1973)
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In 2062, the last remaining humans battle each other in between hump sessions as their supply of clean, breathable air (supplied by a pipeline that's running dry) dwindles to nothing.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: independent film, weird
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A Feral World (2020)
Plot Summary:
An orphaned boy in a post-apocalyptic world, meets a grieving woman who is trying to find her lost daughter. Their journey leads them face-to-face with a despot who may have the daughter held captive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychotronic
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This Is Not a Test (1962)
Plot Summary:
A highway patrolman stops motorists on a highway after he hears news reports of a possible nuclear attack.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: political, surreal, apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film
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Diverge (2016)
Plot Summary:
The survivor of a deadly virus is given the chance to reclaim his lost life by stopping the man responsible for the disease.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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The White King (2016)
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Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Only (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a comet releases a mysterious virus that begins to kill all of the women in the world, a young couple's relationship is severely tested. They hide out (from both the illness and the savages who hunt the remaining women) in their over-sterilized apartment. Ultimately the duo escapes their self-imposed quarantine to head to the wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, intense
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Plague (1979)
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An outbreak of a bacteria called M-3 causes people to die in extreme pain via body spasms. A woman who is a carrier escapes from a hospital and goes on the run, spreading the plague to people she encounters, and onto food in fast food stops etc. She has no idea however that she is a carrier, and as such may carry a cure.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, atmospheric, independent film
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Before the Fire (2020)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the throes of a global pandemic, up and coming TV star, Ava Boone, is forced to flee the mounting chaos in Los Angeles and return to her rural hometown. But as she struggles to acclimate to a way of life she left behind long ago, her homecoming attracts a dangerous figure from her past – threatening both her and the family that serves as her only sanctuary.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, captivating, apocalyptic, tense
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Brave New World (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their lives or their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, philosophical, spiritual, tech noir, mystic, grindhouse, bleak
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A Distant Thunder (1978)
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Patty is lying awake one night in a church basement, distraught and scared. She is to be executed the next morning for refusing to take the Mark of the Beast. Patty knows what lies ahead if she takes the mark but can still not believe in Christ.When those around her try to comfort her and encourage her to accept the Lord, she lashes out at them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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Last Light (2022)
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Separated across continents, petro-chemist Andy Yeats and his family must survive the deadly effects of a sudden global oil crisis and find the mastermind behind it all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags:
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No Blade of Grass (1970)
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A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them. Adaptation of John Christopher's novel The Death of Grass (1956).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, offbeat, depressing, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, tense, bleak, serious, captivating