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Plot Summary:
A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Foreboding (2017)
Plot Summary:
Miyuki tells Etsuko that she has a ghost in her home. When Etsuko goes to her home, there is only her father there. Etsuko takes her to the hospital, Miyuki receives a diagnosis that she lacks the concept of 'family'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, visually appealing
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Ellipse (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man and his dog are stranded on a volatile, oval-shaped planet and are forced to adapt and escape before time destroys them both.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful
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Sanctuary: Population One (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young idealist, Ethan, is left searching for his family while fighting the infected, Med-Ex militia and bloodthirsty marauders, and the ghosts of his past.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, touching, suspense, disturbing
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Violentia (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a random school shootout leaves a scientist's daughter and the shooter dead, he uses nano-robots to look into a psychopath's memories to find reasons for violence and a way to treat it.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 473
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Lift (2021)
Plot Summary:
On their fifth wedding anniversary, Sitio and Ana start arguing inside an elevator that keeps opening in their same floor. Emotionally and physically trapped, the two will have to work together to find a way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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Incontrol (2017)
Plot Summary:
Incontrol follows a group of university students who discover a device that allows them to take control of others, and experience the world through someone else. As they push the machine's abilities to its limits, they begin to question the device itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing
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Chimera Strain (2018)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the immortal Turritopsis jellyfish.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Erotibot (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tamayo, lives her life in simple elegance. Her overprotective crimelord father, in order to protect her from outside danger, has given her 3 android bodyguards. Life is good. Until one day Tamayo's father is hospitalized for a stroke and his computer is hacked and his will is found! Inside his will it says that he is leaving his immense fortune solely to Tamayo! When Tsukiyo discovers this, she plots to regain her inheritance. Can she distract the 3 Androids long enough to exact her plan?! Who will the Androids love in the end?! Which Android will win Tamayo's love??!!.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, disturbing, splatter, naughty
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Reversion (2015)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a billionaire tech mogul questions her own memories about her mothers death after being kidnapped by a stranger.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Lunopolis (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lunopolis is a 2009 direct-to-video science fiction film directed by Matthew Avant. The film is presented in found footage style and takes place in the weeks preceding the rumored events of the 2012 prophecies. Two documentary filmmakers discover a mysterious device and begin to unravel a conspiracy involving the moon, time travel, and a very powerful organization who will stop at nothing to protect their secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, contemplative, psychological, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, weird, fake documentary
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The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
Plot Summary:
Many years after a nuclear war destroyed much of human kind, the survivors have created a new society where much of the work done by artificial beings referred to derisively by humans as "clickers". Humans are producing fewer and fewer children and are less than a year away from having more artificial beings than humans. Most vociferous about the evolving situation is the Order of Flesh and Blood, an organization that is out to ensure that humans remain dominant. Among them is Capt. Kenneth Cragis who becomes very concerned that his sister Esme has formed a relationship with one of the artificial beings. He quickly forms a close relationship with Esme's friend Maxine Megan. Soon, they learn a great secret that affects them both directly.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, grindhouse, intelligent, futuristic, psychotronic, independent film
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2149: The Aftermath (2016)
Plot Summary:
In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Hinokio: Inter Galactic Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
A recent accident has left Satoru Iwamoto, an elementary school student, temporarily wheelchair-ridden. In addition, the recent loss of his mother has thrown Satoru into a reclusive state, locking himself from the outside world. However, in an effort to help Satoru recover from his injuries, his father, Kaoru, has designed a remote-controlled robot that will go to school in his place and allow him to interact with people and do normal things.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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The Whispering Star (2015)
Plot Summary:
A humanoid robot deliverywoman muses on the mystery of human nature as she drops off parcels around the galaxy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, realistic, experimental, black and white, minimal cast, weird
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SORI: Voice from the Heart (2016)
Plot Summary:
While desperately searching for his missing daughter, Hae-kwan comes across an AI satellite robot that remembers sounds from all over the world. Rejuvenated by the robot's abilities, Hae-kwan begins to track down his daughter's voice. As they continue their journey, they form an unforgettable bond.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, road movie
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Hover (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying sentinel drones, a handful of locals discover a sinister connection between sick farmland inhabitants and the tech that’s meant to be protect them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Hidden Reserves (2016)
Plot Summary:
The insurance salesman Vincent Baumann, a cold-blooded careerist and minion of a merciless system, becomes a victim of the very corporations he is representing. Degraded to a henchman he grimly struggles to get back on the job market. He fights to climb the social ladder. In the process he realizes that there are other values than income and success. He decides against his previous ideology and for another human being, for Lisa Sokulowa. They don’t have a future. But they celebrate a small triumph against the dominance of the ruling system.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Castle of Crossed Destinies (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the inner chambers of the Shugun's castle, 3,000 men attempt to vie for the affection of the female shogun. Based on the 4th-6th volumes in the manga series "Ooku" by Fumi Yoshinaga.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic
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Grain (2017)
Plot Summary:
The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the city’s agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis - and, as a result, by massive crop failure. Professor Erol Erin, a seed genetics specialist learns of Cemil Akman, a fellow scientist. Apparently, Cemil wrote a thesis about the recurrent crisis affecting genetically modified seeds - but the work was banned by the corporation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden, Qatar
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, realistic, black and white
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G-Loc (2020)
Plot Summary:
With Earth virtually destroyed, Bran Marshall flees to Rhea, a nearby planet now hostile towards "Earthers". Escaping onto a Rhean supply ship, he finds the crew slaughtered, with the only survivor a female warrior named Ohsha. As the two try to kill one another, the ship is damaged by meteorites. Bran and Ohsha must join forces to salvage the craft before it impacts the planet below — and the humans that live there.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Gateway (2018)
Plot Summary:
A particle physicist grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, interesting
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3022 (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space awakens to find earth has suffered an extinction-level event.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, visually appealing, apocalyptic, existential
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The Time Travelers (1964)
Plot Summary:
A time travel experiment that was supposed to produce a window into time turns out to be a portal instead. One of the experimenters steps through into a not-too-distant-future world that has been destroyed by nuclear war. Some of the others follow, but then the portal phases out and they can't get back. Things just get worse after that. They run across a rocket that has landed to escape pursuing enemies, bearing scientists who survived the war, and many android "slaves." The time travellers are invited to escape when the ship is again ready to blast off - but just before that happens, the scientits' enemy returns and fires on the sitting-duck ship. A very bad day for the scientists turns terminal at that point, and the 20th-century Earthlings barely escape with their skins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, mysterious, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Genesis (2018)
Plot Summary:
After an apocalyptic event, the remnants of humanity create an artificial intelligence to save them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic
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The White King (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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Time Jumpers (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a young man finds a time machine device, his life spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, anthology
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Time Loop (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a pastoral Italian village, a young Londoner scientist helping his father with physics experiments, has to face the consequences of choices he hasn't made yet.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Time Traveling Bong (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jeff and Sharee were caught in a rut – until they happened upon a bong capable of transporting them to any time or place. Now, they're on a kush-fueled adventure through some of the biggest events in history.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: funny, psychedelic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, absurd, cult classic
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Summer Time Machine Blues (2005)
Plot Summary:
A light hearted comedy following a group of friends in a science-fiction club, who spend their summer holidays fooling around at their club house, have a mission to go back into time, using a time machine that appeared out of nowhere, in order to save their summer days from unbearable heat by retrieving the remote control for their air conditioner. But wouldn’t changing the past have an effect on the future? Be prepared for a wild ride regarding time travel with a bunch of whacky characters and theories thrown into the mix.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, uplifting
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Time Traveller (2010)
Plot Summary:
Akari Yoshiyama is graduating high school soon and is expected to lead new life after she passes the university entrance exam, while her mother is working as a pharmacologist. However, her mother has a car accident and the situation is totally changed. She decides to go to 1972 to fullfil her mother's wish.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, feel good, romantic, offbeat, psychotronic