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Plot Summary:
In 1980, the US Navy's most powerful warship, the USS Nimitz, is caught in a storm during routine manoeuvres in the Pacific. Enveloped by a strange green light, the ship passes through a vortex and when they emerge, their communications have been cut off. The ship's Captain (Kirk Douglas) sends out a patrol and the F-14 pilots are shocked to encounter vintage Japanese warplanes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, thought provoking, cult classic, intelligent, talky, surprise ending, psychotronic
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The 25th Reich (2012)
Plot Summary:
In 1943, five US soldiers are recruited by the OSS for a time travel mission to save the world from the tyranny of Hitler's 25th Reich.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, tense, psychotronic, captivating, grindhouse, action packed, offbeat, futuristic, not serious
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Samurai Commando Mission 1549 (2005)
Plot Summary:
An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Plot Summary:
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, melancholic, talky, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, intense, apocalyptic, nautical, classic horror
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American Warships (2012)
Plot Summary:
When an alien force wages war on Earth, only the crew of the USS Iowa - the last American battleship, stands in their way.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, mockbuster, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Flight World War II (2015)
Plot Summary:
International Flight 42 is on course, when all of a sudden a massive and weird storm crops up around the plane. This sends the plane back in time to the year 1940- smack dab in the middle of WWII! Now, the crew and passengers must not only find a way back to their time, but fight off the Axis powers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense
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Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)
Plot Summary:
It is several years after the events of the first movie, and David Herdeg (the survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment from the first film) and Allison (the woman from 1984 he fell in love with) have married and have a child. David awakes, in agony, to a changed world. Germany won World War II and the United States is now about to mark 50 years as a Nazi conquest.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark, mind bending, offbeat, serious, futuristic, stylized
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Time Slip (1979)
Plot Summary:
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: rough, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Plot Summary:
Fugitives of the Federation for their daring rescue of Spock from the doomed Genesis Planet, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew begin their journey home to face justice for their actions. But as they near Earth, they find it at the mercy of a mysterious alien presence whose signals are slowly destroying the planet. In a desperate attempt to answer the call of the probe, Kirk and his crew race back to the late twentieth century. However they soon find the world they once knew to be more alien than anything they've encountered in the far reaches of the galaxy!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: saga, futuristic, action adventure, exciting, clever, humorous, epic, uplifting, mind bending, thought provoking
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The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
Plot Summary:
Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, intellectual, suspense, scary, psychological, thought provoking, intelligent
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
Plot Summary:
Lyle Swann is a successful off-road racer who mistakenly gets sent back in time 100 years. When a band of outlaws robs Swann of his motorcycle, he's forced to outfox the gangsters and give in to the seductions of a gorgeous local lady. With only his smarts and a map from an Exxon station, Lyle must try to make it out of the Old West alive and find a way back to modern times.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, fantasy adventure, road movie, exciting, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending, light, romantic
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Time Trap (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, mindfuck, psychological, retro, philosophical, mind bending, clever, lovecraft
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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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Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Plot Summary:
Astronaut Brent is sent to rescue Taylor but crash lands on the Planet of the Apes, just like Taylor did in the original film. Taylor has disappeared into the Forbidden Zone so Brent and Nova try to follow and find him. He discovers a cult of humans that fear the Apes' latest military movements and finds himself in the middle. Tension mounts to a climactic battle between ape and man deep in the bowels of the planet.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, depressing, suspense, psychotronic, allegory, slasher, social, saga, grindhouse
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Time Runner (1993)
Plot Summary:
During the alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992, where attempt after attempt is made to catch and kill him.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, independent film, fast, surprise ending, weird
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Timeline (2003)
Plot Summary:
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, sincere, suspense, fairy tale, mind bending, thought provoking, intellectual, period piece
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Airwolf (1984)
Plot Summary:
Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra state-of-the-art hardware. Airwolf is the most awesome aerial weapon ever developed. When the helicopter is stolen by Libyan mercenaries, Michael Archangel, Project director for the CIA, enlists the help of Vietnam veteran Stringfellow Hawke and his closest friend Dominic Santini, to attempt to recover the Airwolf. The mission throws them into the midst of Middle Eastern violence and destruction, where they come face to face with danger, romance and intrigue in their battle to re-possess the deadliest aerial weapon ever used.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: cult classic, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, independent film, black comedy, freeze frame, tv series pilot
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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Plot Summary:
Predominantly set during World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 883000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: heroic, exciting, psychotronic, entertaining, stylized, epic, saga, action packed, action adventure, intense
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Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Plot Summary:
We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 187000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, entertaining, suspense, saga, apocalyptic, action adventure, parody, romantic, epic
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Spectral (2016)
Plot Summary:
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, intense, tricky, suspense, futuristic, psychotronic, scenic
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Battle Los Angeles (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've ever encountered before.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 184000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, intense, exciting, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, entertaining, heroic, psychotronic
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Lost in Space (1998)
Plot Summary:
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find themselves hurtling through uncharted space.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: exciting, surreal, stylized, surprise ending, entertaining, futuristic, uplifting, epic, suspense, saga
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Midway (1976)
Plot Summary:
This war drama depicts the U.S. and Japanese forces in the naval Battle of Midway, which became a turning point for Americans during World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, factual, suspense, intense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, historical drama, spectacular
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Battleship (2012)
Plot Summary:
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential his brother, and his fiancée's father, Admiral Shane, expect of him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 255000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, entertaining, futuristic, apocalyptic, action packed, psychotronic, inspirational, mockbuster, anamorphic
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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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Independence Day (1996)
Plot Summary:
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 598000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, entertaining, tense, futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, semi serious, feel good, action packed
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Terminator Salvation (2009)
Plot Summary:
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 374000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: futuristic, intense, serious, apocalyptic, action packed, exciting, suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful
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The Time Machine (2002)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, serious, stylized, psychotronic, thought provoking, suspense, apocalyptic, smart
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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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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 721000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mind bending, exciting, heroic, clever, captivating, suspenseful, intense, entertaining, smart
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The Tomorrow War (2021)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary man is recruited by time travellers from 30 years in the future to fight in a war against deadly aliens.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 222000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, anamorphic, action adventure, tense, captivating, retro, entertaining