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Plot Summary:
Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, enigmatic, gothic horror
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Precious Find (1996)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold diggers are just as full of gold fever as their ancestors.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, computer animated, campy
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The Last Man on Earth (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of the latest week on the earth before the announce of the landing of an extraterrestrial society on earth seen by the eyes of a misogynist man with only the desire solitude and routine.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, captivating, deep, sincere, offbeat, contemplative, gloomy, psychotronic
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Battle Planet (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the not-so-distant future, Captain Jordan Strider, a Special Forces Officer in the New World Alliance, is chosen for a top-secret mission. Sent to a desolate planet, Terra 219, to arrest possible traitors to the Alliance, Strider must survive with only a government issued experimental suit as protection. He quickly learns of a plan to end all humanity.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, touching, scenic, experimental
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Alien Tracker (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. Cole is the Alien Tracker who's in hot pursuit of the escaped convicts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating
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Epsilon (1997)
Plot Summary:
In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a surveyor and they cross the continent together. However, she spends the trip haranguing him for the ecological recklessness and avarice of the human race.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spiritual, mysterious, minimal cast, independent film, exciting, offbeat, saga, stylized, semi serious
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Purple Death from Outer Space (1966)
Plot Summary:
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, epic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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Dark Space (2013)
Plot Summary:
College friends Devin, Jack, Shelly, Kristy, Shaun, and Flower rent a spacecraft to autopilot them to Centauri Five for a holiday break. Impatient over the rental agency restricting the ship’s speed to 10x, Devin and the others convince Shaun to remove the craft’s constrictor device. Doing so damages the computer’s automated systems, as well as the ability to send a distress beacon, causing the six friends to crash land on an uncharted alien planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, futuristic, scenic, scary
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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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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Plot Summary:
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France, Austria, UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, stylized, atmospheric, mind bending, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, offbeat, experimental
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High Moon (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future where the countries of Earth have established colonies to mine the Moon's resources. When a new life form is discovered, chaos erupts as various factions race to uncover and exploit its powerful secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious, surreal, offbeat
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Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)
Plot Summary:
A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. The planet looks much like Earth, only with no trace of civilization. Soon the crew discovers that there are dinosaurs on the planet, and blood-thirsty buggers at that. The crew hopes to be found and rescued, but they have to struggle to survive until then.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, retro, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, cult film
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Prometheus Trap (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the future, mankind's quest for answers will take them to the edge of the universe... but the knowledge they seek should never be known. In deep space, the military cruiser Venom is diverted from its mission to investigate a derelict freighter ship, the Prometheus. On board, all of the crew are dead - victims of sabotage - and its only cargo is a weapon that will change the course of time and their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, stylized, offbeat, bleak
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A Fire in the Sky (1978)
Plot Summary:
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but no one believes them.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, disaster movie
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2103: The Deadly Wake (1997)
Plot Summary:
Proxate Corporation recruits a boozy former ship captain and offers him a new identity: Sean Murdoch. His job: to take charge of large ship on one voyage. Once aboard, Murdoch realizes that the ship is a prison ship, and the cargo are criminally insane inmates. Murdoch's other problem: someone has planted bombs aboard the vessel. Murdoch's acrimonious relationship with the prison warden lends extra drama to the story.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, suspense
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After We Leave (2019)
Plot Summary:
A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, philosophical, serious, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, intense, visually appealing
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First Men in the Moon (1964)
Plot Summary:
Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: stylized, uplifting, gothic horror, classic horror, serious, psychotronic, independent film, fairy tale, exciting, light
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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)
Plot Summary:
A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet. After a disastrous crash-landing Ross awakes to learn that Kane lies near death and that they apparently have returned to Earth, as evidenced by the presence of the Council director and his staff. Released to the custody of his wife, he soon learns things are not as they seem.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychedelic, psychotronic, tragic ending, vintage, weird
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Crimson Force (2005)
Plot Summary:
The crew of the first manned mission to Mars crash land on the surface in search of a clean everlasting power source they believe to be hidden somewhere beneath the ground. However, the crew find themselves in the middle of a civil war between the High Priest of Mars' royal guards and the High Priestess' warriors. The crew is divided with one half deciding to help the High Priest make peace with Earth and the other side with the High Priestess who is secretly plotting to kill her husband and invade Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, futuristic
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Space (1985)
Plot Summary:
A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the early 1970's.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 780 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic
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Doctor Who (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, disturbing, stylized, tense, enigmatic, semi serious, captivating, cult classic
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Stranded (2001)
Plot Summary:
A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to survive as the minutes slip away?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, suspenseful, tense, surreal, hispanic, cyber, bleak
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Space: 1999 (1975)
Plot Summary:
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, spooky, bleak, cult classic, vintage, cult film
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Alien Outbreak (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a small rural community, local police officers Zoe and Patrick begin their shift as normal but soon, strange events unfold. Residents begin behaving erratically, and suicidal panic spreads amongst the township they are trying to protect. Zoe and Patrick realise alien machines are taking hold, cutting their small group of survivors off from the outside world. Can the determined humans band together to save their community, and all mankind, from extinction?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Plot Summary:
Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Doctor Who, his two grand-daughters, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race of Thals are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the robotic mutant Daleks. Overview Written by Alexander Lum.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, futuristic, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998)
Plot Summary:
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, christian film, intellectual, tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy, lovecraft
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Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a capsule sent from the planet Iscandar that tells of a device that can remove the radiation from the Earth's surface. The Earth Defense Force rebuilds the battleship Yamato with a new type of propulsion system to make the 148,000 light year trip to Iscandar in hopes of saving the Earth. Within one year, the radiation will drive the rest of humanity to extinction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating, stylized, anime, mecha
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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
Plot Summary:
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Gou'ald kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Gou'ald hosts.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic
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Marooned (1969)
Plot Summary:
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a Hurricane headed towards the launch site and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts capsule.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, exciting, suspense, futuristic, melancholic, serious, grindhouse, inspirational, talky
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Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Man's landing on the moon was our greatest technological achievement. The Apollo 11 mission was truly the stuff of dreams. For the first time, our species walked on another celestial body. Even more remarkable was their ability to make it back. This is the story of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing. Drama with digitally remastered original footage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, uplifting, sincere
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Plot Summary:
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, breathtaking, captivating, cerebral, atmospheric, visually appealing, visual, futuristic, light, sentimental