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Plot Summary:
A comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, clever, witty, cynical, stylized, independent film, offbeat, biting, crying, freeze frame
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Mindstorm (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sci-fi thriller starring Jeff Beach as Griffin Michael, the only survivor of five people raised in a top-secret C.I.A. program to make them into 'superweapons' - human killing machines. Griffin has been trained to use his mind as a weapon: with a small brain impulse he can move objects hundreds of times his own weight, and can kill with a single thought. Now he is about to be released from the remote secret facility where he has been raised, and unleashed on an unsuspecting world.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, road movie, captivating
Similar in 90%
Dollman (1991)
Plot Summary:
Brick Bardo is a traveller from outer space who is forced to land on Earth. Though regular sized on his home planet, he is doll-sized here on Earth, as are the enemy forces who have landed as well. While Brick enlists the help of an impoverished girl and her son, the bad guys enlist the help of a local gang. When word leaks out as to his location, and all hell breaks loose. Brick is besieged by an onslaught of curious kids, angry gang members, and his own doll-sized enemies, and he must protect the family who has helped him and get off the planet alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: demonic, retro, dark, slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse, terrifying, independent film, exciting, rough
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Purgatory Blues (2001)
Plot Summary:
Loser drug addict Jack winds up in hell after he gets killed by Steve, who's the abusive husband of the sweet Martha. Jack strikes up a deal with the head demon known as The Principal to get out of hell and return to life: He has 72 hours to corrupt an innocent soul or else he'll be condemned to Hades forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Fay Grim (2006)
Plot Summary:
Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a globe-trotting odyssey that soon leads to the discovery that he is alive, and his journals are more than they appear to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, dark comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Death Race 2050 (2017)
Plot Summary:
The year 2050 the planet has become overpopulated, to help control population the government develops a race. The Death Race. Annually competitors race across the country scoring points for killing people with their vehicles.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspense, captivating, psychotronic, grindhouse, futuristic, ambiguous ending, black comedy, slapstick comedy
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Circuitry Man (1990)
Plot Summary:
In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips which can be plugged directly into the brain. Lori, a female body guard steals a case of such chips and flees underground Los Angeles with Danner, a pleasure android so that they can smuggle the chips to New York. In pursuit is Plughead, a dangerous criminal so named because of the many sockets and ports which decorate his scalp so that he can test and use the chips that he is after.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cyber, tech noir, apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic
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Comic Book Villains (2002)
Plot Summary:
When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be the first to buy them. But when the old man declines to sell, the former friends turn into enemies, and a friendly rivalry becomes tainted with greed and turns to murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, dark comedy, cynical, clever, entertaining, black comedy, anime, offbeat, realistic
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Prison Ship (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with lesbian guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, futuristic, light, feel good, absurd, disturbing, spoof, grindhouse, cult classic
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Real Men (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jim Belushi plays a super-competent secret agent on the trail of Russian thugs. John Ritter plays a milquetoast dad who gets mixed up in the caper. The story follows their adventures over the course of a week, in which Ritter develops some guts and Belushi gets in touch with his sensitive side.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: clever, absurd, semi serious, inspirational, suspenseful, light, action comedy, spy comedy, light hearted, crying
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Alien Opponent (2010)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a small-town junkyard offers a cash reward to whomever can kill her uninvited, space-suited alien guest when its spacecraft crash-lands into her barn. Every wacko within 100 miles turns out, and before long, the junkyard is transformed into a war zone of man vs. man vs. machine vs. alien vs. God only knows what.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, futuristic
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Death Race 2000 (1975)
Plot Summary:
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, suspenseful, cult classic, humorous, entertaining, stylized, futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic
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Warlords (1988)
Plot Summary:
In a brutal, radioactive future, fearless warrior Dow (David Carradine) is humanity's last hope against the Warlord and his mutant hordes. With the gorgeous, deadly Danny (Dawn Wildsmith) and the strange Ammo at his side, Dow makes desperate war on the fierce desert savages who threaten to overrun the world. Courage and resourcefulness on an heroic scale lead to a final, bitter triumph in this epic action lead to a final, bitter triumph in this epic action adventure in future tense.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
Plot Summary:
'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, apocalyptic, suspenseful, semi serious, futuristic, cult classic, erotic, retro
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T-Force (1994)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st Century, cybernetic research has developed advanced robots with human traits, whioch are widely used in the service industry. They have also been turned into cyber cops with a licence to kill.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, campy
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Virtual Combat (1995)
Plot Summary:
This lively low-budget action movie is packed with martial arts, sexy sirens, and a sci-fi plot involving computers and virtual reality images that become real. The tale centers on two Nevada border officers, Dave Quarry (Don "The Dragon" Wilson) and John (Ken McLeod), who amuse themselves off duty by honing their kick-boxing skills via virtual reality combat. Elsewhere, a computer tycoon prepares to market his company's latest invention, a combination of DNA and virtual reality that creates beings and creatures who look and feel real.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Tank Girl (1995)
Plot Summary:
Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: stylized, futuristic, exciting, cult classic, slapstick, apocalyptic, offbeat, semi serious, visual, black comedy
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Suburban Commando (1991)
Plot Summary:
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, intense, semi serious, melancholic, cult classic, slapstick comedy, futuristic, independent film
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The Gene Generation (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic world, Michelle lives everyday battling with DNA Hackers who use their skills to hack into people's bodies and kill them. She is an assassin, trying to keep her younger brother, Jackie, out of trouble. When Jackie gets involved in a petty crime of robbery, he propels himself into the world of DNA Hackers, Shylocks (Loan Sharks) and Gangs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Singapore, South Korea, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, cyber, futuristic, apocalyptic, action adventure, neo noir
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Henry Fool (1997)
Plot Summary:
An egocentric bum transforms the lives of a shy New Jersey garbageman and his sister.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: independent film, philosophical, cult classic, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, talky, stylized, allegory, black comedy
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Fish Story (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, and the song strikes a comet and saves the Earth from total destruction.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, exciting, touching, semi serious, apocalyptic, clever, offbeat, stylized, non-linear
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Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1970)
Plot Summary:
A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, apocalyptic, surreal, independent film, offbeat, humorous, futuristic, experimental, cynical, semi serious
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2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)
Plot Summary:
After a nuclear war, society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, stylized, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, cult classic, action adventure, bleak
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Death Kappa (2010)
Plot Summary:
When military experiments go haywire and trigger an atomic bomb, the consequences are of epic proportions. A monster arrives in the midst of the nuclear fallout, and Japan's defenses are helpless against it. Mankind's only savior is an irradiated water goblin from Japanese folklore called the "Death Kappa". The two rival monsters must go head-to-head in the ultimate battle between good and evil!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, retro, surreal, offbeat, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic
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Radioactive Dreams (1984)
Plot Summary:
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, stylized, apocalyptic, surreal, disturbing, psychotronic, detective
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Sleeper (1973)
Plot Summary:
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, slapstick, funny, cult classic, clever, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, psychotronic
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The World's End (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 295000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: witty, absurd, humorous, funny, parody, spoof, dark comedy, cult classic, suspense, horror comedy
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Barb Wire (1996)
Plot Summary:
A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood, who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, apocalyptic, futuristic, suspenseful, cult classic, slasher, action adventure, disgusting
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Repo Men (2010)
Plot Summary:
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the best agents in the business, but when he becomes the recipient of an artificial heart, he finds himself in the same dire straits as his many victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bloody, suspense, absurd, twisted, thought provoking, visually appealing, cyber, surprise ending, serious
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Nowhere (1997)
Plot Summary:
The third film in a trilogy by writer-director Gregg Araki. Described as "90210 on acid", the film tells the story of a day in the lives of a group of high school kids in Los Angeles and the strange lives they lead.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film, stylized, futuristic, erotic, disturbing, cult classic, sexual, mind bending, slasher
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Plot Summary:
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: exciting, apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, tense, suspenseful, cyber, action packed, breathtaking, cult classic