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Plot Summary:
Jackie Ivers is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find that her friends and family have taken on bizarrely different personalities. Jackie notices that everyone who goes into the town's lake come out different. As the movie progresses, Jackie first-handedly witnesses what is happening to everyone around her as she is kidnapped by aliens from a parallel world which is the duplicate to Earth but is now polluted and the ozone layer gone. In order to survive, the aliens intend to take over Earth the entrance to the duplicate Earth called the vortex, which are located in major bodies of water, ponds, and lakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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The Carey Treatment (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Peter Carey is a pathologist at a Boston hospital. The daughter of the hospital's Chief of Staff dies after an illegal abortion goes wrong, and Carey's friend and colleague Dr. David Tao is accused of performing the abortion. Carey doesn't buy it, and so he digs deeper, angering the girl's father in the process. Questions abound: Who performed the abortion? Was the girl really pregnant? And what does it have to do with stolen morphine, blackmail attempts, and a mysterious and dangerous masseur?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Avalon: Beyond the Abyss (1999)
Plot Summary:
An island blows up, and from its remains a black poison fills the ocean. A team of underwater specialists with high-tech gear have to stop the poison before it contaminates the earth, but things get increasingly bizarre the more they investigate.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Last Lives (1997)
Plot Summary:
A telepathic terrorist from a parallel universe kidnaps a woman on her wedding day. The groom tracks them down after receiving assistance from the inventor of a life restoring bracelet. The bride was considered the terrorists telepathic life partner.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious
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Night Slaves (1970)
Plot Summary:
A man and his wife stumble upon a town whose inhabitants turn into zombies and head for the edge of town every night... he seems to be the only one unaffected. What is happening to the townsfolk? Who is the mysterious young women he keeps seeing? Why isn't he affected?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, mysterious, spooky
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Duplicates (1992)
Plot Summary:
A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tech noir
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Blade (1973)
Plot Summary:
A homicide detective goes after a woman-hating serial killer, who uses knives to murder his victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, slasher, independent film, detective, slasher horror
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Infinitum: Subject Unknown (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jane wakes up in a strange attic, in a parallel world, with seemingly no way out. She is stuck in a time-loop, destined to relive the same day over and over with little memory of her doing it before. But with each 'reset' she starts to remember more and more and begins to piece together what may be happening to her, with clues pointing to a Professor Aaron Ostergaard. She makes her way to the mysterious Wytness Quantum Research Centre, run by Charles Marland-White, to try to find a way out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, enigmatic, tense, disturbing, futuristic, experimental, independent film
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Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980)
Plot Summary:
A TV reporter arrives in the quiet town of Stepford to launch an investigation into why the town has the lowest divorce and crime rates in America. However, she begins to notice some bizarre behavior in the women of the town, discovering that Stepford is not as clean cut as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, tech noir
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Riddle (2013)
Plot Summary:
Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by the bullies, whose intent about what they are going to do with Nathan is not clear. He gives them the slip, but disappears and is still missing after three years.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mind bending, serious, disturbing, atmospheric, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Doorways (1994)
Plot Summary:
Doorways is a proposed science fiction series from writer George R. R. Martin. A pilot was shot in May 1992, starring George Newbern, Anne Le Guernec, Robert Knepper, Kurtwood Smith, Max Grodenchik and Carrie-Anne Moss,[1] but was not picked up, and the project was shelved. In 2010 IDW Publishing began an adaptation of the TV pilot into comic book format.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Alpha Code (2020)
Plot Summary:
Johana (Denise Richards), a woman with no past, is hiding from a UN Agent Bowie (Randy Couture) a head of secret space program. On her run she meets Martin (Bren Foster), and with help of Bowie’s ex-colleague Lance they both help Martin to find his half alien daughter. One of the most important parts of the movie is a demonstration of a real meditation which the main protagonist uses to tune in to a higher frequency, and enables him to use telepathy and more.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, crying, independent film, urban fantasy, amateur film
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The Stranger (1973)
Plot Summary:
TV series pilot (series never launched). After a freak mishap, an astronaut finds himself on an almost precise copy of Earth (right down to the Plymouth cars). However, this planet has three moons, and is run by an Orwellian government called The Perfect Order, who seek out and crush all dissidents either by outright assassination or by having them treated at "Ward E." Hunted and alone, the story traces the astronaut's efforts to evade capture and return home.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic
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Deadly Encounter (2004)
Plot Summary:
Restaurant hostess and mom Joanne Sanders has to work late one night. After she leaves the restaurant she accidentally cuts a car off on the highway. This driver takes it personally and he begins to stalk and harass Joanne.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, suspense, tense, bleak, disturbing
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The Stepford Wives (1975)
Plot Summary:
The urban aspirant photographer Joanna Eberhart moves from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut with her family. Her husband Walter Eberhart decided to live in a calm suburb, but Joanna did not like the neighborhood with beautiful and perfect housewives. She becomes friend of Bobbie Markowe and Charmaine Wimperis, and when they change Joanna tries to escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, serious, clever, allegory, creepy
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Nightmare Street (1998)
Plot Summary:
After saving her daughter from an accident Joanna wakes up in the hospital in an alternate world where nothing is as it should be. Someone else lives in her house, her daughter is gone and everyone calls her Sarah. The problem is Sarah is suspected of murdering her son. The only person to believe her is her doctor who has fallen for her. With his help she tries to unravel the mystery and get back to her own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, surprise ending, detective
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The Shadow Effect (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young man's life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, suspense, psychological, captivating, exciting, tense, erotic, mind bending, ambiguous ending
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Unforgettable (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a neurobiology Linda Fiorentino which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but not without consequences. Liotta driven to solve the case injects himself with the serum, bringing him closer and closer to finding her killer but bringing him closer to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense, rough, serious, exciting, psychological thriller, surprise ending, neo noir
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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Plot Summary:
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, cerebral, atmospheric, talky, serious, scary
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Curvature (2017)
Plot Summary:
Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously resembling her own voice warns her that she’s in danger. Is it possible Helen has time travelled? And what could have led her to do something like that?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful
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The Arrival (1996)
Plot Summary:
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, intense, futuristic, surprise ending, atmospheric, mystical, apocalyptic
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The I Inside (2004)
Plot Summary:
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, inspirational, intellectual, confusing, dread
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Impostor (2001)
Plot Summary:
Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious, psychological thriller, thought provoking, cyber, mindfuck, intense
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Super 8 (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 365000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, entertaining, heroic, apocalyptic, psychotronic, epic, twisted, thrilling
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The Forgotten (2004)
Plot Summary:
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a similar experience, Telly embarks on a search to prove her son's existence, and her sanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, surprise ending, enigmatic, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, mindfuck, intense
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Enter Nowhere (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious connection and realize what they have to do in order to get out of the woods alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, retro, suspense, dramatic, surreal, twist ending, minimal cast
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Time Lapse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychological, tense, intellectual, suspense, cerebral, clever, confusing, mindfuck, enigmatic
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Coherence (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, mind blowing, suspenseful, tense, confusing, mindfuck, suspense, serious, intellectual
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Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly, and patient Jeffrey Goines, the son of a famous virus expert, who may hold the key to the mysterious rogue group, the Army of the 12 Monkeys, thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 639000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, twist ending, atmospheric, cerebral, non-linear, mind bending, apocalyptic, confusing, twisted
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The Invasion (2007)
Plot Summary:
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, apocalyptic, breathtaking, sexy, psychotronic, mystical
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The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Plot Summary:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, neo noir, atmospheric, psychedelic, philosophical, confusing, mind blowing, clever