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Plot Summary:
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public transportation, rebuilds his race car and sets off to California from Boston where people have returned to living life like they were twenty years prior.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, road movie, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic
Best tv shows and movies like The Last Chase (1981):
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Wheels of Fire (1985)
Plot Summary:
The Future is now. There are no rules and no place to hide from the deadly Highway Warriors who ravage the roads in machines of destruction.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, soap opera, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
Similar in 88%
Knights (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the future, as a result of devastating wars, all suitable for cultivation of land turned into one big lifeless desert. In the search of fertile lands around the world were traveling group of nomadic farmers. But one of the distant city genesis in these lands came cyborgs. For the operation they need human resources, or more simply - blood. To combat this army of Vampire creator has been sent cyborg Gabriel (Christopherson). In this he will help the girl Nea (Long), whose parents as a child killed the main villain - Job (Henriksen).
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, futuristic
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Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983)
Plot Summary:
A seeker named Dogen rescues Dhyana after her father is murdered by the evil Jared-Syn. To avenge her father's death, Dogen must find Jared-Syn's hideout in the mysterious "Lost City", but the only person who knows where it is an aging, burned-out seeker named Rhodes. Along the way, they will need to do battle against the hunter Baal and his Cyclopean minions for engaging Jared-Syn in a final encounter.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, fantasy adventure, independent film, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, parody, road movie
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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
Similar in 81%
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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World's End (2010)
Plot Summary:
Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, depleting the female population. In a barbaric environment where bio fuel, batteries, bullets and people are currency and marauders roam free, Wes tries to escape to a mythical world run on cold fusion "Plutopia", a place that may only exist in the mind. THE BILL IS DUE. 'Downstream' is a view of the not so distant future. We follow a young man (everyone's son) as he pays the price for society's decadence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, surreal, apocalyptic, captivating, psychological, bleak, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Wasteland (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a group of religious zealots destroy everything that he loves and leaves him for dead; A man embarks on a journey of revenge that will take him through all the post-apocalyptic dangers that is WASTELAND.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, captivating, futuristic
Similar in 87%
Battletruck (1982)
Plot Summary:
It’s the 21st century, the Oil Wars have made a mess of the planet and the land outside major cities is lawless. After Hunter comes to the aid of Corlie, who has run away from the villainous Straker, he takes her to the peaceful community of Clearwater. Unfortunately for the citizens of Clearwater, Straker fully intends to get Corlie back.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, retro, road movie, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
Plot Summary:
Only a few people still live in New York in 2015. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, depressing, grindhouse, cult classic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic
Similar in 83%
Cold Harvest (1999)
Plot Summary:
A bounty hunter protects his dead brother's wife in a lawless world after a comet has devastated much of earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, fast, wild
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Neon City (1991)
Plot Summary:
"Mad Max" clone set in the not-too-distant future about a group of people trying to escape to a safe haven called Neon City after a solar disaster that has decimated the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious, apocalyptic, independent film, crying, weird
Similar in 86%
City Limits (1984)
Plot Summary:
A series of teenage gangs struggle against each other in a not-so-distant future. Eventually they united against an evil corporation, as represented by evil CEO Robby Benson who wants to control everything.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Blood of Heroes (1989)
Plot Summary:
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a lady. However now joined by a talented newcomer, Kidda, an ambitious young peasant girl he and his team find they have one last chance for glory.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, apocalyptic, intense, exciting, serious, cult classic, futuristic, cyber, perverse, action packed
Similar in 77%
Cherry 2000 (1987)
Plot Summary:
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the treacherous and lawless region of 'The Zone', Treadwell learns the hard way that the perfect woman is made not of computer chips and diodes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, cult classic, apocalyptic, grindhouse, futuristic, road movie, psychotronic, tech noir, cyber, serious
Similar in 88%
Ultra Warrior (1990)
Plot Summary:
After the nuclear holocaust, one man rises from the ashes to become the leader of a ragged gang of survivors. They soon discover that their greatest challenge is yet to come; they must fight a battle for the ages against the evil minions of The Bishop.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, tense, bleak, serious, futuristic
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Stryker (1983)
Plot Summary:
The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make her talk through brutal torture. The hero (Stryker) unites with some of the remaining "good guys" and the Amazons and frees the woman. They go on to a "Road Warrior" type of concluding battle with the bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster, independent film
Similar in 90%
Shepherd (1998)
Plot Summary:
aka Cybercity It's the year 2017, the Earth's surface is destroyed and its citizens flee to an underground wasteland ruled by warring religious cults. In this sinful cybercity, Mercenary Dakota's (C. Thomas Howell) family is murdered by a perverse virtual prophet (Roddy Piper) bent on world domination. Seeking justice, Dakota, beautiful assissin Lilith (Heidi Von Palleske) and an arsenal of hi-tech weaponry battle for the Earth's most precious resource - Humanity. It's time for the false prophets to meek their makers! Packed with innovative special effects and teeth-clenching action, "CyberCity" will make you rethink the millennium.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Defense Condition 4 (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, action adventure, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, unusual plot structure
Similar in 80%
Land of Doom (1986)
Plot Summary:
Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging bandits.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cult film
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
Plot Summary:
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, apocalyptic, futuristic, grindhouse, cult classic, action packed, action adventure, exciting, bleak, stylized
Similar in 80%
Steel Dawn (1987)
Plot Summary:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film, serious, suspenseful, stylized, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining
Similar in 75%
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Plot Summary:
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, action adventure, saga, cyber, apocalyptic, retro, entertaining, social, grindhouse
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The Postman (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, inspirational, epic, motivational, disturbing, grindhouse
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American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993)
Plot Summary:
After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is followed by an immortal killer robot through all the dangers, and only one guy tries to help her survive and protect her from the killing machine.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, tech noir, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, exciting, rough
Similar in 84%
Mad Max (1979)
Plot Summary:
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 218000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: road movie, futuristic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, suspenseful, stylized, cult classic, tense, brutal, harsh
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Waterworld (1995)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland' – which is tattooed on Enola's back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 207000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, entertaining, cult classic, psychological thriller, retro, philosophical, atmospheric
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Battlefield Earth (2000)
Plot Summary:
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended into a near primitive state. After being captured, it is up to Tyler to save mankind.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, apocalyptic, cult classic, controversial, serious, psychotronic, suspense
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Escape from L.A. (1996)
Plot Summary:
This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his daughter, part of a resistance movement, steals the control unit for a doomsday weapon, Snake again gets tapped to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, cyber, grindhouse
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Logan's Run (1976)
Plot Summary:
An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: All citizens get a chance of being 'renewed' in a Civic Ceremony at their 30th birthday, unless they run and escape before their time comes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, cult classic, psychotronic, cyber, visually stunning, philosophical, psychological, psychological thriller, intellectual