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Plot Summary:
A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine. The Nazis plan to release a deadly gas destroying all life on the planet. To ensure their success they kidnap Professor Coleman the only man on the planet with the antidote to the poison gas.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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They Saved Hitler's Brain (1968)
Plot Summary:
At the end of World War II, Nazi officials spirited the living head of Adolf Hitler out of Germany to a hiding place in the South American country of Mandoras, in order to revive the Third Reich at a later date. By the 1960s these men believed the time had come, so they kidnap a top scientist in order to force him to help keep Hitler alive. Several intellgence agencies find out about the plot and send agents to stop it. NOTE: "They Saved Hitler's Brain", despite bearing a 1963 copyright, was released years later. The 1963 film The Madmen of Mandoras was combined with new footage of "CID" agents Vic and Toni shot for the film and released to television as "They Saved Hitler's Brain". The Vic and Toni footage was clearly shot years later; the hairstyles and fashions did not become popular until the late 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre, cult film
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Virtual Obsession (1998)
Plot Summary:
If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a reason and go quietly, or to use cryogenics to hope you could be cured someday in the future, or to download your consciousness into computer memory where you could still continue to interact with tho ones you love?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
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Storm Troopers U.S.A. (1969)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious chapter of the American Nazi Party storms a Miami hotel as part of a plan to destroy the city’s power plant and a Navy destroyer.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Flesh Feast (1970)
Plot Summary:
A doctor in Florida conducts shady experiments involving maggots and stolen body parts, which may be in preparation for a larger plot.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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The Brainiac (1962)
Plot Summary:
In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, spooky, cult film
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Electronic Lover (1966)
Plot Summary:
Mike Atkinson plays the Master in this surreal little soft-core film of the late 60's. The Master is a peeping tom who sends his minion to fellow various women around with a video camera, the images being sent back to the Masters lair where he can enjoy it in solitary. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Power (1968)
Plot Summary:
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, suspense, slasher, tech noir, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Virtual Girl (1998)
Plot Summary:
John Lewis, a programming genius, has it all- a beautiful wife and a child, a lavish home and he's on the brink of making it big after he finishes one last project, a CD-Rom Sex Game called Virtual Girl. However, things get complicated when a woman in a VR simulation becomes “real” and falls in love with the VR system creator.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, serious, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, campy
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MK Ultra (2022)
Plot Summary:
Set during the true and unconscionable Central Intelligence Agency MK ULTRA drug experimentations in the early 1960s. The journey of Ford Strauss, a brilliant psychiatrist, whose moral and scientific boundaries are pushed to the limit as he is recruited to run a subsect of the program in a rural Mississippi Mental Hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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BrainWaves (1982)
Plot Summary:
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months. Her doctors want to try a new procedure on her: to regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with neural patterns of a woman who just died. It works, and Kaylie seems to be OK again. However in her dreams, she lives the last day of her savor - and realizes that she's been killed! Together with her husband she tries to find out what happened.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bloodlust! (1961)
Plot Summary:
Two couples (Robert Reed, June Kenney, Joan Lora, and Eugene Persson) are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau (Wilton Graff), whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, realistic, atmospheric, cult classic, psychotronic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film
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The Destructors (1968)
Plot Summary:
Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Cerebrum (2021)
Plot Summary:
To make ends meet, Tom signs on as a guinea pig at a home-based lab, but when he commits a crime he cannot remember, he must risk his own sanity to reveal the truth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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The Flesh Eaters (1964)
Plot Summary:
An alcoholic actress, her personal assistant, and their pilot are downed on a secluded isle by bad weather, where a renegade Nazi scientist is using ocean life to develop a solvent for human flesh. The tiny flesh-eating sea critters that result certainly give our heroes a run for their money - and lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, scary, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, bizarre
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns Dr James Xavier, ably portrayed by Ray Milland. He has invented a serum for improving human vision. When his funding is cut he proceeds to experiment on himself -- with horrifying results. From the director who gave you Swamp Women, The Wasp Woman, and The Beast with a Million Eyes!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychedelic, tense, harsh, disturbing, grindhouse, talky
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Panic in the City (1968)
Plot Summary:
An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, slasher, psychotronic, independent film
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Seconds (1966)
Plot Summary:
A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like the intended person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of the intended person and the customer takes on a new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, tense, black and white, cerebral, grim, cult classic, psychedelic, psychological thriller, psychological
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Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a group of teenagers stumble upon a secret lab, they become part of a deadly experiment - The Recreator - evil human clones. Craig, Tracy and Derek come face to face with exact copies of themselves that have only one purpose; to find and kill their originals. With time running out it's up to the original group to destroy the lab and save themselves before they are replaced. Gregory Orr's exciting thriller brings science fiction to life with a sexy edge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, rough
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Zenith (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a hellish future where human beings have become stupefied by the state of permanent happiness they have been genetically altered to experience, Jack offers relief via drugs that cause his customers the welcome phenomenon of pain. But when Jack receives a mysterious videotape of his dead father, he sets out to unmask the dangerous conspiracy that has created this dystopian world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, serious, experimental, independent film, futuristic, talky, mind bending
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Z.P.G. (1972)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future, a very smoggy and overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules and gets in a lot of trouble. (Z.P.G. stands for Zero Population Growth.).
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, experimental, grindhouse, frightening, thought provoking, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, controversial
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Dark Island (2010)
Plot Summary:
After losing contact with its researchers on a remote island, a military corporation hires a group of scientists and soldiers to find out what went wrong. But when they arrive, the team quickly discovers that the weapons testing performed on the island has unleashed and powerful and deadly entity that will stop at nothing to destroy them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, exciting, scary, serious
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Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, gothic, tense, medical horror, cult classic, cult horror, independent film, serious, surprise ending
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Bigfoot (1970)
Plot Summary:
Bigfoot kidnaps some women and some bikers decide to go on a rescue mission to save them.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, mythical, scary, offbeat, serious, independent film, cult film
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Liquid Sky (1982)
Plot Summary:
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, surreal, sexy, disturbing, stylized, cult classic, mindfuck, sexual, psychological, mind bending
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Plot Summary:
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, medical horror, mind bending, psychotronic, psychological, retro, psychedelic
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Futureworld (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse, captivating, depressing, tech noir, esoteric
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Sweetheart (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn’t take her long to realize she’s completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes out each night.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological, grindhouse, minimal cast, lovecraft
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Hardware (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: bleak, apocalyptic, mindfuck, cyber, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, futuristic, atmospheric
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Brainstorm (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, meditative, futuristic, psychological, philosophical, intense, cyber, tense, serious, cerebral
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Limitless (2011)
Plot Summary:
A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 603000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: clever, thought provoking, intellectual, philosophical, captivating, psychological, suspense, smart, suspenseful, psychological thriller