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Plot Summary:
An astronaut's widow and her young son meet a stranger from the future on a Greek island.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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D'Agostino (2012)
Plot Summary:
Heading on a transatlantic voyage at sea from an Italian lab to America, D'Agostino is the story of a human clone left for dead at the shores of Santorini Greece. This lost cargo, commissioned by wealthy individuals for organ tranplants, is abandoned as the freight cannot be recovered. Allan Dawson has recently inherited his grandmother's island estate. He's in a loveless relationship with his common law spouse Sylvia. As he finds this interesting freight, what follows is a macabre tale of self realization as Allan proceeds to set himself out of his sedentary existence to mold his latest discovery into a new best friend with dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, bleak, serious, independent film
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The Clone Returns Home (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kohei Takahara, an astronaut who dies in the line of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone: however, contrary to the scientists’ expectations, he reverts to his childhood memories when his twin brother drowned sacrificing his life for Kohei. Kohei’s clone discovers the body of his former self mistakenly believing that it is his deceased twin. Reliving his tragic past, he sets off carrying his corpse body to the beautiful hometown where he lived with his now dead mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, contemplative, art house, psychological, philosophical, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, stylized
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The Illustrated Man (1969)
Plot Summary:
A man who has a body almost completely covered in tattoos is searching for the woman who cursed him with the "skin illustrations". Each tattoo reveals a bizarre story, which is experienced by staring at the scene depicted. When the illustrated man meets a fellow tramp on the road a strange voyage begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, bleak, futuristic, anthology, offbeat, independent film, serious, contemplative, gloomy
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Split Infinity (1992)
Plot Summary:
A.J. Knowlton learns that getting what you want is not always what you need. When enterprising A.J. is transported back to the past through a sudden accident, she is forced to put her obsession to get rich on hold. As she observes the events in her family's past, A.J. slowly starts to see why relationships and happiness are more important than money. Before time runs out, A.J. must put her money interests aside so she can discover something that will change her family's future forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mars et Avril (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in a futuristic environment, "Mars et Avril" tells the story of an elderly musician and his instrument maker who both become obsessed with the same woman. She agrees to be the model for their next musical instrument but then gets lost in a virtual world on the way to Mars.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, psychological, avant garde, independent film, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized, fairy tale
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Mirror for a Hero (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native mining town and found themselves in 1949. It's a common knowledge that real miracles happen without technical devices: time comes miracle happens. They spend in 1949 only one day the next morning they found that it is the same day that was yesterday. All several months, they spent in the past, they spent in one and the same day: the 8th of May, Sunday, the day of heightened coal production. In the morning to the coal mine, in an hour an accident in a coalface, at 10 o'clock wire from the Ministry, after work reunion concerning the Stalins anniversary; robbing of pay desk, death of policeman Ryabenko, in the evening - volunteer Sunday work… and in the morning the same, and so for ever and ever Philosophic fiction, accompanied by music of group Nautilus Pompillius. After a novel of S.Rybasa of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: social, surreal, philosophical
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The Marvelous Visit (1974)
Plot Summary:
One morning, the rector of a small French village comes across a young man, lying unclothed and unconscious on a deserted beach. Intrigued, the rector has the young man carried back to his home. When he awakes the stranger calmly identifies himself as Jean, an angel who has just arrived on Earth. Naturally, the rector doesn’t believe this, but decides to humour the young man. At first, Jean’s arrival in the village causes no upset. He is a harmless soul, full of good intentions and capable of only the kindest deeds. But then the villagers grow wary of him, and this wariness turns to outright hostility when Jean unwittingly causes an accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, offbeat, serious, stylized
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The Judas Project (1990)
Plot Summary:
How would you react if Christ had re-appeared on earth today? Would man kind repeat their mistakes or accept? This movie is about a modernized 2nd coming of Christ. Instead of facing Romans there are different obstacles in this modern times that he'd have to face.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, allegory, independent film
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For All Time (2000)
Plot Summary:
A man facing middle-age and a failing marriage finds a time slip that can take him back to the end of the nineteenth century.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, melancholic
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Jessica Forever (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark drama
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The Noah (1975)
Plot Summary:
Noah, the sole remaining survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust, finds himself unable to to accept his unique predicament. To cope with his loneliness, he creates an imaginary companion, then a companion for his companion and finally an entire civilization - a world of illusion in which there is no reality but Noah, no rules but those of the extinct world of his memory - our world. Written by Daniel Bourla.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, existential, mystic, avant garde, allegory, independent film, cult film
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Conceiving Ada (1997)
Plot Summary:
Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, psychological, mind bending, offbeat, serious, stylized, crying
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Needle in a Timestack (2021)
Plot Summary:
A devoted husband will stop at nothing to save his marriage when it's destroyed by a time-traveling rival.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, futuristic
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Riverworld (2003)
Plot Summary:
A movie for the Sci Fi Channel based on the book series by Philip José Farmer. The location is Riverworld, a mysterious and treacherous land where every human who died between the years 99,000 BC and 2,200 AD has been resurrected on the banks of a huge river.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, contemplative, surprise ending
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Late for Dinner (1991)
Plot Summary:
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Aporia (2023)
Plot Summary:
Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to repair their marriage, Jennie Logan and her husband move into a beautiful Victorian manor. When Jennie tries on an antique dress she finds in the attic, she is transported back one hundred years, where she meets the house's previous owner, David. As her feelings for David grow, it becomes clear that Jennie is not only torn between two men and two times, but she also faces danger in both worlds.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spiritual, esoteric, serious, crying, urban fantasy
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Journey Back to Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
WWII has ended and Hanna is still grieving over her husband's disappearance. When the Christmas Comet appears for the first time in 70 years, Hanna is caught in a terrible storm and knocked unconscious. When she wakes up, she's in 2016.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, gay cinema
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Brave New World (1980)
Plot Summary:
An acclaimed TV miniseries based on the classic sci-fi novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychotronic, philosophical, tech noir, frightening
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Ms. Scrooge (1997)
Plot Summary:
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, thought provoking, sad
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I Am Gabriel (2012)
Plot Summary:
An unforgiving sun, a parched earth, and a failed economy have left a small Texas town desolate. For ten years Promise, Texas has known nothing but one curse after another. It's barren, broken, and dying, leaving a town full of despair. When a couple finds a boy walking along a dusty road, alone in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but a mat tucked under his arm, they pick him up in hopes of helping him. What they don't realize is that he has come to help them and the residents of Promise. No one knows who he is or where he came from. Some think he's an answer to prayer. Others think he's a runaway or a false prophet. And the only thing this boy will say about himself is that he's here to help. The town's sheriff, Brody, is determined to uncover the truth. But Brody has his own problems trying to hold a dying town together. Miracle after miracle takes place and the residents of Promise embrace the boy... Written by Mike Norris.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: christian film, sincere, disturbing, art house, suspense, suspenseful
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The Man from Earth: Holocene (2017)
Plot Summary:
14,000 year-old "Man from Earth" John Oldman, now teaching in northern California, realizes that not only is he finally starting to age, but four students have discovered his deepest secret, putting his life in grave danger and potentially destroying the world's most popular religion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: philosophical, serious, captivating, psychological, exciting, disturbing, mind bending, psychedelic, political, mindfuck
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Downsizing (2017)
Plot Summary:
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: melancholic, semi serious, satirical, existential, exciting, parody, mind bending, thought provoking, intellectual, futuristic
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Time Changer (2002)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1890 and Bible professor Russell Carlisle has written a new manuscript entitled "The Changing Times". His colleague, Dr. Norris Anderson, believes that what Carlisle has written could greatly affect the future of coming generations and, using his secret time machine, Anderson sends Carlisle over 100 years into the future, offering him a glimpse of where his beliefs will lead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, psychological, contemplative, biting, suspense
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On the Silver Globe (1988)
Plot Summary:
A small group of cosmic explorers leave Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: avant garde, surreal, atmospheric, art house, mind bending, psychedelic, dark, mysterious, deep, metafiction
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The Last Mimzy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, serious, spiritual, mystical, epic, entertaining, apocalyptic, mystic, spooky
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Samaritan (2022)
Plot Summary:
Thirteen year old Sam Cleary suspects that his mysteriously reclusive neighbor Mr. Smith is actually the legendary vigilante Samaritan, who was reported dead 20 years ago. With crime on the rise and the city on the brink of chaos, Sam makes it his mission to coax his neighbor out of hiding to save the city from ruin.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, intense, exciting, surprise ending, neo noir, psychotronic, grindhouse, urban fantasy
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Stargate: Continuum (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: clever, entertaining, suspenseful, exciting, futuristic, epic, saga, serious, light, romantic
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
Plot Summary:
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 156000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, sad, sincere, tear jerker, sweet, heartbreaking, romantic comedy
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Phenomenon (1996)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, sentimental, emotional, light, sincere, romantic, sad, twisted, philosophical