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Plot Summary:
A 1950s author (Terumi Matthews) is transported to 1990s Brooklyn, where she meets a woman (Nicole Zaray) who reads about her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sexy, stylized, independent film, mind bending, serious, experimental, contemplative, non-linear, art house, noir
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Actual Reality (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hacker guy meets girl online in virtual reality. Guy realizes girl is a cop. Girl realizes guy is a girl. All hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, melancholic, contemplative, cerebral
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Madrigal (2007)
Plot Summary:
Javier is an actor with an affinity for writing. When he begins his love story with Luisita, he does not know where the truth begins and ends. Fifteen years later he has converted his story into literature that relates his tragic love story in a creative way.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Cuba
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, surreal, stylized, mind bending, offbeat, futuristic, talky
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Lolita 2000 (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sex is banned but lolita becomes a sexual rebel and broadcasts erotic adventures throughout the universe while satisfying her own forbidden fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, erotic, bleak, serious, futuristic, sexual, sexy
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The Time Tunnel (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 2006, an experiment of the Department of Energy in hot fusion to produce energy releases a storm in time along 240 minutes, changing history. Only the personnel in the core of the laboratory know the true story and now they need to fix points in the history that have been punctually changed. The bureaucrat and former Marine Doug Phillips is a family man that is recruited by his friend Flynn to join an expedition to 1944 due to his great knowledge of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in Germany. The team formed by Doug, Flynn, Toni Newman, J.D. and Wix is assigned to find a monk from 1546 that has been accidentally transported to the spot and is the carrier of Black Plague.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 54 min
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The Exotic Time Machine (1998)
Plot Summary:
On board a space station in the near future, Leon falls into its time portal and lands in the boudoir of Marie Antoinette. He observes a dalliance of the queen with her maid, Mimi; then the queen finds him, suspects he's the king's spy, and seduces him. The king catches them in flagrante delicto and sends Leon to the Bastille. Back in space, Daria tries to rescue Leon, but she whizzes to Arabia, where she meets Shahrazad and Aladdin. She reaches France just as Mimi frees Leon from the Bastille. By way of Capone's Chicago, all three go back to the future where they find fascists in charge. To save freedom and fulfill her destiny, Mimi must go back to King Louis's court.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: sensual, independent film, psychotronic
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Assassin 33 A.D. (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a billionaire gives a group of young scientists unlimited resources to study the science of matter transfer, the scientists unlock the secrets of time travel. But they soon find out that the project is backed by a militant extremist group, and the billionaire plans to go back in time and prove that Jesus never rose from the dead.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: mystical, intellectual, captivating, experimental, suspense, independent film, christian film
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The End of Eternity (1987)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Andrei Yermash, and written by Isaac Asimov, Budimir Metalnikov, and Andrei Yermash, «Konets vechnosti» is a 1987 Science Fiction film, starring Oleg Vavilov, Vera Sotnikova, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Sergei Yursky, Gediminas Girdvainis and Boris Ivanov.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: bizarre
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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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Timequest (2000)
Plot Summary:
A story about a man who travels back in time to Fort Worth, Texas on Novemeber 22, 1963 and prevents the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse
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The Yesterday Machine (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, bizarre
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Lunopolis (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lunopolis is a 2009 direct-to-video science fiction film directed by Matthew Avant. The film is presented in found footage style and takes place in the weeks preceding the rumored events of the 2012 prophecies. Two documentary filmmakers discover a mysterious device and begin to unravel a conspiracy involving the moon, time travel, and a very powerful organization who will stop at nothing to protect their secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, contemplative, psychological, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, weird, fake documentary
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The Gateway (2018)
Plot Summary:
A particle physicist grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, interesting
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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Plot Summary:
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France, Austria, UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, stylized, atmospheric, mind bending, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, offbeat, experimental
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The Time Travelers (1964)
Plot Summary:
A time travel experiment that was supposed to produce a window into time turns out to be a portal instead. One of the experimenters steps through into a not-too-distant-future world that has been destroyed by nuclear war. Some of the others follow, but then the portal phases out and they can't get back. Things just get worse after that. They run across a rocket that has landed to escape pursuing enemies, bearing scientists who survived the war, and many android "slaves." The time travellers are invited to escape when the ship is again ready to blast off - but just before that happens, the scientits' enemy returns and fires on the sitting-duck ship. A very bad day for the scientists turns terminal at that point, and the 20th-century Earthlings barely escape with their skins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, mysterious, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Time Chasers (1994)
Plot Summary:
An inventor comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil C.E.O.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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Prometheus Trap (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the future, mankind's quest for answers will take them to the edge of the universe... but the knowledge they seek should never be known. In deep space, the military cruiser Venom is diverted from its mission to investigate a derelict freighter ship, the Prometheus. On board, all of the crew are dead - victims of sabotage - and its only cargo is a weapon that will change the course of time and their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, stylized, offbeat, bleak
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Idaho Transfer (1973)
Plot Summary:
A crew of young researchers escape into the future to avoid the shutdown of their project. They find that some type of 'eco-crisis' disaster has de-populated the area around their lab (in rural Idaho) and, by implication, the nation or maybe the world. Stranded in the barren future, in their travels they encounter an abandoned freight train possibly full of corpses (maybe, it isn't very clear). One of them travels further into the future and meets a family in a futuristic automobile, implying that that humankind has recovered from the disaster (or have they?).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, exciting, offbeat, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, weird
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Johnny 2.0 (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Dr. Johnny Dalton awakens, after being beaten by a group of eco-terrorists who were vandalizing his lab at biotech firm Azina, his business partner Frank Donahue tells him him that 15 years have passed and Johnny is merely a clone of himself. He's been created to track down the real Dr. Dalton who has disappeared, taking with him Azine's most devastating discovery as well as the key to disarming Johnny's genetic time-bomb. Johnny is captured, however he finds an ally among the rebels in Nikki Holland, leading him to the real Dr. Dalton, who reveals secrets about Azine, Donahue and the mysterious Mr. Bosch that are far more shocking than anything they ever expected. This futuristic thriller takes the concept of genetic engineering to a whole new level, and into a frightening world that may be just over the horizon.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: cyber, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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A.P.E.X. (1994)
Plot Summary:
A time-travel experiment in which a robot probe is sent from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes terribly wrong thrusting one of the project scientists,into a plague ravaged alternate time-line whose war weary inhabitants are locked in a constant battle with killer robots from the future.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, independent film, serious
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Hu-Man (1975)
Plot Summary:
An actor is placed in dangerous situations and his fear will be broadcast to the television audience. The audience's emotions will determine whether he is sent into the future or the past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: weird
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Running Against Time (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he can't return to his present time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Philadelphia Experiment II (1993)
Plot Summary:
It is several years after the events of the first movie, and David Herdeg (the survivor of the Philadelphia Experiment from the first film) and Allison (the woman from 1984 he fell in love with) have married and have a child. David awakes, in agony, to a changed world. Germany won World War II and the United States is now about to mark 50 years as a Nazi conquest.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark, mind bending, offbeat, serious, futuristic, stylized
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Journey to the Center of Time (1967)
Plot Summary:
Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won't be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000 years into the future, where they encounter aliens who are looking for a planet to colonize.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic, vintage, campy, cult film
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Time Jumpers (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a young man finds a time machine device, his life spins out of control.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, anthology
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, not serious, psychotronic, retro, parody, funny, clever, bad ending, melancholic
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The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his girlfriend, Julie and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his memories. However, his time-traveling attempts to alter the past and save his one true love have unexpected and dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, mindfuck, thought provoking, absurd, psychological thriller, psychedelic
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95ers: Time Runners (2013)
Plot Summary:
Time is unraveling, paradoxes are everywhere, and strangers with terrifying technologies are on the hunt. A thrilling, original, ultra indie full-length sci-fi movie that is the story of Sally Biggs, an FBI agent who has the power to rewind time. Her scientist husband has disappeared mysteriously, and the closer she gets to finding him, the more dangerous her life becomes. To save the future and her loved ones, Sally must enter a battlefield she never knew existed. Fortunately, she's a 95er. Surrounded by bizarre timespace paradoxes and hunted by terrifying forces from the future, Sally must discover the earth-shattering truth behind it all before her very being fades out of reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, gloomy, futuristic, independent film, interesting
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Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, intense, tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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The Time Machine (2002)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, serious, stylized, psychotronic, thought provoking, suspense, apocalyptic, smart
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Primer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, surreal, independent film, mind bending, confusing, thought provoking, enigmatic, clever, mindfuck