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Plot Summary:
Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film adaptation ('Stalker'), 'Tretya planeta' tells the story of a father seeking a cure for his ill daughter by venturing into an area known only as "The Zone" to request help from the mysterious healers that dwell within its forbidden borders.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Divinity (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two mysterious brothers abduct a mogul during his quest for immortality. Meanwhile, a seductive woman helps them launch a journey of self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Invisible Kid (1988)
Plot Summary:
A nerdy teenage scientist discovers a formula for invisibility, and uses it to take revenge on all those who have wronged him--and also to spy on the girls' shower room.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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Hungry for You (1996)
Plot Summary:
It's the year 2010, and half of all households receive virtual reality programming. However, someone has discovered how to use the VR receivers to murder men while being seduced into virtual sex with the seductive Viva. The FCC has contracted VR expert Rodney to track down the killer, placing himself on the killer's hit list.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Tom and Lola (1990)
Plot Summary:
Their immune systems tragically damaged at birth, Tom and Lola are two beautiful children forever isolated in plastic bubbles. But neither cold urethane nor chillier hospital technicians can keep down the beguiling spirit of these indomitable siblings. Nor can anything stop their quest to one day run naked and truly free, unbound from the medical shackles that bind them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: stylized
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Clonehunter (2012)
Plot Summary:
2525 A.D. Man has colonized the stars. The wealthy and powerful implant their brains in cloned versions of themselves to gain immortality. As a side-effect, occasionally a clone develops mutant abilities. A clonehunter and his new partner have to track down a clone who threatens to destroy the planet unless the rich man he was cloned for gives him all his wealth.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Cyberotica: Computer Escapes (1996)
Plot Summary:
Seven beautiful but sexually unfulfilled women don the state of the art virtual reality headset that allows them to explore and realize all of their deepest sexual fantasies right before their eyes and yours.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Big Sister 2000 (1995)
Plot Summary:
Julie Strain is the tyrannical interrogator who commands the dark forces of the future. They abduct Jenny, an innocent woman and enslave her inside an invincible steel fortress. Forced to endure mind-shattering torments, she befriends the other female prisoners who commit unspeakable acts in order to survive. Guided by a mysterious spirit of a woman known only as Big Sister, the prisoners find their inner strengths and over come the insurmountable odds.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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To the Stars by Hard Ways (1981)
Plot Summary:
A Star-ship discovers a dead alien space craft. All the humanoid crew are dead except for one woman. When revived she remembers nothing of the accident which crippled the space craft, and is brought back to earth to be studied.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: psychedelic
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Karik and Valya's Remarkable Adventures (1987)
Plot Summary:
Is so happened that Karik and Valya, the main characters, remarkably shrank in size, their whole habitual world acquiring unusual contours and unusual features.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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The Moon (1965)
Plot Summary:
Science fiction/documentary film about man's voyages to the moon.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags:
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Alien Expedition (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a deep space exploration vessel discovers a potentially habitable planet, a scouting team composed of human and biorobotic individuals is dispatched to investigate the planet's resources. Once on the ground, their reconnaissance mission soon turns into a battle for survival against the planet's hostile alien lifeforms.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Virtual Encounters 2 (1998)
Plot Summary:
A nerdish computer-type stumbles upon a virtual computer program that puts the viewer right into the experience. His roommate convinces him to use it as a sex-type program and sell folks various sexual "experiences." Meanwhile, the nerd aspires to date a girl he's too shy to approach, and hopes the virtual encounter program will help him out.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, independent film, sexy, sexploitation film
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Lies Inc. (2004)
Plot Summary:
Amber city is the last city on earth with a breathable atmosphere. In this climate of fear and paranoia, Isan Epel finds herself trapped by her employers, Schilman's inc, after working in secret for two years. Without any memories of her past, she hides in order to escape from her pursuers, and tries to disclose the content of a mysterious microdisc. The narcotic agent Phil Comb is then hired to find her and the disc. But he is too damaged by the drugs he consumes, and loses more and more contact with reality while he begins to understand the machiavellian conspiration around him. His meeting with Isan is going to reveal to him much more than he could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France, Norway
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Centrespread (1981)
Plot Summary:
The story of a photographer's struggle in the glamorous world of nude modelling.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Golem (1980)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters are already there as the species of the future - but one of them is suspected by the doctors of being a human being. That is Golem in reverse.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, bleak, serious, futuristic, stylized, psychotronic, eighties
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The Model Couple (1977)
Plot Summary:
In 1977 France, the Ministry of the Future chooses two “normal,” white, middle-class citizens, Claudine and Jean-Michel, for a national experiment. They will be monitored and displayed on television for six months in a model apartment outfitted with state-of-the-art products and nonstop surveillance—the template for “a new city for the new man.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: satirical
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Demon Sex (2005)
Plot Summary:
Scientists on Earth experiment with advanced DNA from an ancient alien skull, hoping to crack its genetic code for the good of humankind. But aliens want to steal the code to prevent their species from going extinct, so they enlist human women to obtain the formula through seduction -- or the use of deadly force. Brinke Stevens, Vesper Almasy and Tuesday Coren star in this erotic horror tale.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, scary, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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4 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, captivating, surreal, realistic, art house, heartfelt, experimental, tense, atmospheric
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Femalien II (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two aliens come to Earth to find their missing comrade from the first movie.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, erotic, humorous, semi serious, sexual, independent film, hot, campy
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Intergalactic Swingers (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dara and Alana are gorgeous extraterrestrial women who help destroy a giant asteroid heading towards Earth. While on Earth, they have close encounters of the physical kind with many people.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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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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Dandy Dust (1998)
Plot Summary:
A candy colored lesbian, cyberpunk extravaganza. It takes the viewer to another dimension. The character Dandy Dust has to go to various planets to boost his/her sex drive and defeat a depraved villain. There are twins who throw flowers, a groin drill sequence like in Tetsuo the Iron Man, a spider vagina humanoid, a nude woman with stilt-like high heel shoes, explicit strange sex that involves strange abstract objects and depraved outer space perversion.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Austria
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, controversial, experimental, independent film, art house, queer cinema, weird, bizarre
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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 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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City Zero (1988)
Plot Summary:
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, heartfelt, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Alien Intruder (1993)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 2022, a group of convicts sentenced to life in prison are led on a mission into uncharted deep space by Commander Skyler (Williams) to salvage a lost ship. As incentive to go on this dangerous mission, the convicts are given the opportunity to spend their weekends in a virtual reality world where they could live out their sexual fantasies with any woman they choose. However, a woman who is not part of the program appears in it (Scoggins), kills each virtual woman and seduces each convict. When she begins to appear outside the program, the men quickly turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, offbeat, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, black and white
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Habitat (1997)
Plot Summary:
In order to combat the damage caused by the depletion of the ozone layer, maverick biologist Hank Symes unleashes his most ambitious experiment to date: accelerated evolution. Unfortunately, this not only causes the authorities to take notice, but also creates a backlash from his new neighbors--leaving his son caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, apocalyptic, psychotronic, serious, futuristic
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Specimen (1996)
Plot Summary:
After his grandmother's death, 24-year-old Mike Hillary sets off in search of who he thinks is his real father. Little does he suspect the real scenario: his late mother was impregnated by aliens, and now they've sent someone down to bring back their "specimen"--dead or alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Car Cemetery (1983)
Plot Summary:
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, allegory, avant garde, art house
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Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)
Plot Summary:
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help of her teenage companion Emily (Leonie Mellinger), D tries to make her way, and in order to cope, she often escapes into a fantasy world in which she lives in genteel Victorian surroundings in the 19th century.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, bleak, serious, futuristic, stylized