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Plot Summary:
A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
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Lathe of Heaven (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is confused at first but soon decides to use him for his own gain. The 2002 adaptation discards a significant portion of the original plot, some essential characters, and much of the philosophical underpinnings of the book and the original PBS production. Ursula K. Le Guin disapproved of the A&E production, and stated that she found it "misguided and uninteresting".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intelligent, offbeat, futuristic, bleak
Similar in 87%
Master of the World (1961)
Plot Summary:
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic
Similar in 86%
Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world. The Atlanteans, or rather the slaves of Atlantis, are forced to mine a crystalline material which absorbs the suns rays. These crystals can then be used for warmth. The misuse of science has created weapons out of the crystals that can fire a heat ray to destroy whatever it touches.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, classic horror, independent film, exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, crying, cult film
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Robot Holocaust (1987)
Plot Summary:
Neo, a drifter from the atomic-blasted wastelands, arrives with his klutzy robot sidekick at a factory where slaves labor to fuel the sinister Dark One's Power Station. There, he meets a comely woman who convinces him to help rescue her scientist father, who has invented a device that can break the Dark One's control over the slaves. Gathering a motley crew of allies on the way, Neo and pals travel to the Power Station, where they confront the Dark One's evil servants.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, tense, exciting, entertaining, independent film, campy, cult film
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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
Similar in 76%
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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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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The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, prehistoric, natural horror, independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast, psychotronic
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Alien Apocalypse (2005)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, captivating, grindhouse, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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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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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993)
Plot Summary:
This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes John Neville, F. Murray Abraham and Kim Miyori.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
Plot Summary:
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, tense, light, atmospheric, enigmatic
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Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
Plot Summary:
Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: dieselpunk, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, fast, independent film, cult film
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The Forbidden Dimensions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic doctors that rule the wastelands, creating deformed mutants with a serum synthesized from the flesh of dead aliens. Now Slade must travel back to the year 1998 to destroy a device known as the wavelength generator, which opened the dimensional gateways to these alien beings. With the help of an army of female outlaws and a sleazy detective, Slade re-connects with the star child Khadijah, who holds the key to stopping these tragic events from ever taking place.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, independent film
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Morlocks (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ferocious humanoid creatures from the future come back to the present to devour humans.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, scary, psychotronic
Similar in 83%
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
Similar in 85%
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
Similar in 76%
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Plot Summary:
In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship Vega stays orbiting and sends the astronauts Kern and Sherman with the robot John to the surface of Venus, but they have problems with communication with Dr. Marsha Evans in Vega. The Sirius lands in Venus and Commander Brendan Lockhart, Andre Ferneau and Hans Walter explore the planet and are attacked by prehistoric animals. They use a vehicle to seek Kern and Sherman while collecting samples from the planet. Meanwhile John helps the two cosmonauts to survive in the hostile land.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, suspense, independent film, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful, cult film
Similar in 83%
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
Similar in 80%
The Secret Kingdom (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three kids discover a tiny kingdom beneath their kitchen sink and are drawn inside, becoming involved with the miniature world's civil war.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Timestalkers (1987)
Plot Summary:
Scott, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travelers from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph. One of the time travelers is determined to change the course of history, the other to stop him. Scott's fascination with the Old West comes in handy when they all return to 1886.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Doctor Who (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, disturbing, stylized, tense, enigmatic, semi serious, captivating, cult classic
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Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Plot Summary:
Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Doctor Who, his two grand-daughters, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race of Thals are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the robotic mutant Daleks. Overview Written by Alexander Lum.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, futuristic, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic, independent film
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Planet of the Apes (1968)
Plot Summary:
An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: philosophical, twist ending, mind bending, futuristic, suspense, visually stunning, mind blowing, suspenseful, retro, depressing
Similar in 78%
Timeline (2003)
Plot Summary:
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, sincere, suspense, fairy tale, mind bending, thought provoking, intellectual, period piece
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Returner (2002)
Plot Summary:
After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly (Anne Suzuki), travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamoto (Takeshi Kaneshiro), to discover and prevent the start of the war. However, trouble ensues when the two protagonists are forced to deal with a Japanese mafia boss, named Mizoguchi (Goro Kishitani), who is somehow involved in the start of the war by keeping the first alien spaceship and its alien pilot captive, while our two heroes race against the clock to find a way to stop the oncoming destruction from the vengeance-seeking alien invasion fleet on its way to Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, cult classic, stylized, futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, scenic, cyber, serious, fast
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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002)
Plot Summary:
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, futuristic, stylized, bleak, serious, suspenseful, exciting, intellectual, epic, saga
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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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My Science Project (1985)
Plot Summary:
Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to stop the orb and save mankind.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, light, feel good, eighties, complex, idiotic
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Time After Time (1979)
Plot Summary:
The Wildest Chase Of The Century! London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write The Time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper escaped capture fleeing his own time to take refuge in ours - with Wells himself in pursuit?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, clever, psychotronic, psychological, retro, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, mysterious, surreal