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Plot Summary:
An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons project. He is transformed into a robotic killing machine that, because of his programming must destroy anything that comes near him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, gothic, suspense
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Mandroid (1993)
Plot Summary:
In his hidden laboratory deep in Russia, Dr. Karl Zimmer has invented the Mandroid, a humanoid robot which follows the motions of a man in a special control suit. He has offered the invention to the USA, who have sent Smith and Wait from the CIA for inspection. However Zimmer's partner Drago has different plans, wants to sell Mandroid to the military. The night he tries to steal Mandroid, he becomes exposed to the highly toxic Superconn. But he can flee and won't give up on Mandroid, even though he's terribly disfigured.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, scary, bleak, surprise ending, independent film, cult film
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Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, light, stylized, serious, suspenseful, touching, psychotronic, freeze frame, fairy tale
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Ice Soldiers (2013)
Plot Summary:
A scientist discovers the bodies of three frozen genetically modified Russians buried in the Canadian North. Upon thawing them out he realizes he has unleashed a deadly threat to Western society and must stop them at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, unusual plot structure, contemplative, surprise ending, fast, psychotronic, independent film, suspense
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R.O.T.O.R. (1987)
Plot Summary:
Robotic Officer Tactical Operation Research. A prototype robot intended for crime combat escapes from the development lab and goes on a killing rampage.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, grindhouse, independent film, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, road movie
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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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Midnight Ride (1990)
Plot Summary:
A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin McKay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, slasher, independent film, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, surprise ending
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Night Hunter (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jack Cutter is the last in long line of vampire hunters. After killing few vampires in one L.A. restaurant, he is chased both by police and by other vampires. In the process he meets an attractive woman-reporter.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense, retro, independent film, exciting, serious, fast, surprise ending
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Deadly Friend (1986)
Plot Summary:
Paul is a new kid in town with a robot named "BB". He befriends Samantha and the three of them have a lot of good times together. That is, until Samantha's abusive father throws her down some stairs and kills her. In an effort to save her life, Paul implants BB's computer brain into Samantha's human brain.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cult classic, surprise ending, splatter, funny, cult horror, slasher, suspenseful, gothic, black comedy, teen horror
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Silent Rage (1982)
Plot Summary:
A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspenseful, suspense, detective, grindhouse, medical horror, perverse, cult classic, rough
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Hollow Man (2000)
Plot Summary:
Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can determine how to make him visible again. Caine's predicament eventually drives him mad, with terrifying results.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, sexy, suspenseful, exciting, rough, splatter, disturbing, dark, medical horror
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Vice (2015)
Plot Summary:
Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop who is hell-bent on shutting down Vice, and stopping the violence once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, futuristic, detective, neo noir, cyber, independent film
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Monsters of Man (2020)
Plot Summary:
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six doctors on a humanitarian mission witness the brutal slaughter and become prime targets.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: suspense, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, suspenseful, intense, philosophical, enigmatic, political, apocalyptic, cyber
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Cyborg Cop (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ex-DEA agent Jack receives an emergency message from his brother Phillip, whose team was ambushed on the Caribbean island of St. Keith. Jack goes to St. Keith to find his brother, who has been turned into a cyborg by the drug runner he was after.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: futuristic, psychotronic, suspenseful, semi serious, tech noir, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, humorous, fast
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Death Machine (1994)
Plot Summary:
Chaank Armaments is experimenting with the ultimate fighting machine which is part human - part machine. So far, the Hardman project has been unreliable and has killed a number of innocent people. The genius behind this project is Jack who lives in a world of models, toys and magazines. When he is fired by Cale for killing a few corporate officers, he unleashes the ultimate killing machine called the 'Warbeast' against Cale and those who would help her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cyber, grindhouse, perverse, cult classic, cult horror, thrilling, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized
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Looker (1981)
Plot Summary:
Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, futuristic, psychological, serious, erotic, cult classic, surprise ending, exciting
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Replicas (2018)
Plot Summary:
A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China, Puerto Rico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, intellectual, futuristic, clever, psychotronic, philosophical, sentimental, grindhouse, smart, cyber
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Watchers (1988)
Plot Summary:
A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, perverse, cult classic, classic horror, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Guyver (1991)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Max Reed witnesses Dr. Tetsu Segawa - a researcher for the mysterious Chronos Corporation - being murdered. Dr. Segawa had stolen an alien device known as "The Guyver" from Chronos. College student Sean Barker, whose girlfriend's father was Dr. Segawa, finds the Guyver's hiding spot while watching the forensic team investigating the crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic, tense, funny, epic, grindhouse, horror comedy
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Recoil (2011)
Plot Summary:
A cop turns vigilante after his family is murdered, exacting vengeance on the killers - and then on all criminals who have slipped through the system.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, crime drama, realistic, surprise ending, independent film
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Jason X (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explorers who have just landed on Old Earth. For them, it's Friday the 13th, and Jason lives!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, sexy, rough, suspenseful, futuristic, bloody, entertaining, space horror
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Project Power (2020)
Plot Summary:
An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, action thriller, suspenseful, intellectual, enigmatic, mystic, hood, perverse, surprise ending
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Firestarter (2022)
Plot Summary:
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, action adventure, surprise ending, neo noir, dark fantasy, crying, psychotronic, weird
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The Divide (2011)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, apocalyptic, bleak, futuristic, disturbing, satanic, scary, controversial, psychotronic
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Morgan (2016)
Plot Summary:
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, clever, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, tricky, psychological, intense, grindhouse, mindfuck
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Bleeding Steel (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jackie Chan stars as a hardened special forces agent who fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they met in a different life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, bleak, futuristic, action adventure, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype cyborg developed for corporate espionage and assassination. She is filled with a liquid explosive called Glass Shadow. Pinwheel plans to eliminate the entire Kobayashi board of directors by using Casella.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, cyber, apocalyptic, erotic, suspense, tech noir, action thriller, spectacular, independent film
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The First Purge (2018)
Plot Summary:
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, hood, slasher, psychological, scary, retro, intellectual
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Automata (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic, cyber, suspense, retro, mind bending, experimental
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The Machine (2013)
Plot Summary:
Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground, far away from inquisitive eyes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cyber, captivating, tense, mind bending, sad, intelligent
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
Plot Summary:
A reboot of the "Resident Evil" franchise. Set in 1998, the intention is to re-create the 'terrifying visceral experience' of the first two games in the series, exploring 'the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spenser Mansion and Raccoon City' while also 'telling a grounded human story about a small dying American town.'.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, disturbing, apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, splatter, anamorphic, perverse, thrilling