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Plot Summary:
As the world faces a deadly plague, humanity's hope for a cure lies with a scientist who awakens imprisoned in a metal chamber. She desperately works to escape her confined cell to save the last of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
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Solar Impact (2019)
Plot Summary:
Solar debris crashes down to Earth, causing widespread destruction and unleashing solar radiation around the world. As genetic mutations rapidly spread, a group of friends must fight to stay alive and escape the chaos.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
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Project Legion (2022)
Plot Summary:
A former marine awakens to an apocalyptic sight outside of his window and barricades himself from evil creatures that surround his apartment door and terrorize the city.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Defcon 2012 (2010)
Plot Summary:
On October 30, 2009 an independent filmmaker and his cast and crew are reported missing a month before the release of their controversial film predicting the end of the world. Authorities have reason to believe the film's 2012 doomsday scenario may have something to do with their disappearance. An agent for CEA (Central Extraterrestrial Agency) discovers the footage to the film and watches the film on September 10, 2012, three months before the world is to come to an end.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, retro, mockbuster
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Doomsday Machine (1976)
Plot Summary:
Spies discover that the Red Chinese have built a "doomsday machine" capable of destroying the surface of the Earth, and that they plan to use it within a matter of days. Meanwhile, Project Astra, a manned U.S. space mission to Venus, is in its final hours before launch when it is taken over by the military and nearly half of its all-male crew is replaced by women. The reason for this becomes apparent when, shortly after Astra leaves orbit, the Earth is completely destroyed in a global cataclysm! Is the human race doomed? What dangers and wonders await the crew of the Astra on their journey to Venus?.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Phoenix Point (2005)
Plot Summary:
When the apocalypse arrives, it takes the form of a biochemical virus. All social structures break down and a new world order emerges from the heart of the desert. As chaos sets in, we follow the adventures of some unlikely survivors, all searching for the elusive cure at Phoenix Point.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Arcadia (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future where a deadly disease has gripped the world, Arcadia has been built as safe disease-free haven for the privileged. Outside Arcadia, the average life lasts merely 40 years - unless they can earn a place amongst the elite.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
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Shangri-La: Near Extinction (2018)
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Mankind is nearly extinct in this post-apocalyptic creature thriller. Most humans died from a deadly plague and the ice age they manufactured to eradicate it. A man named Vargas leads a group of survivors on a quest to reach Shangri-La, the last safe haven on Earth. However, they must fight through the cold, a mutant cult and a pack of deadly creatures to get there.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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Rotor DR1 (2015)
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In a post-apocalyptic world where half the population is dead or missing and the sky is full of autonomous drones, a 16-year-old boy named Kitch sets out to find his father, joined by DR1, his drone companion.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Lost: Black Earth (2004)
Plot Summary:
Over run by the alien Kryslum Empire, a devastated Earth is victim of their slow terra-forming technologies. With the human race enslaved and on the brink of destruction, four misfits join forces to start the rebellion that will bring upon a new dawn for human survival.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 48 min
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White Sky (2021)
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When three campers witness an alien mothership descending on their town and turning the population into "Altered" human beings, they team up with a reclusive stranger who offers to guide them to safety. As they're chased deep into the forest and one of them becomes infected, they realize there's nowhere to hide from the Altered horde that seems intent upon finding and assimilating them.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Doomsday (2015)
Plot Summary:
Achilles, a normal man infected with a disease that will bring down the Erebus rulers (human/machine hybrids) escapes back in time from 2410 to the present day where he has a chance to stop the Erebus from ever rising to power. However he is followed by the Erebus-7 who will stop at nothing to hunt him down.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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2149: The Aftermath (2016)
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In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Hover (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying sentinel drones, a handful of locals discover a sinister connection between sick farmland inhabitants and the tech that’s meant to be protect them.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Dystopia (2019)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2037, the world is dying from a virus that has rendered mankind infertile. Not a single child has been born in 25 years. Governments are powerless puppets for the world's biggest corporation Biocorp. They keep promising a cure that never comes. A pair of scientists travel back to 2017 in order to change the events of their past and prevent the virus from ever existing.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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10,000 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
10,000 Days ago, Comet 23 struck Earth with the magnitude of all the nuclear weapons in the world sending the planet into a deep freeze. Now, 27 years in the future, those who survived are locked in an epic battle of life or death.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, suspenseful, visually appealing, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Dystopia (2018)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2037. Our world is dying, slowly, from a virus that has rendered mankind infertile. Not a single child has been born in 25 years. Governments are now powerless puppets for the biggest corporations and Biocorp, the world's biggest, keeps promising a cure that never comes.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, exciting
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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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Without Warning (1994)
Plot Summary:
A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems natural but after interviews by scientists and eyewitness seems to suggest that it is not. Three more meteors are coming and the various Earth governments combine forces to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: depressing, bad ending, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disaster movie
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Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a group of archaeologists dig up a human skeleton near the historical monument of STONEHENGE, an ancient piece of machinery hidden beneath the bedrock is discovered. Not knowing what it could be the workers accidentally trigger the mechanism and start a chain of events that may very well end the world as we know it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, independent film, disaster movie
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The Last Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Mary Shelley.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, exciting
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Strange New World (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, 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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Taking Earth (2017)
Plot Summary:
The human race is thrown into chaos as an alien invasion takes control of the planet in an effort to find one boy out of 7 billion people who holds the power to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic, scenic
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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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Encrypt (2003)
Plot Summary:
2068, the ozone layer is gone and the world is a wasteland. A band of mercenaries attempt to break into a Estate that is guarded by a automated defence system called "Encrypt" in order to steal priceless artwork.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, tech noir, futuristic
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Mutant World (2014)
Plot Summary:
A decade after a disastrous meteor impact wipes out most of society, a group of survivalists emerge to find themselves on a twisted version of the old Earth, with a nascent society besieged by vicious marauders, ferocious mutants, and the dreadful symptoms of a post-apocalyptic environment.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, scary
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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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Harrison Bergeron (1995)
Plot Summary:
"All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers around a young man (Harrison) who is smarter than his peers, and is not affected by the usual "Handicapping" which is used to train all Americans so everyone is of equal intelligence.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: philosophical, apocalyptic, tech noir, offbeat, futuristic, disturbing, contemplative, semi serious, surprise ending, black comedy
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Doomsday Prophecy (2011)
Plot Summary:
Doomsday Prophecy is a 2011 sci-fi disaster television film by Jason Bourque starring Jewel Staite, Alan Dale and A.J. Buckley.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, independent film, disaster movie
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Collision Earth (2020)
Plot Summary:
A large meteor shower unexpectedly bombards planet Earth. Scientists rush to the scene of the first impact and the race is on to find a solution to save humanity.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, apocalyptic, disaster movie