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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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Body Switch (1995)
Plot Summary:
A dying elderly scientist proposes love-sick Jonas a cure that will improve the youngster's physical skills and general sex-appeal. What the scientist really aims to accomplish is a body switch: he wants to survive in a young man's body and gladly leaves Jonas to wake up in his own wasted frame. Jonas must somehow signal his predicament to his friends. Both men rev up for a survival-of-the-fittest chase.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Moon Child (1989)
Plot Summary:
Since ancient times, a tribe on the African continent has been prophesying that a white boy will arrive to be their god: the Son of the Moon. David, a 12-year-old orphan who lives in Europe, learns about the prophecy and believes that he is the chosen child and that destiny must be fulfilled at any cost. Before David can fulfill his prophecy he must escape the heavily guarded scientific organization that has adopted him. David's strange behavior and the fact that he possesses extrasensory perception, has attracted the attention of an organization researching so-called "prodigious beings" in the occult tradition. David soon discovers that their goal is to channel the moon's energy into a child yet to be born, robbing him of his rightful place as the Son of the Moon. Two women, Victoria, a member of the center, and Georgina, the future mother of the supposed moonchild, will help David fulfill his destiny. After several attempts David manages to escape the center and undergoes a series.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, manga, gay cinema, weird
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Dreamscape (2011)
Plot Summary:
1,000 years ago Earth was visited by an alien race from another dimension, the Grays, who used their technology to mix human and alien DNA to create a superior race, the Hybrids. The Grays, feeling they had accomplished their goals, took a group of Hybrids back to their dimension and left the rest on Earth. The Hybrids quickly turned on their creators and took over their dimension. Fearing for the humans, the Grays returned to Earth and deactivated the Hybrids, allowing them to live as part of the human race unaware of what they truly were. To prevent the Hybrids from crossing over into the human universe to reactivate the Hybrids left behind, the Grays recruit a team of human spiritual warriors to stand between the Hybrids and Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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The Third Planet (1991)
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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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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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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Oskar & Josefine (2005)
Plot Summary:
Oscar and Josefine are celebrating Midsummer with Oscar's grandparents in the country. A demon, Thorsen, gives Josefine the gift of enabling her to travel back in time. Visiting Oscar's family in the 17th century, Josefine saves a sickly young girl from the stake. But now the villagers see Josefine as a witch and want to burn her at the stake instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 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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Escape from Mars (1999)
Plot Summary:
Five astronauts make the first manned trip to Mars, in the second decade of the 21st century. They must battle and overcome inferior computer components, corporate greed and indifference, their own personal problems, as well as the surprises that The Red Planet has in store for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Vilaria (2017)
Plot Summary:
Vilaria is an all-round extremely powerful superhero in training. News of her strength and abilities have reached far and wide. Wide enough for villain Niari to know how aspects of Vilaria's training and powers. With the help of Kesic and Brock, Niari forms a way to ensure Vilaria will have to join forces with her... Can Vilaria's classmates help her? Or are they doomed to a reign of terror?.
IMDB Rating:
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Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, independent film
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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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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions (2004)
Plot Summary:
France. A near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, stylized, controversial, apocalyptic, surprise ending, independent 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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Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the gruesome events on Caprini, Sharp and his elite team of tough, witty and trigger happy space Marines must now head out to the icy planet Mezzo to investigate further Ma'har activities. What they will encounter will defy their imaginations as they tackle giant man eating snow worms, an underground city of Cyborgs, a slew of murderous alien entities and maybe, finally, the ever elusive Ma'hars.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, stylized, exciting, bleak, independent film, campy
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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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Realive (2016)
Plot Summary:
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, captivating, mind bending, realistic, surreal
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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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Recon 2020: The Caprini Massacre (2004)
Plot Summary:
Soldiers land on Caprini and confront diabolical villains.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, stylized, apocalyptic, bleak, independent film
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Star Hunter (1996)
Plot Summary:
Star hunters are the space monsters who hunt helpless creatures for pleasure. One night couple of high school fotball players and their cheerleaders are returning home after the lost game. But, when their bus makes the wrong turn, they are going to meet those creatures, and the real game will begin.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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Mindgame Trilogy (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to "Mindgame" (1998) which follows the fate of the three prisoners after their escape from their asteroid prison cell. Sontaran Sarg faces death against overwhelming odds on a desolate battleground, Draconian Merq faces trial after receiving an unusual "gift" and the human pilot finds herself stranded in space in a crippled fighter and a rapidly depleting oxygen supply.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film, low-budget
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Alien Tracker (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. Cole is the Alien Tracker who's in hot pursuit of the escaped convicts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating
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Quarantine (1989)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic society being decimated by plague, a fascist movement seizes power and quarantines not only the plague victims, but anyone related to them. Rebels trying to assassinate a particularly reactionary senator stumble onto a computer programmer trying to track and eradicate the disease.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Adventure of A.R.I.: My Robot Friend (2020)
Plot Summary:
A teenager summons the courage to help a friendly robot known as A.R.I. kidnapped by a ruthless lab director working for a powerful corporation seeking to turn him into a dangerous weapon in order to rule the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Family, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, light, touching, feel good, semi serious, computer animated, stylized, futuristic, humorous
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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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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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Damnation Alley (1977)
Plot Summary:
A small group of survivors at a military installation who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are living. Hopefully their specially built vehicles will protect them against the freakish weather mutated plant and animal life and other dangers along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, surprise ending, road movie
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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