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Plot Summary:
In the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease, giving them enhanced speed, incredible stamina and acute intelligence. As they are set apart from "normal" and "healthy" humans, the world is pushed to the brink of worldwide civil war aimed at the destruction of the "diseased" population. In the middle of this crossed-fire is - an infected woman - Ultraviolet, who finds herself protecting a nine-year-old boy who has been marked for death by the human government as he is believed to be a threat to humans.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 84000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, sexy, action packed, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, visually stunning, grindhouse, action adventure
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Trancers (1984)
Plot Summary:
Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, grindhouse, detective, independent film, retro, cult classic, psychotronic, tech noir, cyber, neo noir
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Black Scorpion (1995)
Plot Summary:
Darcy is a cop who is also a supehero named Black Scorpion at night who kicks and beats evildoers to a pulp. She soon catches wind of an asthmatic mad scientist who plans on tainting the city's air supply with a toxin. Only Darcy in her superhero garb can stop him with the assistance of a petty thief named Argyle.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: action adventure, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, detective, campy
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Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003)
Plot Summary:
20 years after a set of events, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is still going strong. Now Brandon Miller a TEC operative, believes that they have a responsibility to change history hoping that the world will be better but Ryan Chan another Tec operative stops him but kills the woman he loves in the process.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
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The Princess Blade (2001)
Plot Summary:
Yuki is the last surviving royal of the House of Takemikazuchi or Takemikazuchi no Hime (たけみかずち の ひめ), who live in a futuristic post-apocalyptic isolationist world where they use their skills as former Mikado guards to become hired assassins. The wise old sage Kuka, who was once Yuki's mother's bodyguard, gives Yuki information that changes her life—and her destiny. She discovers that Byakurai has a dangerous connection to Yuki. After learning this information she chooses to leave the House of Takemikazuchi. She soon encounters Takashi, leader of the rebel movement, who offers Yuki a chance at revenge—and perhaps love. They soon discover similarities for they are both trying to escape the past to start new lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, futuristic, thought provoking, brutal, enigmatic, bad ending
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Blade: Trinity (2004)
Plot Summary:
For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed - The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting him, the original vampire, Dracula.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 186000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, action packed, exciting, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, splatter, saga
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Elektra (2005)
Plot Summary:
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, atmospheric, sexy, suspenseful, action packed, action adventure, stylized, epic, heroic
Similar in 79%
Catwoman (2004)
Plot Summary:
Liquidated after discovering a corporate conspiracy, mild-mannered graphic artist Patience Phillips washes up on an island, where she's resurrected and endowed with the prowess of a cat -- and she's eager to use her new skills ... as a vigilante. Before you can say "cat and mouse," handsome gumshoe Tom Lone is on her tail.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, action packed, tense, captivating, saga, suspense, serious, epic, heroic, fantasy adventure
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Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
Plot Summary:
Luc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When Seth (Michael Jai White), the supercomputer controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can stop it. All hell breaks loose as Luc battles Seth and a deadly team of perfect soldiers in a struggle that pits man against machine and good against evil.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: futuristic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, tech noir, cult classic, fast, scary
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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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Barb Wire (1996)
Plot Summary:
A sexy nightclub owner, Barb Wire moonlights as a mercenary in Steel Harbor, one of the last free zones in the now fascist United States. When scientist Cora Devonshire wanders into Barb's establishment, she gets roped into a top-secret government plot involving biological weapons. Soon Barb is reunited with her old flame Axel Hood, who is now Cora's husband and a guerrilla fighter, resulting in plenty of tense action.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, serious, apocalyptic, futuristic, suspenseful, cult classic, slasher, action adventure, disgusting
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Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, stylized, splatter, suspenseful, serious, visual, action packed, spectacular, saga
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Doom (2005)
Plot Summary:
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, rough, splatter, action packed, futuristic, space horror, action adventure, psychological, atmospheric, captivating
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Underworld: Awakening (2012)
Plot Summary:
After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter named Nissa, and when she finds her, they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: gothic, dark fantasy, scary, exciting, action packed, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, saga
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Plot Summary:
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 99000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, apocalyptic, splatter, saga, psychological, entertaining, satanic, action adventure, disgusting, serious
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Doomsday (2008)
Plot Summary:
A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, serious, road movie, splatter, cult classic
Similar in 77%
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Plot Summary:
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. It's a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against hordes of blood- thirsty zombies, stealthy Lickers, mutant canines and the most sinister foe yet.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 208000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA, Canada, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, gothic, scary, suspense, splatter, action packed, exciting, rough, serious, stylized
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Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 148000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, stylized, apocalyptic, exciting, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, bleak, serious, splatter
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Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Plot Summary:
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, apocalyptic, suspenseful, entertaining, exciting, suspense, splatter, action packed, serious, action adventure
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The Running Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, suspenseful, entertaining, action packed
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Plot Summary:
It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 415000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, action packed, serious, suspenseful, intense, action adventure, saga
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Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty….
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, fairy tale, suspenseful, visually stunning, psychotronic, light, disturbing, mystic, futuristic
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Divergent (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 482000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, teen, suspenseful, futuristic, entertaining, romantic, intense, apocalyptic, action packed
Similar in 81%
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Plot Summary:
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 536000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, cyber, saga, action packed, epic, bad ending, apocalyptic, bleak, suspenseful
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Aeon Flux (2005)
Plot Summary:
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Brazil, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, action packed, apocalyptic, exciting, visually appealing, visual, cyber, action adventure, psychological
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Total Recall (2012)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police - controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen, the leader of the free world - Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter to find the head of the underground resistance and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 264000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mind bending, entertaining, exciting, suspense, cyber, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized
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Equilibrium (2002)
Plot Summary:
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 343000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: futuristic, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric, clever, cerebral, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cult classic
Similar in 83%
The Fifth Element (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 497000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France, UK
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: futuristic, visually stunning, breathtaking, exciting, cult classic, colorful, entertaining, visual, cyber, surreal
Similar in 82%
Resident Evil (2002)
Plot Summary:
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain are charged with leading the mission. But they only have three hours before the pathogen becomes airborne and infects the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 284000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, atmospheric, splatter, bloody, cult classic, action packed, entertaining, grindhouse, futuristic
Similar in 81%
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Plot Summary:
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: exciting, apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, tense, suspenseful, cyber, action packed, breathtaking, cult classic
Similar in 75%
The Matrix (1999)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 20000000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, mind bending, surreal, intense, tech noir, visually stunning, spiritual, psychedelic