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Plot Summary:
In the near future, a company called Xchange owns a mind transference technology that enables instantaneous travel by swapping bodies with someone at the destination. A member of the privileged corporate class ("Corpie") Xchanging for the first time unwittingly switches bodies with a terrorist. Forced to hide in a limited life span cloned body with just 2 days remaining, he races against time to stop the terrorist and regain his body.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, erotic, tech noir, cyber
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Protection (2001)
Plot Summary:
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The 7th Dimension (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two young women arrive at a curious penthouse apartment, led by one's crush on her tutor. However, her love interest doesn't live alone. He's part of a trio of computer hackers about to embark on the ultimate job on the world's most mysterious mainframe. Whilst doing so, they unlock more than they bargain for with supernatural and ultimately fatal results. Can this seemingly insignificant chain of events, which have thrown this group together, be construed as fate? Can the beacon provide a signal of hope or is it a web of manipulation, paranoia and ultimately... murder?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, cyber, scary, rough, mind bending, serious
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Naked Souls (1996)
Plot Summary:
Edward is busy trying to unlock the secrets of reading and recording people's thoughts. He is very involved with his work leaving little room for girlfriend Britt. Longstreet comes along and offers Edward a place to do his research and have unlimited funding. There are, however, ulterior motives as Edward is also somehow unlocking the secrets of eternal life.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, bleak, serious, tense, suspense, sexy, independent film, suspenseful, slasher, hot
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Cruel & Unusual (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, mind bending, captivating, suspense, tense, retro, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Zenith (2010)
Plot Summary:
In a hellish future where human beings have become stupefied by the state of permanent happiness they have been genetically altered to experience, Jack offers relief via drugs that cause his customers the welcome phenomenon of pain. But when Jack receives a mysterious videotape of his dead father, he sets out to unmask the dangerous conspiracy that has created this dystopian world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, serious, experimental, independent film, futuristic, talky, mind bending
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Mind and Machine (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the near future where humanoid robots are common in society, the mob reprograms a female android to think and feel in order to use it as a contract killer. This has dangerous consequences as she develops a relationship with her creator while also slowly becoming a murderous psychopath.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: captivating, cyber, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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The Void (2001)
Plot Summary:
Physicist Eva Soderstrom discovers greedy industrialist Thomas Abernathy is on the verge of creating an artificial black hole in a laboratory on Earth. It's the same experiment that killed her father years earlier, except bigger. With the help of Dr. Price, Eva tries to stop Abernathy and, possibly, save the planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, semi serious, disaster movie
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Termination Point (2007)
Plot Summary:
Top secret government experiments with time travel have been shut down and declared as too dangerous to continue. The lead scientist has disappeared with the technology and a government manhunt is underway. When his name appears on an airline manifest after the flight has departed, the government orders the plane to turn back. But the plane drops from the radar, disappearing into thin air! As special agents try to locate the plane, scientists must deal with the repercussions from the time ripples that threaten to destroy the Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, tense, captivating
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Silent Warnings (2003)
Plot Summary:
After the accidental death of his cousin Joe Vossimer, the just-graduated electronic engineer Layne Vossimer joins his girlfriend and four friends of them to visit and clean the inherited farm in the country. The local Sheriff Bill Willingham is an old friend of Layne, and also grieves the death of Joe. When the group arrives in the farm, some weird and mysterious signs appear in the cornfield, but they believe the other locals are joking with them. When Iris Doyle vanishes, the rest of the group realizes that there is a serious menace jeopardizing that place.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Dark Storm (2006)
Plot Summary:
On a secret military base a group of scientists have made a discovery unequaled since the invention of the A-bomb; code-named Eruptor, it's a device that supercharges Dark Matter and uses it to change the molecular structure of its target, thereby eradicating it. But when the Eruptor malfunctions and a leading scientist on the project is blasted with Dark Matter, he receives incredible abilities.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Humanity Bureau (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, road movie, serious, captivating, political
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2103: The Deadly Wake (1997)
Plot Summary:
Proxate Corporation recruits a boozy former ship captain and offers him a new identity: Sean Murdoch. His job: to take charge of large ship on one voyage. Once aboard, Murdoch realizes that the ship is a prison ship, and the cargo are criminally insane inmates. Murdoch's other problem: someone has planted bombs aboard the vessel. Murdoch's acrimonious relationship with the prison warden lends extra drama to the story.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, suspense
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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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Replikator (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two rival corporations are developing replication technology which would enable the cloning of human tissue. The technology falls into a criminal group. Ludo Ludovic and Kathy Moskow with the help of a cop try to stop the criminals.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, neo noir, cult film
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TekWar (1994)
Plot Summary:
After four years, Jake Cardigan is prematurely awoken from his fifteen year cryogenic punishment to a world very different than the one he knew. Much more than before 'Tek', the highly-addictive electronic designer narcotic of the 21st century, seems to be prevalent. His wife has divorced him and disappeared together with their son. He wants them back and he wants justice for those undercover policemen who were murdered by unknown conspirators which led to his imprisonment for a crime he did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cyber, tech noir, exciting, serious, suspenseful, detective, futuristic
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The Gene Generation (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic world, Michelle lives everyday battling with DNA Hackers who use their skills to hack into people's bodies and kill them. She is an assassin, trying to keep her younger brother, Jackie, out of trouble. When Jackie gets involved in a petty crime of robbery, he propels himself into the world of DNA Hackers, Shylocks (Loan Sharks) and Gangs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Singapore, South Korea, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, bleak, cyber, futuristic, apocalyptic, action adventure, neo noir
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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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Megaville (1990)
Plot Summary:
In the future, national boundaries have been broken down and two giant super-states remain—the bleak, oppressive, and totalitarian "Hemisphere," and the sprawling and futuristic "Megaville." Megaville has an elected president, but the entire system is rife with corruption. All forms of media are encouraged in Megaville, but this freedom has aided moral decay with the distribution of pornography and violent movies. Outside Megaville lies the Hemisphere; whereas Megaville is clean and ordered, the Hemisphere is in a state of decay. Travel from the Hemisphere to Megaville is restricted with few exceptions to the powerful. An outwardly totalitarian regime governs the daily life of civilians in the Hemisphere and the people live in fear of the "CKS" (the secret police). All forms of media are illegal in the Hemisphere. CC wikipedia.org.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: cyber, futuristic, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Bombshell (1997)
Plot Summary:
Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, psychological, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, independent film
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Digital Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, fast, computer animated
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Dante 01 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by inner demons, caught up in the battle to control the monstrous power within him. It's a power that will infect the other highly dangerous occupants of Dante 01, gaolors and prisoners alike, unleashing a violent rebellion that turns this terrifying, labyrinthine world upside down. In the otherworldly hell of the ship's depths, through danger and redemption, each must journey to his very limits... each must confront his own Dragon.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, satanic, apocalyptic, tech noir, cyber
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Absolon (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a virus has infected everyone on the planet, and Absolon is a drug that everyone must take to stay alive. One corporation controls the drug. Murchison is the leader of this firm. A scientist who was researching the virus is found murdered, and Norman Scott is the policeman who investigates the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tech noir
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Natural City (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to transfer a cyborg's artificial intelligence into human host. This drives R to find a suitable host for his expiring cyborg Ria.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, cyber, exciting, bleak, serious, stylized, intellectual, experimental, apocalyptic, grindhouse
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Death Squad (2014)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2047. Our planet is ruled by the repressive Confederate Central Government (CCG). Ryan is a Green War rebel agent sent on a mission by Sponge to collect evidence against the CCG for its heinous crimes. Ryan soon faces the sinister Colonel Asimov, Major Anderson and a group of mercenaries lead by Lobo. His mission quickly turns chaotic when he meets Tuage, a mutant survivor of the CCG rebellion who swears to help Ryan save what is left of their world … or does she?.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense, apocalyptic, bleak
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95ers: Time Runners (2013)
Plot Summary:
Time is unraveling, paradoxes are everywhere, and strangers with terrifying technologies are on the hunt. A thrilling, original, ultra indie full-length sci-fi movie that is the story of Sally Biggs, an FBI agent who has the power to rewind time. Her scientist husband has disappeared mysteriously, and the closer she gets to finding him, the more dangerous her life becomes. To save the future and her loved ones, Sally must enter a battlefield she never knew existed. Fortunately, she's a 95er. Surrounded by bizarre timespace paradoxes and hunted by terrifying forces from the future, Sally must discover the earth-shattering truth behind it all before her very being fades out of reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, gloomy, futuristic, independent film, interesting
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Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for failed tv series, released as a made for TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: captivating, intense, tense, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Android Apocalypse (2006)
Plot Summary:
Machines have taken over, but left humans thinking that they are still the ones in charge. The androids need humans because of the human brain fluid; without it the android brains can't work. Until the mad scientist finds out how to make this brain fluid artificially that is.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, epic
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They Are Among Us (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film concerns a sleepy town that is populated mostly by aliens who have been pretending to be humans for a lengthy period of time in order to eventually strip the planet of resources they need to live.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting
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Cyber Wars (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an insidious and deadly purpose.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Singapore
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cyber, suspense, tech noir, fast, serious, suspenseful
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Terminal Justice (1996)
Plot Summary:
In 2008 cybersex can only be surpassed by one thing: Cloned women, especially created for their clients. This puts Pamela Travis, a famous and much sought-after cybersex star in great danger - Dr. Vivyan, scientist and genius in the field of biotechnology wants her DNA to clone her for his many customers. Sergeant Bobby Chase is assigned to protect her, but can't prevent her from being kidnapped. In order to free Pamela, Chase has to risk his life in a deadly virtual reality game called "Hellraiser".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: futuristic, tech noir, cyber, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized