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Plot Summary:
It's millennium eve. At the stroke of midnight the Y2K computer bug kicks in, causing widespread chaos in the US.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
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Virtual Obsession (1998)
Plot Summary:
If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a reason and go quietly, or to use cryogenics to hope you could be cured someday in the future, or to download your consciousness into computer memory where you could still continue to interact with tho ones you love?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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e-Virus (2015)
Plot Summary:
The CIA is tasked with keeping the United States one step ahead of any opposing military technology. While stealth and drone technology have dominated the battlefield, the enemy has constantly engineered equivalent weapons. But, now the CIA has developed a revolutionary type of warfare. It is called e-Virus which is considered a hybrid electronic virus because it contains deadly biological data. This unique quality has made e-Virus exceptionally remarkable because it is delivered electronically via smart technology through the use of a text, e-mail or any other form of electronic communication. e-Virus can infect any human or animal but does not kill them unless they are the target and also makes anyone who has been infected a carrier. The film's protagonist is a brilliant computer engineer, by the name of Michael Crane, who has taken on the project's final stage and has proven that e-Virus is now fully operational. But, when secrecy is paramount over loyalty, Michael Crane is now.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags:
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War of the Worlds: The Attack (2023)
Plot Summary:
Three young astronomers fight to survive a deadly Martian invasion.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Electronic Lover (1966)
Plot Summary:
Mike Atkinson plays the Master in this surreal little soft-core film of the late 60's. The Master is a peeping tom who sends his minion to fellow various women around with a video camera, the images being sent back to the Masters lair where he can enjoy it in solitary. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Dream House (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young couple moves into a sophisticated "home of the future," that offers all the latest modern conveniences--including automated household appliances, lights that turn themselves on and off, and a miswired ….
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic, tech noir
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Virtual Girl (1998)
Plot Summary:
John Lewis, a programming genius, has it all- a beautiful wife and a child, a lavish home and he's on the brink of making it big after he finishes one last project, a CD-Rom Sex Game called Virtual Girl. However, things get complicated when a woman in a VR simulation becomes “real” and falls in love with the VR system creator.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, serious, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, campy
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H0us3 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of former computer University colleagues and their partners meet for dinner after several years only to share one of the most secret files on the Internet.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological
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Super Volcano (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a super-volcano threatens the island of Hawaii, a team of rescue and disaster experts who are called in to help must race against the clock to save those in the path of the molten lava and stop the volcano for good.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Nuclear Hurricane (2007)
Plot Summary:
Linda is trapped when the nuclear power plant in which she works threatens a meltdown, while her girlfriend takes on a major storm which could destroy their island home.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, disaster movie
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A Town Has Turned to Dust (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic desert hamlet, a ruthless town boss lynches a falsely accused Native American teen, setting the stage for revolt and a clash with a troubled, drunken sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, futuristic, disaster movie
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Absolute Aggression (1996)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2011, the prison system is run by the private sector. Business tycoon R.D. Crowley (Robert Davi) has created a Virtual Reality prison. The prisoner's bodies are locked in suspended animation while their mind traverses the lethal labyrinth of games Crowley has designed for them. Crowley allows wealthy sportsmen to participate, for a price, in deadly VR combat with the prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Menno's Mind (1997)
Plot Summary:
Menno is a computer programmer at The Resort, an enormous funhouse where people can live out their fantasies in virtual reality. Feeding their personal data into a software program called The System, head of security Felix Medina is setting up a big voting fraud, in order to win the presidential elections. His only concern is a group of terrorists, rebelling against his plans. As an ex-colleague of their leader, Menno is forced to help them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, dystopian
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Wifelike (2022)
Plot Summary:
A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the programming of the artificial human assigned as his companion to behave like his late wife. She begins to question her reality as memories of a past life begin to surface in a world where nothing is as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, futuristic
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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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Black Death (1992)
Plot Summary:
On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital -- by the plague, as the terrified coroners find out. While trying to keep this from the public to avoid a panic, epidemic commissioner Dr. Nora Hart has to investigate Sarah's identity and find everyone who had contact with her. If she misses a single person, the plague could kill half the city in a few days!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, apocalyptic
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Miami Magma (2011)
Plot Summary:
When an offshore-drilling rig in the Gulf bursts into flames and sinks, Antoinette Vitrini (Rachel Hunter) - a beautiful and insightful volcanologist - investigates the area with startling results. Confirming her theory that a long-dormant underground volcano exists in the region, Antoinette discovers that the illegal deep-sea drilling has awakened the beast. Now, catastrophic amounts of magma are about to be pumped out... right under the city of Miami. But as Antoinette and her team try to stop the impending disaster, they must also battle the corrupt company that caused the problem in the first place.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, disaster movie
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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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Xchange (2001)
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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Jackrabbit (2015)
Plot Summary:
Following a worldwide event known as The Reset, humanity rebuilds a society with aging mechanics where gleaming technology once stood. Surveillance now the status quo, society is slowly putting its shattered pieces back together under a watchful eye. After a friend’s suicide leaves behind a mysterious computer drive, a young computer prodigy and a shadowy hacker join together to decipher the clues that he’s left behind. The youthful creators of Jackrabbit have successfully constructed a world, which we haven’t previously seen on film. Mixing retro production design with slick storytelling, they deliver a cinematic dissonance that will result in a shock to the senses.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, retro, independent film, bizarre
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Bats (1999)
Plot Summary:
Genetically mutated bats escape and it's up to a bat expert and the local sheriff to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, rough, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic, retro, dark, slasher, saga
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Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
Plot Summary:
Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked, and after taking safeguards to preserve confidential material, each side agrees to allow it. As soon as the link is established the two become a new Super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: intelligent, philosophical, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cyber, suspense, psychotronic, depressing, political, surreal
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Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Starflight One, the world's first "hypersonic plane," which flies faster and higher than any other commercial jet. On the night of its maiden flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, a freak accident incolving an unauthorized rocket launch sends Starflight One out of the atmosphere and into a decaying orbit around the Earth. With no heat shielding and limited oxygen, it is up to the bravery of the crew and the ingenuity of NASA and the plane's designers to save the passengers trapped on board.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, suspense
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Atomic Twister (2002)
Plot Summary:
When tornadoes hit a nuclear power plant, critically damaging the plant's cooling system, the results could be catastrophic. Atomic Twister, a countdown to disaster, traces an extraordinary day in the lives of small town citizens who unexpectedly find themselves facing the possibility of mass destruction.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, disaster movie
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Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs. Tsunami (2013)
Plot Summary:
Deep underwater in the Marianas Trench an accident results in a devastating Tsunami that destroys the Hawaiian Islands as it continues toward the west coast. Panic ensues all up and down the western coast of North and South America. In an attempt to lessen its impact, scientists launch an underwater explosion that inadvertently makes the tsunami more powerful and focused on Los Angeles. Scientists rush to a solution while the military begins planning for the worst. Los Angeles begins emergency evacuation. Lives and loves are lost even as a brash young grad student comes up with a solution: start the mother of all earthquakes to counter the rushing torrent and raise the continental shelf off the coast of the United States.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, captivating, disturbing, disaster movie
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Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)
Plot Summary:
Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so close that it shift our course closer to the sun, causing rapid extreme heating, hopefully only mid-term. Nathan warns his sister, TV journalist Carly, and she her lover, police detective Tom. He brings his unruly daughter Kim, her ex-con lover C.J. and her mother, nurse Bonnie, when Nathan offers a flight to a friend's Arctic weather station. Tom takes charge of a dangerous trip to the airport, as everywhere on earth things catch fire and people fight for water, transport and sheer looting.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, disaster movie
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LA Apocalypse (2015)
Plot Summary:
For 5 billion years the Earth's core has operated like a giant, nuclear reactor. Now it's overheated, melting down like a bomb that's about to explode. The earth is being ripped apart at the seams and beneath LA, pressure is building. After a mass evacuation, Calvin Crawford is one of few left, desperately searching for his fiancée, Ashley Pace, who unbeknownst to him, has been kidnapped and is being held hostage. With LA becoming more unstable by the minute, Calvin, must find a way to save Ashley and get them both to safety before the city is completely annihilated.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Asteroid (1997)
Plot Summary:
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
Plot Summary:
When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, scary, psychological thriller, serious, disturbing, psychotronic, gloomy
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Metal Tornado (2011)
Plot Summary:
The HELIOS PROJECT is a high tech facility tasked with storing and converting solar rays into an endless supply of renewable energy. After years of research and millions of dollars, it is now time to test the system out.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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The Invasion (2007)
Plot Summary:
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, apocalyptic, breathtaking, sexy, psychotronic, mystical