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Plot Summary:
The year is 1886, when New England's fishing harbours are the scene for a "creature of unknown origin" destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a marine expert, and Ned Land, the iron willed sailor, to learn the truth of the "monster" roaming the seas. The great novelist, Jules Verne, described this perilous journey to the darkest depths of the sea with Captain Nemo aboard the Nautilus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, epic, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne is a 22-episode science fiction television series in the steampunk genre that first aired in June 2000 on CBC Television in Canada and in syndication in the United States. The plot concept is predicated on a vast fictional conspiracy beginning with the revelation that Jules Verne did not merely write the stories behind his famous science fiction classic books Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth or Around the World in Eighty Days — but actually experienced these adventures personally. A television technological historic footnote, this work was the first hour-long series filmed entirely in HDTV format.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, metafiction, vintage
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Plot Summary:
Some survivors of a drowning ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city, where they may be trapped for the rest of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale, retro, classic horror, natural horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966)
Plot Summary:
A space ship crash lands on the third planet of a distant solar system, killing all hands except for a young boy named Tang. The rescue ship arrives some 20 years later. One of the crew, a girl named Linda meets Tang and falls in love with him. They are attacked by the native humanoids of the planet and many of them are killed off. Also, the crew encounters many strange beasts on this strange, but somewhat familiar world.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, serious, surprise ending, psychotronic
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Tremors (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tremors: The Series is a television spin-off of the Tremors franchise. Originally airing out of order on the Sci-Fi Channel, it was later aired in its proper sequence on the G4 Network.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, scary
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
Plot Summary:
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen, which enabled the movie's sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the television series. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the first of Irwin Allen's four science fiction television series as well as the longest running. The show's main theme was underwater adventure. Voyage was broadcast on ABC from September 14, 1964 to March 31, 1968, and was the decade's longest-running American science fiction television series with continuing characters. The 110 episodes produced included 32 shot in black and white, and 78 filmed in color. The first two seasons took place in the then future of the 1970s. The final two seasons took place in the 1980s. The show starred Richard Basehart and David Hedison.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, vintage
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Master of the World (1961)
Plot Summary:
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, exciting, offbeat, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, psychotronic
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, fairy tale, exciting, captivating, psychotronic
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Around the World Under the Sea (1966)
Plot Summary:
A five man submarine plants sensors around the worlds oceans to monitor for a impending earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, vintage
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30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007)
Plot Summary:
Captain Nemo goes even deeper into insanity in this mesmerizing fantasy tale. Once again at the helm of his fearsome, wildly advanced vessel, the nautical madman endeavors to turn the world above the waves upside down.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, fairy tale, mockbuster, offbeat, suspenseful, computer animated, suspense, psychotronic
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Reign of the Gargoyles (2007)
Plot Summary:
During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Jabberwock (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alec a courageous but impetuous knight returns to his home village having been summoned by his older brother Francis to care for their ailing father. The brothers' reunion is short-lived as a traveller terrified and half-crazed arrives to warn of an imminent attack by a winged creature with the body of a dragon the head of a gruesome insect and deadly claws. As the beast descends upon the peaceful town brash Alec draws his sword and the villagers arm themselves. Now the brothers must stand together to save their home and the people they love.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 689
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, serious
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Plot Summary:
In this direct-to-video remake, when an accident leaves a group of researchers trapped beneath the earth's crust, it's up to a drill team, led by Joseph Harnet (Greg Evigan), to rescue them. But once underground, the team discovers a mysterious -- and horrifying -- subterranean universe. Giant spiders and treacherous dinosaurs abound in this pulse-pounding update of Jules Verne's classic sci-fi adventure, which also stars Dedee Pfeiffer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, mockbuster, exciting, disturbing, prehistoric, natural horror, computer animated, psychotronic, independent film, captivating
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Galactica 1980 (1980)
Plot Summary:
Galactica 1980 is a science fiction television series, and a spin-off from the original Battlestar Galactica television series. It was first broadcast on the ABC network in the United States from January 27 to May 4, 1980. It was later shown in reruns on the Sci Fi Channel.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: saga, epic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, vintage
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The Mysterious Island (1973)
Plot Summary:
1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before crash landing their leader, the brilliant engineer Cyrus Smith falls to his apparent death in the raging waters, but later turns up completely unharmed and with no memory of how he was saved. His fellow castaways are: the famous journalist Gedeon Spilett, the salty sailor Bonaventure Pencroff, the orphaned boy Harbert Brown and the black servant of Smith, Nab. The dog Top also joined them in the escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Cameroon
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Logan's Run (1977)
Plot Summary:
In a futuristic society where reaching the age of 30 is a death sentence, a rebellious law enforcement agent goes on the run in search of Sanctuary.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, vintage
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2010: Moby Dick (2010)
Plot Summary:
That infamous whale is bigger, badder and a whole lot stronger in this sci-fi reimagining of Herman Melville’s classic tale of the battle between man, sea and sea creature starring “Xena” alum Rene O’Connor as the (traditionally male) narrator. But the boat — now a high-tech submarine — is also bigger, and Capt. Ahab is as determined as ever to settle the score and take down the mighty sea mammal that maimed him.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, creepy, scary, independent film
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The Neptune Factor (1973)
Plot Summary:
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, rough, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, experimental
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Plot Summary:
Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: epic, gothic horror, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, computer animated
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seaQuest DSV (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, futuristic, exciting, serious, nautical
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Moby Dick (2011)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 184 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, nautical, fairy tale, stylized, period drama
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The Deep (2010)
Plot Summary:
As the world's energy supplies dwindle, the Orpheus, a research submarine, delves into the deep of the Arctic Ocean searching for rare micro-organisms, but the crew soon find themselves in peril.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, nautical
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Moby Dick (1998)
Plot Summary:
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, epic, costume drama, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative
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Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003)
Plot Summary:
Under Paul ‘Muad'Dib’ Atreides' rule as Emperor, the planet Arrakis has enjoyed a renaissance. However, the revolution that Muad'dib inspired has transformed into a brutal jihad that has plunged all of humanity into a bitter, neverending cycle of interstellar war. Now a conspiracy on Arrakis threatens to rob Muad'Dib of his throne and his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 266 min
Plot tags: futuristic, atmospheric, epic, intense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, saga, cult classic
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V: The Final Battle (1984)
Plot Summary:
A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerrilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 272 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious, futuristic, epic, saga, rough, vintage
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The Lost World (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. Premiered in the fall of 1999, it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a cliffhanger in 2002 after funding for a fourth season fell through. To date, the cliffhanger remains unresolved. All three seasons were released in DVD box sets through 2004. The series continued to be rerun in the United States on TNT at 5:00AM EST Monday through Friday, until eventually that came to an end as well. The series originally aired on Pay-per-view via DirecTV in the summer of 1999 before it aired on syndication. Pay-per-view aired the show uncensored, containing nudity and extended scenes. The syndicated version on TV and DVD releases are edited.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized, retro, sexy, heroic, exciting, offbeat
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Star Trek Continues (2013)
Plot Summary:
The USS Enterprise's historic five-year mission continues with all new episodes of the original series. "Star Trek: Continues", a new Trek series, beams down with exciting adventures of the Federation's most heroic crew led by Captain James T. Kirk. The lighting and color of the highly accurate sets accentuate the equally detailed props and costumes, matching the original series that ran from 1966-69! With acting and stories that also replicate the original series, the adventures are sure to dazzle even the most die hard Trek fans. Witness now the untold morality plays that explore the final frontier and more importantly... the human condition. Fans of the original series will especially enjoy the pilot episode as a familiar guest star from the original series reprises his role in a sequel entitled "Pilgrim of Eternity".
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, independent film, futuristic
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The Beast (1996)
Plot Summary:
Fishing and jobs are becoming scarce in the small seaport village of Graves Point, when mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur. Divers vanish and a young couple disappears at sea, their empty raft washing up on the shore. When a large, strange claw is discovered on the raft, the unsettled towns-people call on the marine biologist Dr. Herbert Talley (Ronald Guttman), who identifies it as belonging to a rare giant squid. With the help of Whip Dalton, the hunt is on! It becomes a battle of wills between Dalton and Talley as they try to locate the Beast, without the Beast getting them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: natural horror, suspenseful, serious, wild
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Shark Hunter (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. The scientists are wrong. In the darkness of the deep, an underwater research station has been viciously destroyed. Now a tough team of daring divers led by Spencer Northcutt [Antonio Sabato Jr. "Melrose Place"] is taking an experimental sub to war. It's killer instinct vs. sophisticated technology, deadly jaws vs. harpoon-tipped torpedoes, mega-shark vs. modern man is a thrilling extreme deep sea fight to the death.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, fast, psychotronic
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Mysterious Island (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious Island is a Canadian television series based on Jules Verne's novel L'Île mystérieuse. It ran for one season in 1995. The beginning of the series is much as in the novel. A group of refugees attempting to escape the American Civil War in a balloon wind up stranded on a remote Pacific island, where they are able to improvise a comfortable living for themselves while they wait for a passing ship. As time passes, they become suspicious that some unseen force is watching and directing their movements. The main difference between the protagonists of the series and those of the novel is the addition of a female character, the wife of Pencroft. The unseen watcher, Captain Nemo, is more active and less benevolent than in the novel. Able to monitor the island through steampunk-style closed-circuit television and other advanced devices, he treats the castaways as human laboratory specimens, influencing their environment to test their behaviour under stressful conditions. As the series progresses, his tests become more extreme as their continued co-operation threatens his preferred thesis that all humans are, at base, selfish and untrustworthy. In the series finale, Nemo apparently succeeds in breaking up the group; this proves to be a ruse by the protagonists, who are now certain of Nemo's existence. After they penetrate his hideaway, Nemo admits that the 'experiment' is ruined, and offers to return the castaways to civilisation in his submarine. In a final twist, he puts out to sea without them, apparently leaving them alone on the island, without his influence for good or ill.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Silent Venom (2009)
Plot Summary:
The only thing more terrifying than Snakes on a Plane is "Snakes on a Submarine," and that's exactly what we get in this claustrophobic, sub-aquatic thriller starring Luke Perry. Lieutenant Commander O'Neill (Perry) was piloting a retired submarine to its final port when Admiral Wallace (Tom Berenger) diverted the crew for one last mission: rescue an imperiled army research team before they meet a watery death. In order to reach the researchers and their top secret cargo while avoiding detection by a hostile enemy fleet, Lieutenant Commander O'Neill orders his crew to "run silent" in the depths. That silence is soon broken, however, when the cargo proves to be two genetically altered leviathans. Now, far beneath the ocean floor, a new kind of predator emerges to prove just how vulnerable man truly is when there's nowhere left to run.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, fast, natural horror, ridiculous