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Plot Summary:
A Swedish TV Mini-series directed by Richard Hobert.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 150 min
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Life in a Day (1999)
Plot Summary:
A scientific experiment in rapid-cell growth goes awry when a lab assistant steals the developed serum and injects it into his pregnant girl friend. The result is a child that grows through adulthood and will die within days, if a cure cannot be found.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
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Zonen (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Military evacuates a zone in the Lapland mountains, under the pretext that there is an ongoing exercise. The district doctor gets suspicious when one of his patients, who lived inside the zone, suddenly dies. The body disappears without a trace.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 336 min
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Broker (2021)
Plot Summary:
A broker with a hidden agenda plots to steal a scientist's research, yet a mutual attraction develops between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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Kessler's Lab (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kessler's lab was created to run drug trials to determine what went wrong with a once popular mood stabilizing drug. Dr. Martin Kessler cloned his own daughter, who died from the drug. Once with ten test subjects, he and Dr Josephine Vanderhill are now left with only a few dying, sick clones, and one healthy placebo, Jenny. Daniel Powell runs the day to day operations and tends to the clones, administering the very drug that is killing them. When Dr. Kessler unexpectedly dies, instead of shutting down the facility, Dr Vanderhill wants to intensify the testing. She targets Jenny, and convinces Daniel to administer the pills in highly concentrated doses, sure to be fatal. Now conflicted, Daniel is determined to stop her and save the clones.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Duplicates (1992)
Plot Summary:
A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tech noir
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The Summit (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set on the eve of the next G8 Summit, this miniseries follows a mother's desperate struggle to bring justice to her murdered son, fallen victim to a corrupt pharmaceutical company.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Prototype (1983)
Plot Summary:
An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tech noir
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Project Orpheus (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of five top medicine students is admitted to a prestigious program. They'll be working for a renowned professor who turns out to have a secret agenda. The students soon discover a extremely dangerous experiment called Project Orpheus.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Dr. Brain (2021)
Plot Summary:
An emotional journey that follows a brain scientist who is obsessive about figuring out new technologies to access the consciousness and memories of the brain. His life goes sideways when his family falls victim to a mysterious accident, and he uses his skills to access memories from his wife’s brain to piece together the mystery of what actually happened to his family and why.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Swarm (2023)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious events are piling up in the oceans around the world: whales destroy boats, deep-sea crabs attack beaches, mussels paralyze container ships. A previously unknown ice worm destabilizes continental slopes in the oceans and triggers tsunamis. A deadly pathogen is spreading from the coasts in drinking water. More and more people in the world are in mortal danger. On the feverish search for the causes of the mysterious phenomena, a small group of international scientists comes together and the previously unthinkable finally becomes a certainty. A previously unknown species exists in the sea and this swarm intelligence is attacking mankind. But hardly anyone believes the researchers. And so the group dares to go on a life-threatening mission on their own. The traces lead them with their research ship into the eternal ice of the Arctic Ocean. An ecological thriller based on the international bestselling novel by Frank Schätzing. The most expensive German TV production of all time.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, France, Japan
Duration: 46 min
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Chimera Strain (2018)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the immortal Turritopsis jellyfish.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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First Born (1988)
Plot Summary:
Edward Forester is a scientist with a godlike mission to improve the human race - but now desperately needs to undo his own creation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags:
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Superstorm (2007)
Plot Summary:
Superstorm is a three-part British docudrama miniseries written and directed by Julian Simpson, about a group of scientists that try to divert and weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding. Superstorm originally aired on BBC One for a period of three weeks, totaling three 59 minute episodes, from 15 April 2007 to 29 April 2007. Each episode was followed by a half-hour documentary on BBC Two on extreme weather monitoring and forecasting, called The Science of Superstorms. The series was also aired on the Discovery Channel in the U.S. and Canada during the summer of 2007. Superstorm is a co-production of BBC Worldwide, Discovery Channel and ProSieben, in association with M6 and NHK. Ailsa Orr and Michael Mosley, who made also Supervolcano, are the executive producers for BBC, while Jack E. Smith is the executive producer for Discovery Channel. The miniseries was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on 2 July 2007.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany, France, Japan
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Sleepwalkers (1997)
Plot Summary:
Sleepwalkers is an American science fiction series which began airing on NBC in late 1997. It tells the story of a team of researchers who used technology to enter the dreams of psychiatric patients in order to diagnose their problems. The show was created by Stephen Kronish and David S. Goyer, who would go on to produce the Blade films.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
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Biohackers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mia goes to medical school to get close to a professor she suspects had a hand in her past family tragedy and gets tangled in the world of biohacking.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, intellectual
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Cold Lazarus (1996)
Plot Summary:
Dennis Potter's last production for television, screened alongside Karaoke.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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The Eight (2005)
Plot Summary:
HaShminiya is a television series that was broadcast on the Israeli channel Arutz HaYeladim in HOT. Although the show was designated for children and teenagers, it was also popular with adults.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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The Fear Index (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Alex Hoffman, an American ex-pat physicist, creates an AI-driven system that exploits fear in the financial markets and operates at lightning speed to make big returns. But on the day of launch, Alex’s sanity is shaken after he is viciously attacked at his home by a man who knows all of his security codes. After more unexplained occurrences, Alex becomes convinced he’s being framed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, thrilling
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Megastorm (2009)
Plot Summary:
Through his Atmospheric Research Institute, Robert Terrell (Treat Williams) has finally fulfilled his lifelong dream of completing "weather creation" technology, which has been a landmark event. However, during a test run, a team composed of Dr. Jonathan Kirk, Carly Meyers and Dr. Jack Hoffman send a blast of energy into the ionosphere, driving the planet into unexpected natural disasters. The experiment also causes a damage of the weather control laboratory which causes the police led by the detective Devon Williams to begin the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political, disaster movie
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The One (2021)
Plot Summary:
Love — and lies — spiral when a DNA researcher helps discover a way to find the perfect partner, and creates a bold new matchmaking service.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 337 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, intellectual
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Quatermass (1979)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious destruction of the new space station, young people find themselves drawn to a stone circle in England, and other locations around Earth. They believe they'll be taken to a better place by a higher power. Only Professor Quatermass realizes that the young people are being tricked by an alien power, who wants to "harvest" humanity. It's up to Quatermass to find a way to stop the deadly plans of the aliens.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 204 min
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Deep (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it’s too late.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, deep
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Eve of Destruction (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two scientists attempt to discover a new unlimited energy resource, but their experiment is sabotaged by eco-terrorists. A black hole is then formed and could destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, serious, disaster movie
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Second Chance (2016)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced, 75-year-old ex-sheriff, whose life ends at the hands of corrupt cops, is brought back to life and given a second chance by a pair of young tech scientists, as a 35-year-old with unpredictable near-superhuman abilities.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, serious, futuristic, cliffhanger, detective
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Childhood's End (2015)
Plot Summary:
After peaceful aliens invade earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 247 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, philosophical, suspense, serious, futuristic, thought provoking, exciting, apocalyptic, stylized, intellectual
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Real Humans (2012)
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Set in a parallel universe, Real Humans imagines a world where robots have become so human that they're barely distinguishable from real humans and follows the resulting emotional effects on two families as well as the trials of a group of robots who have attained free will and want their freedom from human ownership.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: stylized, serious, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful, intellectual, cyber, contemplative
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Project Blue Book (2019)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.”.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, thought provoking, anthology, historical drama, corny
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The Hot Zone (2019)
Plot Summary:
Heroic U.S. Army scientist Dr. Nancy Jaax, working with a secret military specialized team, puts her life on the line to head off an Ebola outbreak before it spread to the human population.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: rough, suspenseful, psychological, apocalyptic, terrifying, anthology, stylized, grim, gloomy
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Extant (2014)
Plot Summary:
An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic, serious, spooky, exciting, apocalyptic, atmospheric, mind bending
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Survivors (2008)
Plot Summary:
Survivors was a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, the series is not a remake of the 1970s BBC television series Survivors, created by Terry Nation, but is loosely based on the novel of the same name that Nation wrote following the first series of the 1970s series. Two series were produced of the new series. Series 1 ran on BBC One and BBC HD in November–December 2008, and series 2 ran in January–February 2010, ending with a cliffhanger. The BBC announced on 13 April 2010 that, due to poor viewing figures and other considerations, Survivors had been cancelled. The series had its premiere in South Africa on BBC Entertainment in September 2009, in France on DTTV channel NRJ 12 on 12 January 2010, and on BBC America in the United States on 13 February 2010. The series' Australian premiere was on Channel Nine, on 21 March 2010.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, serious, tense, captivating, stylized, atmospheric, cliffhanger, clever, bleak, suspenseful