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Plot Summary:
Set in an alternative 1970s where Germany won the Second World War and occupied Europe, a soap opera called 'An Englishman's Castle' plays out through writer Peter Ingram.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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I, Justice (1968)
Plot Summary:
At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting (Jirí Vrstála). The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold, most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison, with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement. At night, Herman is taken to a patient in whom he, to his horror, recognizes Hitler (Fritz Diez).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, neo noir, political thriller, psychotronic, period drama, political drama
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The Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
An Israeli tv show about 6 kids who discover one day, under an asteroid attack on earth that kills everything but them what their true destiny is- to save the world. Together they go through an amazing ride that includes supernatural powers, time travel, teleportation, joined enemies, hope and love. A highly popular tv show among the Israeli population.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Plot Against America (2020)
Plot Summary:
An alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 374 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, disturbing, harsh, period piece
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It Happened Here (1964)
Plot Summary:
It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invaders for a quiet life. The protagonist, a nurse, is caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, dieselpunk, independent film, mockumentary, semi documentary, tense, rough, bleak, serious, captivating
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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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54 Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
5 people trapped in a bunker after a nuclear and biological attack are forced to make an impossible decision - either one dies or they all die.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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1990 (1977)
Plot Summary:
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: futuristic
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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
Plot tags:
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1983 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland’s liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 448 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, suspense, erotic, neo noir
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V (2009)
Plot Summary:
V is an American science fiction television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009 to March 15, 2011. A remake of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a technologically advanced alien species which ostensibly comes in peace, but actually has sinister motives. V stars Morena Baccarin, Lourdes Benedicto, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Logan Huffman, Charles Mesure, Elizabeth Mitchell, Laura Vandervoort and Scott Wolf, and was executive produced by Scott Rosenbaum, Yves Simoneau, Scott Peters, and Jace Hall. The series was produced by The Scott Peters Company, HDFilms and Warner Bros. Television.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, stylized, cliffhanger, tense, exciting, serious, atmospheric, sweet
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The Prisoner (2009)
Plot Summary:
An update to the cult favorite series from the 1960s about a government agent who is kidnapped and sent to a remote island known as "the Village".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychological, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspenseful, surreal, stylized, postmodern, thought provoking
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The Man in the High Castle (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel, The Man in the High Castle explores what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 2219 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, apocalyptic, intellectual, historical drama, exciting, retro, political
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Plot Summary:
Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspense, disturbing, stylized, thought provoking, political drama
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Incorporated (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, intellectual, interesting
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The Last Train (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by Matthew Graham and produced for ITV by Granada Television. In the United States, the Fox Network purchased the rights to produce a new version of the series soon after its original UK transmission. Retitled The Ark, the idea did not progress beyond the pilot stage. As of May 2013, the series has not been released on DVD or any other format, and has never aired in the US.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, gloomy, bleak, serious, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, disaster movie
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Omniscient (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a city where citizens are monitored 24/7, a tech employee must outsmart her surveillance drone in order to investigate a murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, futuristic, contemplative, philosophical, erotic, sensual
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Plot Summary:
When day becomes night, a strict curfew forces ordinary people to go pedal to the metal in a deadly race for freedom. During this contest, alliances and friendships are both made and lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
Separated across continents, petro-chemist Andy Yeats and his family must survive the deadly effects of a sudden global oil crisis and find the mastermind behind it all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 42 min
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Into the Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, futuristic, intellectual, twisted
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To the Lake (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mini-series in which an unknown virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. There is no electricity, money has lost all value and those who are still not infected, are desperately fighting for food and fuel. The main character, Sergei, lives outside the city with the woman he loves and her autistic son. It's still safe there. In spite of that he rushes to Moscow to save his ex-wife and their son, although she hates Sergei . These people, who never believed they'd be under the same roof again, have to put the past behind them and set off on a long, dangerous journey north to find an isolated hunting lodge on a deserted island. The Outbreak is a family drama in the midst of a global disaster.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, serious
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Brave New World (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 415 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, futuristic, surprise ending, apocalyptic, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, intellectual, realistic, saga
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Counterpart (2017)
Plot Summary:
Howard Silk is a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, melancholic, bleak, suspense, philosophical, spiritual, realistic, intelligent, interesting
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Plot Summary:
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 290 min
Plot tags: clever, talky, serious, political thriller, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, tense, atmospheric, thought provoking
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Years and Years (2019)
Plot Summary:
As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if this ordinary family could change the world.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, political, light, apocalyptic, black comedy, feel good, entertaining, dark comedy, queer cinema
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The Peripheral (2022)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks all of her dreams of finding a purpose, romance, and glamour in what seems like a game…but it also puts her and her family in real danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, thrilling, smart, dark, clever
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The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 253000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, melancholic, bleak, captivating, apocalyptic, intellectual, thought provoking, erotic, exciting
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017)
Plot Summary:
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, sentimental, intellectual, realistic, thrilling, futuristic, interesting
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3% (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a future where the elite inhabit an island paradise far from the crowded slums, you get one chance to join the 3% saved from squalor.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, twisted, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking
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The Rain (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, exciting, apocalyptic, tense, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, compassionate, sitcom
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Black Mirror (2011)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world. Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 622000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: philosophical, serious, thought provoking, anthology, clever, bleak, stylized, cynical, disturbing, biting