Best tv shows like Dark World 2: Equilibrium
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Plot Summary:
Every day, they steal your strength, your emotions, your love. We call them the Shadow. Work like us - to deliver them back to the Dark World. Impending disaster, and humanity can be at the mercy of darkness ... And only we can keep the balance.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, suspense
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The Hero Yoshihiko (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in an ancient time, when the whole country was covered in thick forests. A mysterious plague breaks out, resulting in countless deaths. A pure young man named Yoshihiko becomes chosen as a hero, and he sets out on a journey in order to save a village. He has two goals – to bring back the legendary plant that can cure the plague, and to rescue his father Teruhiko who left to find the plant but never returned.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, sexy, parody, heroic, spoof
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While the Fern Flowers (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kirill Andreyev lives in Moscow with his sister and works for a tabloid newspaper "Secret Truth". His life changes one day when a colleague gifts him a magic amulet. The amulet transports Kirill to Altai mountains where folklore and magic are real.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: exciting, enigmatic, tense, ambiguous ending, funny
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Kamen Rider Agito (2001)
Plot Summary:
A man named Shoichi Tsugami has lost his memories. He doesn't know who he is, where he came from, or how he came upon his peculiar circumstances. Tsugami, seemingly for no reason, transforms into a powerful superhuman, Agito, whenever in the presence of the beings referred by the police as the "Unknown", a race of powerful monsters that have been causing murders around Tokyo, targeting certain people as their prey. In response, the police department unleash their newest weapon: the G3 powersuit. G3 and Agito don't know whether they should join up and defeat the Unknowns, their common enemy, or to combat each other, keeping the mysteries that entwine them separate. Ultimately, even more mysteries unfold, with the appearance of Kamen Rider Gills, who is on a search to uncover why his father committed suicide. These mysteries and others collide, as the true nature of Agito would ultimately determine the fate of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: super sentai, exciting, captivating, futuristic, mystical
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Power Rangers Ninja Steel (2017)
Plot Summary:
A new team of superhuman power rangers must work together and use their new ninja powers to prevent evil from dominating the human race and from destroying the planet earth and the universe.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: super sentai, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious, mecha
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Kamen Rider Movie War 2010: Kamen Rider vs. Kamen Rider W & Decade (2009)
Plot Summary:
Movie War 2010 is split into three parts. The Kamen Rider Decade portion of the film, written by Shoji Yonemura, is titled Kamen Rider Decade: The Last Story. It follows the series cliffhanger ending at the climax of the Rider War. The film is billed as the "True Ending" and was originally subtitled Decade vs. All Riders. The Kamen Rider W portion of the film, written by Riku Sanjo, is titled Kamen Rider W: Begins Night, taking place between episodes 14 and 15 of Kamen Rider W, investigates the origins of Kamen Rider Double as briefly shown in the cold opening of the series' first episode, referred to in the series as the "Begins Night". The film is described as the "True Beginning" and was originally subtitled Episode Zero. In the final portion of the film entitled Movie War 2010, a convergence of the two films that brings the casts and characters of Decade and W to finish the fight with Super Shocker together.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, futuristic
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Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mysterious aliens and evil monsters that shouldn’t exist are attacking! Zero, Ribut, Taiga, Z (Zett), 80, Max, Mebius, Great, Powered, Grigio, and many more Ultra Heroes fight together to solve this mysterious case, which could end up affecting the whole universe. However, this is only the beginning! A conspiracy is underway – and stories are intersecting. What is the aim of the golden giant working in the shadows?! While connecting to the TV series Ultraman Z as well, a new history of Ultraman begins!.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, super sentai
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Ultraman Nexus (2004)
Plot Summary:
The TLT is a covert international anti-monster unit established secretly to combat Space Beasts, mysterious monsters that are out to attack humans in the year 2009. One of the TLT's new recruits, Kazuki Komon, is attacked by one of them prior to reporting for duty. However, he is saved by a silver giant that he names "Ultraman". What no one knows is that the silver giant is an Ultraman — to be precise, Ultraman Nexus, ready to fight the Space Beasts to save the planet Earth.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, super sentai
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Luca (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ji-O has a special power and a secret, but he doesn't know who he really is. He is chased by mysterious figures, while he tries to find answers to numerous questions that surround him. Goo-Reum is a detective. When she decides on a course of action, she won't change no matter what. Her parents disappeared when she was only a young child. Goo-Reum chases after the truth behind her parents' disappearance. She meets Ji-O and her life changes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Dark World (2010)
Plot Summary:
In Russia, the mystic student of linguistic Marina Leonova is in love with her boyfriend Artur. However, he blows her off and dates their schoolmate Vika. When their class travels to the countryside with their Professor Sergey Rudolfovich to research mystic spots, they meet a weird old lady in the forest and she invites them to have a meal with her. The outcast Marina stays by the lake and Artur seeks her to have sex. However they are surprised by their friends and the ashamed Marina runs to the forest. Kostya, who has a crush on Marina, follows her and they get lost in the woods. Marina and Kostya reach an abandoned house and Marina decides to explore the spot. She finds the mummified corpse of a witch holding a shield and she is possessed by a force and faints. Sergey and his students find her and he call a rescue team to help Marina. However, a violent elite squad in a helicopter arrives.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, enigmatic, suspense, mythical, offbeat
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Juan Dela Cruz (2013)
Plot Summary:
The series tells about Juan dela Cruz, an orphan boy who was brought up in a church by a Roman Catholic parish priest named Father Cito, who guided him towards goodness and faith upon Jesus. His devotion to Christ led Juan to refer to Jesus as "bossing" (Filipino for "boss", due to Jesus being considered as the "shepherd", or "boss", and the "flock" the followers of Jesus). One day, Father Cito was killed by a thief, and Juan ends up at Lola Belen's house in Quiapo, Manila. Unknown to him, he is half-aswang, the son of Samuel Alejandro, the Haring Aswang (King Aswang) and also the prophesied Anak ng Dilim (Child of Darkness). He is fated to rule over the Aswangs and take over the human race. However, Amelia, Juan's mother, is a human and a Tagabantay (Guardian), coming from an ancient lineage of defenders using the Bakal na Krus (Iron Cross) to protect the humans from the Aswangs. By the time he grows up as an adult, Juan later joins the Kapatiran (Brotherhood), a group composed of.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Eagles and Youngster (2018)
Plot Summary:
The main character begins a dangerous journey of human against nature to find an antidote to save his master Shifu by traveling to a faraway land where he makes friends with a few key characters. ~~ Adapted from the novel written by Tian Xia Ba Chang following the rivalry of two hunting clans at the end of the 80s.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, tense, enigmatic, captivating, period piece
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Immortality (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in a tumultuous era where the world is facing a probable invasion by the demon world due to a rift in the heavens. The world's most powerful cultivator Chu Wanning did not forget his original intention of joining the world to help the Dao cultivation and sets out on a mission to protect the beings of the world. He uses his abilities to prevent the heavens from splitting and at the same time, his compassion and love influences his misguided disciple Mo Ran to return to the righteous path he has strayed from. Chu Wanning also successfully imparts the value of putting the greater good before personal desires to Mo Ran. In the end, the pair of teacher and disciple dedicate their lives and work together with the rest of the cultivating heroes to stop the villains' conspiracy and protect the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: xianxia, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, tear jerker, costume drama, tearjerker
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The Nevers (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair, a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: futuristic, period piece, tense, captivating, exciting, atmospheric, gothic, anime, costume drama, historical drama
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Xuan-Yuan Sword: Scar of Sky (2012)
Plot Summary:
Can they put their differences aside for the greater good? Chen Jing Chou is a playful, childish descendant of the Chen Dynasty. Yu Wen Tuo is the descendant of the rival Northern Zhou Dynasty who is on a mission to recover his fallen empire. When Jing Chou’s shifu (master) is placed into a frozen limbo by Satan, Jing Chou and Wen Tuo join forces to hunt down 10 mystical weapons that can close the Gates of Hell and banish the evil demons from the human world. Joining them on this epic journey are Tuo Ba Yu’er and Du Gu Ning Ke. Can the bickering group put their personal feelings aside for the good of humanity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, xianxia, exciting
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Sapphire Blue (2014)
Plot Summary:
Gwen has just discovered, that she's the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. Now she has to juggle with constant trips to the past, her relationships with Gideon and figuring out dark secrets surrounding the Circle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, enigmatic, intellectual, action adventure, entertaining
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Kamen Rider W (2009)
Plot Summary:
A detective, Hidari Shotaro, and an unknown library-boy, Phillip, combine to become a half-green half-black hero to protect Fuuto City by using Gaia Memories.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, futuristic, super sentai, buddy comedy, detective
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GARO (2005)
Plot Summary:
"Where there is light, shadows lurk and fear reigns. But by the blade of Knights, Mankind was given hope." The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, exciting, tense, captivating, weird
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Ultraman Ginga (2013)
Plot Summary:
All of the Ultramen and monsters have been turned into figures known as Spark Dolls and became scattered throughout the universe. A young man named Hikaru Raido finds an item called the Ginga Spark which not only allows him to become Ultraman Ginga, but also allows him to Ultraive with the figures to change them to their rightful size and become one with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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How I Became a Super Hero (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, weird
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4 Against Z (2005)
Plot Summary:
Vier gegen Z is a German children's television program shown on ARD and KI.KA in which four children are appointed as "Wächter" by their deceased aunt Hedda to prevent Zanrelot, the "Herrscher der Finsternis" from leaving the underworld and gaining control over Lübeck. As of September 2006, two seasons of 13 episodes each have been broadcast. The show's success has sparked the creation of a total of 6 novelized versions of the television episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, light, serious
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Agent Revelation (2021)
Plot Summary:
An ancient dust that controls humans is unleashed, but mysteriously affects Jim Yung who gains superpowers. Jim is taken to an underground base where he's trained to be an operative to take on an imminent alien threat and learn why aliens have returned to Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating
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Marvel Studios: Legends (2021)
Plot Summary:
Revisit the epic heroes, villains and moments from across the MCU in preparation for the stories still to come. Each dynamic segment feeds directly into the upcoming series — setting the stage for future events. This series weaves together the many threads that constitute the unparalleled Marvel Cinematic Universe.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Short, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 7 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Believe (2014)
Plot Summary:
Believe is about an unlikely relationship between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, spooky, stylized
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The Forest (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, enigmatic, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark, psychological, suspense, serious, spooky, psychological thriller
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The Hexer (2002)
Plot Summary:
Wiedźmin is a 2002 fantasy television series. 13 episodes were made. The series received relatively poor reviews, particularly in the light of the failure of the preceding movie. The story is based on the stories of The Witcher, by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, dark fantasy, bleak, comic
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Motherland: Fort Salem (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country, the series follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into early deployment.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, sad, anime, deep, supernatural thriller, entertaining, mystical, ironic, whimsical
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Kamen Rider Zi-O (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the fall of 2018, a time machine appears before a hero born in the year 2000. The hero has always dreamed of becoming a king. A mysterious girl appears from the time machine, telling the hero “I come from the year 2068, a world without hope where the king of demons reigns supreme.” The girl has come from the future in a desperate effort to change her own time. The girl then gives the hero an ominous warning “You will become Kamen Rider Zi-O, King of Time, the demon destined to rule the world.” Can this really be the hero’s fate? This is the story of a Kamen Rider who would be king, who will fight to save the past, present, and future, encountering the various Heisei Kamen Riders throughout space-time.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, super sentai
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Kamen Rider Gaim (2013)
Plot Summary:
Zawame-city is a company town where the Yggdrasil Corporation. In the city, young street-dancers divide up into a few groups. They enjoy dance battle and a sport that fighting between small animals summoned from a different world, but monsters also come after a while. A former street-dancer, Kouta Kazuraba gets a gadget that can him to make a Kamen Rider, wants to protect people against monsters.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, super sentai, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger vs Keisatsu Sentai Patranger (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Lupin Collection, a vast ensemble of dangerous items acquired by the legendary gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, was stolen by an interdimensional crime syndicate known as Gangler. The Gangler receive opposition from two Super Sentai teams: one being the Lupinrangers who aim to steal back the collection to not only live up their namesake's reputation but also wish back those they have lost. The other team are Patrangers, tasked to uphold justice by retrieving the collection and taking down the members of Gangler. Both teams fight not only the Gangler, but each other, in order to collect the pieces of the Lupin Collection.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: super sentai, exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, mecha
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Zombies Have Fallen (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman (Tansy Parkinson) who possesses the supernatural powers and visions of an upcoming apocalypse is aided by a retired bounty hunter who must protect her from those who wish to use her abilities for evil.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic