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Plot Summary:
Freedom is a short-lived 2000 American science fiction television show on the UPN network. There were 12 episodes filmed but only 7 were aired in the US. Some episodes were further aired internationally, and the full series is still occasionally broadcast in Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Sci-Fi, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak, futuristic
Best tv shows and movies like Freedom (2000):
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Daybreak (1993)
Plot Summary:
When a substantial portion of the nation's populace falls victim to a deadly plague, the tyrannical government quarantines them in camps, offering no alternative except death in this cautionary tale from director Stephen Tolkin. But a gutsy rebel named Torch (Cuba Gooding Jr.) sets out to help the afflicted by leading an underground effort to spirit the victims to humane sanctuary. Moira Kelly co-stars as Gooding's love interest.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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Starship: Rising (2014)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt planetary federation… The ultimate weapon of destruction.... One starship captain stands between them….and intergalactic armageddon. STARSHIP: RISING - RISE UP OR DIE In the distant future, an immortal bionic leader, the product of genetic engineering, has ruled over the universe for 200 years. An uprising is being staged by those preserving natural birth.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, bleak, captivating, exciting, tense
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Serena and the Ratts (2012)
Plot Summary:
After years of killing for a man only known as "The Boss", Serena is burnt out. When she is hired for one final job, she teams up with an underground renegade group to stop her replacement from executing the assassination.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, tense, rough, serious
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Agent X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hidden from the view of the public - and even from the President - there is a top secret agent who is trained and ready to serve, deployed only at the careful discretion of the Vice President.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, tense, political, action adventure
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Sons of Liberty (2013)
Plot Summary:
A special operations unit races to find and prevent the construction of a devastating micro nuclear device created by a group of radical mercenaries whose political beliefs blur the line between terrorist and revolutionary.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, serious, captivating, rough, stylized
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World's End (2010)
Plot Summary:
Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, depleting the female population. In a barbaric environment where bio fuel, batteries, bullets and people are currency and marauders roam free, Wes tries to escape to a mythical world run on cold fusion "Plutopia", a place that may only exist in the mind. THE BILL IS DUE. 'Downstream' is a view of the not so distant future. We follow a young man (everyone's son) as he pays the price for society's decadence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, surreal, apocalyptic, captivating, psychological, bleak, suspenseful
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2009: Lost Memories (2002)
Plot Summary:
There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea is just another state of Japan's Empire & Seoul has become a major city. A Korean resistance group fights for liberty, independence & the restoration of true history. Two cops, Japanese & Korean, investigate the group.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized, cyber
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Harsh Realm (1999)
Plot Summary:
Harsh Realm is a science fiction television series about humans trapped inside a virtual reality simulation.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: cyber, cliffhanger, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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The Paper Will Be Blue (2006)
Plot Summary:
Out of enthusiasm, a Militia soldier abandons his platoon and decides to fight for the cause of the Revolution. His Lieutenant and the rest of the crew look for him during the confused night of 22-23 December 1989.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, biting, suspense
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Pensacola: Wings of Gold (1997)
Plot Summary:
Pensacola: Wings of Gold is a syndicated American action/adventure drama series based at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)
Plot Summary:
The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to find the culprit. Otherwise the space station will fail in its role to bring all the races together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, intellectual, epic, saga, serious, suspenseful, erotic, tense, light, sexy
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998)
Plot Summary:
Londo Mollari, the Centauri Emperor, recounts the initial contact between the Humans and Minbari, which resulted in a major incident and subsequent war, for an eager pair of youngsters wanting a story about love and conflict.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: christian film, intellectual, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful, light, clever, enigmatic, unusual plot structure
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Andromeda (2000)
Plot Summary:
Andromeda is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt. The series premiered on October 2, 2000 and ended on May 13, 2005. Andromeda was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and produced by Tribune Entertainment and Fireworks Entertainment. It was distributed by Global TV in Canada and syndicated in the United States on WGN and other channels. It was picked up by the Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S. halfway through season four. Andromeda is one of two TV series based upon concepts Roddenberry had created as early as the 1960s and 1970s. The name Dylan Hunt had also been used for the hero of two TV movie pilots Roddenberry had produced in the mid-1970s, Genesis II and Planet Earth, which had a similar premise. The other series posthumously created from Roddenberry's notes is Earth: Final Conflict.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, apocalyptic, funny, retro, uplifting, serious, telenovela
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Blake's 7 (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: cult classic, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, vintage
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Afterworld (2007)
Plot Summary:
Afterworld is a computer-animated American science fiction television series created by writer Brent V. Friedman and artist/filmmaker Michael DeCourcey. Its naturalistic future setting, modeled after traditional Western movie motifs, presents an atypical science fiction backdrop for the narrative. Friedman served as executive producer, along with Stan Rogow. Afterworld premiered in the United States on YouTube and Bud.tv on February 28, 2007 with the production website being launched in May, 2007. The series quickly built a loyal fanbase but did not really take off until August, 2007 when it was 're-released' on MySpace. In conjunction with that release the series was also released in Australia on the Sci Fi Channel, as a mobile podcast, and as a web series on US based Crackle. The series was also made available by Sony Pictures Television International as 13 half-hour episodes for traditional broadcasters.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak, futuristic, computer animated
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Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance (2006)
Plot Summary:
Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance is an online series that aims to fill in the gaps between seasons two and three of the Re-imagined Series. The webisodes can be viewed through the official web portal at Syfy.com. The webisode series was written by Battlestar Galactica veterans Bradley Thompson and David Weddle, and directed by Wayne Rose. The entire series is 27 minutes long in total, divided into 10 episodes. While the Webisodes are included in the Region 1 DVD boxset of Season 3, they are not included in the Region 2 version. They are, however, included on all Blu-ray releases. In particular, the Webisodes chronicle Duck's and Jammer's motivations to become suicide-bomber and collaborator, respectively.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious
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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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Seven Days (1998)
Plot Summary:
"Ever wish you could live your last week all over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker, and I do it all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get screwed up, I'm the guinea pig they send back to take care of it. The catch is, I can only go back 7 days.".
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Charlie Jade (2005)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with CHUM Television and the South African Industrial Development Corporation. The special effects were produced by the Montreal-based company Cinegroupe led by Michel Lemire. The show started in 2004 and was aired on the Canadian Space Channel. It premiered on the Space Channel April 16, 2005 and aired in Eastern Europe, France, Italy, on SABC 3 in South Africa, on Fox Japan, and on AXN in Hong Kong. The show began airing in the United Kingdom in October 2007, on FX. The Sci Fi Channel in the United States premiered the show on June 6, 2008, but after 2 episodes on Friday prime-time, moved it to overnight Mon/Tue.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, cyber, detective, neo noir, tech noir
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Caprica (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set 58 years before Battlestar Galactica, Caprica follows two rival families - the Graystones and the Adamas - as they grow, compete, and thrive in the vibrant world of the peaceful 12 Colonies, living in a society close to our own. Entangled in the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence and robotics that will eventually lead to the creation of the Cylons, the two houses go toe-to-toe, blending action with corporate conspiracy and sexual politics.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: futuristic, atmospheric, serious, exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, cliffhanger, mysterious, cyber, thrilling
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Jeremiah (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jeremiah is an American television series starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner that ran on the Showtime network from 2002 to 2004. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the adult population has been wiped out by a deadly virus.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, atmospheric, tense, bleak, serious, scary, futuristic, disaster movie
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Flash Gordon (2007)
Plot Summary:
Flash Gordon is an American science fiction television series that debuted on Sci Fi in the United States on August 10, 2007 and continued airing new episodes through February 8, 2008. It has also appeared on the United Kingdom Sci Fi Channel and SPACE in Canada. The series was developed by Peter Hume, who served as executive producer/show runner and wrote the first and last episodes, among others.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, saga, epic, fast, futuristic
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Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: futuristic, cerebral, bleak, tense, talky, intense, exciting, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful
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Farscape (1999)
Plot Summary:
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, exciting, bleak, cliffhanger, funny, retro, uplifting, mysterious, apocalyptic
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2012: Supernova (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two hundred years ago a supernova exploded somewhere in the Lyra constellation. Now the lethal burst of radiation is headed straight for Earth, and time is swiftly running out. The only thing standing between humanity and complete devastation is astrophysicist Dr. Kelvin (Brian Krause), who heads up a project to save the planet.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, mockbuster, tense, funny, disaster movie
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Dark Angel (2000)
Plot Summary:
Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, apocalyptic, cyber, bleak, heroic, action thriller, action adventure
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Dominion (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dominion is an epic supernatural drama set in the near future. Specifically, 25 years after "The Extinction War," when an army of lower angels, assembled by the archangel Gabriel, waged war against mankind. The archangel Michael, turning against his own kind, chose to side with humanity. Rising out of the ashes of this long battle are newly fortified cities which protect human survivors. At the center of the series is the city of Vega, a glistening empire that has formed from the ruins of what was once Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, dark, sexy, apocalyptic, scary, dark fantasy, demonic, epic fantasy
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Altered Carbon (2018)
Plot Summary:
After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 185000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, cyber, erotic, romantic, intellectual, feel good
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Colony (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which has been occupied by a force of outside intruders. While some people have chosen to collaborate with the authorities and benefit from the new order, others have rebelled — and suffer the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, atmospheric, spiritual
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Revolution (2012)
Plot Summary:
Revolution focuses on the struggle to survive 15 years after a global blackout.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cliffhanger, atmospheric, stylized, epic, mind bending, interesting