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Plot Summary:
Federation troops and Zeon forces carry out a fierce battle in the Thunderbolt Sector in what was once Side 4 "Mua". The Thunderbolt Sector is a shoal zone composed of the debris of destroyed space colonies, named for the electrical discharges from the metal debris. MS pilot Io Flemming is among the Federation soldiers who are dispatched to the area, where Zeon sniper Daryl Lorenz awaits them on the battlefield.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, anime
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Grand Star (2007)
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Grand Star, called La Compagnie des Glaces in France is a Canadian French Belgian Co-production science fiction television series playing on Space and A-Channel as of September 2007. Set in an apocalyptic future 100 years after a cataclysmic nuclear explosion on the Moon sends the Earth into a new Ice Age, the show revolves around the interactions between a small community of Earth survivors and the returning descendants of colonists who escaped Earth in advance of the disaster. The series is adapted from a series of novels called La Compagnie des glaces by Georges-Jean Arnaud. A multiplayer strategy game based on the universe of the TV series was launched in 2007. In the game, players face each other and use their trains to gather money for the control of energy sources. A French video game named Transarctica was also based on the novel series and haphazardly translated into English. The first novel in the series was translated in 2010 under the title The Ice Company by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier ISBN 978-1-935558-31-6.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France
Duration:
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Electra Woman and Dyna Girl is a Sid and Marty Krofft live action science fiction children's television series from 1976. The series aired 16 episodes in a single season as part of the umbrella series The Krofft Supershow. During the second season, it was dropped, along with Dr. Shrinker. When later syndicated in the package "Krofft Super Stars" and released on home video, the 16 segments, which were each about 12 minutes long, were combined into eight episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, cliffhanger
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Star Maidens is a British-German science-fiction television series made by Portman Productions for the ITV network. Produced in 1975, and first broadcast in 1976, it was filmed at Bray Studios and on location in Windsor and Bracknell, Berkshire, and Black Park, Buckinghamshire. The series was partly financed by a German company, Werbung im Rundfunk.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 30 min
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Reiji Matsushimais a genius physicist. He realizes that he and his fiancé Asahi Ando will be killed a theory that he advanced. One day, in the year 2013, Reiji dies in a airplane explosion & crash. He was a handsome and world-famous professor who studied wormhole theories. It is a mystery whether his research on wormhole theory caused his death or not.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama
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A come Andromeda (1972)
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TV mini series based on the Sci-fi novel "A Is for Andromeda" by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 60 min
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny TV Movie I: The Broken World (2006)
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The year is Cosmic Era 73. The Bloody Valentine War, fought between the PLANTS space colonies and the nations of the Atlantic Federation, has ended and an uneasy truce has settled upon the Earth sphere. With the signing of the Junius Seven Treaty, the world's soldiers have left the battlefield and the grizzly sights of war behind. Many who fought now seek peace and refuge in the shelter of civilian life. But one boy, Shin Asuka, is finding that incredibly hard. A coordinator who lost his entire family during the Battle of Orb, he now fights with ZAFT in one of their newest machines, the Impulse Gundam. Of course, ZAFT is only developing these machines for defensive applications - or so they claim - but when a group of Federation operatives steal some of these prototype machines, the world is once again plunged towards war.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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The Island (2007)
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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:
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Mazinkaiser SKL (2010)
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Mazinkaizer SKL (マジンカイザースカル Majinkaizā Sukaru?) is a Japanese OVA spinoff of Go Nagai's Mazinkaiser, which was in itself a spinoff of Mazinger Z. The first episode was released on November 27, 2010 and was first screened on November 27, 2010. It also has a novel adaptation serialized in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Hobby Magazine and a manga adaptation published in the mobile phone magazine Shu 2 Comic Gekkin. Like Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen, characters and references to other works of Go Nagai appear in this series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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Spides (2020)
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Young Nora from Berlin wakes up from a coma after taking a new party drug and can no longer remember anything. When investigators Nique Navar and David Leonhart find out that numerous teenagers have disappeared as part of the spread of the party drug "Bliss", Nora begins to investigate. She uncovers an uncanny conspiracy: Aliens use the drug to use the bodies of their victims as hosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 623
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, brutal
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AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline (2021)
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In 2061, Japan is under a state of occupation by multiple states. The world, including Japan, has been consolidated under the rule of four trade blocs. The entire archipelago is now the frontline of conflict. The Japanese people live under a state of constant occupation and oppression, with humanoid war machines called AMAIM patrolling its streets. A young introverted boy named Amō Shiiba has a chance meeting with the autonomous AI Gai, and his acquisition of the AMAIM Kenbu begins a story that will see him attempting to take back Japan. Gashin Tezuka is a reticent and frank 16-year-old member of the Japanese resistance who pilots the AMAIM Ghost to avenge his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: mecha, anime, exciting, tense, captivating
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: mecha, tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, anime
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New Century Legend Mars (2002)
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Mars is discovered on a forming volcano island, Heisei; a man with no memory. In reality, Mars is from outer space, and is supposed to gather information to decide whether Earth should be destroyed or not. Along with the giant robot Gaia, and his mysterious images of a woman urging him not to destroy the world, Mars decides to fight for Earth rather than destroy it, even if it means fighting his own kind. But if Mars is killed, Gaia will explode, destroying Earth along with it.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, shounen, mecha
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Akira Akebono, a young boy who is competing in a robot tournament where many of the robots are capable of transforming into animal forms. Akira wants to win the ultimate prize, the Titan Belt, with the help of his group of robots, all of which are capable of forming into the robot Daigunder. Daigunder is the creation of Akira's father, Professor Hajime Akebono. Together with a girl named Haruka, they compete under the name of Team Akira. However, Team Akira faces opposition from not only their competition, but a robot named Ginzan who is under the control of the evil Professor Maelstrom. Created by Aeon and Takara and animated by Animation Studio Brain's Base, the series aired in TV Tokyo from April 2002 to December 2002.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, mecha
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Invasion: Earth (1998)
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Invasion: Earth is a BBC science fiction TV series. It was made in collaboration with the Sci Fi Channel, and released in 1998 as six fifty minute episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
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When memories of Ultra Heroes are erased by a mysterious entity, a device called Dimensionizer is sent from the future dimension Ultraman Decker is from. Trying to get memories of the Land of Light residents back, New Generation Heroes remember all their battles and hardships they've gone through.
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Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
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Land of the Giants (1968)
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Land of the Giants is an hour-long American science fiction television program lasting two seasons beginning on September 22, 1968, and ending on March 22, 1970. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen. Land of the Giants was the fourth of Allen's science fiction TV series. The show was aired on ABC and released by 20th Century Fox Television. The series was filmed entirely in color and ran for 51 episodes. The show starred Gary Conway and Don Marshall. Author Murray Leinster also wrote three novels in 1968 and 1969 based on the television series.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: epic, saga, clever, offbeat, serious, suspenseful
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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger (1994)
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It's been a long time since the great war between the Three God Generals and the Youkais, an ancient race of monstrous spirits. Since then, imprisoned in a cave protected by the mystical Seal Door, their leader Daimaou and his Youkai army wait, planning for the day they can finally strike. That day has arrived and it is up to the Kakurangers, along with the Three God Generals, to defeat the Youkais, before Daimaou's villainy destroys Earth!.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: super sentai, mecha
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109 Strange Things (2017)
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KDI-109, a male robot from the future, comes to live with Shin Ki Won's family. She is a girl who is studying in the philosophy department.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, futuristic
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min
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A look at strange paranormal events.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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The Tomorrow People (1992)
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The Tomorrow People are the next stage of human evolution. They can teleport, communicate by telepathy, heal with the power of thought and they are unable to kill or harm any living creature. Aided by a mysterious and ancient spacecraft buried in the sand of a Pacific island, the Tomorrow People use their powers to protect the world, while trying to keep their own existence a secret for fear of exploitation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful
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Gemini Division is an American science fiction series of five-to-seven minute long episodes created by Electric Farm Entertainment which went into production in March 2008. Based on an original story by Brent Friedman the online series was developed by Joshua Stern. The show currently airs on NBC.com as part of their online content lineup. The series began August 18, 2008. The series stars Rosario Dawson, who worked with Electric Farm Entertainment on the Webby nominated cult internet series Afterworld. J Alex Reed and Duane Loose will be showrunners, while Brent Friedman and Stan Rowgow serve as executive producers. The writing staff includes Brent Friedman, Andy Black, Lawrence Frank, and Jacqui Zambrano. Stan Rogow is also credited as Director and is presumed to direct a number of the episodes with the rest being directed by Neal Israel. Web content development is being managed by producers Ben Raab and Deric Hugues web content producers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, futuristic
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H+: The Digital Series is a web series produced by Bryan Singer and created by John Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso. The series, which touches on the subject of transhumanism, premiered on August 8, 2012 on YouTube with two episodes. Two new episodes were then released every week on Wednesdays until the season finale on January 16, 2013. A second season is currently in production.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 5 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, serious, cyber, apocalyptic, futuristic
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To Be Hero (2016)
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Our main character, Ossan, is a no-good father with a messy appearance even though he looks nice, and decorates restrooms. He is a divorced, single-dad and lives with his daughter Min-chan, who is good at both studying and sport. One day, Ossan has been sucked into the toilet that he finished using, and becomes a hero to save the Earth! The price is he lost his ikemen appearance and becomes a fat person!! Ossan's battle to protect the Earth and Min-chan has begun….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: parody, anime, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, 2d animation
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The Lottery (2014)
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Set in a dystopian future when women have stopped having children, "The Lottery" reveals a world staring down the barrel of impending extinction. Remarkably, 100 embryos are successfully fertilized and a national lottery is held to decide the surrogates. As conflict, control and mystery over this global crisis unfolds, the government’s interests and power begin to dominate, igniting a highly controversial debate over our fundamental and personal freedom to raise a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, bleak, serious, cerebral, mind bending, futuristic
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Mob Psycho 100 (2018)
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An inconspicuous middle school psychic confronts an organization plotting to use other psychics to rule the world. Based on the hit manga.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, manga, shounen
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Oddbhuturey (2019)
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A series of seven stories - tied together by a common thread - FEAR. How will the real and the supernatural collide?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Passage (2019)
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Passage is an episodic paranormal sci-fi drama centered around Janus Agent Ali Prader. This queer mom is a top paranormal operative for a secret division called Caelus within the government. Ali is able to balance her professional and personal life – that is until she starts to unravel a thread that opens the door to a new crucial shift in power.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative