Best tv shows like Pandora
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Plot Summary:
In the year 2199, a young woman who has lost everything finds a new life at Earth's Space Training Academy where she learns to defend the galaxy from intergalactic threats.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: futuristic, atmospheric, captivating, colorful, colourful
Best tv shows and movies like Pandora (2019):
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Metal Hurlant Chronicles (2012)
Plot Summary:
Metal Hurlant Chronicles is inspired by the popular comics anthology Métal Hurlant, which in turn inspired the well known fantasy magazine Heavy Metal. Each episode takes place on a different planet - fantastical in its own way - with the common thread between stories being a traveling asteroid that impacts the lives of all it encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: anthology, captivating, exciting, serious, saga, futuristic, independent film
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Greenhouse Academy (2017)
Plot Summary:
When teen siblings Hayley and Alex enter an elite boarding school, they find rivalry, romance and a mystery related to the recent loss of their mom.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: colorful, children's program, captivating, light, feel good, futuristic, intellectual, colourful
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Atlantis Down (2010)
Plot Summary:
2025 - The Shuttle Program has been privatized and the shuttle Atlantis relegated to glorified taxi between space stations. Its crew is on a routine mission, conducting experiments - little do they know - they are the experiment. Written by Max Bartoli.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, futuristic, captivating, psychological
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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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Starhunter (2000)
Plot Summary:
Starhunter is a Canadian science fiction television series that aired for two seasons. The series was produced in Canada by The Danforth Studios Ltd. in association with Alliance Atlantis with some photography in the United Kingdom. Grosvenor Park Productions UK Ltd. was the co-producer from the United Kingdom, and Le Sabre SA, an affiliate of Canal+, was the French co-producer, with major unofficial German participation by Das Werk. In season one, Starhunter starred Michael Paré, Tanya Allen, Claudette Roche and featured Murray Melvin and Stephen Marcus. In season two Clive Robertson, Dawn Stern and Paul Fox were added to the cast, while the original actors except Allen and Marcus were dropped. Contrary to the wishes of the series creators, the investors in the second season blocked the return of Paré and replaced Melvin. Season one was nominated by the Directors Guild of Canada for a Best Production Design award, and for a "Spaceys Award" by Space: The Imagination Station. The first run of the first season aired in Canada, from 1 November 2000 to 28 March 2001. Starhunter was syndicated in the United States by Western Television Syndicators, going to air in the fall of 2002. The first season continues to re-run in many territories. The second season had its first run in Canada from 9 August 2003 to 3 April 2004.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: epic, saga, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic
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Babylon 5 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, it's goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, saga, suspense, philosophical, retro, uplifting, apocalyptic, futuristic, offbeat, bleak
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Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sixty days on and Rygel is retrieving pieces of John and Aeryn from the sea bed. The Diagnosan re-crystalises them and they start getting to know the local species. Meanwhile, Scorpius and Sikozu are aboard a Peacekeeper Command Carrier on a recon mission. They attack a Scarren ship, which provokes the Scarrens into declaring war on The Peacekeepers.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, emotional, witty, talky, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, intense, epic
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Defying Gravity (2009)
Plot Summary:
Defying Gravity is a multi-nationally produced space travel television science fiction drama series which first aired on August 2, 2009 on ABC and CTV and was canceled in the autumn of 2009. Set in the year 2052, the series follows eight astronauts from four countries on a six-year space mission through the Solar System, during which they are monitored from Earth via a real-time communication system. The series was pitched to networks as "Grey's Anatomy in space". Thirteen episodes of the series were produced before it was cancelled, only eight of which were shown on ABC, though the full run was shown in other countries or online.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, stylized, philosophical, sentimental, mind bending, futuristic, multicultural
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Ascension (2014)
Plot Summary:
In this three-part miniseries, a young woman's murder causes the subjects of a century-long mission to populate a new world to question the true nature of the project as they approach the point of no return.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 231 min
Plot tags: captivating, talky, serious, sexy, mind bending, existential, intellectual, stylized, psychological, tense
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Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ten years before Kirk, Spock, and the Enterprise there was Discovery. Star Trek, one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns 50 years after it first premiered featuring a new ship, new characters and new missions, while embracing the same ideology and hope for the future that inspired a generation of dreamers and doers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 131000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, breathtaking, epic, dystopian
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Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set twenty years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis, we follow the now-retired Admiral Picard into the next chapter of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, epic, breathtaking, interesting, queer cinema, dystopian
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Crusade (1999)
Plot Summary:
Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped. To that end, the Victory class destroyer Excalibur has been sent out to look for anything that could help the search for a cure.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, thrilling, futuristic, exciting, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, gloomy
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The Orville (2017)
Plot Summary:
Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 300 years in the future.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: futuristic, feel good, exciting, humorous, funny, parody, uplifting, sitcom, hilarious, interesting
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Defiance (2013)
Plot Summary:
Defiance is an American science fiction television show that takes place in the future on a radically transformed Earth containing new species arriving from space. In the show, Joshua Nolan works as the lawman for the town of Defiance, a community where humans and intelligent extraterrestrial species coexist. The show follows Nolan, his adopted alien daughter Irisa, and the town's new mayor Amanda Rosewater.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, serious, tense, apocalyptic, futuristic, interesting, masterpiece
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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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Stargate Universe (2009)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, while simultaneously trying to explore and to survive in their unknown area of the universe.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, tense, cliffhanger, epic, saga, thrilling, serious, suspenseful, cult film
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Marvel's Runaways (2017)
Plot Summary:
Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other must unite against a common foe – their parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, tense, futuristic, queer cinema
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Extinct (2017)
Plot Summary:
400 years after the extinction of the human race, a small group of humans are revived by an alien civilization. The colony of revived humans encounter struggles with the aliens who extinguished humankind centuries before, while trying to understand and get along with the mysterious aliens who revived them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic
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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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Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Plot Summary:
Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction TV series and a prequel to the original Star Trek set 100 years before. The series premiered September 26, 2001 on the UPN television network with the final episode airing on May 13, 2005. The series takes place in the 22nd century aboard Earth's first warp 5 capable starship Enterprise NX-01 designed for long-range exploration of the galaxy and captained by Jonathan Archer. The NX designation indicates that this Enterprise is an experimental prototype.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, serious, intellectual, erotic, epic, saga, futuristic, suspenseful, cult film
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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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Killjoys (2015)
Plot Summary:
An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, semi serious, tense, dark, cynical, futuristic, humorous, witty
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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
Plot Summary:
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Gou'ald kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Gou'ald hosts.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic
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Firefly (2002)
Plot Summary:
Firefly is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 278000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 616 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, witty, futuristic, neo western, clever, epic, apocalyptic, cult classic, cliffhanger
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Almost Human (2013)
Plot Summary:
Almost Human is an American science fiction/crime drama on Fox. In 2048, the uncontrollable evolution of science and technology has caused crime rates to rise an astounding 400%. To combat this, the overwhelmed police force has implemented a new policy: every human police officer is paired up with a lifelike combat-model android.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, cyber, cliffhanger, detective, anime, relaxing, fast
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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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Star Trek (1966)
Plot Summary:
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen lead by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, futuristic, intellectual, retro, epic, cult classic, philosophical, uplifting, political, mysterious
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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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The Expanse (2015)
Plot Summary:
A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 168000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense, erotic, spiritual, political, satirical, detective
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See (2019)
Plot Summary:
A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, apocalyptic, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, tense, futuristic, scenic, psychological thriller, sad