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Lunopolis (2010)
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Lunopolis (2010)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Lunopolis is a 2009 direct-to-video science fiction film directed by Matthew Avant. The film is presented in found footage style and takes place in the weeks preceding the rumored events of the 2012 prophecies. Two documentary filmmakers discover a mysterious device and begin to unravel a conspiracy involving the moon, time travel, and a very powerful organization who will stop at nothing to protect their secret.
Style: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, weird
Plot: conspiracy, found footage, moon, time travel, sent to the past, cult, obsessive quest, uncover truth, escapades, filmmaking, twists and turns, legends and myths, partners, secret movement, swamp, alien, desert island, conspiracy theory, prophecy, secret organization, life is a bitch, dishonesty, trapdoor, ufo, photograph ...
Time: future, year 2012, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, louisiana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, captivating and exciting films with plots about danger, escapades, space and aliens, society, heroes, imaginary and conspiracy mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Lunopolis: Mermaids: The Body Found (2011), Legends from the Sky (2015), Area 51 (2015), Time Chasers (1994), Dark Space (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Mermaids: The Body Found (2011)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, controversial
Plot: mermaid, legends and myths, investigation, science and technology, inventions and discoveries, escapades, obsessive quest, conspiracy, monster, fantasy world, uncover truth, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
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Legends from the Sky (2015)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Native American Veteran, burdened by survivor's guilt after a disastrous military tour, is forced to search for his missing grandfather after his ancestral land is mysteriously taken over by an unknown federal organization.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating
Plot: uncover truth, save the day, heroes, alien encounter, haunted by the past, government agency, law enforcement, dishonesty, conspiracy, space and aliens, native american, ufo ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
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Area 51 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.
Style: scary, tense, talky, intense, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ufo, alien, military base, alien abduction, suspense, conspiracy, found footage, supernatural, extraterrestrial, secrets, happy ending, adaptation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, nevada, america, las vegas
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Time Chasers (1994)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An inventor comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil C.E.O.
Style: semi serious, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, sent to the past, aviation, evil corporation, master criminal, heroes, save the day, chase, escapades, sent to the future, airplane ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, 50s, 2040s
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Dark Space (2013)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: College friends Devin, Jack, Shelly, Kristy, Shaun, and Flower rent a spacecraft to autopilot them to Centauri Five for a holiday break. Impatient over the rental agency restricting the ship’s speed to 10x, Devin and the others convince Shaun to ...
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: future, 21st century
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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France, Austria, UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
Style: serious, stylized, bleak, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: alien, astronaut, spacecraft, save the world, prodigy, space and aliens, save the planet, apocalypse, space travel, survival, chaos, heroic mission ...
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Idaho Transfer (1973)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A crew of young researchers escape into the future to avoid the shutdown of their project. They find that some type of 'eco-crisis' disaster has de-populated the area around their lab (in rural Idaho) and, by implication, the nation or ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: post apocalypse, teenager, time travel, apocalypse, distopia, erotica, end of the world, secret experiment, save the planet, environmentalism, chaos, time machine ...
Time: future
Place: idaho, usa
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Bigfoot Wars (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: After the sheriff of the small town of Boggy Creek receives reports of attacks from a vicious beast bearing resemblance to the legendary Sasquatch, he enlists the help of an expert survivalist (The Outsider's C. Thomas Howell) and sets out to ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: bigfoot, escapades, dangerous animal, track down, battles, small town, human versus animal, monster, murder, suspense, rivalry, showdown ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story: 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 ...
Style: stylized, serious, suspenseful, futuristic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, investigation, uncover truth, corporate crime, rivalry, dishonesty, working undercover, a.i., undercover, life is a bitch, female detective, tough law enforcer ...
Time: future, 21st century
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Actual Reality (2015)
Genre: Sci-Fi
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Duration: 93 min.
Story: Hacker guy meets girl online in virtual reality. Guy realizes girl is a cop. Girl realizes guy is a girl. All hell breaks loose.
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Time: future
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Groom Lake (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Timequest (2000)
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Duration: 92 min.
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Style: exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful
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Alien Tracker (2003)
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Style: tense, enigmatic, captivating, psychotronic
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Johnny 2.0 (1997)
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Country: USA
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The Time Travelers (1964)
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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