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Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs. The team on the fast attack ship Alesia is assigned to help the Starship John A. Warden stationed in Fort Casey evacuate along with the survivors and bring military intelligence ...
Style: anime, computer animated, adult animation, sexy, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature, military, alien, space wars, alien invasion, insect, heroes, danger, friendship, infantry, distant planet, space opera ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2012, 23rd century
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 6.5
 523
Yeralash (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: «Eralash» (Turkic "mixed, mishmash") is a Soviet, then Russian, children's comic newsreel published since 1974 at the Gorky Central Film Studio for Children and Youth films; it was shown first in cinemas, then on television. The ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, feel good, captivating, sincere
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: friendship, society, youth, friends, school, family relations, love and romance, life philosophy, love, mother son relationship, joke, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 70s, future
Place: ussr
Is relevant ?
 4.4
 340
Get Lucky (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Six teenagers experience tumultuous vacation at the Baltic Sea with a lot of sun and beach. At the holiday home they meet the sexologist Ellen. The teenagers experience their first love, the first sex and what possibly can go wrong.
Style: satirical, teen sex comedy, sex comedy, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage sexuality, youth, first sex, teenage sex, first sexual experience, first time, seaside, teenager, summer vacation, adolescence, teenage life, teenage love ...
Time: year 2019
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Cry Me a Sad River (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Qi Ming is a handsome boy and he is also a top student at school, but Yi Yao is a so-called bitch on everyone’s lips. Qi and Yi grew up together and they have been maintaining a good relationship. However, everything is interrupted and changed by ...
Style: suspense, psychological, touching, thought provoking, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: bullying, high school, first love, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, youth, suicide attempt, childhood friend, aids, mother daughter relationship, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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Alien Convergence (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When flying reptilian creatures wreak havoc all over the world, the survivors’ only hope of stopping them is a new, state-of-the-art fighter jet piloted by the only team that knows how to use the technology.
Style: mockbuster, atmospheric, stylized, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien invasion, obstacle, father daughter relationship, evil alien, ufo, spacecraft, u.s. air force, threat, alien encounter, chaos and mayhem, space and aliens, end of the world ...
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 6.2
 12K
Una (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
Style: psychological, cynical, thought provoking, disturbing, sad ...
Plot: pedophilia, pedophile, teenager, female nudity, child abuse, sex scene, confrontation, teenage sexuality, forbidden love, teenage girl, unsettling, love ...
Place: england
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 7.1
 5K
Hipsters (2008)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.
Style: captivating, stylized, humorous, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
Plot: singing, youth, politics, coming of age, love and romance, rebellion, rock, state affairs, subculture, communism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, conformity ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: moscow russia, soviet union
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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard ...
Style: romantic, erotic, sexual, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: island, stranded, coming of age, love and romance, shipwreck, survival, young love, beautiful scenery, teenage love, youth, fall in love, desert island ...
Time: victorian era, turn of the century, 19th century, year 1980, 1890s ...
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean, san francisco
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, China, Belgium, Germany, United Arab Emirates, USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story: In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, exciting, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, kids
Plot: alien, space travel, outer space, alien planet, space station, government agent, creature, mission, alien race, marriage proposal, space adventure, space pirate ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2017, year 1975, 70s ...
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Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…
Style: exciting, serious, fairy tale, suspenseful, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: space opera, life turned upside down, genetics, save the lady, space, outer space, space and aliens, space wars, space travel, imaginary, planet, destiny ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: chicago, st. petersburg russia
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 6.9
 528K
Pacific Rim (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, stylized, serious, visually stunning ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: giant monster, monster, robot, kaiju, creature, battles, androids and robots, invasion, chaos and mayhem, destruction, danger, survival ...
Time: future, year 2013, near future, year 2017, 2010s ...
Place: tokyo, pacific ocean, seattle, san francisco, hong kong ...
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Style: humorous, spoof, surreal, stylized, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, alien invasion, superhero, chase, mad scientist, rescue, interdimensional travel, scientist, time travel, space, experiment gone awry, danger ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place: new jersey, asia, usa, hong kong
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Muppets from Space (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him kidnapped by a secret government agency, prompting the Muppets to spring into action. ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, adult, preschool
Plot: muppets, space travel, benign alien, space, friendship, unlikely friendships, secrets, mad scientist, puppet, heroic mission, rescue, fish out of water ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
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 5.0
 30K
Virus (1999)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Japan, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: virus, alien, robot, alien invasion, deadly creature, cyborgs, survival, ship, ghost ship, ocean, rescue, natural disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: pacific ocean
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 4.6
 6K
Warning (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.
Style: surreal, apocalyptic
Plot: space, apocalypse, astronaut, epidemic, dystopia, distopia, contact, illusion, galaxy, rescue mission, mutation, end of the world ...
Time: future
Is relevant ?
 5.0
 4K
Rubikon (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The company soldier Hannah and the scientists Gavin and Dimitri are researching an algae project on board the Rubikon space station, which is supposed to permanently supply humanity with oxygen and food. But suddenly the earth disappears below them ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: space station, planet, space, apocalypse, save the world, rescue, struggle for survival, fate of humanity, rescue mission, humanity, human in outer space, moral dilemma ...
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 27K
Sputnik (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, political ...
Plot: evil alien, alien, creature, alien life-form, outer space, extraterrestrial, alien contact, monster, alien monster, fear, research, parasite ...
Time: 2020s, year 1983
Place: kazakhstan
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 6.2
 40K
Synchronic (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Style: suspense, lovecraft, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: time travel, drug, best friend, brain tumor, paramedic, time, chemotherapy, ambulance, racism, investigation, alligator, swamp ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
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 5.8
 12K
Dual (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Finland, Canada, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A terminally ill woman opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, dark ...
Plot: clone, terminal illness, personal trainer, human clone, strained relationship, attempted murder, murder, mother daughter relationship, dead body, duel, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: near future
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 80K
Upload (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In the future where humans are able to “upload” themselves into their preferred choice of afterlife, Nathan meets his early death and is greeted by Nora in his version of heaven. Follow the two as Nathan grows accustomed to life away from his ...
Style: romantic, humorous, futuristic, light, funny ...
Plot: virtual reality, hi-tech, virtual world, life after death, looking for sex, afterlife, mysterious death, love interest, murder, love and romance, technology, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: near future, 2030s, future, 2020s
Place: brooklyn new york city
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For All Mankind (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
Style: realistic, exciting, disturbing, suspense, stylized ...
Plot: space program, astronaut, space race, nasa, space travel, lesbian, mining, moon, u.s. president, moon landing, space, lgbt ...
Time: year 1969, future, 70s, 60s, 80s ...
Place: usa
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 6.5
 44K
Oxygen (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, minimal cast, psychological ...
Plot: oxygen, isolation, trapped in space, memory loss, cryogenics, virus, outer space, space travel, panic, survival, clone, female protagonist ...
Time: 2020s
Is relevant ?
 5.3
 143K
The Predator (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other ...
Style: tense, exciting, slasher, psychotronic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: alien, predator, alien monster, hunter, ufo, monster, soldier, survival, chase, alien contact, warrior, alien invasion ...
Time: 2010s, future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: xian, georgia, mexico
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Style: futuristic, exciting, scenic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, family outing, adult
Plot: star wars, space opera, female protagonist, rebellion, robot, space travel, rebel, tough girl, jedi, self sacrifice, spacecraft, strong female lead ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: space western, london
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The Adam Project (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
Style: enigmatic, funny, mysterious, disturbing, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: time travel, father, time, child, suv, female warrior, travel, space, assignment, death of father, astronaut, dystopia ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 263K
Chronicle (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and ...
Style: bad ending, suspense, stylized, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, superhero, telekinesis, supernatural, adolescence, found footage, levitation, outcast, supernatural ability, bullying, friendship, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, future, year 2000, 21st century
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa, tibet
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 8.4
 1.2M
WALL·E (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When ...
Style: feel good, touching, futuristic, emotional, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: loneliness, robot, space travel, ecology, outer space, post apocalypse, love, technology, artificial intelligence, society, happy ending, ecological disaster ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2008, 2000s
Is relevant ?
 8.0
 845K
Donnie Darko (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, time travel, psychology, imaginary friend, insanity, schizophrenia, parallel universe, surrealism, suburbs, time loop, social misfits, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place: virginia, america, los angeles, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.9
 527K
Children of Men (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, bleak, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, end of the world, chaos, redemption, heroic mission, pandemic, post apocalyptic, fertility, dying ...
Time: future, year 2006, distant future, near future, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, europe, washington state, seattle ...
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 7.8
 442K
Ghostbusters (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, monster, nerd, transformation, paranormal investigation, giant monster, chase, imagination, accountant, friendship, librarian ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, year 2016, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, nova scotia, usa
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