Description: What happens when rebellion, oppression, revolutions, wars, overpopulation, disasters, and artificial intelligence take over the world? Here is a list of plausible bleak futures that film makers have envisioned for us.
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Distant
It follows an asteroid miner who, after crash-landing on an alien planet, must make his way across the harsh terrain, running out of oxygen, hunted by strange creatures, to the only other survivor.
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The Electric State
An orphaned teenager traverses the American West with a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother.
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Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea
A tyrannical landlady lords it over her tenants during an epidemic, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.
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Cyberpunk 2077 - Phoenix Program (Short 2020)
The young rookie criminal V gets captured by mobsters during a mission. Now his client, Johnny Silverhand has to step in and complete the mission, rescuing Alt Cunningham himself. A big fight and search begins.
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Uglies
A world in which a compulsory operation wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty.
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Attack on Titan
Feature adaptation of Hajime Isayama's manga about a monster hunter out for revenge.
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Terminator: Skynet Rising
( 2024 )
Since Legion was destroyed, the machines have been working to restore Skynet. Now the resistance has discovered their plans and must find a way to prevent them.
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Alien: Romulus
( 2024 )
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
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Borderlands
( 2024 )
The popular video game set on the abandoned fictional planet of Pandora where people search for a mysterious relic.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
( 2024 )
The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
( 2024 )
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
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Humane
( 2024 )
In the wake of an environmental collapse that is forcing humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
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Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
( 2024 )
Kora and surviving warriors prepare to defend Veldt, their new home, alongside its people against the Realm. The warriors face their pasts, revealing their motivations before the Realm's forces arrive to crush the growing rebellion.
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Civil War
( 2024 )
A journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they race against time to reach DC before rebel factions descend upon the White House.
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Fallout
( 2024 )
Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, a peaceful denizen from a cozy fallout shelter is forced to return to the surface and is shocked to discover the wasteland waiting for her.
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
( 2024 )
Two ancient titans, Godzilla and Kong, clash in an epic battle as humans unravel their intertwined origins and connection to Skull Island's mysteries.
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Dune: Part Two
( 2024 )
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
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Badland Hunters
( 2024 )
When an earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman goes on to rescue a teenager from a mad doctor who held the teenager captive in a camp full of dangerous cultists.
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The Kitchen
( 2024 )
In a dystopian future London where all social housing has been eliminated, Izi and Benji fight to navigate the world as residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to abandon their home.
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Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
( 2023 )
When a peaceful settlement on the edge of a distant moon finds itself threatened by a tyrannical ruling force, a stranger living among its villagers becomes their best hope for survival.
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The Shift
( 2023 )
After meeting a mysterious stranger, a man must escape a dystopian world to return to his wife.
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The Pod Generation
( 2023 )
In a not-so-distant future, tech giant Pegazus offers couples the opportunity to share their pregnancies via detachable artificial wombs or pods. And so begins Rachel and Alvy's wild ride to parenthood in this brave new world.
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The Creator
( 2023 )
Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child.
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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
( 2023 )
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is a spinoff series set in The Walking Dead Universe that centers around the eponymous character. Daryl washes ashore in France, raising the ire of a splintered but growing autocratic movement centered in Paris and endangering a young boy at the heart of a benevolent religious movement. Â
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Twisted Metal
( 2023 )
Twisted Metal is about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a trigger-happy car thief, he faces savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.
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The Walking Dead: Dead City
( 2023 )
The Walking Dead: Dead City envisions the popular Maggie and Negan characters travelling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
( 2023 )
During the '90s, a new faction of Transformers - the Maximals - join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth.
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Black Knight
( 2023 )
In a dystopian 2071 devastated by air pollution, a refugee fights to join the ranks of the powerful delivery men for access to food and survival.
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Silo
( 2023 )
In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.
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Hello Tomorrow!
( 2023 )
Hello Tomorrow! is set in a retro-futuristic world, where charismatic salesman Jack Billings leads a team of fellow sales associates determined to revitalize their customers' lives by hawking timeshares on the moon.Â
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The Ark
( 2023 )
The Ark takes place 100 years in the future when planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.
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The Last of Us
( 2023 )
After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity's last hope.
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Sıcak Kafa
( 2022 )
In a world shaken by an epidemic of madness that spreads through language and speech, a former linguist Murat Siyavus who has been at a long lasting hideout, is the only person mysteriously unaffected by this disease. Hunted by the ruthless Anti-Epidemic Institution, Murat is forced to leave the safe zone and flee within the flames and ruins of the mysterious streets of Istanbul, where he searches for the secret of his "hot skull" - a lasting mark of the disease.
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Circuit Breakers
( 2022 )
Circuit Breakers is a half-hour thought-provoking futuristic anthology series about middle-schoolers in the near future that uses science fiction as a backdrop to tell universal stories about growing up. But not everything is as it seems, and their curiosity leads to chaos. Each installment of Circuit Breakers features a sci-fi twist on kid relatable stories, with the intent of kids and families asking themselves how they would act in each unique situation.
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The Peripheral
( 2022 )
The Peripheral revolves around Flynne Fisher, a woman in a near-future America in which technology has started to subtly alter society. Flynne discovers a hidden connection to a very different reality — and the dark future of her own.
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exception
( 2022 )
Space horror anime series based on a new story by Hirotaka Adachi.
In the distant future, human beings have been forced to leave earth and migrate to another galaxy. An advanced team of spacecraft arrives at a planet that is to be terraformed. Each member of the team is output by a biological 3D printer.
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Vesper
( 2022 )
Struggling to survive with her father after the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, 13-year-old Vesper must use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the future.
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Don't Worry Darling
( 2022 )
A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company could be hiding disturbing secrets.
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
( 2022 )
Set in Cyberpunk 2077 universe, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.
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Veden vartija
( 2022 )
In this dystopian literary adaptation, a courageous young woman fights for fresh water in the Scandinavian Union, an area that has dried up due to environmental disaster and a repressive military government.
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Tales of the Walking Dead
( 2022 )
Tales of the Walking Dead is an episodic anthology with individual episodes or arcs of episodes focused on new or existing characters, backstories or other stand-alone experiences in The Walking Dead universe.
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Moonhaven
( 2022 )
Moonhaven focuses on Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven's miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth's last hope before they are destroyed themselves.
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Spiderhead
( 2022 )
In the near future, convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects to shorten their sentence. One such subject for a new drug capable of generating feelings of love begins questioning the reality of his emotions.
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Crimes of the Future
( 2022 )
Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.
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The Time Capsule
( 2022 )
In the near future, a politician fresh off an electoral loss escapes to his family's summer lake house. His vacation is disrupted by the appearance of his first love, who has just returned from a 20-year space voyage and hasn't aged a day.
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Yakamoz S-245
( 2022 )
After disaster strikes Earth, a marine biologist on a submarine research mission must fight to survive with the crew as a conspiracy comes to light.
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Fear the Walking Dead: Dead in the Water
( 2022 )
Set on the eve of the outbreak, Dead in the Water centers on new father Riley and his shipmates aboard the USS Pennsylvania submarine and their fight for survival as the vessel becomes a nuclear-fueled, walker-filled death-trap.
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Black Crab
( 2022 )
In a post-apocalyptic world, six soldiers on a covert mission must transport a mysterious package across a frozen archipelago. Noomi Rapace stars.
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DMZ
( 2022 )
In the near future, a civil war leaves Manhattan a demilitarized zone (DMZ), destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world. DMZ chronicles the journey of a female medic who saves lives while desperately searching for her lost son. She has to contend with the gangs, militias, demagogues and warlords that control the lawless no man's land.
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After Yang
( 2022 )
In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.
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Severance
( 2022 )
Adam Scott leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in "work-life balance" is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself.
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The Division
( 2022 )
In the near future, a pandemic virus is spread via paper money on Black Friday, decimating New York. A group of civilians, trained to operate in catastrophic times, are activated in an attempt to save who and what remains.
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The Matrix Resurrections
( 2021 )
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.
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Swan Song
( 2021 )
In the near future, a terminally ill man explores a heart wrenching, emotionally complex solution to save his wife and son from grief by duplicating himself without them knowing.
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Station Eleven
( 2021 )
A post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines, Station Eleven tells the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.
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Blade Runner: Black Lotus
( 2021 )
Los Angeles 2032. A young woman wakes up with no memories, and possessing deadly skills. The only clues to her mystery are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus. Putting together the pieces, she must hunt down the people responsible for her brutal and bloody past to find the truth of her lost identity.
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Finch
( 2021 )
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his creator's beloved dog learns about life, love, friendship and what it means to be human.
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American Insurrection
( 2021 )
Set in a dystopian America where all people who aren't straight, white, Christian and cis gender are kept track of by the government with bar codes.
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Warning
( 2021 )
Set in the not too distant future, this intense sci-fi thriller explores the repercussions that mankind faces when their omniscient technology becomes a substitute for human contact. But life begin to unravel when a global storm causes electronics to go haywire, leading to terrifying, deadly consequences.
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Invasion
( 2021 )
Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.
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Day of the Dead
( 2021 )
Day of the Dead tells the story of six strangers trying to survive the first 24 hours of an undead invasion.
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The Survivalist
( 2021 )
A year and a half after the fall of civilization due to a viral outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced to protect a young woman immune to the disease from a dangerous gang leader hunting her.
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Mayday
( 2021 )
Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war along a rugged coast. Though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize that she's not the killer they want her to be.
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Glasshouse
( 2021 )
Confined to their glasshouse, a family survives The Shred, a toxin that erases memory. Until the sisters are seduced by a Stranger who shatters their peace and stirs a past best left buried.
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Y: The Last Man
( 2021 )
All of the men are dead. But one. Based on DC Comics' acclaimed series, Y: The Last Man traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event has decimated every male save for one lone human. The new world order of women will explore gender, race, class and survival.
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The Defective
( 2021 )
The series follows Lu Bixing and Lin Jingheng, two very different men caught up in a futuristic dystopia where mind-link tech known as Eden controls society. One out of every hundred people can't interface with Eden and are deemed "defective" as outcasts. These two will work together to fight against this unjust world. Â
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The Walking Dead: Origins
( 2021 )
The Walking Dead: Origins is a series of specials exploring the journeys of the series' most celebrated characters. Each episode charts the story of the zombie apocalypse from the point of view of a single character and features new interviews and narrations from the actors that portray these iconic characters, interwoven with clips from the most pivotal moments of their journeys so far.
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Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness
( 2021 )
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness is based around the stories of the two popular characters, Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield. By adding suspense into dynamic action scenes, this series will reveal a Resident Evil world unlike anything seen before.
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The Devil Judge
( 2021 )
Kang Yo Han is a head trial judge who punishes the dishonest in the courtroom with no mercy, turning it into a reality show, and thus has earned the nickname "devil judge"; however, his mysterious aura conceals his true identity and ambitions.
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The Forever Purge
( 2021 )
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end.
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Dystopia
( 2021 )
Dystopia is a chilling tale of supernatural powers unleashed by post-apocalyptic roleplay in the Swedish forests. For a group of thrill-seeking young Swedes, an abandoned Cold War-era factory deep in the wilderness seems the ideal setting for a live roleplay designed to push them to their physical and mental limits. But the game soon turns deadly serious when a series of mysterious events unfold, awakening dark forces in each of them…
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A Quiet Place Part II
( 2021 )
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats lurking beyond the sand path.
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Army of the Dead
( 2021 )
With the abandoned, walled city of Las Vegas overrun with zombies, after a disastrous government fault, the billionaire casino magnate, Bly Tanaka, realises that he has left something in Sin City: $200 million to be more precise. For the time being, his mountains of cash are safe behind his impenetrable casino vault; however, the US President plans to nuke the entire city in less than 96 hours. Now, Tanaka is willing to pay $50 million to the decorated former mercenary, Scott Ward, and his hand-picked team to retrieve the money before the bomb obliterates the city. Indeed, this is a life-changing offer Scott cannot refuse; nevertheless, the rules have changed, and the horde of the walking undead seems to be more organised than they might have expected. But, time is running out. Can they return from Vegas in one piece and rich?
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#Dupe#
( 2021 )
In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.
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Undergods
( 2021 )
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.
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Anna
( 2021 )
A world destroyed and returned to nature by a pandemic that affects only adults, a tenacious and courageous girl in search of her little brother, a story of hope and survival.
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Creamerie
( 2021 )
Eight years after a plague killed all men, three women who run a dairy farm accidentally run over the last surviving male human on the planet in this darkly funny, dystopian series.Â
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Godzilla Singular Point
( 2021 )
Brought together by a mysterious song, a grad student and an engineer lead the fight against an unimaginable force that may spell doom for the world.
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Chaos Walking
( 2021 )
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality where all thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
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Pacific Rim: The Black
( 2021 )
After Kaiju ravage Australia, two siblings pilot a Jaeger to search for their parents, encountering new creatures, seedy characters and chance allies.
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Debris
( 2021 )
When wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft scatters across the Western Hemisphere, it soon becomes apparent the pieces are messing with the laws of physics, changing lives in ways we can't comprehend. Two agents from different continents, and different mindsets, are tasked to work together to recover the debris, whose mysteries humankind is not quite ready for.
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Armageddon Tales
( 2021 )
After surviving a worldwide pandemic, two men with different agendas, two women from a survival colony, and young girl and a man each form alliances as they cross post-apocalyptic landscapes.
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Tribes of Europa
( 2021 )
The future is not what you expected. The 2074 Europe is split into many Tribal states fighting for dominance. The three siblings Kiano, Liv and Elja get caught in the middle of this bloody war and are forced to forge their own paths.
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Little Fish
( 2021 )
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
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Space Sweepers
( 2021 )
In the year 2092, space is full of dangerous floating garbage like discarded satellites and deserted spaceships. The crew of The Victory travels through space looking for the garbage they can make money off, while also competing with junk collector ships from other countries and using the speediness of their craft to defeat their rivals.
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Outside the Wire
( 2021 )
When disgraced drone pilot, Lt. Harp (Damson Idris) is sent into a deadly militarized zone after disobeying orders, he finds himself working for Capt. Leo (Anthony Mackie), an android officer tasked with locating a doomsday device before insurgents do.
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WandaVision
( 2021 )
WandaVision blends the style of classic sitcoms with the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living their ideal suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
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Quarantine
( 2021 )
The main character of the film writes a diary. For over 20 years he has lived in a bunker and has not ventured outside. His only companions are ghosts of the past. He tries to find an explanation for the fateful course of events, which has destroyed the whole earth. The feeling of guilt does not leave him, as he believes that he could have prevented the apocalypse and the death of his beloved.
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Monsters of Man
( 2020 )
A robotics company teams up with a corrupt CIA agent undergoing an illegal, unsanctioned military operation. Dropping four prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden triangle that no one will miss. The mission is to prove the robotics company is worthy of winning a lucrative military contract. Six doctors on a good cause witness the brutal slaughter of an innocent village and are forced into a deadly game of cat and mouse as they become the new targets.
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Magikland
( 2020 )
While playing the popular mobile game Magikland, four children are transported to the fantasy world of the same name after they are forced to jump into a portal. They are then told by wise woman Mama Mandalagan that they are destined to save Magikland, and she gives each his/her own quest to obtain four weapons they will need to defeat Mogrodo-Or, who seeks to take over the kingdom ruled by Princess Diya.
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The Midnight Sky
( 2020 )
A scientist is working alone at a remote Arctic research station when he learns of a mysterious global disaster. At the same time, he meets a strange girl in the Arctic, with whom he must stop the return to Earth of the crew of the spaceship "Aether".
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Breach
( 2020 )
On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
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trillianregina : There is the obvious thematic parallel, but that's as far as the similarity goes.