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Buying Time

2024

Buying Time

2024
4
It is the year 2028 and antibiotics are no longer effective. A corporation called Lifeline has invented a health chip which everyone can get for free via the NHS. You can buy an upgrade which is effective against more infections and diseases. In 2028 computing and processing power is restricted however for someone to have an upgrade some one has to die for the power to be transferred. People are dieing randomly. Lifeline are launching their 2nd upgrade which is expected to earn them billions along with their ministerial backer. Daniel Avery has lost his wife and daughter in such circumstances and recent nightmares and flashbacks have instigated him to investigate. He slowly uncovers the truth with the help of a rebel group of the pull for power and greed that goes right to the top.
On The Run

2018

On The Run

2018
Small town widow Leeya prefers her isolation as she deals with guilt from her past. Desperately looking for a way back into the CIA, a former operative becomes suspicious of her origins, while intergalactic bounty hunters land on Earth to capture her. In order to escape, she must find a way off the planet and out of self-condemnation.
Creep Box

2022

Creep Box

2022
6.2
A scientist uses groundbreaking technology to communicate with the deceased but once he is through the looking glass, there is no turning back.
Before the Dark

2017

Before the Dark

2017
2
The authorities discover that the Sun is dying and come up with a plan to save Mankind.
Confessions of a Time Traveler: The Man from 3036

2020

Confessions of a Time Traveler: The Man from 3036

2020
3.8
A main claiming to be from the future explains what we can expect from the next decades, in a frightening glimpse of what's to come.
Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy

2022

Maika: The Girl From Another Galaxy

2022
4.8
Things could be better for 8-year-old Hung, who is grieving the loss of his mother who died a year ago. His relationship with his father is strained, his best friend is moving away, and to top it all off, a greedy landlord is bullying his father to force them out of their apartment. He finds solace by watching the night sky from the roof of his apartment building. One night, he witnesses a meteor shower and an errant falling star that lands in the nearby countryside. He investigates, but instead of finding a fallen star, he meets a new friend, and he decides to do everything he can to help her.
The Connection

2021

The Connection

2021
7
Two strangers struggle to overcome insurmountable odds when they are suddenly faced with unimaginable powers and an unbreakable connection.
Corpos Hospedeiros

2018

Corpos Hospedeiros

2018
2.8
Recent college graduates joyride in a stolen cop car only to uncover a secret that will doom mankind.
Escape 2120

2020

Escape 2120

2020
4.6
A detached orphan teen escapes to the future in suspended animation, but when he arrives at a natural utopia, he must evade a lynch mob convinced that he's the prophesied Devil's Child.
Behind The Bucket: A Garrison Story

2024

Behind The Bucket: A Garrison Story

2024
Behind the Bucket is a documentary following members of the 501st Legion--Star Wars Enthusiasts--showing how they are much more than adults playing dress-up. The 501st are compassionate, charitable, and down to earth people doing what's right for those in need. There's a reason why their motto is "Bad Guys Doing Good".
Rise - Dharuriser

2017

Rise - Dharuriser

2017
6
When his wife becomes pregnant, Akihiro gives up on his dream to become an actor and returns to his home in Shirakawa, Fukushima. However, as time goes by, he begins to lose sight of himself. One day, Akihiro learns about a local character contest and decides to enter it, modelling his costume on Shirakawa's traditional Daruma doll, he creates 'Dharuriser'. This soon leads Akihiro to encounter 'Dice', a mysterious group that seeks to shape the city of Shirakawa into their own utopia. Though both Dice and Akihiro wish to revitalize Shirakawa, their different ideas come into conflict and lead them into battle. Dharuriser, a man with no lethal abilities or superpowers who will always rise up even if he is defeated or collapses. A man who questions what a true hero is.
Capulina vs. the Mummies

1973

Capulina vs. the Mummies

1973
7.5
A taxi driver winds up working as a butler for a scientist who is trying to revive mummies.
Paradox Lost

2021

Paradox Lost

2021
6.5
Fearing he'll never be a success, Barnaby Bates, a struggling LA comedy writer, pulls away from a blossoming romantic relationship with Rose, an empathetic young photographer, in order to focus on his career. Things get complicated when he's visited by a mysterious stranger from the future who warns that the world as Barnaby knows it will soon be coming to an end.
Outpost 11

2012

Outpost 11

2012
4.2
Set in an alternative past where steam power still rules the world, Outpost 11 is the story of three soldiers manning a remote listening post in the Arctic Circle. One day the warning light goes off unexpectedly and their world is plunged in to chaos. Albert, Mason and Graham must fight the isolation, madness and arctic spiders to survive. Think 'The Thing' plus 'How I Ended this Summer' mixed with 'Videodrome.'
Brute Sanity

2018

Brute Sanity

2018
4.4
An FBI-trained neuropsychologist teams up with a thief to find a reality-altering device while her insane ex-boss unleashes bizarre traps to stop her.
Tomorrow Ever After

2017

Tomorrow Ever After

2017
8
Shaina lives 600 years in the future. War, greed, prejudice, poverty, pollution, violence, loneliness, depression – these are things that she’s read about in history books. When an accident in a physics experiment sends her on a time-travel journey to our times, she assumes that everyone around her is honest, generous and caring, as she recruits the help that she needs to get back home.
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Trapped on Toyworld

1995

Josh Kirby... Time Warrior: Trapped on Toyworld

1995
7
For Josh Kirby, time is one big banana peel. Just as he's whooshing safely into hypertime, he takes a cosmic header and ends u in a bizarre place called Toyworld. The odds against Josh being relocated by his far-off crew: exactly 5,487,603 to 1. The odds that pursuing mad metalhead Dr. Zoetrope will find him are... Sorry, Josh, it's a slam dunk. But Josh has allies. The lifelike toy creations of fuddy-duddy tinkerer rally to his cause.
Alistair1918

2015

Alistair1918

2015
5.2
A social work grad student’s film project on L.A. homelessness becomes something quite other when she and her friends encounter a man claiming to be from another time and place.
Wu Lin: The Society

2022

Wu Lin: The Society

2022
2
In the future... Revenge has no limit... Set in the year 2050 when pollution, and viruses are rampant and people need to wear masks to be able to breath easy. Life is still the same. When people dies mysteriously, the police thinks it is the work of a serial killer, while rumors a float about a demon that is doing the rampage. The detectives now must hurry to solve the mystery to stop this entity's killings...
The Buildout

2023

The Buildout

2023
2.5
A friendship is tested as two women experience something strange in the desert.