Fantastic films about suffering

List of the best science fiction films about suffering according to the audience: Vanilla Sky, Hibernatus, Cabbage Soup, Planet of Storms, Crusade in Jeans, Solaris, Serenity, The Time Traveler's Wife, Seconds, The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, detective
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration02:10

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, comedy
CountryFrance, Italy
Duration01:22

The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountryFrance

2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantastic, adventure
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:18

Four Soviet cosmonauts land on the planet Venus and find it teeming with life, some of it dangerous.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family, military
CountryNetherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany

Dolf a 15 year old boy is sent back in time by a timemachine. Accidentally he is sent back to the Middle Ages. He is rescued by children who are part of a childrens' crusade, on their way to rescue Jeruzalem. During the trip Dolf finds out the danger is not coming from outside the crusade, but from within.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, drama, detective
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:49

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But... the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

    Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like the intended person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of the intended person and the customer takes on a new life.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family
    CountryGermany, Belgium

    One day, robot Robby enters into a life of the most creative little boy, Toby. Robby had been separated from his robot parents when his spaceship crashed. Toby decides to offer his help and the two of them become friends.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:07

    A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantastic, drama, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, melodrama
    CountryRussia

    Three astronauts (two Russians and American) find a very Soviet-alike small town on the fourth planet from Sun.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:39

    After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Italy, United Kingdom, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, China, West Germany, Japan, France, Hong Kong
    Duration01:33

    A quartet of mutated humanoid turtles clash with an uprising criminal gang of ninjas

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:35

    Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genrefantastic, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:29

    Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryJapan

    A recent accident has left Satoru Iwamoto, an elementary school student, temporarily wheelchair-ridden. In addition, the recent loss of his mother has thrown Satoru into a reclusive state, locking himself from the outside world. However, in an effort to help Satoru recover from his injuries, his father, Kaoru, has designed a remote-controlled robot that will go to school in his place and allow him to interact with people and do normal things.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountrySouth Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
    Duration01:52

      Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United (MNU).

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, detective
      CountryNorway, Iceland
      Duration01:35

      Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:19

      A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, Germany, USA
      Duration01:53

      Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:56

      In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children. A young man named Unoshin Mizuno (Kazunari Ninomiya) hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu (Maki Horikita), but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible. To raise his social status and also save his poor family, Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku (inner chambers of the Shugun's castle) and attempts to vie among 3,000 other men for the affection of the female shogun. What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful, but highly ambitious and conniving. In this environment, the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa (Kou Shibasaki) takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, action
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:34

      Follows the history of two robots, the members of Daft Punk, on their quest to become human.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star — the first totally believable synthetic actress.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
      Duration01:36

      Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:55

      In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:40

      Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomaniacal boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony escape to witch mountain, while at the same time Tia and Tony help Jason escape the pain of the loss of his wife.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:16

      In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:38

      Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his love lying in a coma. The next thing Daniel knows is that he's been awoken in 1992.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:17

      Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

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      Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:38

      The newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite with the Paternoster Gang to investigate a series of combustions that have been occurring all around the city.

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