Movies Like

Invaders from Mars (1953)

5.9 209 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.

Plot: mind control, spacecraft, flying saucer, invasion, alien life-form, alien, ufo, martian, ...

Cast

David Duchovny

Gillian Anderson

Amanda Peet

Billy Connolly

The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

5.9 1.7K votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

Plot: extraterrestrial technology, fbi, alien, priest, hospital, duringcreditsstinger, based on tv series

Cast

Brandon Routh

Kate Bosworth

Kevin Spacey

James Marsden

Superman Returns (2006)

5.8 4.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 154 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

Plot: saving the world, superhero, invulnerability, based on comic, sequel, alien, super power, superhuman strength

Cast

Aaron Eckhart

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Will Rothhaar

Michael Peu00f1a

Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

5.8 3.8K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attacking Earths major costal and riverside cities, a U.S Marine staff sergeant and his team are sent into battle only to find they must take it upon themselves to defeat an unknown enemy and protect what remains of Los Angeles.

Plot: hero, saving the world, chaos, marine corps, retirement, meteor, space invasion, alien, ...

Cast

Anne Carlisle

Paula E. Sheppard

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Susan Doukas

Liquid Sky (1982)

5.8 140 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.

Plot: rape, heroin, bisexuality, cocaine, punk rock, alien, androgyny, drugs, ...

Cast

Dwayne Johnson

AnnaSophia Robb

Alexander Ludwig

Carla Gugino

Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

5.8 1.8K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.

Plot: spacecraft, teleportation, mountain, laser, telekinesis, alien, super power, military, ...

Cast

Adam Sandler

Kevin James

Michelle Monaghan

Peter Dinklage

Pixels (2015)

5.8 8.1K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: China, France

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Plot: new york city, london, england, usa president, washington dc, usa, video game, nerd, ...

Time: 1980s, world war

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

5.7 3.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.

Plot: spacecraft, government, panic, extraterrestrial technology, ultimatum, evacuation, tank, alien, ...

Cast

Daniel Craig

Harrison Ford

Olivia Wilde

Sam Rockwell

Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

5.7 5.5K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America, India

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.

Style: satirical

Plot: spacecraft, sheriff, robbery, escape, arizona, laser, apache nation, native american, ...

Time: 19th century

Dreamcatcher (2003)

5.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: Four childhood friends reunite for a hunting trip in the Maine woods, bound by a psychic force born from a childhood friend's dreamcatcher. They find themselves caught in a grotesque alien invasion that twists memory, sanity and reality into something far more sinister.

Plot: based on novel or book, religion and supernatural, snowstorm, alien, friends, childhood, mysterious, complex, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Daniel Bru00fchl

Chris O'Dowd

David Oyelowo

The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

5.6 3.6K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

Plot: experiment, disorientation, alien, space, scientist, space station, parallel universe, alternate universe, ...

Cast

Boyd Holbrook

Trevante Rhodes

Sterling K. Brown

Jacob Tremblay

The Predator (2018)

5.6 5.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

Plot: predator, sequel, alien, creature, alien invasion, military, bewildered

The Watch (2012)

5.6 2.5K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood – and the world – from total extermination.

Plot: friendship, marriage, castration, sterility, alien, suburb, alien invasion, death, ...

Cast

Lindsey Morgan

Alexander Siddig

Rhona Mitra

Daniel Bernhardt

Skylines (2020)

5.6 613 votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Lithuania, Spain

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.

Plot: mind control, spacecraft, martial arts, self sacrifice, space travel, promise, alien, revenge, ...

Cast

Liam Hemsworth

Jeff Goldblum

Jessie T. Usher

Bill Pullman

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

5.4 6.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

Plot: sequel, alien, alien invasion

Cast

Ryan Robbins

Warren Christie

Lloyd Owen

Andrew Airlie

Apollo 18 (2011)

5.3 1.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Canada, Russia

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.

Plot: moon, nasa, infection, moon landing, alien, astronaut, alien infection, found footage, ...

Cast

Frank Grillo

Bojana Novakoviu0107

Iko Uwais

Yayan Ruhian

Beyond Skyline (2017)

5.3 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, China

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.

Plot: rescue, mind control, martial arts, self sacrifice, resistance, paranoia, invasion, sequel, ...

Cast

Keaton Yamada

Chiyoko Kawashima

Katsuji Mori

Osamu Kato

That's a UFO! The Flying Saucer (1975)

5.2 4 votes

Genre: Animation, Documentary, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Duration: 16 min.

Story: UFOs and aliens from beyond the stars are common themes in media, entertainment, and other forms of science fiction; however, many individuals have sworn they have seen UFOs and have been abducted in real life! Sit back and watch as the makers of Mazinger take you on a journey through the history of UFO lore. Could it be that UFOs are real and that aliens watch us from afar? In the end, only you can be the judge. This was used for promotion of the then upcoming animated film, "Battlefield of the Space Saucers".

Plot: based on true story, alien, ufo conspiracy

Cast

Ryan Reynolds

Blake Lively

Peter Sarsgaard

Mark Strong

Green Lantern (2011)

5.2 7.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: For centuries, a small but powerful force of warriors called the Green Lantern Corps has sworn to keep intergalactic order. Each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. But when a new enemy called Parallax threatens to destroy the balance of power in the Universe, their fate and the fate of Earth lie in the hands of the first human ever recruited.

Plot: superhero, transformation, based on comic, alien, alien infection, magical object, protector, based on graphic novel, ...

Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019)

5.2 468 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: Finland, Germany

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: 29 years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or destroy it once and for all. An old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. To save humanity, they must battle the Vril, an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race, and their army of dinosaurs.

Plot: moon, nazi, post-apocalyptic future, sequel, alien, death of mother, nazi occupation, adam and eve, ...

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