Best movies like 2016
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Plot Summary:
In 2010, a scientist discovers aliens in orbit that resemble a cross between H.R. Giger's famous creation and Predator who want to invade Earth. They choose to start their invasion in Ghana because it is the most peaceful nation on the planet. The murderous aliens claim that they will have the entire planet colonized by the year 2016.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Ghana
Duration: 75 min
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Game Over (2003)
Plot Summary:
When a super computer is linked to a video game network, the computer programmer who designed the game must enter the virtual reality world of his fantasies and defeat the computer before it causes worldwide chaos!.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
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Beyond the End of the World (1978)
Plot Summary:
After spending three months doing experiments in space, scientists Antón and Daniel return to civilization. They're astounded to discover that the Earth has undergone an enormous cataclysm and the law of the gravity has even been altered in the interim.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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To the Stars by Hard Ways (1981)
Plot Summary:
A Star-ship discovers a dead alien space craft. All the humanoid crew are dead except for one woman. When revived she remembers nothing of the accident which crippled the space craft, and is brought back to earth to be studied.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: psychedelic
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Android Re-Enactment (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ermus Daglek, retired Empathtek engineer, commandeers a defunct factory where he creates androids based on persons from his past and recreates a dinner party where he lost the love of his life - until they malfunction and escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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The Rise of the Robots (2015)
Plot Summary:
What would you do if you were a Robot and didn't even know it? Take a trip down memory lane and relive a classic robot Sci-Fi film straight from the past using your modern technology devices. The last four human beings will have to fight to save the world from the robots! Two college students, one professor and a county Hillbilly face a world taken over by robots. Will they save planet earth from the rise of the robots? Stoner, Lottie, Professor Beowulf and Bubba have to fight against Robot Technology to save humanity!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Invader (1991)
Plot Summary:
A crashed UFO and its reverse-engineered computer system take over the minds of soldiers at an air force base. The alien entity (in the guise of A.S.M.O.D.S., (Asmodeus), a strategic flight defense systems program for fighter jets) is discovered by tabloid reporter Frank McCall and D.O.D. Captain Harry Anders. They escape the base in a stolen F-19 and are taken to the Pentagon, where their story is met with understandable scepticism. An attempt by Asmodeus' minions to capture Frank & Harry for brainwashing convinces General Anheiser of their sincerity, and they return to the base and eventually face Asmodeus and its army of brainwashed soldiers. Written by Dave Foster.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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UFO: Target Earth (1974)
Plot Summary:
An electronics expert searching for evidence of aliens picks up signals that he believes are from an alien spacecraft--and they are coming from a lake near town.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, independent film
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Homeworld (2008)
Plot Summary:
The year: 3037. Earth is at war with aliens called Mendax. They have remarkable mental abilities and are determined to wipe out all mankind.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
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The Door into Summer (2021)
Plot Summary:
A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Alien Seed (1989)
Plot Summary:
An alien impregnates an Earth woman so she can deliver an alien "messiah" that will rule the world. A newspaper reporter finds out what's going on and sets out to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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Star Odyssey (1979)
Plot Summary:
Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 742
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Battle of the Stars (1978)
Plot Summary:
A spaceship investigates an out-of-control planet and discovers a computer that controls an underground civilization.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cyber
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The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1962)
Plot Summary:
Martians replace scientist & his family to pave way for invasion.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, psychotronic
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The Love War (1970)
Plot Summary:
Two different alien races are at war. Representatives of each race have landed on Earth to battle it out here, but they've taken human form and they can only spot other aliens through the use of special glasses.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychotronic
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Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963)
Plot Summary:
In the year 2163 the starship Ikarie XB-1 (Ikarus XB-1) is sent to the mysterious "White Planet" orbiting the star Alpha Centauri. Travelling at near-light speed, the journey takes around 28 months for the astronauts, although the effects of relativity mean that 15 years will have elapsed on Earth by the time they reach their destination. During the flight the 40-strong multinational crew must adjust to life in space, as well as dealing with various hazards they encounter, including a derelict 20th century spaceship armed with nuclear weapons, a deadly radioactive "dark star" and the mental breakdown of one of the crew, who threatens to destroy the spacecraft.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: futuristic, neo noir, mysterious, cult classic, black and white, psychotronic, tension, suspense, weird, bizarre
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Ian Levine: Downtime Redux (2013)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in deep space, Someone is playing a manipulative game of chess between The Doctors former companions and his enemies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Starship Invasions (1977)
Plot Summary:
Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he's breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 953
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, bizarre, cult film
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Aliens on the Moon: The Truth Exposed (2014)
Plot Summary:
Never-before-aired NASA footage presents evidence that the Moon is being used as a base.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: disgusting
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Aliens: Zone-X (2015)
Plot Summary:
Park Ranger Don Morgan is torn from his routine life, when he stumbles upon a UFO visitation in the arid, deserted Park Area where he resides. An inexplicable, bizarre power outage knocks out all electronics and communications, stranding a carload of hikers in the park, and downing a small plane. Searching for hydration in the blistering heat, Don must lead the survivors across an apparently abandoned Military Testing area called "ZONE-X".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic
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Star Hunter (1996)
Plot Summary:
Star hunters are the space monsters who hunt helpless creatures for pleasure. One night couple of high school fotball players and their cheerleaders are returning home after the lost game. But, when their bus makes the wrong turn, they are going to meet those creatures, and the real game will begin.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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Alien Tracker (2003)
Plot Summary:
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. Cole is the Alien Tracker who's in hot pursuit of the escaped convicts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating
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Earthling (2010)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious atmospheric event, a small group of people wake up to realize that their entire lives have been a lie. They are in fact aliens disguised as humans. Now they have to make a choice. Live amongst men, or try to find a way back home.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, tense, offbeat, serious, independent film
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Alien Intruder (1993)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 2022, a group of convicts sentenced to life in prison are led on a mission into uncharted deep space by Commander Skyler (Williams) to salvage a lost ship. As incentive to go on this dangerous mission, the convicts are given the opportunity to spend their weekends in a virtual reality world where they could live out their sexual fantasies with any woman they choose. However, a woman who is not part of the program appears in it (Scoggins), kills each virtual woman and seduces each convict. When she begins to appear outside the program, the men quickly turn on each other.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, offbeat, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, black and white
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Gray Matter (2018)
Plot Summary:
Since the 1940's alien beings known as "GRAYS" have been sighted around the globe with the thought that they visit our planet to study our species and civilization before they eventually invade...but what if we're wrong? What if they are only here to protect us? After a meteorite crashes to earth awakening the extraterrestrial creature within, a young woman is abducted by an alien "GRAY" to aide in hunting down and destroying the creature before it can reach a second meteorite that fell to earth decades earlier unleashing its deadly infestation of earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Interstellar Wars (2016)
Plot Summary:
For Millennia the Aliien force has watched and waited, a brooding menace that has now at last decided to take over the Earth. Communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference and this has turned into a global phenomenon. A massive spaceship headed towards Earth and smaller spaceships began to cover entire cities around the world. Suddenly, the wonder turns into horror as the spaceships destroy the cities with energy weapons. When the world counterattacks, the alien ships are invincible to military weapons. The survivors have to use their wits to kill the aliens, or die.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, weird
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Android (1982)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric scientist Dr .Daniel and his shy assistant Max lead a quiet life on their space station, carrying out illegal research on androids, until they receive an unwelcome visit from three fugitives one of whom is female. Both Dr. Daniel and Max show an interest in her, but one of the other visitors has more sinister intentions.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic, mysterious, disturbing, tech noir, cyber, offbeat
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Genesis (2018)
Plot Summary:
After an apocalyptic event, the remnants of humanity create an artificial intelligence to save them.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic
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Taking Earth (2017)
Plot Summary:
The human race is thrown into chaos as an alien invasion takes control of the planet in an effort to find one boy out of 7 billion people who holds the power to destroy them.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic, scenic
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Hangar 18 (1980)
Plot Summary:
During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies it's existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret hangar 18 and the accident is claimed to incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, exciting, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, bad ending, suspense
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Alien Outbreak (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a small rural community, local police officers Zoe and Patrick begin their shift as normal but soon, strange events unfold. Residents begin behaving erratically, and suicidal panic spreads amongst the township they are trying to protect. Zoe and Patrick realise alien machines are taking hold, cutting their small group of survivors off from the outside world. Can the determined humans band together to save their community, and all mankind, from extinction?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful