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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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Defcon 2012 (2010)
Plot Summary:
On October 30, 2009 an independent filmmaker and his cast and crew are reported missing a month before the release of their controversial film predicting the end of the world. Authorities have reason to believe the film's 2012 doomsday scenario may have something to do with their disappearance. An agent for CEA (Central Extraterrestrial Agency) discovers the footage to the film and watches the film on September 10, 2012, three months before the world is to come to an end.
IMDB Rating: 1.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, retro, mockbuster
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Not of This Earth (1995)
Plot Summary:
An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tech noir, independent film, psychotronic, serious, suspenseful, remake of cult film, cult film, cult movie cast
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Bigfoot Wars (2014)
Plot Summary:
After the sheriff of the small town of Boggy Creek receives reports of attacks from a vicious beast bearing resemblance to the legendary Sasquatch, he enlists the help of an expert survivalist (The Outsider's C. Thomas Howell) and sets out to hunt down the creature. However, as they wander into the wilderness they discover that an entire tribe of Sasquatches awaits them. Now the enraged creatures descend from the hills and into the town to declare war upon its citizens.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, scary, offbeat, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Sex Files: Alien Erotica (1998)
Plot Summary:
On board a long distance spaceship returning to Earth, an alien lifeform has invaded. It feeds off of sexual energy and can clone itself to resemble the female crew members. Once on Earth the government's Alien Files force is called in to investigate the strange behavior of the crew members and to learn why the alien has come to Earth. A sexy space adventure from the creator of the EMMANUELLE series.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, offbeat, serious, suspenseful, sexual, sexy, campy
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Actual Reality (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hacker guy meets girl online in virtual reality. Guy realizes girl is a cop. Girl realizes guy is a girl. All hell breaks loose.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, melancholic, contemplative, cerebral
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The Last Man on Earth (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of the latest week on the earth before the announce of the landing of an extraterrestrial society on earth seen by the eyes of a misogynist man with only the desire solitude and routine.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, captivating, deep, sincere, offbeat, contemplative, gloomy, psychotronic
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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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Battle Planet (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the not-so-distant future, Captain Jordan Strider, a Special Forces Officer in the New World Alliance, is chosen for a top-secret mission. Sent to a desolate planet, Terra 219, to arrest possible traitors to the Alliance, Strider must survive with only a government issued experimental suit as protection. He quickly learns of a plan to end all humanity.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, touching, scenic, experimental
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Legends from the Sky (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Native American Veteran, burdened by survivor's guilt after a disastrous military tour, is forced to search for his missing grandfather after his ancestral land is mysteriously taken over by an unknown federal organization.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, independent 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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InAlienable (2007)
Plot Summary:
Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives, Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from another world. Except, it is more than a parasite: it carries his DNA.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, detective, offbeat, bleak
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1313: UFO Invasion (2012)
Plot Summary:
ADAM is a graduate student in theoretical astronomy and working on his dissertation. He’s always been interested in what’s ‘out there’ and he finds a perfect opportunity to both work and play…..in Roswell, New Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, sexy, funny, homoerotic, campy, cult film
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Alien Armageddon (2011)
Plot Summary:
For years, UFO sightings have been documented around the world. What were once mere sightings have now become brutal attacks of epic proportions. As the human race faces total annihilation with every major city destroyed only Los Angeles remains. Left with the task of saving humanity from extinction, a group of cowboys is the world s last stand in this Alien Armageddon.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspense, disturbing
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Dark Space (2013)
Plot Summary:
College friends Devin, Jack, Shelly, Kristy, Shaun, and Flower rent a spacecraft to autopilot them to Centauri Five for a holiday break. Impatient over the rental agency restricting the ship’s speed to 10x, Devin and the others convince Shaun to remove the craft’s constrictor device. Doing so damages the computer’s automated systems, as well as the ability to send a distress beacon, causing the six friends to crash land on an uncharted alien planet.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, futuristic, scenic, scary
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Atlantis Down (2010)
Plot Summary:
2025 - The Shuttle Program has been privatized and the shuttle Atlantis relegated to glorified taxi between space stations. Its crew is on a routine mission, conducting experiments - little do they know - they are the experiment. Written by Max Bartoli.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, futuristic, captivating, psychological
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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
Plot Summary:
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France, Austria, UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, stylized, atmospheric, mind bending, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, offbeat, experimental
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Unidentified (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two reporters working for the same magazine are sent to Texas to investigate a string of UFO sightings. As they investigate two distinct theories begin to develop. Both reporters are driven to prove their own theory, but in the end only one can be right.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, uplifting, independent film, christian film
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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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Index Zero (2014)
Plot Summary:
2035, United States of Europe. Some humans are not sustainable anymore.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse, bleak, serious, stylized, gloomy, futuristic
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Prometheus Trap (2012)
Plot Summary:
In the future, mankind's quest for answers will take them to the edge of the universe... but the knowledge they seek should never be known. In deep space, the military cruiser Venom is diverted from its mission to investigate a derelict freighter ship, the Prometheus. On board, all of the crew are dead - victims of sabotage - and its only cargo is a weapon that will change the course of time and their destiny.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, captivating, stylized, offbeat, bleak
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Alien Conquest (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sibling astronomers discover Martians are threatening to attack Earth, but no one believes them—until Martians land and nearly destroy all of New York City. As the siblings try to make it out of the city with their families, they discover the Martians have no immunity against the diseases of Earth, and must now figure out how to infect the invading army to eradicate the aliens before all of Earth is destroyed first.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, futuristic, mockbuster
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Specimen (1996)
Plot Summary:
After his grandmother's death, 24-year-old Mike Hillary sets off in search of who he thinks is his real father. Little does he suspect the real scenario: his late mother was impregnated by aliens, and now they've sent someone down to bring back their "specimen"--dead or alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Alien Species (1996)
Plot Summary:
Huge Motherships from an alien species sneak ominously into orbit around Earth. Lethal bat-winged fighters descend on the planet. Citizens are abducted. Homes are destroyed. The invasion has begun! A small town sheriff, two deputies and a professor discover the alien plan. With the secret to destroy the attacking ships, there's a chance they could stop the alien invasion... for now!!!!.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, fast, cult film
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Hunter Prey (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Prometheus has dropped out of orbit. Communications and life support systems are down. Situation Critical: Status of Crew and Prisoner unknown. With orders to catch their Alien Prisoner alive the surviving crew of the spaceship Prometheus pursue a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with their escaped prisoner on a deserted and barren planet. But, who is the hunter and who is its prey?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, independent film
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AVH: Alien vs. Hunter (2007)
Plot Summary:
A journalist named Lee Custler (William Katt) is out jogging when a flying object passes behind him and crashes. Sheriff Joel Armstrong (Collin Brock) picks him up and they go to check it out. They find an abandoned caravan close to where the object crashed. As they discover the object and realize it is a spaceship, an Alien emerges. The Alien (resembling a giant spider with a lizard-like head and torso) then chases them, after which Lee flees to the car. However Armstrong makes a stand, trips, falls and is killed by the Alien that then leaves. A terrified Tammy finds Lee and they call the local authorities but their car is destroyed by the Alien.
IMDB Rating: 1.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, mockbuster, tense, captivating, suspenseful, splatter
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Invasion Roswell (2013)
Plot Summary:
After the American Army shot down a UFO in 1947, generations of elite commandos were secretly trained to deal with the aliens' feared return. However, the extra-terrestrials never came back and the elite force was disbanded. Sixty-six years after the Roswell crash, the aliens are invading Earth and only the over-the-hill retired commandos can stop them.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, tense, apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, serious
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Alien Dawn (2012)
Plot Summary:
2012. The dawn of destruction. As giant alien machines enslave and feed off humanity, the few remaining survivors band together to form a armed militia that will be the last stand against total extinction (IMDB.com).
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film
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Hangar 10 (2014)
Plot Summary:
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Grey Skies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of old college friends reunite to relive their glory days by renting a beautiful cabin in the woods. As the sun sets on their first day in the cabin, bright flashes of light announce the arrival of mysterious creatures. These friends will have to outwit a force that is both inhuman and extremely intelligent in order to survive. The outcome will shock and amaze you as we come to realize... we are not alone in the universe.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, psychological, cult film
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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