Best movies like Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of 'The War of the Worlds'
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Plot Summary:
In 1978 Jeff Wayne composed and produced one of the most groundbreaking and best-selling musical works of all time. In 2006, after much anticipation, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds was brought to the stage for the first time, playing to sold-out arenas. This version filmed at Wembley Arena (UK) on 25th April 2006.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Action, Adventure, Musical, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of 'The War of the Worlds' (2006):
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War of the Worlds: The Attack (2023)
Plot Summary:
Three young astronomers fight to survive a deadly Martian invasion.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie
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H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005)
Plot Summary:
This movie is a faithful adaptation of H. G. Well's book, set in the 19th century.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense
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Lost on Mars (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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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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Martian Land (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the distant future, mankind lives on Mars, in cities that resemble those once found on Earth, protected from the alien atmosphere by dome-like force-fields. When a massive sandstorm breaks through the dome and destroys Mars New York, those in Mars Los Angeles must figure out how to stop the storm before it wipes them out next.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mockbuster, apocalyptic, psychotronic
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Fatal Sky (1990)
Plot Summary:
In Norway a military plane crashes under mysterious circumstances: in his last message the pilot reported many lights falling from the sky. NATO wants to play down the incident, but the famous TV moderator George Abbot and the no less persistent journalist Milker sense a sensational story about UFOs and start snooping around in the area with help of pilot "Bird" McNamara. Inspired by the suspiciously rigorous isolation of the whole area around the crash point and cases of an unknown disease they have a closer look at the military's activities.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Yugoslavia, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996)
Plot Summary:
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and then the problems start. The landing-computer malfunctions, the captain Eugene Slader gets very sick and back on Earth it is discovered that big financial corporations have an interest in the failure of the mission - and we, the viewers, can see it all live on television.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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2036 Origin Unknown (2018)
Plot Summary:
After the first manned mission to Mars ends in a deadly crash, mission controller Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson assists an artificial intelligence system, A.R.T.I. Their investigation uncovers a mysterious object under the surface of Mars that could change the future of our planet as we know it.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychedelic, apocalyptic, action adventure
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Alien Convergence (2017)
Plot Summary:
When flying reptilian creatures wreak havoc all over the world, the survivors’ only hope of stopping them is a new, state-of-the-art fighter jet piloted by the only team that knows how to use the technology.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, atmospheric, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic
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Scavengers (2013)
Plot Summary:
A team of space scavengers discovers superior alien technology that threatens the balance of the known universe. Hotly pursued by a rival crew of intergalactic mercenaries, the Revelator crew must fight through the deepest reaches of space to locate and protect the life-altering device.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, serious, futuristic
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War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the Martian invasion, George Herbert's worst fears are realized: The Aliens have returned. As a second wave of Martian walkers lay waste to what's left of Earth, an alliance of military forces prepares a daring attack on the Red Planet itself. Once again, the future of mankind hangs in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, mockbuster, bleak, saga, independent film, dark comedy, exciting
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Transmorphers: Fall of Man (2009)
Plot Summary:
In this prequel to Transmorphers -- a sci-fi thriller that borrows heavily from the plot of Transformers -- planet Earth is in peril thanks to a rogue army of alien robots, and it's up to a small group of humans to mount a crippling counterattack. Can Sheriff Hadley Ryan (Bruce Boxleitner), a doctor (Jennifer Rubin) and an ex-Marine (Shane Van Dyke) find the automatons' Achilles' heel before they.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, mockbuster, computer animated, apocalyptic
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Dominion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Earth's position in the universe has become of vital strategic importance to those who have, until now, only studied us from the far reaches of space. Knowing our weaknesses, they have planned their attack, and now, in just 5 days, life on Earth will change forever. Robert Casey, a retired US Intelligence agent turned UFO investigator, races to discover the truth about the Dominion and what it has in store for the human race. Time is running out.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Atlantic Rim: Resurrection (2018)
Plot Summary:
When huge bio-mechanical monsters descend upon the earth ready to destroy the entire city of Los Angeles, a whole new team of top notch "M-bot" pilots take control of their supercharged robot warriors and try to save the world from being reduced to rubble.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 970
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockbuster
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Age of Tomorrow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mankind must fight to survive as Earth is invaded by hostile UFOs bent on destroying the planet. As the epic battle wages on, astronauts sneak aboard the mothership where they discover a portal to the aliens' home world. They manage to alert Earth before they are brutally murdered. Left with no other choice, Earth sends an elite military team of science and combat specialists through the portal where they attempt to stop the invasion from the inside out.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockbuster, captivating, suspense
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Alien Siege (2018)
Plot Summary:
After an alien spacecraft destroys Washington, D.C., the residents of a small town must fight off a unit of alien soldiers on the hunt for the President of the United States and the mysterious device he's carrying after his escape chopper crash lands nearby.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockbuster, disgusting
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Crimson Force (2005)
Plot Summary:
The crew of the first manned mission to Mars crash land on the surface in search of a clean everlasting power source they believe to be hidden somewhere beneath the ground. However, the crew find themselves in the middle of a civil war between the High Priest of Mars' royal guards and the High Priestess' warriors. The crew is divided with one half deciding to help the High Priest make peace with Earth and the other side with the High Priestess who is secretly plotting to kill her husband and invade Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, futuristic
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Wing Commander (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher Blair and Todd "Maniac" Marshall as they arrive at the Tiger Claw and are soon forced to stop a Kilrathi fleet heading towards Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, uplifting, action adventure, disgusting, fast, futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, serious, humorous
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Plot Summary:
Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: futuristic, bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, space horror, psychotronic, intellectual, breathtaking
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Plot Summary:
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claims all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice and near certain death. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, space horror, futuristic, sweet, captivating, experimental
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Plot Summary:
When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, suspense, sentimental, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, anamorphic, psychological, psychological thriller
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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Plot Summary:
After years of outrunning ruthless bounty hunters, escaped convict Riddick suddenly finds himself caught between opposing forces in a fight for the future of the human race. Now, waging incredible battles on fantastic and deadly worlds, this lone, reluctant hero will emerge as humanity's champion - and the last hope for a universe on the edge of annihilation.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 239000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: action packed, futuristic, exciting, rough, stylized, serious, visually appealing, action adventure, epic, psychological
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Battleship (2012)
Plot Summary:
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential his brother, and his fiancée's father, Admiral Shane, expect of him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 255000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, entertaining, futuristic, apocalyptic, action packed, psychotronic, inspirational, mockbuster, anamorphic
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Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Plot Summary:
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, serious, saga, epic, futuristic, political, cult classic, action adventure, crying
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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Plot Summary:
When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the very ideals upon which the Federation itself was founded.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: futuristic, saga, exciting, epic, anamorphic, cult classic, action adventure, serious, psychotronic, light
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John Carter (2012)
Plot Summary:
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 283000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: epic, entertaining, exciting, surprise ending, futuristic, heroic, action packed, action adventure, captivating, cult classic
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Starship Troopers (1997)
Plot Summary:
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 313000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: futuristic, stylized, entertaining, cult classic, bloody, exciting, allegory, action packed, parody, epic
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The 5th Wave (2016)
Plot Summary:
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, absurd, serious, teen, suspense, romantic, freeze frame
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Aliens (1986)
Plot Summary:
When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 750000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: scary, futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, space horror, epic, atmospheric, tense, creepy
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Total Recall (1990)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 348000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, ambiguous ending, suspense, cyber, entertaining, cult classic, mindfuck, exciting