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Plot Summary:
Two aliens who crash on Earth must find a buried weapon that will destroy the planet and their own society if not stopped.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, tense
Best tv shows and movies like Showdown at Area 51 (2007):
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Humanity's End (2008)
Plot Summary:
The year is 3313. Mankind is being systematically massacred throughout the galaxy by an invading species. All hope is lost until the last strand of pure human DNA is found on a remote planet in the far reaches of the galaxy. Now, an epic battle will be waged across time and space to save and protect the last of the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, futuristic
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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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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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2012: Damnation (2011)
Plot Summary:
A UFO is shot down over Russia in the 1970s and the wreckage is taken to a secret research facility. When the Soviet Union collapses, the alien technology falls into the hands of a mysterious terrorist organisation, which uses it to create a devastating doomsday weapon. A team of secret agents is sent to stop the carnage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful
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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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The Salena Incident (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious, extraterrestrial object lands in the mining town of Salena, Arizona, the government dispatches a team of Marines to contain the possible threat. Meanwhile, a group of death row inmates ambush their prison bus and take the guards and personnel aboard hostage. Arriving in the seemingly deserted town, they come across the Special Ops captain, the sole survivor of a horrible carnage that's decimated the rest of his unit. Now, with time running out, the group must unite to combat the threat of the savage aliens hunting them in the mine tunnels below, and the peril above from a squad of fighter planes sent to bomb the town to oblivion, in this pulse-pounding, sci-fi thriller.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspense
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Interceptor Force 2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future a new team of specially trained government soldiers called an Interception Team contend with the latest hostile alien encounter. When an alien scout ship crashes in eastern Russia, Sean Lambert and his elite force are dispatched to investigate. They come face-to-face with a seemingly invincible seven-foot tall, shape shifting foe hell-bent on blowing up a Russian nuclear power plant in an effort to destroy mankind through a nuclear winter. The stakes become personal when the alien discovers it was Lambert who killed its mate four years ago (Interceptor Force). A major battle ensues as the Interceptor Team look to save the Earth from alien annihilation.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, serious
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The Sender (1998)
Plot Summary:
A psychic father and daughter band together with an "angel" in an attempt to save Earth from an extraterrestrial Armageddon. This suspenseful thriller ties together strange occurrences from 1965 in the Bermuda Triangle (where an American fighter pilot supposedly encountered a spaceship) and government hush-up conspiracies.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, psychotronic
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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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Alien Siege (2005)
Plot Summary:
Alien Siege is a 2005 Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie about an alien race that comes to Earth seeking a cure to a deadly virus, for which the antidote is human blood.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, fast
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Alien Tornado (2012)
Plot Summary:
Aliens attack Earth with deadly electrical tornadoes, and it’s up to a farmer, his smart high-school daughter and a tornado blogger to thwart the horrific invasion.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, disaster movie
Similar in 87%
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
Similar in 81%
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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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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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
Similar in 84%
Alien Origin (2012)
Plot Summary:
A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, suspense, suspenseful, mockumentary, independent film, fake documentary
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The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Plot Summary:
7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, teen, exciting, rough
Similar in 85%
Alien Hunter (2003)
Plot Summary:
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast
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Independents' Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
Aliens invade, this time delivering a clear ultimatum. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance as the U.S. President and citizens decide if these aliens are to be trusted ...or feared.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, tense, suspense, suspenseful, intense, disgusting, disaster movie
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Alien Lockdown (2004)
Plot Summary:
After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, scary, fast
Similar in 78%
Alien Outpost (2014)
Plot Summary:
A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film, homoerotic, fake documentary
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Battle of Los Angeles (2011)
Plot Summary:
In February 1942 Us forces engaged an unidentified flying object above Los Angeles. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, tense, intellectual, independent film, fast, exciting, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 79%
Interceptor Force (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the near future the US Government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained for action in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force, they are the last line of defense.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, scary, fast
Similar in 82%
Independence Daysaster (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Earth is attacked by a hostile alien force, a small town firefighter and a rogue SETI scientist team up to activate the only technology capable of defeating the invaders.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Fall of Hyperion (2008)
Plot Summary:
A NASA scientist discovers that a group meteorites is heading towards Earth. Along the way, they will collide with the space station Hyperion, whose 12 astronauts are trapped and inside which there is a thermonuclear heart.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Alien Raiders (2008)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, christmas horror, intense, captivating, futuristic, cult classic
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Crawl or Die (2014)
Plot Summary:
Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, space horror, captivating, suspense
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Terminal Invasion (2002)
Plot Summary:
Aliens in human disguise commandeer a rural airport during a snowstorm. To survive, the people trapped inside must determine which of their own is not of this Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, exciting, suspense, tense, disturbing, fast, cult film
Similar in 83%
They Are Among Us (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film concerns a sleepy town that is populated mostly by aliens who have been pretending to be humans for a lengthy period of time in order to eventually strip the planet of resources they need to live.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting
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Earth's Final Hours (2011)
Plot Summary:
After dense matter from an imploded white hole hits Earth, the planet's rotation is devastated. A group of government agents must locate a lost satellite network that is the world's only hope for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, apocalyptic, disaster movie