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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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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of 'The War of the Worlds' (2006)
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:
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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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Project Grey (2007)
Plot Summary:
It's fear that they seek! Dr. Schroder listens to her criminally insane patient as he recounts the story of the murder of his four friends. Chip implants, government mind control, Russian military, and Alien visitors form the puzzle pieces of this science fiction thriller. A search for the answers leads to the mind-bending truth...it's our fear that they seek. The Aliens are HERE and they show only disgust for what the human race has become.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: informative
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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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Escape from Mars (1999)
Plot Summary:
Five astronauts make the first manned trip to Mars, in the second decade of the 21st century. They must battle and overcome inferior computer components, corporate greed and indifference, their own personal problems, as well as the surprises that The Red Planet has in store for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Alien Invasion (2020)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the myth of Cthulhu, it tells a fantasy adventure story triggered by a mysterious quantum mechanics experiment.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, lovecraft
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Robot World (2015)
Plot Summary:
50 years from now, a pilot (Ian Rowe) is sent 60 light years across the galaxy through a new device capable of crossing the extra spatial dimensions. His mission is to orbit and reconnoiter the planet then return home. The planet is known to be populated by intelligent life. Once at his destination the pilot has to perform an emergency landing and becomes marooned on the alien planet, and soon discovers the planets only inhabitants are predatory machines.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 448
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, independent film
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Recon 2022: The Mezzo Incident (2007)
Plot Summary:
After the gruesome events on Caprini, Sharp and his elite team of tough, witty and trigger happy space Marines must now head out to the icy planet Mezzo to investigate further Ma'har activities. What they will encounter will defy their imaginations as they tackle giant man eating snow worms, an underground city of Cyborgs, a slew of murderous alien entities and maybe, finally, the ever elusive Ma'hars.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, stylized, exciting, bleak, independent film, campy
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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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Martians Go Home (1989)
Plot Summary:
Song writer Mark Devereaux accidentally calls millions of green Martians to invade Earth. No they aren't dangerous, just wise-cracking, intrusive, pain in neck, annoyances. No one can escape their distracting influence. It's up to Mark to figure out how they got here, and most importantly, how to get rid of them before they drive everyone crazy!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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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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Roswell: The Aliens Attack (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two aliens escape from 1947 Roswell, New Mexico and set out to sabotage the Earth. The lady alien finds she enjoys sex and likes to seduce soldiers. However, the male eventually falls in love with an Earthling and decides to stop the female from setting off a nuclear weapon the two had developed.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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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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Official Denial (1993)
Plot Summary:
A man who claims to have been abducted by aliens is also abducted by a top secret government agency, the Majestic Group, who want him to attempt to communicate with the only surviving alien from a UFO shot down by the Air Force. Telepathically, the alien tells him it must be returned to its ship, where it will reveal a secret vital to the future of the planet. Written by Alexander Lum , IMDb.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Princess of Mars (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, a US soldier finds himself inexplicably transported to Mars in the midst of a war between two alien races.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, serious, mockbuster, tense, captivating, psychotronic, hood
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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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Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in San Diego, the movie follows the desperate acts of Bill Templer head of a covert defense agency perpetrating a terrifying fraud on the American public - involving the imminent invasion of aliens - by leaking to the press a satellite image of an alien armada poised to strike earth. As terror of an alien attack spreads, the President of the United States orders the launching of Peacemaker, a surveillance satellite retrofitted with a nuclear warhead. Templer's elaborate plot is threatened when police detective Kevin Anjanette discovers that the alien images were faked. To protect his scheme, Templer swiftly unleashes the lethal head of his security, Ava Zurich, onto Anjanette. But it's soon revealed that an alien force actually does exist and is poised to strike if Peacemaker is used. In order to protect mankind from total annihilation, Anjanette must race to abort the nuclear bomb that will trigger the alien attack.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
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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 Advanced Guard (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of aliens arrive on Earth as part of an advance invasion force. Their mission is to kidnap a small sample of humans and run them through a series of rigorous tests to determine if they would make suitable slaves. Harper, one of the alien experimenters, has beceme frustrated with her planet's endless cycle of conquest and extermination and begins to feel some sympathy for her human captives. While the prisoners see a glimmer of hope in the compassionate alien, will it be any use in stopping the enormous attack fleet just a few days from Earth?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: cyber, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film
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Lifeform (1996)
Plot Summary:
When the Viking space capsule suddenly returns to Earth from its long ago trip to Mars, it brings with it an intelligent visitor that is part "Alien" and part "ET". Encased in armor, it extends a human like form from its shell to examine its surroundings and shows an interest in humans including a soft caress of a female scientist prior to the Army killing it. This only enrages its sibling.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 720
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful
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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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Dark Storm (2006)
Plot Summary:
On a secret military base a group of scientists have made a discovery unequaled since the invention of the A-bomb; code-named Eruptor, it's a device that supercharges Dark Matter and uses it to change the molecular structure of its target, thereby eradicating it. But when the Eruptor malfunctions and a leading scientist on the project is blasted with Dark Matter, he receives incredible abilities.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Quiet Hour (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a remote part of rural, post-apocalyptic England, now occupied by unseen alien invaders, a feisty teenage girl sets out on a desperate attempt to fight back a group of bandits and defend her parents' farm, their remaining livestock, and the solar panels that keep them safe from extraterrestrials. If she doesn't succeed, she will lose her only source of food and shelter; if she resists, she and her helpless blind sibling will be killed.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Epoch (2001)
Plot Summary:
Disaster strikes as a specialised team of investigators struggle to find out the truth about a strange monolith which sends out an intercontinental signal.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic, fast, disaster movie
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H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities crumble and human flesh is ripped from the bone, one man struggles to find the one weapon that will turn the tide for mankind.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: intense, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, suspense, futuristic, perverse, exciting, thought provoking, breathtaking
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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
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Invasion of the Pod People (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a meteor shower in California, Melissa feels that her co-workers and her boss Samantha that work in the agency owned by Vickland are acting differently after receiving a weird plant. She shares her fears with her colleague Billie and with Detective Alexander that are the only persons that she can trust.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, suspense, apocalyptic, natural horror, suspenseful, semi serious, sexual, detective, sexy
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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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Mission to Mars (2000)
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 Invasion (2007)
Plot Summary:
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, apocalyptic, breathtaking, sexy, psychotronic, mystical