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Xeno (2025)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A teenage girl develops an otherworldly bond with an alien after it crash-lands in the desert. As government agents close in, she must protect her new friend, while uncovering a secret that could change the fate of both their worlds.
Style:
suspense, mysterious, tension, emotional, dark, crying
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
alien, desert, teenager, friendship, female protagonist, coming of age, government agent, dangerous friend, survival, chase, fear, loyalty, small town, bonding, abusive relationship, outcast, isolation, sacrifice, identity, hopes, alien invasion, dog, fight, snake, police officer ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Xeno
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological and tense films with plots about survival, alien, teenager, chase, murder, danger and space mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Xeno: Midnight Special (2016), Radioflash (2019), A Quiet Place Part II (2020), Signs (2002), Chronicle (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Style:
road movie, futuristic, tricky, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
chase, on the run, father son relationship, parallel universe, woods, goggles, fbi, existentialism, hostage, supernatural, parents and children, superhuman powers ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, distant future, year 2016, 80s ...
Place:
texas, usa, louisiana, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When a nuclear device causes an electromagnetic pulse that kills power to more than 200 million people, a teenage girl must help lead her family to survival in a dark new world.
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, thought provoking, epic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopian society, teenager, blackout, trick, darkness, female protagonist, doomsday, disaster ...
Time:
future
Place:
america, idaho, montana, ireland
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, creature, deaf, monster, alien, survival horror, silence, survival, alien creature, alien invasion, deafness, alien monster ...
Time:
near future, future, 2010s, 2020s
Place:
usa, new york, atlantic ocean, new york state, america
Similarity:
83%
411K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Style:
suspense, twist ending, creepy, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
alien invasion, ufo, alien, alien encounter, single father, faith, first contact, survival, loss of faith, death of wife, extraterrestrial, natural disaster ...
Time:
2000s, future, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, north america, mexico ...
Similarity:
81%
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276K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and ...
Style:
bad ending, intense, clever, suspense, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, telekinesis, found footage, supernatural, levitation, coming of age, adolescence, friendship, supernatural ability, bullying, teenage life, teenager ...
Time:
year 2012, future, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., usa, tibet, canada
Similarity:
78%
208K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
ocean, ufo, underwater, first contact, disaster, sea, submarine, space and aliens, survival, heroic mission, alien encounter, alien ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
Similarity:
77%
502
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A dysfunctional family under suspicion of murder after three bodies mysteriously appear on their ranch are terrorised by what they can only describe as Bigfoot.
Style:
psychotronic, captivating, enigmatic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
sasquatch, creature, ranch, cryptozoology, paranormal, bigfoot, murder, abduction, conspiracy theory, father daughter relationship, creature feature, eye ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
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Story:
When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
Style:
suspense, ambiguous ending, mysterious, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, murder, small town, death, society, friendship, survival, trapped, fantasy world, separation, showdown, sex scene ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, captivating, scary ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
ufo, alien abduction, teenage girl, flying saucer, radio station, alien, cheerleader, small town, radio, night, extraterrestrial, teenage boy ...
Time:
1950s, future, year 1958, 50s
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, ...
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, mindfuck, twisted, cerebral ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
twists and turns, hacker, secret laboratory, alien, alien abduction, road trip, alien invasion, alien contact, computer hacker, cyborgs, space, danger ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, nevada, usa
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A group of wayward teens at a wilderness boot camp must fight for their lives against the attacks of a ruthless blood-sucking alien. The attacks begin after they discover a strange "orb" in the middle of the desert. With no communication, ...
Style:
tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, alien, team, danger, hunting, deadly creature, survival horror, struggle for survival, supernatural, brutality, teenager, isolation ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
All her life, Aurora has been taught by her mother that the superhuman abilities they possess, the abilities that make them unique, also make them dangerous. Now, on one fateful and deadly night, Aurora will find out if her mother was telling the ...
Style:
psychological, supernatural thriller, tense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
female protagonist, supernatural, supernatural power, super powers, supernatural ability, problem, changing lives, family secret, mother daughter relationship, moral dilemma, secrets, survival ...
Similarity:
59%
105
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Friends become enemies after one of them is accused of committing a hate crime against a gay teenager during a weekend camping trip.
Style:
intense, emotional, tension, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
gay slur, loyalty, hate crime, bullying, friendship, guilt, prejudice, conflict, accusation, moral dilemma, betrayal, confrontation ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
20 years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
Style:
disturbing, dark, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
found footage, ufo, alien abduction, fear, alien, dark secret, desperation, missing person, friendship, food, investigation, danger ...
Time:
90s, year 2017, year 1997
Place:
arizona, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
memory loss, conspiracy, twists and turns, missing child, mind game, delusion, alien abduction, memory, grief, paranoia, husband wife relationship, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After years on his own in a post-pandemic Oklahoma, a 17 year-old doomsday prepper meets a pregnant girl who brings companionship, but also the danger of a gun-wielding group of survivors hellbent on building a new world.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, post apocalyptic, coming of age, teenager, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, post apocalypse, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, teenage life, dream world, maturation ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When their car crashes, 4 college kids seek help in Emeryville - a dilapidated village. New comers discover that place was once a ground for clinical experiments gone awry and plot an escape. They find themselves hunted by crazies.
Style:
tense, creepy, suspense, dark, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
remote village, survival, escape, isolation, small town, fear, danger, cat and mouse, paranoia, chase, car crash, college student ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
51%
25K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, psychological thriller, thought provoking, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, cyborgs, androids and robots, manhunt, dystopian future, space, on the run, save the world, imaginary, rivalry, race against time ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A city teen who travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter a grizzly bear
Style:
exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
wilderness, grizzly bear, bear attack, hunting, bear, teenage boy, father son relationship, snow, grownups, parent child relationship, estranged father, winter ...
Place:
montana
Similarity:
50%
612
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Joy is a young girl looking for friendship. She thinks to find friends in Roos and Chantal. When Roos and Chantal don't show up at Joy's friendship party, Joy is furious and she thinks out a plan to force her 'so called friends' ...
Style:
tense, road movie, suspense, dark, tension ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, road trip, murder, coming of age, car theft, female friendship, moral ambiguity, manipulation, betrayal, peer pressure, revenge, outcast ...
Similarity:
50%
30K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
Style:
bloody, suspense, psychological thriller, surreal, dark ...
Plot:
home invasion, tough girl, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, escaped prisoner, girl heroine, widower, anger, blood, teenage protagonist, loss of mother, girl dog relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
atlanta georgia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from inland Oregon embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission takes them to a place they’ve never been—the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, independent film, melancholic, existential ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
road trip, friendship, teenage boy, group of friends, small town, teenager, coming of age, teenage protagonist, teenage life, friends, adolescence, lifestyle ...
Place:
oregon, pacific ocean, portland oregon
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
Style:
exciting, clever, suspense, futuristic, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time, time loop, teenager, alternate timeline, time paradox, time machine, changing the past or future, time traveler, teenage life, butterfly effect, teleportation ...
Time:
future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2014, distant future ...
Place:
usa, woodstock, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
46%
114K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, cerebral, scary, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
conspiracy, ufo, alien, conspiracy theory, first contact, chase, evil alien, twists and turns, alien abduction, fbi, obsession, alien possession ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, future
Place:
london, washington d.c., usa, europe, tunisia ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Emperor Philippa Georgiou joins a secret division of Starfleet tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets and faces the sins of her past.
Style:
political thriller, suspense, dark, tense
Plot:
space, space opera, moral ambiguity, secret organization, spy thriller, conspiracy, espionage, dark past, intrigue, anti hero, political intrigue, betrayal ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Four young kids who live in a village of military officers families, form a small gang. An old abandoned army base, located in the surrounding fields, turns into their camp. A war begins and most men are drafted. When the kids return to their camp ...
Style:
dramatic, tension, intense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
children, army, military, conflict, gang, hiding place, camp, power struggle, power, moral dilemma, adolescence, fear ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
palestine
Similarity:
42%
278K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Style:
futuristic, suspense, exciting, touching, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
space exploration, astronaut, outer space, moon, solar system, obsession, father son relationship, space pirate, spacecraft, zero gravity, secret mission, trapped in space ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, future, near future
Place:
space western
Similarity:
42%
121K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free ...
Style:
romantic, futuristic, exciting, teen, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
interspecies romance, alien invasion, teenage girl, apocalypse, dystopia, true love, youth, evil alien, self sacrifice, teenage love, alien, love and romance ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013
Place:
usa, paris france
Similarity:
41%
31
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In a near future, after a global war has destroyed civilization, pirate gangs attack and loot surviving people.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, exciting, dark ...
Plot:
survival, father son relationship, pirate, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, danger, intruder, end of the world, family bonds, protection, isolation, dystopia ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When two high school girls, Daniella and Krista, find themselves working on a School Science Project about UFOs, they soon realize that they may be in a little over their heads. After family problems and an over-obsessive personality mislead ...
Style:
tension, suspenseful, independent film, suspense
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, obsession, school, teen angst, female friendship, science project, ufo, family conflict, coming of age, family drama, character study, paranoia ...
Similarity:
39%
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