Movies like Area 51
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Area 51 (2015)
16K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.
Style:
scary, tense, suspense, talky, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien abduction, alien, found footage, ufo, military base, conspiracy, extraterrestrial, secrets, happy ending, secret base, supernatural, amateur detective, adaptation, alien invasion, government agency, youth, danger, dishonesty, obsessive quest, state affairs, desert, flying saucer, laboratory, friendship between men, alien technology ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
nevada, america, las vegas, usa, united states, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Area 51
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary and serious films with plots about alien, danger, ufo, alien invasion, found footage, alien abduction and supernatural mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Area 51: Phoenix Forgotten (2017), Extraterrestrial (2014), Alien Abduction (2014), The Signal (2014), The Phoenix Incident (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien abduction, alien, paranoia, evil alien, woods, extraterrestrial, macabre, ufo, scarecrow, space and aliens, alien encounter, flying saucer ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
alien abduction, found footage, alien, extraterrestrial, alien encounter, ufo, space and aliens, abduction, mountain, escapades, danger, wilderness ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.
Style:
enigmatic, tense, mockumentary, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
ufo, found footage, alien abduction, military, conspiracy, alien invasion, missing person, investigation, danger, desert, death, abduction ...
Place:
phoenix arizona, arizona, usa, sonora, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, The Silence of The Lambs -- finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government ...
Style:
scary, medical horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic ...
Plot:
found footage, missing person, drug use, desert, uncover truth, cosmic horror, experimental drug, ghost, female protagonist, drug, missing friend, journalist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
Similarity:
100%
60K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Russia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage ...
Style:
suspense, mockumentary, scary, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
astronaut, alien encounter, found footage, outer space, moon landing, infection, space travel, moon, nasa, heroic mission, danger, space and aliens ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 2010s, year 2011, future ...
Place:
antarctica
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.
Style:
mockumentary, christmas horror, weird, fake documentary
Plot:
alien abduction, found footage, ufo, thanksgiving, holiday horror, alien invasion, abduction, lake, alien, flying saucer, terror, monster ...
Similarity:
100%
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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:
100%
442K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most ...
Style:
spooky, mysterious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, disaster, found footage, giant monster, alien, survival, fear, survival horror, danger, creature, kaiju, deadly creature ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new york, bolivia, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
270K
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, mind bending, atmospheric, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
ufo, supernatural, investigation, conspiracy, fbi, paranormal investigation, top secret, paranormal activity, alien contact, alien abduction, space and aliens, female fbi agent ...
Time:
2010s, jurassic, future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, phoenix arizona, arizona
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky ...
Plot:
ufo, alien abduction, hypnosis, alien encounter, disappearance, found footage, space and aliens, extraterrestrial, alien, paranormal activity, alien invasion, space ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa, california, antarctica
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
People from various walks of life find themselves held captive in a desolate area surrounding a secret government installation rumored to contain extraterrestrial life
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
found footage, alien, desert, extraterrestrial, captivity, danger, alien encounter, military, government, experiment, survival, ufo ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, conspiracy, evil alien, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, disguise, investigation, ufo, alien, black hole, elevator, supernatural ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1996
Place:
mexico, latin america, central america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing ...
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, twist ending, spooky ...
Plot:
supernatural, alien abduction, alien, danger, disorder, extraterrestrial, bird, ufo, abduction, family in danger, paranormal activity, evil alien ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2000, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On August 16, 2013, the Supreme Court mandated the CIA to declassify files that had been kept secret for the past 75 years. Visual records of documented paranormal events were released to the public. The following incident took place in Gracefield, ...
Style:
dark, disturbing, enigmatic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien abduction, alien, group of friends, ufo, fear, eye, nightmare, meteorite, night, life, husband wife relationship, love ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In 1988, evil begins to terrorize young sisters Katie and Kristi for the first time when an invisible entity resides in their home.
Style:
creepy, demonic, tense, suspenseful, horrifying ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, paranormal activity, found footage, haunted house, supernatural horror, haunting, paranormal phenomena, demon, child in peril, monster, haunted ...
Time:
80s, year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, year 1988 ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
found footage, alien encounter, ufo, alien, evil alien, space and aliens, danger, woods, forest, creature, flying saucer, alien invasion ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
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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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s ...
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary ...
Plot:
ufo, mysterious disappearance, deadly creature, missing person, found footage, farm, ghost child, investigation, danger, paranormal phenomena, alien monster, food ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, utah
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Five young filmmakers retrace the steps of a doomed group of hikers in pursuit of an unsolvable mystery.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, factual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, found footage, mountain, supernatural, snow, danger, uncover truth, mountain climbing, murder, missing person, winter, lone hero ...
Time:
year 1980, 21st century
Place:
russia, antarctica
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old ...
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary ...
Plot:
found footage, missing person, wilderness, danger, police investigation, supernatural, witch, survival, violence, death, fear, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
914
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Doctors are baffled when an expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. Police investigate the situation as a missing child, and only her husband and brother trust her version of events.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien abduction, found footage, pregnancy, missing child, danger, family relations, alien, uncover truth, investigation, babies and infants, family problems, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Written in 1931, H.P. Lovecraft's iconic genre-bending tale of suspense and alien terrors is brought to life in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s like Frankenstein, Dracula and King Kong. Using its Mythoscope™ process — a ...
Style:
retro, scary, suspenseful, black and white, lovecraft ...
Plot:
cosmic horror, alien, legends and myths, cthulhu, rain, ritual, supernatural, abduction, danger, space and aliens, escape attempt, twists and turns ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
vermont, new england, usa
Similarity:
100%
312K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Plot unknown.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
massacre, alien, first contact, chimpanzee, alien monster, ufo, brother sister relationship, horse, childhood trauma, eaten alive, horse ranch, alien invasion ...
Time:
2020s, year 1998, future, 90s, year 1996
Place:
california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A group of men who were clearing bush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, disturbing, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot:
ufo, alien abduction, alien, alien encounter, alien contact, space and aliens, extraterrestrial, alien invasion, space, first contact, abduction, working class ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sci-fi thriller directed by Fred Gallo.
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female nudity, spaceship, survival, post apocalyptic, alien invasion, survival horror, space opera, dark future, danger, alien abduction, panic, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien abduction, alien, alien encounter, broken family, missing child, supernatural, kidnapping, dark secret, mysterious disappearance, alien contact, disappearance, small town ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lunopolis is a 2009 direct-to-video science fiction film directed by Matthew Avant. The film is presented in found footage style and takes place in the weeks preceding the rumored events of the 2012 prophecies. Two documentary filmmakers discover a ...
Style:
tense, serious, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
conspiracy, found footage, moon, time travel, sent to the past, obsessive quest, uncover truth, escapades, filmmaking, partner, secret movement, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Style:
intense, creepy, atmospheric, tense, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, quarantine, virus, infection, found footage, graphic violence, plague, haunted house, trapped, gory, rabies, cannibalism ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
67%
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