Movies like Area 51

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Area 51 (2015)
 4.3
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Area 51 (2015)
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, suspense, tense, talky, stylized, intense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, ufo, alien abduction, military base, conspiracy, found footage, extraterrestrial, secrets, supernatural, secret base, happy ending, adaptation, alien invasion, government agency, youth, danger, amateur detective, dishonesty, obsessive quest, state affairs, space, witch, ghost, alien contact, evil alien ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, nevada, america, las vegas, united states, united states of america
Keyword: disgust, gangsters, doctors

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Most similar movies to Area 51

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about alien, danger, ufo, alien invasion, alien abduction, space and found footage mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Area 51: Phoenix Forgotten (2017), Alien Abduction (2014), Extraterrestrial (2014), The Signal (2014), The Phoenix Incident (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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, suspense, dark, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, ufo, alien abduction, fear, friendship, desperation, alien, secret, investigation, dark secret, memories, missing person ...
Time: 90s, year 2017, year 1997
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona
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Alien Abduction (2014)
Genre: 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, serious, mockumentary, tense ...
Plot: alien abduction, ufo, alien, found footage, alien encounter, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, abduction, missing person, escapades, danger, wilderness ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Extraterrestrial (2014)
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, suspense, serious, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien abduction, evil alien, ufo, macabre, alien, paranoia, woods, space, alien encounter, space and aliens, found footage, extraterrestrial ...
Time: 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 69K
The Signal (2014)
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: futuristic, surreal, mindfuck, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: hacker, road trip, twists and turns, alien invasion, alien, computer hacker, alien contact, secret laboratory, cyborgs, space, alien abduction, danger ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Phoenix Incident (2015)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 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, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: ufo, found footage, military, desert, alien abduction, conspiracy, alien invasion, missing person, danger, investigation, death, alien ...
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona, usa, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Banshee Chapter (2013)
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, lovecraft, disturbing, spooky, psychological ...
Plot: found footage, missing person, experiment, drug use, uncover truth, cosmic horror, experimental drug, ghost, desert, female protagonist, drug, missing friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 58K
Apollo 18 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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, serious, tense ...
Plot: astronaut, outer space, found footage, space travel, alien encounter, nasa, infection, moon landing, alien, stranded, heroic mission, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2011, future, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Fourth Kind (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
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, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, mockumentary ...
Plot: ufo, alien abduction, hypnosis, found footage, alien encounter, space and aliens, paranormal activity, alien invasion, investigation, disappearance, space, alien ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 7.0
 110K
The X Files (1998)
Genre: 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, scary, cerebral, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ufo, alien, conspiracy, first contact, conspiracy theory, virus, chase, evil alien, paranoia, fbi, obsession, twists and turns ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, prehistory, prehistoric times
Place: washington d.c., london, usa, europe, antarctica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 419K
Cloverfield (2008)
Genre: 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: suspenseful, suspense, tense, mockumentary, lovecraft ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, disaster, found footage, alien, giant monster, survival, survival horror, danger, destruction, fear, creature, chaos ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, bolivia, brooklyn new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
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: found footage, alien abduction, ufo, thanksgiving, alien invasion, abduction, holiday horror, terror, evil alien, alcoholism, lake, food ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 80K
Dark Skies (2013)
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, serious, psychological, creepy, twist ending ...
Plot: supernatural, alien, alien abduction, danger, extraterrestrial, ufo, bird, disorder, paranormal activity, abduction, family in danger, alien invasion ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 8.6
 247K
The X-Files (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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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, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: ufo, supernatural, investigation, fbi, conspiracy, paranormal investigation, alien, top secret, paranormal activity, alien contact, space and aliens, female fbi agent ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, future, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Area 51 Confidential (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 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, rough, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: found footage, alien, captivity, extraterrestrial, danger, alien encounter, military, government, experiment, desert, survival, ufo ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)
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: suspense, tense, demonic, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: paranormal activity, macabre, supernatural, found footage, ghost, haunted house, haunting, child in peril, witch, monster, demon, supernatural horror ...
Time: 80s, year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, year 1988 ...
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 27K
Devil's Pass (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
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, suspense, atmospheric, factual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, found footage, supernatural, snow, mountain, danger, secrets, uncover truth, winter, mountain climbing, murder, missing person ...
Time: year 1980, 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Skinwalker Ranch (2013)
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, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary ...
Plot: ufo, mysterious disappearance, deadly creature, missing person, investigation, danger, farm, paranormal phenomena, found footage, supernatural power, village life, alien invasion ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.6
 2K
Hangar 10 (2014)
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: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: ufo, alien encounter, danger, woods, found footage, alien, no survivors, forest, creature, survival, evil alien, space and aliens ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
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: scary, mockumentary, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: found footage, missing person, danger, police investigation, wilderness, supernatural, survival, death, violence, travel, witch, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 864
Absence (2013)
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, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien abduction, found footage, pregnancy, missing child, danger, family relations, investigation, uncover truth, babies and infants, alien, witch, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 261K
Nope (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Plot unknown.
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, scary, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: alien, massacre, horse, chimpanzee, ufo, alien invasion, brother sister relationship, death of father, eaten alive, loss of father, alien monster, ranch ...
Time: 2020s, future, year 1998, 90s, year 1996
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fire in the Sky (1993)
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, alien abduction, alien encounter, alien contact, space and aliens, alien invasion, space, abduction, working class, investigation, murder ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 2K
Lunopolis (2010)
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, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: conspiracy, found footage, time travel, moon, sent to the past, obsessive quest, uncover truth, escapades, filmmaking, partner, secret movement, legends and myths ...
Time: future, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.4
 1K
Unaware (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In July 2010, a vacationing couple discovered something disturbing on a ranch in rural Texas. Armed with a home camcorder, they captured their experience on video.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, mockumentary, futuristic ...
Plot: found footage, alien abduction, farm, alien encounter, alien, ufo, danger, countryside, survival horror, alien invasion, evil alien, survival ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.5
 3K
Night Skies (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On March 13th, 1997 one of the largest UFO sightings ever recorded took place across the southwestern United States...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot: ufo, alien abduction, investigation, space travel, alien, memory loss, mistaken identity, alien encounter, danger, supernatural, abduction, alien invasion ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Silent Warnings (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After the accidental death of his cousin Joe Vossimer, the just-graduated electronic engineer Layne Vossimer joins his girlfriend and four friends of them to visit and clean the inherited farm in the country. The local Sheriff Bill Willingham is an ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien abduction, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, save the world, teenage life, family in danger, alien encounter, rivalry, alien invasion, alien, ufo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 3.5
 3K
51 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Due to political pressure from the American public, the Air Force has decided to allow two well-known reporters limited access to the most secretive base on the planet. But when one of the base’s “long-term visitors” exploits this ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, exciting ...
Plot: alien, military, cover-up, confined, danger, government facility, ufo, survival, laboratory, rebellion, alien invasion, female fighter ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Alien Abduction (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After being abducted by extra terrestrials, Jean and her friends are committed to a top secret government run mental institution to undergo tests and be brainwashed.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, independent film, scary
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien abduction, mutant, danger, ufo, mental institution, haunted by the past, spacecraft, on the run, life is a bitch, supernatural, race against time, military hospital ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.2
 38K
The Arrival (1996)
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, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, conspiracy, evil alien, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, investigation, disguise, alien, space, supernatural, ufo, black hole ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, future
Place: mexico, latin america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 11K
Altered (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, creature, abduction, revenge, alien abduction, hysteria, supernatural, alien encounter, haunted by the past, friendship, danger, race against time ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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