Movies like Arrival II

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Arrival II (1998)
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Arrival II (1998)
Original name: The Second Arrival
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After Zane Ziminski is found dead five people received envelopes with details of an alien invasion. This group of five includes 3 scientists, Zane's brother Jack, and a reporter. Quickly, the group is down to three and then Jack and Bridget, the reporter. With a small piece of alien technology, they must escape from the aliens, who take human form, and try to convince others that aliens exist.
Style: suspense, independent film, suspenseful, semi serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, space and aliens, investigation, global warming, conspiracy, monster, ufo, extraterrestrial, space, alien, invasion, giant monster, female nudity, reporter, alien technology, femme fatale, nuclear power plant, investigative reporter, framed for murder, race against time, premarital sex, extraterrestrial technology, heroes, save the world, journalism ...
Time: future, 90s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and scary films with plots about space and aliens, alien, danger, alien invasion, alien encounter, evil alien and ufo mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Arrival II: The Arrival (1996), Endangered Species (2002), Project Viper (2002), The Shadow Men (1997), The Hidden (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
Endangered Species (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When police are puzzled by several horrific murders, they assume they have a serial killer on their hands. But soon they realise that the unimaginable has happened. A killing machine from another world has arrived on Earth determined to brutally ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, evil alien, space and aliens, investigation, danger, law enforcement, alien encounter, murder, alien, terminator, brutality, alien invasion ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.5
 651
Project Viper (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, fast
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, experiment gone awry, government agency, deadly creature, save the world, survival, chaos, heroic mission, danger, race against time, special agent, space travel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Shadow Men (1997)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Happily married couple Bob and Dez Wilson and their 12-year old son Andy are being attacked by a blinding light when driving home from a daytrip. They awaken a couple of hours later, seemingly unscathed but soon driven mad by recurring nightmares. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, ufo, chase, alien abduction, alien invasion, abduction, save the world, heroes, danger, stalking, government agency, escapades ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Hidden (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, car chase, buddy cop, fbi, chase, mind control, violence, alien invasion, revenge, monster, space and aliens, twists and turns ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Terminal Invasion (2002)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 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.
Style: serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, alien invasion, airport, supernatural, evil alien, tough heroes, prisoner, anti hero, danger, survival, save the world, confined ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Invasion of the Pod People (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: mockbuster, natural horror, apocalyptic, suspense, semi serious ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, evil alien, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, space, lesbian, invasion, extraterrestrial, monster ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
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The Invader (1997)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Good alien from a dying race must impregnate an Earth woman to avoid extinction of his race. Bad alien whose race helped wipe out good alien's race doesn't want to see this happen.
Style: mystic, independent film, semi serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, evil alien, alien, terminator, supernatural, eye, pregnancy, genocide, space travel, kidnapping, interracial relations, alien encounter ...
Time: future, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Earth: Final Conflict (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on story ideas created by Gene Roddenberry, and produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. It was not produced, filmed or broadcast until after his ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, alien invasion, alien contact, spaceship, space, space opera, evil alien, rebellion, conspiracy, alien, outer space, superhero ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 507
Specimen (1996)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After his grandmother's death, 24-year-old Mike Hillary sets off in search of who he thinks is his real father. Little does he suspect the real scenario: his late mother was impregnated by aliens, and now they've sent someone down to bring ...
Style: independent film, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic
Plot: space and aliens, evil alien, terminator, supernatural, alien, invasion, conspiracy, battles, disorder, miraculous event, time travel, space travel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
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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
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27%
 4.2
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Species III (2004)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After she delivers her child in an ambulance, alien Eve is killed by a half-breed. Fortunately, Dr. Abbot scoops up the baby alien and escapes. In time, the baby grows into a gorgeous blonde named Sara and begins her quest to find a worthy mate. But ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, sexy, erotic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: female alien, alien, transformation, shape shifting alien, space and aliens, evil alien, laboratory, femme fatale, sex scene, military, breeding, chaos ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Strange Invaders (1983)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he goes to where she grew up--a rural town in the midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the Newmans. He meets aliens; but when he contacts the FBI, ...
Style: independent film, serious, bleak, offbeat, suspenseful ...
Plot: space and aliens, alien, alien invasion, ufo, monster, evil alien, invasion, apocalypse, distopia, creature, body horror, epidemic ...
Time: future, year 1983, year 2016, 50s, 1950s
Place: illinois, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Species: The Awakening (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A scientist, Dr Holander, takes his niece Miranda to Mexico in an attempt to reverse the effects of the alien DNA he used to create her. However the treatment goes horribly wrong, and sets Miranda on a killing spree as she sets out to find a mate.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: alien, female alien, scientist, space and aliens, imaginary, supernatural, save the world, transformation, danger, rivalry, superhuman powers, benign alien ...
Time: jurassic, 2000s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
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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, intense, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, ufo, alien abduction, military base, conspiracy, found footage, extraterrestrial, secrets, supernatural, secret base, adaptation, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, nevada, las vegas, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Alien Raiders (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: evil alien, hostage, alien, alien creature, battles, investigation, isolation, captivity, alien invasion, race against time, save the world, small town ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Dark Breed (1996)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, rescue, astronaut, heroic mission, save the world, against the rules, race against time, heroes, space travel, danger, supernatural, undercover ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Puppet Masters (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, cerebral, epic ...
Plot: alien, evil alien, alien invasion, alien contact, mind control, deadly creature, ufo, monster, space and aliens, brutality, justice, space ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: iowa, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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
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19%
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Species II (1998)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing ...
Style: sexy, scary, futuristic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, nudity, quarantine, evil alien, deadly creature, heroes, save the world, mars, impregnation, sex scene, dna, femme fatale ...
Time: 90s, jurassic, year 1998, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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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 ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
19%
AVH: Alien vs. Hunter (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: semi serious, mockbuster, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: space travel, alien, supernatural, deadly creature, imaginary, escapades, danger, space and aliens, rivalry, chaos, heroes, chases and races ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Attack of the Unknown (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.
Style: suspense, scary, tense, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ufo, evil alien, alien invasion, swat team, alien, extraterrestrial, murder, space and aliens, escapades, danger, society, save the world ...
Place: usa
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19%
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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 ⇓
19%
 4.8
 19K
Supernova (2000)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, space horror, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, space, robot, rescue, space and aliens, survival, danger, end of the world, natural disaster, heroic mission, race against time ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 ⇓
18%
 5.9
 85K
Species (1995)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from ...
Style: suspense, scary, sexy, erotic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, toddlers, adult
Plot: alien, genetic engineering, cocoon, monster, nudity, deadly creature, genetics, femme fatale, dna, danger, interspecies sex, cloning ...
Time: 90s, jurassic, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 3.7
 1K
Ejecta (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two men witness an unexplainable event in the sky as a historic solar storm approaches, and they try to survive as a terrifying life form hunts them.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, space horror, independent film
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ufo, evil alien, space and aliens, survival, alien abduction, alien encounter, truth, alien, found footage, danger, heroes, graphic violence ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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