Movies like The Sender 1998

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The Sender (1998)
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The Sender (1998)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A psychic father and daughter band together with an "angel" in an attempt to save Earth from an extraterrestrial Armageddon. This suspenseful thriller ties together strange occurrences from 1965 in the Bermuda Triangle (where an American fighter pilot supposedly encountered a spaceship) and government hush-up conspiracies.
Style: independent film, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, fast, psychotronic
Plot: alien invasion, space and aliens, ufo, alien, supernatural, spacecraft, evil alien, extraterrestrial, space, ghost, heroes, investigation, kidnapping, undercover, conspiracy, missing person, parents and children, supernatural ability, chases and races, showbiz, escapades, danger, alien encounter, government agency, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s, 1990s
Place: los angeles

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and scary films with plots about danger, space and aliens, alien, escapades, heroes, deadly and chases and races mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Sender: Age of Tomorrow (2014), Reptile 2001 (1999), Interceptor Force (1999), Hangar 18 (1980), Alien Hunter (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Age of Tomorrow (2014)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mankind must fight to survive as Earth is invaded by hostile UFOs bent on destroying the planet. As the epic battle wages on, astronauts sneak aboard the mothership where they discover a portal to the aliens' home world. They manage to alert ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspenseful, mockbuster, tense ...
Plot: alien invasion, space and aliens, save the world, evil alien, chaos, race against time, escapades, battles, danger, heroes, rescue, teleportation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.7
 2K
Reptile 2001 (1999)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A team of scientists working on a remote dig site find the buried body of an enormous monster, perfectly preserved even after 200 million years. As soon as the beast is uncovered, however, an alien spacecraft suddenly appears above them and brings ...
Style: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: giant monster, alien invasion, dinosaur, kaiju, evil alien, ancient mystery, satellite, chaos, reincarnation, dangerous animal, supernatural, space and aliens ...
Time: prehistory
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Interceptor Force (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the near future the US Government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained for action in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force, they are the last line of defense
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, danger, save the world, special agent, satellite, heroes, space and aliens, evil alien, ufo, apocalypse, alien disguised as human, alien ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 3K
Hangar 18 (1980)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies it's existence because of the near presidential elections. ...
Style: independent film, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot: ufo, alien, nasa, extraterrestrial, alien invasion, investigation, conspiracy, chase, astronaut, unusual phenomena, alien contact, dystopian future ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Alien Hunter (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, save the world, alien invasion, heroic mission, danger, government agency, rivalry, space travel, satellite, ufo, alien, agriculture ...
Time: future
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
They Are Among Us (2004)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 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.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: evil alien, danger, hidden identity, alien encounter, chaos, imaginary, impostor, supernatural, survival, alien, space, creature feature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.2
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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 ⇓
53%
 4.8
 553
The Silencers (1996)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: U.S. Senator is assassinated by Men in Black, mysterious organization which surpresses all knowledge about UFOs. Agent Rafferty from U.S. Secret Service will confront them and discover the sinister truth. The only person that can help him comes from ...
Style: futuristic, independent film, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, apocalypse, spy, parallel world, ufo, alien invasion, secret service, senator, supernatural, chase, alien encounter, special agent ...
Time: 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Control Factor (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, grindhouse, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mind control, brainwashing, political conspiracy, uncover truth, rivalry, undercover, government agency, investigation, dishonesty, supernatural ability, murder, conspiracy ...
⇓ 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 ⇓
43%
 3.5
 904
Alien Siege (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alien Siege is a 2005 Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie about an alien race that comes to Earth seeking a cure to a deadly virus, for which the antidote is human blood.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: deadly creature, evil alien, rescue, heroic mission, save the world, space and aliens, supernatural, danger, alien invasion, ufo, space, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Alien Fury: Countdown to Invasion (2000)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Plot: police detective, undercover, save the world, danger, government agency, evil alien, escapades, alien encounter, satellite, dishonesty, alien, u.s. president ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.5
 973
Monolith (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become invloved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don't want them to stick their noses into this
Style: psychotronic, independent film, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: alien, ufo, murder, alien encounter, evil alien, police, supernatural, explosions, giant monster, alien invasion, supernatural horror, investigation ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 3.7
 937
Alien Lockdown (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator
Style: suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: evil alien, experiment gone awry, soldier, heroic mission, supernatural, deadly creature, survival, gory, danger, save the world, mad scientist, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.1
 474
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 ⇓
40%
 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 ⇓
39%
 5.2
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Peacemaker (1990)
Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two aliens arrive on Earth trying to kill each other. This is not easy, since they seem to be able to regenerate lost body parts and survive bullet wounds. Both of them happen to meet a young pathologist Dori Caisson, and each alien tells her that ...
Style: psychotronic, cult classic, independent film, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terminator, evil alien, alien, invasion, supernatural, chase, nudity, strong violent content, anti hero, child in peril, stalking, bounty hunter ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
38%
Movie in collections
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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 ⇓
38%
Battle of Los Angeles (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In February 1942 Us forces engaged an unidentified flying object above Los Angeles. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned.
Style: mockbuster, tense, intellectual, fast, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, military, heroic mission, heroes, soldier, battles, danger, save the world, alien encounter, chaos and mayhem, escapades, androids ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Cyber-Tracker 2 (1995)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Secret Service agent (Wilson) battles an arms dealer who is creating a cyborg army.
Style: serious, rough, tech noir, independent film, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, terminator, spy, cyberpunk, heroes, kidnapping, robot, cyborgs, evil computer, martial arts, special agent, kickboxer ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 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 ⇓
37%
Interceptor Force 2 (2002)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien encounter, evil alien, space wars, soldier, terrorism, race against time, heroic mission, rescue, danger, deadly creature, heroes, space and aliens ...
Time: future
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
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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 ⇓
36%
 3.7
 336
Phantom Force (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A squad of soldiers must protect the human race from the supernatural.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, exciting, rough ...
Plot: space and aliens, supernatural, good versus evil, terrorism, danger, imaginary, ghost, heroes, superhuman powers, escapades, gory, custody ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.8
 6K
Hunter Prey (2010)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, survival, space and aliens, danger, alien encounter, distant planet, soldier, space, military, hunt down, evil alien, murder ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
 4.5
 92K
Skyline (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ufo, apocalypse, alien, evil alien, space and aliens, alien invasion, alien encounter, vestiges of humanity, end of the world, alien abduction, creature, fantasy world ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, new york, california, usa, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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