Movies and TV shows like Taken 2002

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Taken (2002)
 7.8
 21K
Taken (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 877 min.
TV show
Story: Taken spans five decades and four generations, centering on three families: the Keys, Crawfords, and Clarkes. World War II veteran Russell Keys is plagued by nightmares of his abduction by aliens during the war; the Roswell incident transforms Owen Crawford from ambitious Air Force captain to evil shadow government conspirator; the unhappily married Sally Clarke is impregnated by an alien visitor. As the decades go by, the heirs of each are affected by the machinations of the aliens, culminating with the birth of Allie Keys, who is the final product of the aliens' experimentation and holds the key to their future
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized, depressing, thrilling, epic
Plot: ufo, alien abduction, alien encounter, alien invasion, abduction, alien, supernatural, extraterrestrial, kidnapping, space and aliens, officer, conspiracy, government conspiracy, cold war, insanity, teleportation, marines, family relations, veteran, danger, family problems, single parent, secret, ambitious, evidence ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s ...
Place: usa

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Most similar movies to Taken

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, captivating and atmospheric films and TV series with plots about alien, alien invasion, ufo, extraterrestrial, space, danger and supernatural mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Taken: Project Blue Book (2019), The X-Files (1993), Fire in the Sky (1993), Intruders (1992), V (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Project Blue Book (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.”
Style: enigmatic, captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: ufo, alien, physicist, political conspiracy, alien abduction, investigation, state affairs, space and aliens, paranormal activity, alien technology, alien contact, scientific research ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.6
 247K
The X-Files (1993)
Genre: 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, 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%
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
 1K
Intruders (1992)
Genre: Biography, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 163 min.
TV show
Story: All over the world, people report they've been visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and medically examined. The authorities appear to know all about these visits but won't acknowledge it publicly. This film focuses on two ...
Style: slasher, semi serious
Plot: alien abduction, ufo, alien, alien contact, space and aliens, abduction, alien invasion, conspiracy, alien encounter, extraterrestrial, space, evil alien ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Style: suspenseful, breathtaking, captivating, cerebral, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, adult, teen drama
Plot: ufo, alien, alien abduction, first contact, space and aliens, contact, alien contact, space, benign alien, technology, chase, airplane ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977, future, near future
Place: indiana, wyoming, india, ohio, mongolia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 59K
V (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: V is an American science fiction television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009 to March 15, 2011. A remake of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a ...
Style: cliffhanger, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ufo, alien invasion, invasion, alien, fate of humanity, evil alien, alien encounter, conspiracy, fbi, uncover truth, world domination, disguise ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.5
 2K
Dark Skies (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hour pilot episode. The success of The X-Files on Fox proved there was an audience for science fiction ...
Style: anthology, spooky, exciting, mind bending, captivating ...
Plot: ufo, alien invasion, alien abduction, conspiracy, evil alien, alien, magic, monster, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, invasion, cover up ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.5
 292K
Contact (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and ...
Style: cerebral, inspirational, philosophical, futuristic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: science, space travel, scientist, nasa, alien encounter, outer space, alien, space and aliens, first contact, astronomy, religion, alien contact ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, distant future
Place: puerto rico, new mexico, washington d.c., usa, hokkaido ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.5
 191K
The Abyss (1989)
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, exciting, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: ufo, ocean, underwater, first contact, submarine, sea, disaster, alien, space and aliens, survival, alien encounter, heroic mission ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 13K
Invasion (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Invasion is an American science fiction television series that aired on ABC for only one season beginning in September 21, 2005. Somewhat similar to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the show told the story of the aftermath of a hurricane in which ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, survival, invasion, space and aliens, creature, deadly creature, alien possession, rescue, danger, heroic mission, evil alien, hurricane ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, everglades, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 9K
Debris (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
Style: captivating, tense, futuristic, sad, exciting
Plot: alien encounter, federal bureau of investigation, paranormal phenomena, alien, alien space craft, cia agent, paranormal investigation, alien race, government coverup, partner, crime solving, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.3
 47K
The 4400 (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: 4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, quarantine, missing person, supernatural, murderer, investigation, foreknowledge, cure, danger, abduction, ufo, psychic ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
 27K
The Event (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: The Event is an emotional, high-octane conspiracy thriller that follows Sean Walker, an everyman who investigates the mysterious disappearance of his would-be fiancée Leila, and unwittingly begins to expose the biggest cover-up in U.S. history.
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, suspenseful, non-linear ...
Plot: conspiracy, alien contact, secret movement, twists and turns, president, missing person, space and aliens, extraterrestrial, virus, alien, investigation, hidden truth ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
 3K
Roswell (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his ...
Style: cynical, captivating, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: ufo, alien invasion, alien abduction, space and aliens, space, extraterrestrial, cadet, military, conspiracy, abduction, soldier, uncover truth ...
Time: 1940s
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.6
 4K
Three-Body (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Nanotechnology researcher Wang Miao is taken to the Joint Operations Center by police officer Shi Qiang, who's investigating the mysterious suicide wave among scientists worldwide, and recruited to sneak into an organization called the ...
Style: psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: alien invasion, countdown, alien, technology, experimental technology, advanced technology, extraterrestrial technology, futuristic technology, alien technology, hi-tech, alien encounter, puzzle ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 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 ⇓
50%
 5.5
 7K
Communion (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: alien, alien abduction, ufo, alien contact, psychiatrist, hypnosis, alien invasion, writers, halloween, supernatural, paranoia, creature ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.4
 611
Grey Skies (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A group of old college friends reunite to relive their glory days by renting a beautiful cabin in the woods. As the sun sets on their first day in the cabin, bright flashes of light announce the arrival of mysterious creatures. These friends will ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, psychological
Plot: alien, alien abduction, alien encounter, survival, isolation, danger, woods, escapades, abduction, ufo, violence, murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Movie in collections
 7.7
 43K
Torchwood (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from the 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. Torchwood follows the exploits of a small team of alien ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, detective, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: supernatural, gay, paranormal investigation, investigation, doctor who, lgbt, alien, save the world, creature, homosexual, heroic mission, time travel ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: wales, europe, united kingdom, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.2
 4K
First Wave (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: First Wave is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that aired from 1998 to 2001 on the Sci-Fi Channel. The show was created by Chris Brancato, who co-wrote an early version of the ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic
Plot: alien invasion, alien, supernatural, ufo, invasion, conspiracy, prophecy, frame up, alien encounter, criminal heroes, escapades, heroes ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.1
 11K
The Whispers (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: We love to play games with our children. But what happens when someone else starts to play with them too? Someone we don't know. Can't see. Can't hear. In The Whispers, someone or something -- is manipulating the ones we love most to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, tense ...
Plot: youth, danger, manipulation, alien, investigation, deception, naivete, murder, supernatural, kids in trouble, apocalypse, psychic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: woman in danger, alien, outer space, space, astronaut, pregnancy, nasa, danger, space travel, alien invasion, space and aliens, suburbs ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 8.1
 50K
Resident Alien (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Crash-landed alien Harry takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor. Arriving with a secret mission, he starts off living a simple life…but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, feel good, light, funny ...
Plot: extraterrestrial, alien race, alien, alien disguised as human, alien contact, alien space craft, fish out of water, ufo, human alien, alien on earth, body horror, moral dilemma ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 68K
The Forgotten (2004)
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, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: memory loss, conspiracy, psychiatrist, memory, missing child, mind game, delusion, twists and turns, abduction, grief, alien, experiment ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 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 ⇓
29%
 8.7
 1.3M
Stranger Things (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot: supernatural, monster, telekinesis, small town, parallel universe, experiment, parallel world, friendship, supernatural power, super powers, missing person, government conspiracy ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, future, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: indiana, chicago, usa, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Beyond The Sky (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A documentary filmmaker travels to a UFO convention in New Mexico where he meets a local artist with a dark secret. As they follow a trail of clues they discover disturbing sightings and question all they believe when they become immersed in the ...
Style: exciting, disclosure, captivating, tense, intense ...
Plot: ufo, alien abduction, alien, flying saucer, invasion, filmmaker, crew, investigation, danger, chaos, teamwork, machismo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.9
 14K
Nightflyers (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A crew of space explorers embark on an mission to find a mysterious alien ship.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, psychological, scary, space horror ...
Audience: adult
Plot: trapped in space, outer space, space travel, space, space opera, scientist, survival, deadly creature, monster, danger, research, supernatural ...
Time: future
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.1
 1K
Glitch (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman joins forces with a UFO enthusiast to investigate her boyfriend’s sudden disappearance and stumbles into a wild conspiracy.
Style: thrilling, captivating, satirical, suspense
Plot: ufo, friend, friendship, investigation, alien encounter, alien abduction, alien contact, alien, amateur sleuth, crime solving, mysterious disappearance, private investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
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