Movies like Midnight Special
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Midnight Special (2016)
86K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Style:
road movie, futuristic, tricky, suspenseful, serious, cerebral, visually stunning, suspense, psychological, visual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
chase, on the run, father son relationship, parallel universe, woods, fbi, goggles, existentialism, hostage, supernatural, parents and children, superhuman powers, danger, firefighter, survival, imaginary, kidnapping, supernatural ability, ranch, motel, gas station, youth, alien, psychic power, space ...
Time:
2010s, distant future, year 2015, year 2016, 80s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
texas, usa, louisiana, atlanta georgia, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Midnight Special
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, serious, surprise ending and intense films with plots about death, storytelling, gun, murder, mentor, dialogue and catastrophe mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Midnight Special: Kin (2018), The Signal (2014), Signs (2002), Unbreakable (2000), Firestarter (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
20K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young boy finds a powerful otherworldly weapon, which he uses to save his older adoptive brother from a crew of thugs. Before long, the two of them are also pursued by federal agents and mysterious mercenaries aiming to reclaim their asset.
Style:
suspense, brutal, ambiguous ending, social, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brother brother relationship, teenage boy, abusive parent, murder, motel, burglary, brother, coming of age, teenager, shooting, adopted son, released from prison ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
nevada, iowa, las vegas, nebraska, detroit
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%
411K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Style:
suspense, twist ending, creepy, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
alien invasion, ufo, alien, alien encounter, single father, faith, first contact, survival, loss of faith, death of wife, extraterrestrial, natural disaster ...
Time:
2000s, future, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, north america, mexico ...
Similarity:
100%
465K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
plot twist, superhero, father son relationship, invulnerability, security guard, swimming pool, self discovery, twists and turns, train crash, good versus evil, supernatural power, a vision ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, y2k, future, 20th century ...
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has ...
Style:
suspense, action adventure, lighthearted, psychotronic, crying ...
Plot:
stephen king, psychic, pyrokinesis, fear, superpower, wife, supernatural, evil, secret government organization, fire, telepathy, white supremacy ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
Style:
psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, countryside, family home, mother, daughter, black girl, black history, family relations, runaway, supernatural, supernatural power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
midwest
Similarity:
100%
115K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, dark, ambiguous ending, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, nightmare, schizophrenia, obsession, insanity, paranoia, nervous breakdown, dream, delusion, character study, premonition, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 1986, 21st century
Place:
ohio, columbus ohio, peru, usa
Similarity:
67%
261K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, supernatural, catastrophe, cataclysm, prophecy, foreknowledge, metaphysics, professor, prediction, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
year 2009, future, september 11 2001, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston, new york, usa
Similarity:
50%
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35K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This ...
Style:
spiritual, inspirational, sad, philosophical, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bullying, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, albino, christ allegory, disappearance, electricity, struck by lightning, psychic, hospital, death, bully ...
Time:
future
Place:
tibet
Similarity:
75%
98K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million ...
Style:
suspense, mind bending, enigmatic, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
moral dilemma, life & death, husband murders wife, experiment, psychology, supernatural, decision, research, mysterious character, gift, mind control, social experiment ...
Time:
70s, year 2009, 20th century
Place:
usa, langley virginia, richmond virginia, virginia
Similarity:
100%
920K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style:
twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, revenge, serial killer, torture, twists and turns, vigilantism, police investigation, plot twist, brutality, vigilante, cop ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
Similarity:
100%
35K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.
Style:
suspense, rough, sad, exciting, disgusting ...
Plot:
human experiment, transformation, genetic mutation, creature, mental breakdown, experiment, nasa, soldier, laboratory, military base, dystopia, science ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A high school senior, Alex Lainey, has an encounter with mysterious lights that appear over her small town. She soon develops dangerous, supernatural abilities and turns to her childhood friend Sean Terrel. The authorities target them and a chase ...
Style:
light, sweet, futuristic, romantic, realistic
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, transformation, bullying, supernatural, relationships, teenager, strong female character, fish out of water, teenage love, female protagonist, shark, cadet ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
44K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, suspenseful, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
autism, psychic power, foreknowledge, supernatural ability, psychic, single parent, talented, supernatural, hopes, mathematics, single father, investigation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
25K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, psychological thriller, thought provoking, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, cyborgs, androids and robots, manhunt, dystopian future, space, on the run, save the world, imaginary, rivalry, race against time ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
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, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
memory loss, conspiracy, twists and turns, missing child, mind game, delusion, alien abduction, memory, grief, paranoia, husband wife relationship, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, harsh, suspense, depressing ...
Plot:
violence, vengeance, violent, brutality, revenge, family relations, character study, sibling relationship, family bonds, family feud, siblings relations, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
usa, arkansas, southern usa, california
Similarity:
30%
108K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body swapping, immortality, chase, cloning, soul transference, life philosophy, moral dilemma, cyberpunk, disorder, technology, twists and turns, billionaire ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, peru, new york, caribbean ...
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style:
road movie, psychological, slasher, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
psycho killer, hitchhiker, serial killer, psychopath, desert, stalker, violence, sociopath, stalking, kidnapping, highway, motel ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, california
Similarity:
28%
579K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, twists and turns, memory, save the day, changing the past or future, destiny, terrorism, time ...
Time:
future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, memory, police detective, vengeance, justice, police investigation, race against time, false accusation, conspiracy theory, danger, haunted by the past, serial killer ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
27%
123K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style:
psychological, clever, feel good, serious, touching ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time, radio, father son relationship, investigation, police detective, parallel universe, altering history, murder mystery, changing the past or future, murder, rescue ...
Time:
future, year 1999, year 1969, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Style:
cerebral, suspense, suspenseful, philosophical, lovecraft ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
space travel, found footage, astronaut, space exploration, outer space, space, spacecraft, distant planet, alien, survival, spacewalk, moon ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 1972, 1950s, 50s ...
Similarity:
27%
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917K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
Style:
emotional, harsh, suspense, intense, road movie ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
mutant, superhero, x men, fight scenes, protector, comic book, road trip, rage, invulnerability, one against many, assassin, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, year 2017, 2020s ...
Place:
north dakota, el paso texas, texas, oklahoma city, north america ...
Similarity:
27%
385K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, futuristic, spiritual, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
destiny, dystopia, reincarnation, life & death, multiple storylines, life philosophy, clone, homosexual, distopia, post apocalypse, karma, tribe ...
Time:
future, year 1936, distant future, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
seoul, san francisco, belgium, persia, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young man's life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.
Style:
erotic, neo noir, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
police, memory loss, confusion, amnesia, conspiracy, paranoia, brutality, violence, murder, deception, false identity, doctor ...
Time:
future
Place:
chicago, seattle
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Style:
suspense, brutal, sexy, rough, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pandemic, infection, fear, post apocalypse, murder, interracial couple, dog, desperation, disease, paranoia, apocalypse, infected ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Style:
suspense, road movie, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, prison, fugitives, life philosophy, moral ambiguity, on the run, boy, child abuse, road trip, small town, prison escape, coming of age ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1963, year 1993
Place:
texas, austin texas, birmingham alabama, alaska, usa ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, psychology, ghost, plot twist, death, psychiatrist, psychic, life & death, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
Similarity:
26%
626K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, thought provoking, neo noir, cerebral ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, distopia, hitman, time paradox, cyberpunk, time, self sacrifice, assassin, changing the past or future, organized crime, revenge ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, distant future, year 2012 ...
Place:
shanghai, kansas, seattle, usa
Similarity:
26%
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