Movies and TV shows like V 1983

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V (1983)
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V (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 197 min.
TV show
Story: Aliens pretending to be friendly come to Earth and are received openly. The aliens have masqueraded themselves to look just like humans. When it is discovered that the aliens' planet is dying and that they have come to rape the Earth of its natural resources, the war for Earth begins.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, epic, atmospheric, slasher, saga, allegory, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: evil alien, alien invasion, human versus alien, alien, save the world, battles, cover-up, extraterrestrial, journalism, escapades, danger, heroic mission, distopia, television reporter, lizard, alien technology, intergalactic, apocalypse, giant, ufo, first contact, alien disguised as human, dinosaur, invasion, reptile ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and futuristic films and TV series with plots about space and aliens, space, danger, heroes, alien, alien invasion and escapades mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like V: V: The Final Battle (1984), Threshold (2005), The Tripods (1984), War of the Worlds (2005), Space Battleship Yamato (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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V: The Final Battle (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 272 min.
TV show
Story: A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerrilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious, futuristic ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: alien, resistance, apocalypse, save the world, heroic mission, alien encounter, good versus evil, chaos, heroes, evil alien, murder, ufo ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
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100%
 7.3
 14K
V (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Once again, Earth is the battleground. But now the aliens whose human guise hides their true reptilian natures are wiser. They believe the secret to their survival on Earth lies in the DNA of the newly born half-human, half-spaceling Starchild. But ...
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, epic, atmospheric, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: evil alien, alien invasion, alien, ufo, post apocalypse, intergalactic, alien encounter, alien disguised as human, space, dinosaur, space opera, dystopia ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
100%
 7.2
 6K
Threshold (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Threshold was a science fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. Produced by Brannon Braga, David S. Goyer and David Heyman, the series focuses on a secret government project investigating the first contact with an ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, cliffhanger ...
Plot: government conspiracy, invasion, infected, alien invasion, dream, hallucination, contact, alien encounter, genetically altered, human existence, government facility, encounter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.4
 2K
The Tripods (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Masters using their giant Tripods. cousins. When humans reach the age of sixteen, they must undergo a process known as capping which places their mind under the control of the conquerors. In ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, captivating, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: alien invasion, alien, distopia, post apocalypse, dystopia, apocalypse, space, bad guys win, post apocalyptic, epidemic, bad guy, ufo ...
Time: future
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, end of the world, survival, disaster, invasion, space and aliens, destruction, creature, evil alien, catastrophe ...
Time: year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, los angeles, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, outer space, space battle, self sacrifice, escapades, heroic mission, space and aliens, danger, save the world, heroes, siege ...
Time: future, 2010s, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 5K
Earth 2 (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Earth 2 is an American science fiction television series which aired on NBC from November 6, 1994 to June 4, 1995. The show was canceled after one season of 22 episodes. It follows the journey and settlement of a small expeditionary group called the ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: space colony, space, apocalypse, space travel, post apocalypse, space opera, spaceship, space and aliens, outer space, distopia, dystopia, epidemic ...
Time: future, 90s, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Falling Skies (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, serious, stylized, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, ufo, alien encounter, apocalypse, military, evil alien, survival, resistance, life is a bitch, human spirit ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Earth: Final Conflict (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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%
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: space opera, space travel, outer space, battlestar galactica, space, ambition, danger, survival, rivalry, man versus machine, against the odds, heroic mission ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to ...
Style: exciting, saga, intellectual, epic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space opera, space travel, alien, space, intergalactic, military, space wars, benign alien, post apocalypse, dystopia, space station, galaxy ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.8
 3K
Flash Gordon (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Flash Gordon is an American science fiction television series that debuted on Sci Fi in the United States on August 10, 2007 and continued airing new episodes through February 8, 2008. It has also appeared on the United Kingdom Sci Fi Channel and ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, stylized, serious, saga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space opera, space travel, space, partner, good versus evil, rivalry, heroes, danger, save the world, chases and races, state affairs, space and aliens ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to ...
Style: stylized, futuristic, light, bleak, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, space opera, space battle, save the world, parallel universe, alien, space wars, space, chaos, battles, imaginary, society ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Galactica 1980 is a science fiction television series, and a spin-off from the original Battlestar Galactica television series. It was first broadcast on the ABC network in the United States from January 27 to May 4, 1980. It was later shown in ...
Style: saga, epic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: battlestar galactica, space opera, time travel, intergalactic, time dilation, alien invasion, star wars, androids and robots, space and aliens, space, military, world war two ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter ...
Style: psychotronic, saga, uplifting, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space adventure, space opera, time travel, astronaut, alien invasion, space, space travel, superhero, intergalactic, cosmic horror, distopia, women ...
Time: year 1979, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Space: Above and Beyond (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Space: Above and Beyond is a short-lived mid-1990s American science fiction television show on the FOX Network, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. Originally planned for five seasons, it ran only for the single 1995–1996 season. It ...
Style: apocalyptic, atmospheric, cliffhanger, thrilling, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space wars, space and aliens, alien, evil alien, space travel, alien invasion, save the world, space opera, space, spaceship, military, alien race ...
Time: future, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. This film is adapted from a television series that aired on ABC from ...
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: space battle, androids and robots, military, space, space opera, survival, save the world, battlestar galactica, man versus machine, rescue, danger, good versus evil ...
Time: future, year 1978
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Star Trek Continues (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The USS Enterprise's historic five-year mission continues with all new episodes of the original series. "Star Trek: Continues", a new Trek series, beams down with exciting adventures of the Federation's most heroic crew led by ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: star trek, space travel, spacecraft, outer space, good versus evil, heroes, adventurer, heroic mission, danger, rivalry, escapades, intergalactic ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.2
 83K
Halo (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Depicting an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant, the series weaves deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.
Style: futuristic, tense, anime, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: alien invasion, outer space, war, space and aliens, evil alien, alien, future war, space travel, space, alien encounter, danger, extraterrestrial ...
Time: distant future, future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.6
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Andromeda (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Andromeda is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: space travel, alien, outer space, spacecraft, space battle, artificial intelligence, space wars, intergalactic, space, spaceship, androids and robots, military ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Battle Los Angeles (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a ...
Style: serious, futuristic, intense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien encounter, survival, evil alien, military, invasion, save the world, battlefield, heroic mission, extraterrestrial, ufo ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, mojave desert, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Independence Daysaster (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Earth is attacked by a hostile alien force, a small town firefighter and a rogue SETI scientist team up to activate the only technology capable of defeating the invaders.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, apocalyptic
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: save the world, danger, space and aliens, escapades, extraterrestrial, secret service, disaster, evil alien, space, epidemic, distopia, natural disaster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 266 min.
TV show
Story: Under Paul ‘Muad'Dib’ Atreides' rule as Emperor, the planet Arrakis has enjoyed a renaissance. However, the revolution that Muad'dib inspired has transformed into a brutal jihad that has plunged all of humanity into a bitter, ...
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, epic, intense, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, space travel, space opera, desert, heroic mission, space, imaginary, leadership, escapades, political unrest, space and aliens ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 182 min.
TV show
Story: Sixty days on and Rygel is retrieving pieces of John and Aeryn from the sea bed. The Diagnosan re-crystalises them and they start getting to know the local species. Meanwhile, Scorpius and Sikozu are aboard a Peacekeeper Command Carrier on a recon ...
Style: atmospheric, talky, witty, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, space wars, space travel, human in outer space, outer space, space and aliens, spacecraft, couple relations, escapades, space, twists and turns, betrayal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.7
 5K
Crusade (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, ...
Style: apocalyptic, thrilling, futuristic, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, spacecraft, space and aliens, space, post apocalypse, space adventure, military, dystopia, intergalactic, deep space ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
31%
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction TV series and a prequel to the original Star Trek set 100 years before. The series premiered September 26, 2001 on the UPN television network with the final episode airing on May 13, 2005. The series takes ...
Style: captivating, serious, exciting, epic, saga ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: space travel, outer space, time travel, space and aliens, space opera, spacecraft, space exploration, star trek, alien life-form, alien invasion, intergalactic, space ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Stargate Atlantis (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, action adventure, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, outer space, fate of humanity, space opera, spacecraft, danger, alien planet, space adventure, ancient mystery, good versus evil, parallel world, space wars ...
Time: 2000s, future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
Style: exciting, futuristic, christian film, intellectual, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space and aliens, space opera, space, space travel, space program, parallel universe, military, alien, intergalactic, dystopia, star wars, future war ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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