Movies like Area 51 Confidential
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Area 51 Confidential (2011)
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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:
rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot:
found footage, alien, captivity, extraterrestrial, alien encounter, military, desert, experiment, government, survival, supernatural, heroes, space and aliens, spacecraft, interspecies sex, arizona desert, danger, chases and races, gun, machine gun, bleeding, arizona territory
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
arizona, phoenix arizona
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and tense films with plots about danger, alien, suspense, space and aliens, deadly, survival and escapades mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Area 51 Confidential: Unaware (2010), Alien Origin (2012), Hangar 10 (2014), Abducted (2013), Hunter Prey (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.
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serious, tense, rough, suspenseful
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their ...
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serious, scary, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
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suspenseful, serious, bleak, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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 ...
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serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced ...
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Audience:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A mystery surrounds a small town that was attacked on September 9, 2009. Now sixty years later, the last survivor, Sarah, sends a high profile reporter a letter suggesting what really happened on that day. The government calls 9/9/09 the start of ...
Style:
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Audience:
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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...
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Place:
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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, scary
Audience:
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26%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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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 ...
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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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:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When Kate discovers she has a terminal illness, she persuades boyfriend Andy to visit Groom Lake, a reputed hotbed of alien activity, hoping to discover proof of life beyond this terrestrial sphere. Soon, the pair crosses paths with desperate ...
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Place:
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24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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