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Area 51 Confidential (2011)
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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: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: found footage, alien, captivity, extraterrestrial, danger, alien encounter, military, desert, experiment, government, survival, ufo, supernatural, alien invasion, knowledge, heroes, space and aliens, chases and races, spacecraft, secret, machine gun, arizona desert, interspecies sex, gun, bleeding ...
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 suspense films with plots about danger, alien, space and aliens, alien invasion, evil alien, ufo and deadly mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Area 51 Confidential: Dark Skies (2013), Unaware (2010), Hangar 10 (2014), Alien Origin (2012), Hunter Prey (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Area 51 (2015)
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.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, intense, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, ufo, alien abduction, military base, conspiracy, found footage, extraterrestrial, secrets, supernatural, secret base, adaptation, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, nevada, las vegas, america
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 6.3
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Dark Skies (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing ...
Style: scary, serious, psychological, creepy, twist ending ...
Plot: supernatural, alien, alien abduction, danger, extraterrestrial, ufo, bird, disorder, paranormal activity, abduction, family in danger, alien invasion ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
 4.4
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Unaware (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In July 2010, a vacationing couple discovered something disturbing on a ranch in rural Texas. Armed with a home camcorder, they captured their experience on video.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, mockumentary, futuristic ...
Plot: found footage, alien abduction, farm, alien encounter, alien, ufo, danger, countryside, survival horror, alien invasion, evil alien, survival ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: texas
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45%
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Hangar 10 (2014)
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 ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: ufo, alien encounter, danger, woods, found footage, alien, no survivors, forest, creature, survival, evil alien, space and aliens ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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Alien Origin (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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.
Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: found footage, alien, evil alien, space and aliens, danger, escapades, jungle, military, no survivors, chase, ghost, alien invasion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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
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Alien Abduction (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary, tense ...
Plot: alien abduction, ufo, alien, found footage, alien encounter, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, abduction, missing person, escapades, danger, wilderness ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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41%
 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
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40%
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Abducted (2013)
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.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot: danger, captivity, confined, kidnapping, abduction, survival, violence, murder, wrestling, kidnapped, escape, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Phoenix Incident (2015)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.
Style: enigmatic, tense, mockumentary, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: ufo, found footage, military, desert, alien abduction, conspiracy, alien invasion, missing person, danger, investigation, death, alien ...
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona, usa, sonora, mexico
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38%
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
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⇓ 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%
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 ⇓
37%
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Altered (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, creature, abduction, revenge, alien abduction, hysteria, supernatural, alien encounter, haunted by the past, friendship, danger, race against time ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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
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36%
AVH: Alien vs. Hunter (2007)
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 ...
Style: semi serious, mockbuster, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
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Darkening Sky (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the "modern mythology" of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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35%
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51 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Due to political pressure from the American public, the Air Force has decided to allow two well-known reporters limited access to the most secretive base on the planet. But when one of the base’s “long-term visitors” exploits this ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, dark, exciting ...
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Time: 21st century
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Alien Dawn (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 2012. The dawn of destruction. As giant alien machines enslave and feed off humanity, the few remaining survivors band together to form a armed militia that will be the last stand against total extinction (IMDB.com).
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
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Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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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 ...
Style: independent film, suspenseful, stylized, serious, scary ...
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Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
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: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Groom Lake (2002)
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 ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, independent film
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Time: 21st century
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Lost Time (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After leaving a doctor visit with the worst news, Valerie Dreyfuss and her sister Melissa come to a stop on a lonely stretch of road. Their car is engulfed by a blinding light....12 hours later Valerie wakes to the horror that her sister is gone, ...
Style: scary, surreal, serious
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Time: 21st century
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U.F.O. (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of friends awake one morning to find all electricity and power shut off and an immense alien aircraft hovering in the air above their heads. Suddenly this regular group of friends is battling to survive as the entire human race is threatened ...
Style: serious, bleak, rough, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: survival, military, alien encounter, chaos, danger, escapades, alien, alien invasion, evil alien, space, ufo, monster ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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32%
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Infection (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A meteor carrying an unknown infection, lands outside a Small Californian community, bringing terror and death. Just after midnight, a local rancher named Larry Jenkins discovers the meteor and calls the police. Inspector Bardo is sent to the scene ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: plague, prom, found footage, asteroids and comets, race against time, danger, supernatural, alien encounter, teenage life, pandemic, woods, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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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 ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, danger, chaos, alien, confined, escapades, soldier, monster, creature, death, evil alien, apocalypse ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Invaders from Mars (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this attempted remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting, slasher ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, ufo, heroic mission, mars, danger, alien encounter, young heroes, space and aliens, imaginary, heroes, deadly creature ...
Time: future, 80s
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32%
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Infection (2011)
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: serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
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Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Objective (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the supernatural thriller The Objective, writer-director Daniel Myrick locates the action in a remote mountain region on Afghanistan, where a team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched with the ostensible orders of locating an influential Muslim ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Deadlands 2: Trapped (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The United States Government has developed a highly effective nerve gas that is unleashed upon the residents of a small Maryland City. During the top secret exercise the infected citizens begin to convert each resident into a sort of living zombie, ...
Style: scary, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: maryland
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32%
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