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The Arrival of Wang (2011)
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The Arrival of Wang (2011)
Original name: L'arrivo di Wang
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Chinese-language interpreter Gaia is called up out of the blue by the Italian authorities with an urgent and confidential translation assignment. She is whisked away to a secret underground location and ushered into a pitch-black room where she is asked to interpret the harsh interrogation of a mysterious presence, the eponymous Mr. Wang.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, weird, bilingual
Plot: alien contact, female protagonist, alien race, alien species, mistrust, translator, locked in a room, supernatural, alien invasion, alien, spacecraft, prisoner, telephone call, basement, black woman, job offer, naivete, torture, deception, fear, alien attack, cell phone, electrocution, locker, electric shock ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: italy, rome italy
Keyword: flat

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, tense and captivating films with plots about alien, alien encounter, ufo, alien invasion, evil alien, alien contact and danger mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Arrival of Wang: Alien Overlords (2018), Dark Encounter (2019), Alien Exorcism (2011), Paura (2012), War of the Worlds: The Attack (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Alien Overlords (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A man learns about alien agendas from a dying agent and feels compelled to warn the world about the impending danger.
Style: thought provoking, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending ...
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Time: future
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Dark Encounter (2019)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychedelic
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Time: 80s
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Alien Exorcism (2011)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A brave scientist has been studying thousands of cases related to alien abductions. By placing abductees under hypnosis, he arrives at the unsettling discovery that for thousands of years, a variety of extra-terrestrial races have been installing ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, rough
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Paura (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three young musicians think they have luck on their side when they score the keys to a beautiful villa outside of Rome for the weekend. Unfortunately, they soon discover that they are not alone.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological
Plot: stranded, survival, abduction, isolation, musician, group of friends, torture, weekend, travel, female nudity, basement, female full frontal nudity
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War of the Worlds: The Attack (2023)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three young astronomers fight to survive a deadly Martian invasion.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, road movie
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Alien Code (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After deciphering a message found in a satellite, genius cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself being stalked by government agents and otherworldly beings.
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: space and aliens, ufo, paranormal investigation, conspiracy, government, escapades, race against time, computers and web, alien, government agency, danger, riddles and clues ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: usa
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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 ...
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Time: 90s, year 1996, future
Place: mexico, latin america, central america
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Dark Reprieve (2008)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two people Matt and Kate wake up in a closed down prison. They have no idea how they got there, or why they are there. In the prison they encounter several terrors as they look for an exit.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: prison, captivity, murder, danger, survival, violence, supernatural, stranger, memory loss, homicide, electric chair, fashion ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: canada
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Curvature (2017)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously ...
Style: tense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating ...
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56%
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Signs (2002)
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: twist ending, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien invasion, ufo, alien, alien encounter, single father, survival, faith, end of the world, first contact, loss of faith, macabre, natural disaster ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, future, 21st century
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 6.1
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: As host of his own hit TV series, 'MAN VS', Doug Woods is forced to fend for himself for five days in remote locations with no crew, food, or water, only the cameras he carries on his back to film his experiences. Doug's in the remote ...
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Place: canada
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Twenty Twenty-Four (2016)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A lone scientist maintains an underground bunker for the coming global nuclear disaster. But after becoming prematurely isolated, he slowly begins to question his own reality and whether he is truly alone. Director Richard Mundy's immersive ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage ...
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 6.2
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Duration: 88 min.
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Duration: 98 min.
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Style: scary, suspense, tense, intense, stylized ...
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Duration: 97 min.
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Style: futuristic, surreal, mindfuck, suspense, suspenseful ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, futuristic, suspense
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Alien Siege (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After an alien spacecraft destroys Washington, D.C., the residents of a small town must fight off a unit of alien soldiers on the hunt for the President of the United States and the mysterious device he's carrying after his escape chopper crash ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing, exciting ...
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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