Movies like The Suns of Easter Island

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The Suns of Easter Island (1972)
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The Suns of Easter Island (1972)
Original name: Les Soleils de l'île de Pâques
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Brazil, Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An international group of travelers trek around the world, from France to Brazil and Chile and, finally, to Easter Island, where some of their number are chosen to meet aliens who resemble small suns. One man who was not chosen tags along uninvited. For punishment, he is given the task of guarding the site until the next visit, some 500 years hence.
Plot: journey, sun, extraterrestrial, island, alien, space travel, traveler, group, band, voyage

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, independent film, captivating and psychotronic films with plots about alien, space travel, outer space, space, space and aliens, extraterrestrial and danger mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Suns of Easter Island: Proximity (2020), Star Appeal (2004), Lost in the Bermuda Triangle (1998), Friendship's Death (1987), The Force on Thunder Mountain (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Proximity (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young NASA JPL scientist is abducted by extraterrestrials but when no one believes his story he becomes obsessed with finding proof which leads him on a journey of discovery.
Style: futuristic, intellectual, mysterious, captivating, independent film
Plot: extraterrestrial, ufo, scientist, nasa, science, young man, abduction, curiosity, rise to the top, journey, target, obsessive quest ...
Place: costa rica
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95%
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Star Appeal (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Chinese filmmaker Cui Zi’en directs this gay-themed sci-fi drama about Xiao Bo, a bisexual man who discovers a stranger by the roadside, naked and claiming to be from Mars.
Style: independent film, learning
Plot: alien, gay subtext, sex with alien, nudity, bisexual, martian, gay sex, man child, extraterrestrial, jealous girlfriend, love, jealousy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Wife of an upscale business executive becomes pregnant and at the same time discovers she has cancer in her uterus. Treatment means terminating the pregnancy. Keeping the baby means her ultimate death. The couple take a second honeymoon in Bermuda ...
Style: tense, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful
Plot: bermuda triangle, alien, uncover truth, supernatural, survival, missing person, pregnant wife, journey, husband wife relationship, alien invasion, water, time travel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Friendship's Death (1987)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A robot messenger (Tilda Swinton) is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970. Sullivan, a British journalist, (Bill ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, exciting, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: human android relationship, politics, alien, reporter, journalist, robot, extraterrestrial, androids, female robot, cyborgs, partisan, hotel room ...
Time: 70s
Place: middle east, jordan, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Force on Thunder Mountain (1978)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thunder Mountain somewhere in the American wilderness, has a reputation that has scared away travellers, both white and Indian, for hundreds of years. Undaunted by the ghost stories surrounding the mountain, a father decides it's just the place ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: deer, ufo, son, camping, alien, father son relationship, hiding, hidden, dog, crow, wilderness, legend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Last Man on Earth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of the latest week on the earth before the announce of the landing of an extraterrestrial society on earth seen by the eyes of a misogynist man with only the desire solitude and routine.
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, captivating, deep ...
Plot: solitude, alien encounter, benign alien, life turned upside down, disorder, alien, misogynist, extraterrestrial, danger, society, ufo, superhero ...
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Play Me Something (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A collection of seemingly unrelated individuals wait in a small island airport. Their flight is delayed, and each takes a turn to tell the others a story from his or her life. All small island stories of ordinary, uninspiring lives. Until one man, ...
Plot: hairdresser, island, stranger, passenger, airport, group
Place: venice
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51%
Astronaut: The Last Push (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a tragic accident cuts short the first manned mission to explore life on the moons of Jupiter, Michael Forrest must make the 3 year journey home to Earth in pure solitude
Style: psychological, atmospheric, serious, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot: space travel, accident, solitude, confined, mission gone awry, isolation, space, space exploration, human in outer space, male protagonist, heroes, loneliness ...
Time: 2010s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Special Report: Journey to Mars (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and then the problems start. The landing-computer malfunctions, the captain Eugene Slader gets very ...
Plot: mars, martian, spacecraft, outer space, sabotage, space travel
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The First Men in the Moon (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, enigmatic, gothic horror
Plot: moon, space travel, alien encounter, partner, alien contact, obsessive quest, danger, escapades, inventions and discoveries, heroes, moon landing, old man ...
Time: 1900s, 60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Epsilon (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a surveyor and they cross the continent together. However, she spends the trip haranguing him for the ...
Style: mysterious, minimal cast, spiritual, independent film, saga ...
Plot: alien, time travel, alien invasion, female alien, invasion, female nudity, myth, underdog, space travel, wilderness, supernatural romance, alien encounter ...
Time: future
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, futuristic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: space travel, space, space exploration, outer space, parallel universe, planet, spaceship, european, space opera, giant monster, dystopia, unhappy ending ...
Time: year 1969, future, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Chocky (1984)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 151 min.
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Story: Chocky is a 1984 children's television drama based on the 1968 novel by John Wyndham and was broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom. Two sequels were produced. All were written by Anthony Read and produced by Thames Television. The series was ...
Style: children's program, weird
Audience: kids
Plot: alien, boy, child, extraterrestrial, telekinesis, imaginary friend, alien contact, friendship
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Silent Running (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, philosophical, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Plot: space travel, robot, dystopia, distopia, environmental, space opera, loneliness, spaceship, post apocalypse, space and aliens, androids, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, futuristic
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, space and aliens, outer space, stargate, space opera, egyptian mythology, escapades, danger, confined, heroes, imaginary, space ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Style: suspenseful, breathtaking, captivating, cerebral, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, adult, teen drama
Plot: ufo, alien, alien abduction, first contact, space and aliens, contact, alien contact, space, benign alien, technology, chase, airplane ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977, future, near future
Place: indiana, wyoming, india, ohio, mongolia ...
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38%
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Deceived (2002)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a remote space observatory perched high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a needle frantically scratches erratic lines on a strip chart recorder confirming an extraterrestrial signal. Emmett Shaw, the powerful, charismatic billionaire who owns the ...
Plot: christian, military, observatory, extraterrestrial, hearing aid
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38%
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The People (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure. Following two children who disappear to play in the woods, she finds that this is actually a community of extraterrestrials ...
Style: psychotronic, semi serious
Plot: alien, school, telekinesis, teacher, distopia, child, ufo, levitation, danger, space and aliens, benign alien, teachers and students ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Stranded (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to ...
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, serious, tense, hispanic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, spaceship crash, survival, space and aliens, mars, space, astronaut, heroic mission, save the world, alien encounter, rescue, danger ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: woman in danger, alien, outer space, space, astronaut, pregnancy, nasa, danger, space travel, alien invasion, space and aliens, suburbs ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, future
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35%
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Invasion (1965)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An alien spaceship crashes near a rural hospital. When the aliens are taken to the hospital, a mysterious force field suddenly appears around it.
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: alien, alien invasion, distopia, invasion, woods, spacecraft, hospital, spaceship crash, trapped, spaceship, female alien, police officer ...
Place: england
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35%
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Oasis (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A Scottish chaplain embarks on an epic journey through space. Based on Michel Faber's 'The Book Of Strange New Things'.
Style: captivating, apocalyptic
Plot: alien planet, space travel, priest, space, climate change, hallucination, desert, space shuttle, save the planet, fate of humanity, humanity, space exploration ...
Time: near future, future
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Doctor Who, his two grand-daughters, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, futuristic, stylized ...
Plot: time travel, space travel, time machine, changing the past or future, robot, good versus evil, distopia, space opera, evil alien, teleportation, imaginary, heroes ...
Time: future, 60s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Native (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two scientists are selected to travel across the universe to the source of a distant transmission and potential life.
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating, action adventure
Plot: universe, scientist, travel, space, space adventure, space mission, space exploration, space program, space shuttle, science, space travel, european ...
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34%
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Conquest (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: British-Canadian light romantic comedy film set in a dying Saskatchewan town. Bank branch manager, Pincer Bedier, dreams of reviving the town when one day a beautiful young woman's car breaks down and she becomes stranded until it can be ...
Style: independent film
Plot: journey, professional, tour
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Ezekiel's Landing (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: UFO hunter Emma Wright is a believer and a fraud. After a daring interview with professional skeptic Joel Hooper brings her close to admitting that her alien abduction memoirs are pure invention, an obsessive fan, Kass Burroughs, comes to her with a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: alien, female writer, small town, skepticism, ufo, alien abduction, female protagonist, implant
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31%
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The Beyond (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in 2019, The Beyond chronicles the groundbreaking mission which sent astronauts - modified with advanced robotics, through a newly discovered wormhole known as the Void. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency races to discover ...
Style: futuristic, enigmatic, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: space exploration, found footage, trapped in space, space travel, alien invasion, robot, space mission, human in outer space, hi-tech, space program, discovery, advanced technology ...
Time: future, near future
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31%
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Woundings (1998)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A government program is trying to entice women to go to a remote island and become companions to war-scarred soldiers.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: island, dystopian future, life is a bitch, war, military, soldier, anti war, wartime life, battles, women, lesbian sex, hypocrisy ...
Time: future, near future
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Spaceman (2024)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: During a research mission, an astronaut discovers that his marriage is in trouble. Luckily, he has the help of a mysterious creature hidden in his ship.
Style: emotional, interesting
Plot: space, astronaut, alien, space adventure, spider, space mission, space travel, love story, interspecies friendship, venus the planet, wife, conversation ...
Place: czech republic, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.6
 14
Soliloquy (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bus takes-off from urban Manila to the rural southeastern side of the country, carrying a group of mixed passengers from all walks of life, each one has a personal story to tell and they are telling it in their own voice. During the long journey, ...
Plot: road trip, superstition, translator, bus, one day, pregnancy, journey, ex convict, gay, butterfly, deaf mute, group ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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