Movies like Taking Earth

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Taking Earth (2017)
 2.7
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Taking Earth (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The human race is thrown into chaos as an alien invasion takes control of the planet in an effort to find one boy out of 7 billion people who holds the power to destroy them.
Style: psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic, scenic
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, friendship, human versus alien, heroes, rescue, alien attack, man versus machine, humanity in peril, end of the world, invasion, youth, spacecraft, space and aliens, death, alien creature, chase, fear, destruction, vengeance, extraterrestrial, humanity, society, danger ...
Time: 21st century

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, tense and exciting films with plots about alien, danger, heroes, space and aliens, alien invasion, violence and apocalypse mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Taking Earth: Occupation: Rainfall (2020), Atlantic Rim: Resurrection (2018), Alien Siege (2018), Interstellar Wars (2016), Dominion (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Occupation: Rainfall (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: alien encounter, apocalypse, female warrior, good versus evil, invasion, violence, danger, death, destruction, fictional war, chase, fear ...
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
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100%
Atlantic Rim: Resurrection (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When huge bio-mechanical monsters descend upon the earth ready to destroy the entire city of Los Angeles, a whole new team of top notch "M-bot" pilots take control of their supercharged robot warriors and try to save the world from being ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: apocalypse, giant monster, alien invasion, killer robot, kaiju, monster, humanity in peril, danger, evil alien, panic, alien creature, war ...
Time: future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.3
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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 ...
Plot: alien invasion, soldier, siege, alien, satire, humanity in peril, alien encounter, alien attack, heroes, space and aliens, violence, war ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Interstellar Wars (2016)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: For Millennia the Aliien force has watched and waited, a brooding menace that has now at last decided to take over the Earth. Communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference and this has turned into a ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, suspense ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, save the world, death, violence, chaos and mayhem, chase, evil alien, danger, survival, extraterrestrial, resistance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 3.6
 552
Dominion (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Earth's position in the universe has become of vital strategic importance to those who have, until now, only studied us from the far reaches of space. Knowing our weaknesses, they have planned their attack, and now, in just 5 days, life on ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing
Plot: alien invasion, ufo, apocalypse, world domination, space and aliens, chaos and mayhem, alien race, evil alien, worldwide chaos, fate of humanity, society, mercilessness ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 3.1
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Gray Matter (2018)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Since the 1940's alien beings known as "GRAYS" have been sighted around the globe with the thought that they visit our planet to study our species and civilization before they eventually invade...but what if we're wrong? What if ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: extraterrestrial, alien possession, alien invasion, ufo, alien abduction, flying saucer, alien technology, human experiment, evil alien, alien attack, alien race, alien encounter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 3.7
 1K
Ejecta (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two men witness an unexplainable event in the sky as a historic solar storm approaches, and they try to survive as a terrifying life form hunts them.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, space horror, independent film
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ufo, evil alien, space and aliens, survival, alien abduction, alien encounter, truth, alien, found footage, danger, heroes, graphic violence ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Kung Fu Traveler 2 (2017)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Southern Style kung fu was unsuccessful in defeating the invading enemy aliens. General Chen has no choice but to be go back in time again to the late Qing Dynasty to find the master of Northern Style kung fu and transfer his training back to the ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: time travel, alien invasion, alien, enemy, human versus alien, mercilessness, survival, humanity, chase, panic, destruction, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: future
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Meatball Machine Kodoku (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize in human beings, take control of them and change their bodies into hideous monsters (Necro-borg). The Necro-borg fight each other until the other dies. Where did they come from? To what end? Yuji ...
Style: scary, unusual plot structure, suspense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien possession, extraterrestrial, evil alien, monster, japanese woman, alien, alien creature, human alien relationship, alien life-form, alien race, alien species, human versus alien ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.0
 104
By Dawn (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A former marine suffering from severe PTSD prepares his family for war as the deadline for an alien invasion approaches.
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, humanity in peril, survival, human versus alien, heroes, death, violence, chase, fear, panic ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Collision Earth (2020)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A large meteor shower unexpectedly bombards planet Earth. Scientists rush to the scene of the first impact and the race is on to find a solution to save humanity.
Style: tense, exciting, psychotronic, disturbing, futuristic ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, meteorite, meteor shower, asteroid, scientist, military, end of the world, race against time, survival, humanity in peril, civilization ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ⇓
40%
 3.7
 1K
Dark Space (2013)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: College friends Devin, Jack, Shelly, Kristy, Shaun, and Flower rent a spacecraft to autopilot them to Centauri Five for a holiday break. Impatient over the rental agency restricting the ship’s speed to 10x, Devin and the others convince Shaun to ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, escapades, evil alien, danger, space and aliens, distant planet, running for your life, spaceship crash, space wars, death, fight, spacecraft ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Monster Invaders from Space (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Monsters from space attack earth, two scientists and a couple of teenagers try to stop the extraterrestrial invaders.
Style: psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: alien invasion, invasion, monster, extraterrestrial, violence, teenager, danger, murder, survival, heroes, chase, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Rift: Dark Side of the Moon (2016)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Serbia, South Korea, Slovenia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The satellite has vanished and the only clue is a trail leading to a small village nestled on the outskirts of forest line. As the team begins to investigate they quickly discover that something else came back from space, something not of this ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: astronaut, death, agent, satellite, humanity in peril, alien creature, society, escapades, panic, alien race, alien, extraterrestrial ...
Time: 21st century
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.8
 954
Battle Planet (2008)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the not-so-distant future, Captain Jordan Strider, a Special Forces Officer in the New World Alliance, is chosen for a top-secret mission. Sent to a desolate planet, Terra 219, to arrest possible traitors to the Alliance, Strider must survive ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Plot: space wars, space battle, military, artificial intelligence, spacesuit, evil alien, alien, betrayal, alien encounter, space travel, space and aliens, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Proof (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Story: Tim Butler witnesses a UFO crash and his account of the incident divides the community. When an author and UFO expert is called in to investigate, the expert's findings have a profound impact on Tim, his family, and the small Florida town.
Style: psychotronic, humorous, suspenseful, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: alien, ufo, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, alien contact, alien race, obsessive quest, spacecraft, heroes, extraterrestrial, human versus alien, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Atomic Apocalypse (2018)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two years after the nuclear bombs dropped and welcome to the future, where there’s no fuel or power, and society is a barbaric mess. Survivors Kate, husband Sam, and daughter Suzi are searching for a rumoured bunker that people say is full of food ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, sincere
Plot: post apocalypse, woman, heroes, family relations, survival, parents and children, chaos, death, characters in danger, life is a bitch, insanity, fear ...
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Advent of Mebiar (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Story: Fritz (Nick Huber), Snark (Jacob Lyngle), and Bubbles (Griffin Strycharske) are thrown into a mysterious cryptozoological cult event and must stop the rising of an ancient, monstrous being.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: nerd, kaiju, paranormal, monster, paranormal phenomena, heroes, violence, society, chaos, supernatural, giant, mutant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Battle Star Wars (2020)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the leader of the evil Coalition threatens to destroy a Rebel planet for its resources, his daughter will have no choice but to join the Rebel side and fight for what is right.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: intergalactic, space wars, outer space, good versus evil, space and aliens, violence, male protagonist, danger, evil empire, rebel, space travel, super villain ...
Time: distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Project 'Gemini' (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sci-fi thriller about a space mission sent to terraform a distant planet. However, the mission encounters something unknown that has its own plan for the planet.
Style: suspenseful, scary, exciting, suspense, dark ...
Plot: alien encounter, space and aliens, evil alien, ufo, apocalypse, alien, alien invasion, spacecraft, monster, end of the world, extraterrestrial, human versus alien ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Alien Conquest (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sibling astronomers discover Martians are threatening to attack Earth, but no one believes them—until Martians land and nearly destroy all of New York City. As the siblings try to make it out of the city with their families, they discover the ...
Style: tense, futuristic, captivating, mockbuster
Plot: alien invasion, evil alien, space and aliens, alien encounter, chase, alien, struggle for survival, showdown, battles, alien contact, fight, combat ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, end of the world, alien, invasion, virus, survival, post apocalypse, ufo, danger, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, tower bridge london, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 1.8
 289
Hornet (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When an alien race invades and begins to brainwash humans to carry out acts of destruction, the rest of humanity must rely on an untested giant robot to save the Earth.
Style: non-linear, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: found footage, alien, robot, superhero, chase, escapades, heroes, cyborgs, violence, society, space and aliens, transformation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Invasion (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, intense, psychological ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, virus, epidemic, psychiatrist, survival, invasion, danger, save the world, infected, alien encounter, end of the world ...
Time: year 2007, distant future
Place: washington d.c., usa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.7
 1K
Creatures (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of astronomy students get more than they bargained for after finding an injured alien who is being targeted by a group of bloodthirsty CREATURES!
Style: christmas horror, scary, apocalyptic, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: alien, extraterrestrial, monster, alien invasion, alien contact, alien life-form, natural disaster, alien encounter, human versus alien, demolished city, fear, alien creature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Purple Death from Outer Space (1966)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.
Style: semi serious, exciting, epic, stylized, suspenseful
Plot: alien invasion, space opera, superhero, outer space, dystopian future, dystopia, danger, androids and robots, rescue, imaginary, chases and races, benign alien ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Age of Tomorrow (2014)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mankind must fight to survive as Earth is invaded by hostile UFOs bent on destroying the planet. As the epic battle wages on, astronauts sneak aboard the mothership where they discover a portal to the aliens' home world. They manage to alert ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspenseful, mockbuster, tense ...
Plot: alien invasion, space and aliens, save the world, evil alien, chaos, race against time, escapades, battles, danger, heroes, rescue, teleportation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Alien Tracker (2003)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: bounty hunter, heroes, rivalry, chases and races, government agency, escapades, evil alien, danger, disorder, space and aliens, invasion, alien ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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