Movies like By Dawn

If you like "By Dawn" you are looking for psychological, tense and suspense movies about / with alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, survival, heroes, humanity in peril and human versus alien themes of Drama and Thriller genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
By Dawn (2019)
 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, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, survival, heroes, humanity in peril, human versus alien, end of the world, ufo, violence, invasion, space and aliens, death, family relations, chase, fear, alien attack, humanity, society, danger, alien race, evil alien, good versus evil, panic, u.s. marine ...
Time: contemporary
Place: usa

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to By Dawn

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, tense and disturbing films with plots about apocalypse, danger, deadly, society, violence, death and survival mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like By Dawn: Alienate (2016), Dominion (2015), Alien Siege (2018), Drone Wars (2016), Atlantic Rim: Resurrection (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 2.7
 895
Alienate (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A couple on the brink of ending their marriage spend a weekend in different cities. After a cataclysmic event strikes, the husband embarks on a physical and emotional quest to return home as a nation prepares for the worst.
Style: scary, tense, psychological, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, husband wife relationship, human versus alien, chaos and mayhem, space and aliens, humanity, near death experience, alien contact, rescue, escape attempt, worldwide chaos ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 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 ⇓
87%
 2.3
 532
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 ⇓
82%
 2.9
 461
Drone Wars (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When drones arrive in a flash, slaughtering humanity and stripping the Earth of its resources, a small team of scientists hiding in Los Angeles works to expel the drone menace once and for all.
Style: psychotronic, exciting, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: drone, invasion, alien invasion, alien, fictional war, humanity in peril, man versus machine, society, destruction, panic, ufo, alien contact ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Movie in collections
tense movies
16020
ufo movies
ufo
717
violence movies
15772
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 ⇓
75%
 2.7
 1K
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, suspense, tense, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, friendship, alien, human versus alien, alien attack, heroes, man versus machine, humanity in peril, rescue, fear, chase ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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 ⇓
69%
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 ⇓
66%
Movie in collections
invasion movies
747
death movies
16719
suspense movies
20963
 4.1
 1K
Stormageddon (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human. When a master computer program, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, disturbing
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, robot, computer program, danger, chaos and mayhem, chaos, flood, military, rescue, air disaster, evacuation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
San Andreas Mega Quake (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Scientists make a horrible discovery: The "Big One" is coming in two days, with it, California will sink to the ocean. Their only hope is to rupture a volcano that will displace the earthquake's energy and build a new crust on the ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, demolished city, death, fire, survival, apocalypse, violence, humanity in peril, vestiges of humanity, end of the world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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 ⇓
65%
 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 ⇓
64%
Interceptor Force (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the near future the US Government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained for action in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force, they are the last line of defense
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, danger, save the world, special agent, satellite, heroes, space and aliens, evil alien, ufo, apocalypse, alien disguised as human, alien ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 ⇓
64%
 4.5
 36
Exposure (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: We follow Sheriff Deputy Eric Weston in the wake of a Apocalypse as he struggles to survive the undead known as lurkers and put the pieces together to find his wife.
Style: tense, suspense, psychotronic, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: survival horror, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, sheriff, survival, walking dead, characters in danger, heroes, husband wife relationship, zombie, plague, human existence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Before the Fire (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Deep in the throes of a global pandemic, up and coming TV star, Ava Boone, is forced to flee the mounting chaos in Los Angeles and return to her rural hometown. But as she struggles to acclimate to a way of life she left behind long ago, her ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Plot: small town, chores, homecoming, danger, quarantine, dark past, female protagonist, troubled past, fear, epidemic, survival, chaos and mayhem ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 2.0
 439
Pistolera (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When ruthless drug lord Raffaello murders the family of the little girl named Angel in a gangland hid in Spain, he makes one fatal mistake : Letting her live. Thus Raffaello sets in motion a bloody chain of events in this gritty street tale of ...
Style: exciting, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug lord, vengeance, murder, danger, gangster, death, battles, drug dealer, violence, society, obsession, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 3.6
 622
The Last Light (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Seven strangers find themselves trapped inside an abandoned hospital after an unexplainable apocalyptic event. In addition to being haunted by what they've lost, the strangers must also fight off mysterious creatures that hunt them down one by ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, futuristic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: apocalypse, survival, danger, zombie, hospital, supernatural, survival horror, creature, monster, rivalry, violence, abandoned building ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Movie in collections
usa movies
usa
13963
suspenseful movies
22874
chase movies
13045
 4.2
 984
Locked In (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, psychological
Plot: mother daughter relationship, single mother, murder, daughter, criminal, mother, diamond, heist, gangster, chase, danger, woman in danger ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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 ⇓
62%
 5.7
 601
End Day (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
Story: An exploration into the various ways in which, within the circumstances of one day, civilisation could be brought to an abrupt end..
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure
Plot: end of the world, volcano, disaster, natural disaster, epidemic, experiment, scientific experiment, virus, tsunami, black hole, meteorite, foreknowledge ...
Time: future
Place: usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 4.0
 183
Survivors (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kate Meadows (Joanne Gale) and her cameraman Duke (Simon Burbage) embark on a mission to uncover whether or not a government weapons contractor has secretly been using humans as their test subjects. As they dig deeper, they realise the brutal ...
Style: disturbing, psychotronic, suspense, scary, suspenseful
Plot: zombie, virus, fate of humanity, death, violence, apocalypse, chaos, killings, survival, society, plague, camaraderie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 7.1
 93K
Falling Skies (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, serious, stylized, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, ufo, alien encounter, apocalypse, military, evil alien, survival, resistance, life is a bitch, human spirit ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Movie in collections
fear movies
5786
humanity movies
1235
society movies
12700
 6.8
 59K
V (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: V is an American science fiction television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009 to March 15, 2011. A remake of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a ...
Style: cliffhanger, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ufo, alien invasion, invasion, alien, fate of humanity, evil alien, alien encounter, conspiracy, fbi, uncover truth, world domination, disguise ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.1
 844
Raccoon Valley (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: A plane bearing biohazardous material crashes into a town, and a deaf women has to navigate her way through the aftermath.
Style: psychotronic, bleak, scary, suspense, disturbing
Plot: survival, zombie, survival horror, biohazard, quarantine, virus, murder, apocalypse, undead, supernatural, survivor, graphic violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 4.8
 632
Backstabbed (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A struggling housewife decides to become a real estate agent and inadvertently puts her life in danger when she takes a job with a corrupt broker who will do anything to land a deal.
Style: psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, tense, disturbing
Plot: money, psychopath, betrayal, real estate, murder, housewife, broker, working woman, violence, danger, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 3.1
 530
Firequake (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Promethean Kinetics has created Helios, a revolutionary clean coal energy source so powerful it rivals the force of the sun and will solve the energy crisis. But when certain governments start cutting safety measures required by Helios, the ...
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, disturbing
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, fire, humanity in peril, chaos, rescue, danger, chaos and mayhem, survival, death, destruction, forces of nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Fear by the Lake (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious and mortally contagious virus threatens the population of Annecy, in southeastern France. A desperate race against the clock envelops to find out where the virus came from and keep it from becoming an epidemic.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
Plot: pandemic, peril, society, virus, dystopian future, human nature, friends, fear, chaos, family relations, human existence, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, apocalyptic, visual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ufo, end of the world, alien, alien encounter, alien contact, evil alien, alien invasion, robot, extraterrestrial, first contact, space, apocalypse ...
Time: year 2008, future, 20th century, 1920s, 2000s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., new york, virginia, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 2.6
 714
Fire Twister (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a mysterious orb of light strikes a deep water oil rig, the massive explosion erupts into a ball of flames creating a swirling mass of clouds and fire. As the twister begins to move ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing
Plot: tornado, natural disaster, disaster, apocalypse, firefighter, timebomb, fire, death, chaos and mayhem, heroes, danger, chaos ...
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie