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First Signal (2021)
12K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, tension, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
space and aliens, government conspiracy, air force, political intrigue, nasa, space station, conspiracy, space program, space exploration, alien contact, first contact, cover up, national security, reconnaissance, investigation, white house, paranoia, moon, portal, space adventure, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, alien, usa president ...
Time:
2020s, near future
Place:
usa, united states, united states of america
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Most similar movies to First Signal
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about investigation, conspiracy, space, space exploration, outer space, survival and astronaut mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like First Signal: Project-M (2014), The Beyond (2017), Encounter (2018), Moonhaven (2022), High Moon (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Four astronauts have to stay 1000 days in a space station around Earth in order to prove that a trip to Europa, one of Jupiter's moon, is possible. The experience goes well until something happens on earth.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
astronaut, space station, isolation, space mission, space exploration, human in outer space, space program, cosmonaut, spacecraft, mission, confined space, claustrophobia ...
Time:
near future, future
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95%
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:
cerebral, futuristic, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
space exploration, found footage, first contact, alien invasion, spacecraft, trapped in space, robot, human in outer space, advanced technology, hi-tech, discovery, space program ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of friends uncover an otherworldly object in a rural field, which they soon discover holds greater secrets than they could imagine.
Style:
suspense, sinister, tension, ambiguous ending, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
secrets, discovery, alien, uncertainty, friends, first contact, alien technology, curiosity, slow burn, investigation, supernatural, isolation ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future, finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that ...
Style:
futuristic, tense, apocalyptic, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
utopia, moon, artificial intelligence, investigation, colony, pilot, female protagonist, space colony, conspiracy, smuggler, crime investigation, smuggling ...
Time:
near future, distant future
Similarity:
73%
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845
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the future where the countries of Earth have established colonies to mine the Moon's resources. When a new life form is discovered, chaos erupts as various factions race to uncover and exploit its powerful secrets.
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
moon, space and aliens, investigation, imaginary, chaos and mayhem, inventions and discoveries, chaos, space, corporate conspiracy, danger, space wars, oxygen ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
65%
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 ...
Style:
suspense, intense, tension
Plot:
mars, space mission, space exploration, countdown, political intrigue, corporate conspiracy, corporate greed, disaster, paranoia, ethical dilemma, martian, outer space ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A team of explorers arrives on Mars to join the first human colony on the planet, only to discover that their predecessors have vanished.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense, grim ...
Plot:
mars, space exploration, investigation, outer space, space mission, astronaut, puzzle, space and aliens, space adventure, explorer, uncover truth, space ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A NASA scientist discovers that a group meteorites is heading towards Earth. Along the way, they will collide with the space station Hyperion, whose 12 astronauts are trapped and inside which there is a thermonuclear heart.
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
danger, space station, collision, escapades, save the day, meteorite, scientist, society, space adventure, nasa, lgbt, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Shortly after a chemical weapon explosion in the Nevada desert, two scientists find themselves confronting a sinister cover up, and a band of hostile survivors who are looking to escape the quarantined area known as Territory 8.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot:
quarantine, desert, chemical weapon, survival, survival horror, escape, post-apocalyptic future, adaptation, scientist, fight, struggle for survival, danger ...
Time:
future
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
52%
2K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden, Qatar
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, futuristic, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, scientist, vestiges of humanity, wasteland, struggle for survival, life is a bitch, problem, fate of humanity, ecological disaster, farming, humanity, survival ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a young woman, Lola, is invited to a secret facility, she discovers an experiment beyond space and time. After uncovering her own past life as a teenage boy named Robbie, she embarks on a malevolent path for justice against the ex-con who ...
Style:
serious, captivating, disturbing, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, reincarnation, murder, experiment, time travel, travel, vengeance, rebel, teenager, friendship, regret, loss of family member ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Never-before-aired NASA footage presents evidence that the Moon is being used as a base.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, exciting, serious, controversial ...
Plot:
nasa, space exploration, unusual phenomena, astronaut, moon, alien, conspiracy, extraterrestrial, conspiracy theory, moon base, space, space and aliens ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Five government contractors wake up to find themselves contained under the infamous Area 51. They are forced to confront a sinister government experiment and a horrifying Alien host.
Style:
tense, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
alien, military, monster, conspiracy, government conspiracy, alien contact, alien encounter, alien creature, alien monster, evil alien, space and aliens, secret experiment ...
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
To avoid having the space program cancelled, officials substitute a lookalike for an astronaut who died on a Mars mission.
Style:
tense, political thriller, suspense, tragic
Plot:
mars, space exploration, nasa, impostor, cover up, space program, space, cold war, double life, conspiracy, body swapping, ethics ...
Time:
near future, 70s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hot-headed engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion dollar multi-delayed Challenger launch, convinced the ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
nasa, space shuttle, whistleblower, rocket launching, race against time, risk, corporate greed, engineer, moral dilemma, realism, bureaucracy, investigation ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Similarity:
42%
706
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In a near future when environmental havoc is causing food shortages and compelling the government to protect its organized crop system by deploying sentinel drones, a handful of locals discover a sinister connection between sick farmland inhabitants ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
food shortage, corporate greed, conspiracy, against humanity, terminator, murder investigation, robot, investigation, farm hand, fate of humanity, village life, humanity ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
42%
173
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Set during the height of World War II, Horizon centers on Lauren, a secretary at the FBI who begins a secretive investigation into files that have been stamped with the codename "horizon." The mysterious project provides links to the ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Plot:
world war two, paranormal phenomena, alien, paranormal, agent, investigation, war, life is a bitch, wartime, government conspiracy, secret project, fbi ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, futuristic, melancholic ...
Plot:
space travel, nasa, astronaut, space, rescue, survival, spacewalk, space opera, space exploration, rescue mission, stranded, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, year 1969, 60s, 1930s, future ...
Place:
usa, antarctica
Similarity:
38%
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310K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and ...
Style:
inspirational, philosophical, cerebral, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
science, nasa, space travel, scientist, alien encounter, astronomy, first contact, religion, space and aliens, intelligence, alien contact, research ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, distant future
Place:
puerto rico, new mexico, florida, washington d.c., usa ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
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:
captivating, cerebral, breathtaking, atmospheric, mysterious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, adult ...
Plot:
ufo, alien, first contact, alien abduction, technology, alien contact, space and aliens, contact, flying saucer, extraterrestrial, chase, airplane ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977, near future, future
Place:
wyoming, indiana, india, ohio, north america ...
Similarity:
37%
546
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A mother fights to save her ailing daughter after a global pandemic worse than any seen before ravaged the planet, leaving resources so scarce you must pay for them with your life.
Style:
tense, dramatic, captivating, harsh, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, mother daughter relationship, distopia, daughter, dystopia, post apocalyptic, illness, female protagonist, mother and daughter, parents and children, mother, fight ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
36%
930
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A slow-paced, action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle.
Style:
suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
quarantine, danger, plague, dishonesty, disaster, save the day, epidemic, virus, rivalry, apocalypse, disease, found footage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Far into the future a group of young adults are stranded on a hostile alien planet with no hope of getting home.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
stranded, alien planet, young adult, survival, survival horror, space, young woman, young man, planet, struggle for survival, fight, desperation ...
Time:
future, distant future, 2010s
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
The first manned mission to Mars is now approaching the red planet. The crew includes top-flight scientists and a young female psychiatrist, responsible for their mental health. But just as they are about to land, something goes wrong.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
astronaut, mars, female astronaut, cosmonaut, space mission, space travel, trapped in space, space exploration, problem, space shuttle, space station, space program ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Following a worldwide event known as The Reset, humanity rebuilds a society with aging mechanics where gleaming technology once stood. Surveillance now the status quo, society is slowly putting its shattered pieces back together under a watchful ...
Style:
tense, independent film, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, computer, hacker, dystopia, secret, investigation, puzzle, computer hacker, post apocalyptic, conspiracy, code breaking, claustrophobia ...
Time:
near future, 2010s, 80s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After a help signal from a research vessel makes it back to Earth, the U.S. Space Force sends a rescue ship to Pandora, a moon of Saturn. But when they try to land, they discover Pandora is inhabited by a highly evolved humanoid species.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
humanoid, alien life-form, spaceship, water, planet, moon, alien contact, alien, alien race, spacecraft, space and aliens, human alien ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kessler's lab was created to run drug trials to determine what went wrong with a once popular mood stabilizing drug. Dr. Martin Kessler cloned his own daughter, who died from the drug. Once with ten test subjects, he and Dr Josephine Vanderhill ...
Style:
tension, suspense, intense, medical drama, emotional ...
Plot:
experiment gone awry, cloning, experimental drug, human experiment, ethical dilemma, laboratory, claustrophobia, humanity, confrontation, identity, survival, guilt ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Pioneer One is a 2010 American web series produced by Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith. It has been funded purely through donations, and is the first series created for and released on BitTorrent networks.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
agent, terrorism, uncover truth, investigation, politics, danger, satellite, space mission, conspiracy, mars, state affairs, government agency ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montana, canada, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A deep space mining vessel has been adrift for two years. It is suspected the crew brutally killed each other, but the reason for the bloodbath is unknown. A rescue crew is sent to find if there are any survivors, what happened and why.
Style:
captivating, serious, tense, suspense
Plot:
artificial intelligence, isolation, space station, outer space, sole survivor, murder mystery, serial killer, suspended animation, future war, distopia, deep space, androids ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A beauty company run by Aliens abducts and harvest young women for life extension.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, serious, phantasmagoric, exciting ...
Plot:
alien technology, abduction, corporate conspiracy, immortality, alien race, alien, alien creature, fantasy world, women, space and aliens, woman, female alien ...
Similarity:
30%
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