Movies like Alien Nation: The Enemy Within
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Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When detectives Sikes and Francisco are presented with the mysterious death of an Eeno, Matt is stupefied to discover that George rudely snubs the case. He, like most newcomers, reviles the outcast Eenos. As the case unfolds, George has to reassess his prejudices, and George's family help save the city from an alien threat originating in an Eeno waste disposal facility.
Plot:
alien, newcomer, prejudice, mutant, cannibal, pregnancy, party, police, slavery, friendship, hotel, queen, earthquake, clown, water, slave, family relations, hospital, computer, racial slur, racism, underground, cannibalism, experiment, friendship between men ...
Place:
los angeles, california
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Most similar movies to Alien Nation: The Enemy Within
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspense and disturbing films with plots about family relations, murder, friendship, police, father daughter relationship, father son relationship and hospital mostly in Drama, Crime and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Alien Nation: The Enemy Within: Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995), Alien Nation: Millennium (1996), Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994), Alien Nation (1989), The Hate U Give (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sikes and Francisco are called in to a case when a mysterious young girl, who looks part Newcomer, part human, appears. Her huge, brutish counterpart tries to free her from the precinct, and their bizarre relationship turns out to be the result of a ...
Plot:
giant, electric fence, bomb threat, mysterious girl, secret weapon, interspecies sex, laser beam, mustard, super weapon, medical experiment, protestor, sex education ...
Place:
los angeles, mojave desert, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed dates back to the slave ship's rebellion group, the ...
Plot:
computer, high school, racism, dream, prejudice, classroom, hospital, fight, poison, slave, boat, assassin ...
Place:
california, los angeles
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92%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's 1999, and as the end of the millenium approaches, people are attempting to find spiritual enlightenment. But a few people want to skip all the work that entails, and a holy Tenktonese relic in the hands of a heretic is giving them a ...
Plot:
alien, undercover, enlightenment, video telephone, balloon, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rain, video camera, cigar smoking, christmas tree, police, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 1999
Place:
los angeles, california
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90%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Followup movie to the TV series about 250,000 aliens, or "newcomers" as they are known, who have by now settled alongside the humans in California. Most of the newcomers were slaves, and the slave masters are now looking for them. They ...
Style:
saga, exciting, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, racism, alien, benign alien, evil alien, alien encounter, time travel, deadly creature, androids and robots, deadly, save the world, police investigation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, mojave desert, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Alien Nation is a science fiction television series, loosely based on the movie of the same name. Gary Graham starred as Detective Matthew Sikes, a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly working with "Newcomer" alien George Francisco, ...
Style:
exciting, bleak, rough, semi serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
culture clash, fictional reality, discrimination, police detective, alien, space and aliens, alien race, imaginary, society, law enforcement, buddies, disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her ...
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captivating, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
ghetto, racism, protest, private school, witness, murder, african american, friendship, police, father son relationship, party, riot ...
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27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Romeo Aldea, a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding. Eliza has won a scholarship to ...
Style:
captivating, touching, suspenseful, psychological, serious
Plot:
father daughter relationship, graduation, extramarital affair, attempted rape, assault, corruption, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, teenage daughter, family relations, infidelity, police ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
romania
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23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds ...
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thought provoking, realistic, clever, touching, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, hopes, grand canyon, adoption, society, racism, family relations, heist, film within a film, coming of age, arrest, adultery ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, usa, arizona, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense
Plot:
chase, pursuit, promise, violence, suspicion, paranoia, friendship, professor, husband wife relationship, psychiatrist, doctor, courtroom ...
Time:
21st century, year 2008
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.
Style:
rough, bleak, psychological, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
police corruption, police brutality, bigotry, crimes, brutality, tough law enforcer, dishonesty, scandal, sister sister relationship, dysfunctional family, family, one night stand ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s, year 1999
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio ...
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neorealism, psychological, twists and turns, contemplative, suspense ...
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gypsy, male female relationship, friendship, teenager, family relations, brother sister relationship, non professional cast, father son relationship, petty criminal, chase, betrayal, coming of age ...
Place:
italy, southern italy
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20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", ...
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gang, violence spree, drug abuse, friendship, heroin, grudge, police shootout, crimes, crime, gang war, life is a bitch, criminal heroes ...
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20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, ecuador, guatemala ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escapechained to each other.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, escape, on the run, racism, interracial relations, crimes, partners, friendship, friends, in the woods, fugitives, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against ...
Style:
social realism, suspense, tense, psychological, dark humor ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
double life, strong female character, organized crime, drug use, secret life, social problem, secret, doctor patient relationship, paranoia, friendship between men, introspection, psychiatrist ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, year 2016
Place:
ohio, cincinnati ohio, kentucky, midwest, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style:
tense, thought provoking, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban ghetto life, hip hop, juvenile delinquency, african american, gang, rapper, street gang, poverty, friendship, teenage life, ghetto, tragic event ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, 1990s, year 1984 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, cuba ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former prostitute discovers that her philanthropic fiance is involved in perversion.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
small town, hospital, prostitute, murder, pedophilia, neo noir, pimp, legislation, police, sexual abuse, redemption, crimes ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1961, year 1963, 1960s
Place:
venice, switzerland, united states, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Mark Schall kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then turns himself in. He claims, however, that he cannot remember the crime itself. His defense team finds evidence that suggests the crimes were committed ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, murder, lawyer, knife, crime scene, jury, arrest, letter, blood, hand bandage, pay phone, innocence ...
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20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style:
earnest, touching, thought provoking, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
racism, poverty, courtroom drama, lawyer, small town, courtroom, rape, prejudice, legal, trial, interracial relations, idealism ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 30s, year 1932
Place:
alabama, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.
Style:
suspense, light, surprise ending, avant garde, twist ending
Plot:
spacecraft, alien invasion, alien, husband wife relationship, rescue, child in peril, battlefield, artificial intelligence, chase, self mutilation, shot to death, survival ...
Time:
future
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19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan, China, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
This is a story about a common man who has extraordinary events in his mundane life. The film depicts the protagonist's turns of events in three eras, three seasons, three nights, in the same city, as told with reverse chronology.
Style:
captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure, psychological, suspenseful
Plot:
chase, police officer, police, death, blood, urban setting, gunshot, motorcycle, injection, swing, anal sex, falling from height ...
Time:
near future, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
Style:
disturbing, based on true events, suspense, rough
Plot:
informant, drug traffic, fbi, drug trafficking, father son relationship, juvenile delinquent, war on drugs, arms dealing, buddies, culture clash, 15 year old, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, year 1985, year 1986, year 1984 ...
Place:
ohio, michigan, detroit, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
group of strangers, haunted by the past, destiny, murder, mentally unstable, survival, deadly, crimes, family relations, hitman, post traumatic stress, gambling ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sex comedy ...
Plot:
pornography, private detective, film within a film, missing person, neo noir, perversion, bondage, peep show, missing child, porn industry, striptease, daughter ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, michigan, california, usa, san francisco ...
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18%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style:
stylized, realistic, serious, gloomy, rough ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
drug addiction, drug abuse, hedonism, friendship, college, prostitute, coming of age, cocaine, decadence, addiction, partners, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, palm springs california ...
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In this 1970s set crime drama, a woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
Style:
twists and turns, tricky, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
betrayal, blood, car accident, hiding place, crying baby, on the run, disco, murder, danger, manipulation, organized crime, wanted ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
Style:
captivating, rough, realistic, serious, tense
Plot:
urban ghetto life, drug dealing, gang, murder, prison, life is a bitch, coming of age, crimes, society, juvenile delinquency, youth, crime ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In rural Indiana, Noah and his impoverished family wrestle with the mysterious return of his now mute sister, Lauren, who was kidnapped and held captive for over a decade.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, sincere, surprise ending ...
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Place:
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, banned film, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
rape, gang, insanity, psychopath, surrealism, brainwashing, violence, violence spree, sadism, social decay, social misfits, distopia ...
Time:
future, year 1995, 20th century, 1990s, near future ...
Place:
britain, europe, london
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, ...
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, rough, harsh, realistic ...
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Place:
new york, usa, los angeles, coney island brooklyn new york city, california
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, gloomy, psychological, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
murder, friends, high school, small town, nudity (full frontal - brief), strangulation, family relations, juvenile delinquency, police, woman strangled to death, crime, crimes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
oregon, usa, california, portland oregon
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18%
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