Movies Like Alien Encounters Declassified

If you liked Alien Encounters Declassified (2021), a documentary and tv movie movie directed by Mark Marabella, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

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Unacknowledged (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also documentary and mystery
Dr. Steven Greer presents brand new top-secret evidence supporting extraterrestrial contact, including witness testimony, classified documents, and UFO footage, while also exploring the consequences of ruthlessly…
2
Behind the Planet of the Apes (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also documentary and tv movie
Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to see the actual filming of the science fiction masterpiece. The most comprehensive history of Planet…
3
Making The Witcher (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also documentary and tv movie
Journey into the extraordinary world of "The Witcher" — from casting the roles to Jaskier's catchy song — in this behind-the-scenes look at the series.
4
Louis Theroux: Savile (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also documentary and tv movie
Sixteen years after his documentary When Louis Met Jimmy, Theroux seeks to understand how he was tricked by a man who became his friend.
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The Imposter (2012)
★ 7.3/10Also documentary and mystery
In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture…
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HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé (2019)
★ 8/10Also documentary and tv movie
This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.
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Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also documentary and tv movie
Louis Theroux travels to California to meet the man dubbed "the most dangerous racist in America"; Tom Metzger. Louis meets him, his family and his publicity manager as well as following him to skinhead rallies and on…
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We Stand Alone Together: The Men of Easy Company (2001)
★ 7.4/10Also documentary and tv movie
Over a period of two years, Mark Cowen and his crew travelled to thirty U.S. states and ten European cities, to interview the veterans of Easy Company. The stories told by the veterans themselves, create a history of…
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Style Wars (1984)
★ 7.5/10Also documentary and tv movie
Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also documentary and tv movie
Join Louis Theroux as he investigates the affect crystal meth addiction is having on the local community of Fresno in California's Central Valley.
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Derren Brown: Sacrifice (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also documentary and mystery
Illusionist Derren Brown concocts a psychological experiment in which he tries to manipulate an ordinary person into taking a bullet for a stranger.
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Arlington Road (1999)
★ 7/10Also mystery
Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door…
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The Thing (1982)
★ 8.1/10Also mystery
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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Elena (2021)
Also documentary
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, on the basis of anti-black racism. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic's Supreme Court stripped…
15
Friend (2025)
Also mystery
In 1980s India, when a nuclear physicist is interviewed about India's scientific development, conspiracies and secrets unfold, leading to the horrors of world domination by a mysterious 'godly' figure, known as Friend.
16
Alien Planet (2005)
★ 7.3/10Also documentary
The dynamic meeting of solid science and futuristic simulation culminates in a dramatic exploration to another inhabited planet seven light years away. Alien Planet creates a realistic depiction of creatures on another…
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Journey to the West (2023)
★ 7.5/10Also mystery
Tang Zhijun, an editor of a science fiction magazine, attempts to find signs of an alien civilisation. When a strange young man claims to have received instructions from aliens, Tang and his team follow him in search…
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery
A feature-length compilation of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, assembled by creator David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of Laura Palmer’s life.
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The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous…
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Walking with the Tall Whites: Aftermath (2024)
★ 5/10Also documentary
The second documentary in the series follows Charles Hall as he uncovers the coexistence of earthlings with various ET races.