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Movies Like Dark Skies

If you liked Dark Skies (1996), a science fiction and mystery movie directed by Tobe Hooper, 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.

  1. 1Doctor Who: Deep Breath

    Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also tv movie and science fiction

    The newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite with the Paternoster Gang to investigate a series of combustions that…

  2. 2Doctor Who: The Snowmen

    Doctor Who: The Snowmen (2012)

    ★ 7.7/10Also tv movie and adventure

    The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a plot which only the Doctor can unravel…

  3. 3Meltdown: Days of Destruction

    Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and science fiction

    Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to…

  4. 4Titan A.E.

    Titan A.E. (2000)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and adventure

    A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.

  5. 5Earth to Echo

    Earth to Echo (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also adventure and science fiction

    After a construction project begins digging in their neighbourhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going…

  6. 6Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

    Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (2007)

    ★ 7.6/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno?

  7. 7The Man Who Fell to Earth

    The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction and drama

    Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions…

  8. 8Cosmos

    Cosmos (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and mystery

    Three astronomers accidentally intercept what they believe to be a signal from a distant alien civilization, but the truth is even more incredible than any of them could have imagined.

  9. 9Doctor Who: Last Christmas

    Doctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)

    ★ 7.7/10Also science fiction and adventure

    The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!

  10. 10Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

    Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (2009)

    ★ 7.5/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits.

  11. 11Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

    Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods (2009)

    ★ 7.2/10Also adventure and drama

    An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search…

  12. 122073

    2073 (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction and drama

    Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and…

  13. 13Ben 10: Race Against Time

    Ben 10: Race Against Time (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.

  14. 14The 5th Wave

    The 5th Wave (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and adventure

    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.

  15. 15The X-Files

    The X-Files (1998)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery and science fiction

    Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.

  16. 16Ben 10: Alien Swarm

    Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009)

    ★ 6.2/10Also tv movie and science fiction

    Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.

  17. 17Vesper

    Vesper (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and drama

    After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking…

  18. 18Stargate: Continuum

    Stargate: Continuum (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also adventure and science fiction

    Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

  19. 19Roswell

    Roswell (1994)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of…

  20. 20The Host

    The Host (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also adventure and science fiction

    A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to…

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