Movies Like Haunting Skies: The First Encounter

If you liked Haunting Skies: The First Encounter, a science fiction and action movie directed by Christian Kang Bachini, 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
The 5th Wave (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and action
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.
2
Zygote (2017)
★ 7/10Also horror and science fiction
The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.
3
Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and action
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
4
Crawlers (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
On Saint Patrick's day—a night of wild parties and drunken revelry—three unlikely friends band together to save a college town from a vicious horde of body-snatching aliens.
5
The Host (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also action 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…
6
Monster Hunters (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and action
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a…
7
God Is a Bullet (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also action and horror
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the…
8
Body Snatchers (1993)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage…
9
The Devil Conspiracy (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and science fiction
A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of…
10
Books of Blood (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
11
Lifeforce (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
12
Occupation: Rainfall (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and action
Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that…
13
Osiris (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and action
Special Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.
14
Screamers (1995)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and science fiction
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one…
15
Alien: Night Shift (2019)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and horror
When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy. Near closing time, they are reluctantly allowed inside the colony supply depot where the trucker’s…
16
Invaders from Mars (1953)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and horror
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
17
Dark Skies (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and horror
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an…
18
Home Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and action
When a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.
19
Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also action and science fiction
After discovering he has powers, 11-year-old Jonathan Kent and assassin-turned-Boy-Wonder Damian Wayne must join forces to rescue their fathers (Superman & Batman) and save the planet from the malevolent alien force…
20
Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also action and horror
When an Iraq War veteran receives a calling from a higher power, he embarks on a mission to stop a fallen angel from raising an army of the dead to take over the world.