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Movies Like The Alien Report

If you liked The Alien Report (2025), a science fiction and drama movie directed by Patrick Donnelly, 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. 1Serenity

    Serenity (2005)

    ★ 7.4/10Also science fiction

    A group of rebels travel the outskirts of space evading the sinister Alliance regime. Their lives of smuggling and cargo-running are interrupted by a psychic passenger who harbours a dangerous secret. Soon, the crew…

  2. 2Proximity

    Proximity (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also science fiction and drama

    A young NASA JPL scientist is abducted by extraterrestrials but when no one believes his story he becomes obsessed with finding proof which leads him on a journey of discovery.

  3. 3Lucy

    Lucy (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction

    A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

  4. 4The 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…

  5. 5The X-Files: I Want to Believe

    The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction

    Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

  6. 6Encounter

    Encounter (2021)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.

  7. 7Alien Nation

    Alien Nation (1988)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction

    A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine.

  8. 8Extinction

    Extinction (2018)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and science fiction

    A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.

  9. 9Predator 2

    Predator 2 (1990)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction

    A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.

  10. 10Forbidden Planet

    Forbidden Planet (1956)

    ★ 7.3/10Also science fiction

    Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone…

  11. 11Special

    Special (2006)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and science fiction

    A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.

  12. 12Vesper

    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…

  13. 13The Island

    The Island (2005)

    ★ 6.7/10Also science fiction

    In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly…

  14. 14Wifelike

    Wifelike (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction

    A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the…

  15. 15Swan Song

    Swan Song (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and science fiction

    In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking…

  16. 16Europa Report

    Europa Report (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and drama

    A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to a tense and dangerous exploration.

  17. 17Enemy Mine

    Enemy Mine (1985)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and science fiction

    A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile…

  18. 18Dreamscape

    Dreamscape (1984)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and science fiction

    In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.

  19. 19Upgrade

    Upgrade (2018)

    ★ 7.5/10Also science fiction

    A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now…

  20. 20Occupation: Rainfall

    Occupation: Rainfall (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    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…

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