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Movies Like The Alien Encounters

If you liked The Alien Encounters (1979), a science fiction and tv movie movie directed by James T. Flocker, 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. 2Roswell

    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…

  3. 3Doctor 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.

  4. 4Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

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

    ★ 7.2/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    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…

  5. 5Airwolf: The Movie

    Airwolf: The Movie (1984)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    Airwolf is capable of supersonic speeds, invisible to radar and armed with ultra state-of-the-art hardware. Airwolf is the most awesome aerial weapon ever developed. When the helicopter is stolen by Libyan mercenaries…

  6. 6Meltdown: Days of Destruction

    Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    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…

  7. 7Stargate: The Ark of Truth

    Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to…

  8. 84 Horsemen: Apocalypse

    4 Horsemen: Apocalypse (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    A small team of scientists must race against time to stop what seems to be a cascade of global disasters signaling the possible apocalypse and end of days.

  9. 9Doctor 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?

  10. 10Megaboa

    Megaboa (2021)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    On a trip to Colombia, a group of college students encounter a fifty-foot boa constrictor, hungry for blood.

  11. 11Stargate: Continuum

    Stargate: Continuum (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also science fiction and tv movie

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

  12. 12Monsters of Man

    Monsters of Man (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction

    A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing…

  13. 13Knight Rider

    Knight Rider (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    When a group of ruthless mercenaries kill a reclusive scientist, his creation, a new model of artificially intelligent supercar, escapes to find his daughter and recruit a ex-soldier to thwart them. Pilot for the…

  14. 14Spectral

    Spectral (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction

    A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

  15. 15Cosmos

    Cosmos (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction

    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.

  16. 16Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

    Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    The Bionic Woman and the Six-Million-Dollar Man reunite--with a few younger bionic assistants--and try to catch a bionic spy.

  17. 17Impostor

    Impostor (2001)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction

    A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.

  18. 18The Man Who Fell to Earth

    The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)

    ★ 6.5/10Also science fiction

    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…

  19. 19Attack on Titan

    Attack on Titan (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and tv movie

    As viable water is depleted on Earth, a mission is sent to Saturn's moon Titan to retrieve sustainable H2O reserves from its alien inhabitants. But just as the humans acquire the precious resource, they are attacked by…

  20. 20The Wild Blue Yonder

    The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction

    An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans…

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