20 best movies like Murder on the Moon (1989)

List of the best movies like Murder on the Moon (1989): The Titan, Criminal, The Recall, 51 Degrees North, Apollo 18, Rememory, Fire in the Sky, Magellan, The I Inside, Ad Astra.

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Markimdb: 4.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA, Germany
Duration02:22

On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
Duration02:27

Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict Jericho Stewart. When he wakes up with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and eliminate him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
CountryCanada

When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:51

When Damon Miller, a talented, young London filmmaker becomes involved in the disturbing research surrounding Near-Earth Objects he stumbles onto the discovery that the Earth stands on the brink of an extraterrestrial disaster.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:29

    Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies it's authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
    Duration02:20

    The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, detective, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    A group of men who were clearing brush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is treated as murder.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Australia

    After NASA picks up a trio of mysterious signals from within our own solar system, astronaut Roger Nelson is dispatched on a multi-year solo mission aboard the Magellan spacecraft to investigate the sources.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:30

    Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA, China, Brazil
    Duration02:36

    An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
    Duration01:16

    In 2065, the crew of the Pegasus are searching for a new home for humanity. As they approach their potential new world, the discovery of another ship could be the key to their salvation, or doom them and the rest of humanity to extinction.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    A young man's life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:25

    Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:48

    In 1967, four undercover CIA agents were sent to NASA posing as a documentary film crew. What they discovered led to one of the biggest conspiracies in American history.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:37

    With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident however, he wakens to find that he is not alone.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountrySweden, Denmark, USA

    A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    4 would be astronauts spend 400 days in a land locked space simulator to test the psychological effects of deep space travel but, when something goes terribly wrong and they are forced to leave the simulation, they discover that everything on earth has changed. Is this real or is the simulation on a higher level than they could have ever imagined?

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
    CountryUSA, South Africa, United Kingdom

    After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a secretive group and their attempts to summon a horrific, mystical entity, and soon his life—and the lives of those close to him—are in grave danger.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    With nowhere else to hide, a group of mercenaries and their prisoners take cover inside a long abandoned Bulldog tank. But, while they try to keep the forces outside at bay, the real enemy is already among them, locked inside the 'Belly of the Bulldog'. After collaborating closely with Ben Wheatley on FREE FIRE, HIGH-RISE, A FIELD IN ENGLAND and KILL LIST, director Nick Gillespie makes his feature debut.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryIndia

    Manohar, an upwardly mobile middle class Indian moves into a new apartment -13B on the 13th floor with his family. From the first day in their new home, the women are hooked on to a new TV show 'Sab Khairiyat'. The show is about a family eerily similar to theirs who have also just moved into a new house. As the TV show unfolds, all the incidents that happen in the show start happening to them.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountrySpain, United Kingdom

    David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantastic, drama, detective
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration02:49

    A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration02:28

    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 able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:45

    A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:27

    Something nasty is lurking inside a secure storage unit. When a group of people get trapped inside, they need to find a way to get out of a building that's designed to keep things in...

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:41

    A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a mysterious but beautiful alien woman who appears responsible.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryLuxembourg
    Duration01:52

    The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he goes to where she grew up--a rural town in the midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the Newmans. He meets aliens; but when he contacts the FBI, they don't believe him. He tells his story to a tabloid; and suddenly, he is chased by the aliens.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A scifi-noir take on Alice in Wonderland. Oxford PhD student, Ana finds herself unable to build new memories following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find out who—or what—is behind the rising horror in her life.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:36

    In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the crew of the "Lewis and Clark" discover the real truth behind its disappearance and something even more terrifying.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan, Germany
    Duration01:50

    A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, detective
    CountryUSA

    It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The world at an end, a dying mother sends her young son on a quest to find the place that grants wishes.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:38

    Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:27

    A group of elite soldiers sent to infiltrate and extract the lead science team from Pine Gap, Australia's top secret underground military compound, after it comes under attack from unknown forces. The mission is compromised when they encounter a young woman with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As they try to escape, the group quickly discovers all is not as it seems and the facility has become a testing ground for something far more sinister.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:32

    The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:16

    Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    A spellbinding and romantic supernatural thriller. Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Roni receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Roni descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead-and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:30

    Anna Macy left Kettering when she was just 14, shortly after her best friend, Gillian Baxter mysteriously disappeared. The two girls had been playing in the forbidden forests outside Kettering when they saw strange lights in the sky. Eight hours later, Anna was found alone, terrified and covered in blood. 15 years on, Anna returns to find the town struggling to survive. The forests have been marked for logging and the community is being torn apart by passionate but violent clashes between environmentalists and the local loggers.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:37

    A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has less than 10 minutes to figure out how he got there.

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    A detective investigates a murder, only to find that the victim is... himself. Soon, he discovers multiple versions of himself, not all of them friendly.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:44

    A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, detective
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:38

      Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

      An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:05

        A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
        Duration01:48

          Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.




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