20 best movies like The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)


List of the best movies like The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008): The Divide, Deep Impact, Cowboys & Aliens, Ad Astra, Midnight Special, The Signal, Communion, The Remaining, Almost Human, Mission to Mars.

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

Markimdb: 6
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, western
CountryUSA, India
Duration01:59

A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.

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: 6.6
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Greece
Duration01:50

A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, biography
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:40

A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

When a group of close-knit friends assemble for the marriage of Skylar and Dan, they have no idea they will witness The Rapture and face a series of catastrophic events turning the celebration into a life-or-death struggle.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

The year is 2048. By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. Detective John Kennex returns to work after waking up from a 17-month coma. As he adjusts to working with his new partner, Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrefantastic, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada, France
Duration01:54

When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Mexico, Guatemala
Duration01:59

Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to protect US interests from the Monsters, but the war is far from being won.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:29

    On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, India
    Duration02:32

    Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:30

    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.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:31

    Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryIceland, Luxembourg, USA
    Duration02:28

    In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel.

    Markimdb: 2.1
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Mankind must fight to survive as Earth is invaded by hostile UFOs bent on destroying the planet. As the epic battle wages on, astronauts sneak aboard the mothership where they discover a portal to the aliens' home world. They manage to alert Earth before they are brutally murdered. Left with no other choice, Earth sends an elite military team of science and combat specialists through the portal where they attempt to stop the invasion from the inside out.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUSA

    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.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    This Christmas, a super frozen object is going to slam into the Earth. In the middle of a small town, and very quickly, dreams of a "White Christmas" will turn into a FROZEN NIGHTMARE.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrefantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA, Russia
    Duration01:29

      In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply.

      Markimdb: 3.1
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Abby and Rebecca Powell haven't seen each other since a traumatic event in their youth ripped them apart. Reunited for the first time in over a decade, the sisters take a trip to spread their mother's ashes at a secluded lake. As the sisters reconnect and try to heal old wounds, something waits in the nearby woods. A strange object, made not by the hands of man, beckons them to it. As they begin to try and unlock its secrets, Abby is plagued by nightmares of an alien presence that seem all too real. Little do the sisters realize that this object is actually a device, one with a purpose too horrible to comprehend. As the events of the past and the present begin to merge, new discoveries will threaten to tear apart their newly reformed family, and the inhuman creators of the device will attempt to finish a terrible experiment begun years before.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa
      Duration01:30

      A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      The Earth is invaded by alien parasites aka "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds. A trio of American government agents attempt to thwart this.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade is to protect the substance of science against those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries for their own gain.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:48

      An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

        A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.

        Markimdb: 3.1
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:45

        A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryGermany, France, Australia
        Duration02:38

        Set in 1999, Claire's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with some bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris. On the way she runs into another fugitive from the law Dr. Farber, an American who is being chased by the CIA. They want to confiscate a device his father invented which allows anyone to record their dreams and visions. On the run they travel the globe from Berlin to Lisbon to Moscow to Tokyo, ending up in Australia at his father's research facility, where they hope to play back the recordings Farber captured for his blind mother.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, India
        Duration01:26

        When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister? John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley co-star in this thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama
        CountryUSA

        Captured by a secret society known as the Faith and mentally controlled with a powerful spell, ancient demoness Lilith now lives as a young woman with no memory of her agless past. However, the terrifying plague unleashed by a rampaging monster, the Demonicos, forces one human to recruit her mystical power known as the Darklight to fight this terrifying beast...

        Markimdb: 1.9
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        In February 1942 Us forces engaged an unidentified flying object above Los Angeles. Now almost 70 years later, the alien invaders have returned.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

        After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a Hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, South Africa
        Duration02:17

        Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?

        Markimdb: 3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:35

        As a rogue planet roars through our solar system, it acts as an intergalactic magnet that pulls Earth in its wake. Meteors destroy major cities. Fire and ice storms engulf the land. Casualties are in the millions. And as the situation grows even worse, Steve Lannon is determined to reunite with his wife and teenage daughter. But when they stumble into a secret government installation, they'll uncover a nuclear mission that will either blast our planet back into orbit or guarantee front row seats to the end of the world.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:10

        Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.

        Markimdb: 2.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

        A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Open war against humanity rages. For five survivors – lost and on the run – the pursuit is relentless, the bullets are dwindling and the battle is everywhere. This is a 24-hour look into their lives.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic.

        Markimdb: 3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA

        When miner Charley 'Boomer' Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations in West Virginia, a gigantic earthquake is soon rocking the North Atlantic, exposing a deep seismic fault that runs the length of the North American continent. Joining forces with government seismology expert Dr Amy Lane, Boomer must now race against time to stop the chasm that is threatening to tear America - and the entire world - in half.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        Written in 1931, H.P. Lovecraft's iconic genre-bending tale of suspense and alien terrors is brought to life in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s like Frankenstein, Dracula and King Kong. Using its Mythoscope™ process — a mix of vintage and modern techniques — the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society expands on Lovecraft's original tale while still bringing you unparalleled authenticity. Horror and science fiction collide in the adventure of Albert Wilmarth, a folklore professor at Miskatonic University, as he investigates legends of strange creatures rumored to dwell in the most remote mountains of Vermont. Wilmarth’s investigation leads him to a discovery of horrors quite beyond anything he ever imagined, and ends in a desperate attempt to escape the remote New England hills with his life and sanity intact.

        Markimdb: 3.6
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryIsrael, USA
        Duration01:35

        After a massive earthquake destroys Los Angeles, a new order is formed. But disagreement among the ranks leads to more war and disruption, and The Last Patrol must bring order if there's to be any hope for the future.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Canada, Germany
        Duration01:33

        A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial life forms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien Facehuggers and a hybrid Alien/Predator are released and begin to terrorize the town.

        Markimdb: 2.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA

        Aliens invade, this time delivering a clear ultimatum. The fate of humanity hangs in the balance as the U.S. President and citizens decide if these aliens are to be trusted… or feared.

        Markimdb: 3.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heros are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:38

        Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada

        Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. But as the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them to question if someone onboard might be a killer.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.




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