Tags: movies similar to The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - full list
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | fantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective |
Country | USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore |
Duration | 02:52 |
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, comedy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Romania, France |
Duration | 01:46 |
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | fantastic, drama, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:26 |
After losing contact with Earth, Astronaut Lee Miller becomes stranded in orbit alone aboard the International Space Station. As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity - and simply stay alive. His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | fantastic, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:52 |
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | fantastic, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:21 |
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
Mark | imdb: 8.6 |
Genre | fantastic, drama, adventure |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Canada |
Duration | 02:49 |
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:34 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | fantastic, drama, military |
Country | United Kingdom |
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | fantastic, drama |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 02:57 |
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position. As if the question were: what would you do in God's place? Director's statement Aleksei wanted to make this film his entire life. The road was a long one. This is not a film about cruelty, but about love. A love that was there, tangible, alive, and that resisted through the hardest of conditions.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, China, USA |
Duration | 01:59 |
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | horror, drama, detective, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | comedy, drama |
Country | Finland, France, Germany |
Duration | 01:33 |
Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a shoeshiner. As Arletty suddenly becomes seriously ill, Marcel's path crosses with an underage illegal immigrant from Africa, who needs Marcel's help to hide from the police.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | fantastic, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, drama |
Country | Canada |
In the near future, as humanity prepares to set foot on Mars, Jacob Obus, an elderly musician, takes pride in slowing down time by playing instruments inspired by women's bodies, designed by his friend Arthur. A love triangle develops when Jacob and Arthur both fall in love with Avril, a young photographer. Enter Eugène Spaak, Arthur's father, an inventor and cosmologist who unveils a new theory about man's desire to reach Mars and helps Jacob find the true meaning of life and love.
Mark | imdb: 3.6 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha begins to have dreams that warn her of the end of the universe.
Mark | imdb: 8.8 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:28 |
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | fantastic, fantasy, adventure |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:45 |
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, drama |
Country | South Korea |
Duration | 01:53 |
In 'A Brave New World', a virus brings the city to ruins and zombies flood the streets of Seoul. In 'The Heavenly Creature', a robot reaches enlightenment while working at a temple, but its creators deem this phenomenon a threat to mankind. In the final segment, 'Happy Birthday', a young girl logs onto a strange website and places an order for a new billiard ball for her father. Soon afterwards a meteor heads toward Earth and people flee to underground bomb shelters.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | fantastic, comedy, drama, detective |
Country | Soviet Union |
Duration | 01:43 |
An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this town everybody seems to be crazy (a secretary who works naked, a group of people take the engineer as a rock & roll player, etc) and, in addition, this man is witness of a suicide, so he is trapped inside the town.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, fantasy, drama |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:54 |
The story follows Jamie, a troubled young man with a birthmark on his face, which has left him feeling isolated and fearful, hiding from the world outside. He lives in the East End of London, an area notorious for its violent hooded gangs. According to news reports, the gangs are now wearing demon masks. But, one night, Jamie discovers the terrifying truth.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | fantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 01:15 |
This latest installment of Babylon 5 is in two parts: the first, is about an entity that has possessed a worker. It wants to be exorcised but Col. Lochley prevents the priest & sends it & the host both back to Earth. The second is about Galen trying to dupe President Sheridan into assassinating the future Centauri President to stop him possibly attacking Earth in 30 years time.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | fantastic, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | fantastic, melodrama, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:28 |
Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around them seems to be falling apart. A life-affirming look at what it means to love and be loved in turbulent times.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | fantastic, drama, adventure, detective |
Country | Soviet Union |
Duration | 02:43 |
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded desires are granted.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama |
Country | Australia, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:20 |
In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.
Mark | imdb: 3.9 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths. Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang, a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money. After Chazers gang member, Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling), witnesses his brother, murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code... In this superbly paced and artistic film, present-day social issues, and murky city streets, provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:32 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Belgium |
Duration | 02:31 |
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | fantastic, comedy, drama |
Country | Germany |
A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet are soon shattered, when it becomes apparent that both the parents and their son have a screw loose.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | action, fantasy, drama, adventure |
Country | Denmark, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:33 |
1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | fantastic, drama |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Hungary |
Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.