20 best movies like The Signal (2014)


List of the best movies like The Signal (2014): Proximity, Circle, They Live, Midnight Special, Area 51, The Divide, Coherence, The Dead Zone, Sputnik, The X Files: I Want to Believe.

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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: 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: 7.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.

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: 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: 5.8
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: 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: 7.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:43

    Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryRussia

    At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada

    Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. 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.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, Romania, USA
    Duration01:23

    Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:11

    After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very identity.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    The idyllic lives of Phil and Kate seem complete when they select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child. But the lovely young Camilla s not what she appears to be.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryUSA

    What’s controlling the town on Block Island? There’s a force lurking off the coast and the wildlife and people are all behaving strangely.

    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
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff Annie Flynn is called by the local farmer Rob Horn to witness the remains of an animal to request reimbursement from the government and for an accident with a tank truck that is blocking the road.

    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: 5.5
    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: 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: 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: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:32

    Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.

    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: 6.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryAustralia

    It is about two Atheists who run a video blog debunking Psychics, Mediums and religious beliefs. However, a death experiment goes totally wrong and as a result they attract evil entities that stalk and haunt them.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    A couple facing marital problems after losing their child finds their life together further complicated by a mysterious visitor.

    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: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend's life quickly takes an unexpected turn as the two friends confront personal demons, the consequences of past actions, and forces beyond their control.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:44

        A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

        Markimdb: 3.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:50

        Six young adults struggle with their personal demons while staying at a secluded mansion during a dark and stormy night where a seemingly innocent game of 'taboo' brings out their inter-most secrets which soon leads to murder.

        Markimdb: 3.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.

        Markimdb: 1.9
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        Sixteen year old Jude discovers each and every one of his fears is true.

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:31

        In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

          After the mysterious, brutal death of an old friend, a group of teenagers find themselves in possession of "Stay Alive," an ultra-realistic 3-D videogame based on the spine-chilling true story of a 17th century noblewoman, known as "The Blood Countess." The gamers don't know anything about the game other than they're not supposed to have it... and they're dying to play it. Not able to resist temptation, the kids begin to play the grisly game but soon make a chilling connection -- they are each being murdered one-by-one in the same way as the characters they played in the game. As the line between the game world and the real world disappears, the teens must find a way to defeat the vicious and merciless Blood Countess, all the while trying to... stay alive.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:39

          An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:40

          A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryCanada, USA, Germany

          Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryGermany, USA
          Duration01:37

          David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryGermany, USA
          Duration01:41

          Canadian scientist, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden in order to contribute to their most important project—a human regeneration gene—that also has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:06

          20 years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.

          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: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

          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: 3.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, detective, military
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:26

          A group of researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a platoon of masked soldiers and dragged into a hidden continent in the center of the Earth. There, they discover that surviving Nazi soldiers are plotting an invasion of Earth to revive the Third Reich.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:29

            About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:35

            A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.

            Markimdb: 4.2
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA

            Graduate student Calliope Girard's orderly life is thrown into chaos by unexplained seizures that unlock buried memories of a violent past.

            Markimdb: 5.6
            Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:29

            After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.

            Markimdb: 5.4
            Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
            CountryUSA

            A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.




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