Movies like Things Unknown
If Things Unknown's mix of camping, camera and campsite stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Things Unknown's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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V/H/S/Beyond
2024 · Directed by Jordan Downey · 114 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: alien, ufo, found footage · Also horror and science fiction
The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.
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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County
1998 · Directed by Dean Alioto · 93 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: alien, found footage · Also horror and science fiction
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.
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Nope
2022 · Directed by Jordan Peele · 130 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: alien, ufo · Also horror and science fiction
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
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Phoenix Forgotten
2017 · Directed by Justin Barber · 87 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: alien, found footage · Also horror and science fiction · From the same decade (2010s)
Twenty 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…
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Cloverfield
2008 · Directed by Matt Reeves · 85 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: alien, found footage
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city.
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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · Directed by Daniel Myrick · 81 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: camping, found footage
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
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Them!
1954 · Directed by Gordon Douglas · 94 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: desert · Also science fiction and horror
As a result of nuclear testing, gigantic, ferocious mutant ants appear in the American desert southwest, and a father-daughter team of entomologists join forces with the state police officer who first discovers their…
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Event Horizon
1997 · Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson · 96 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: burning man · Also horror and science fiction
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage.
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District 9
2009 · Directed by Neill Blomkamp · 112 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: alien, found footage
Thirty years ago, aliens arrive on Earth. Not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by…
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Phase IV
1974 · Directed by Saul Bass · 86 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: desert · Also horror and science fiction
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
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Independence Day
1996 · Directed by Roland Emmerich · 145 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: alien, ufo
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has…
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Super 8
2011 · Directed by J.J. Abrams · 112 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: alien · From the same decade (2010s)
In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing…