Movies like Apollo 18
If Apollo 18's mix of moon, nasa and infection stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Apollo 18's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Cloverfield
2008 · Directed by Matt Reeves · 85 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: alien, found footage, pseudo-documentary · Also thriller and science fiction
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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V/H/S/Beyond
2024 · Directed by Jordan Downey · 114 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: alien, found footage, pseudo-documentary · 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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Phoenix Forgotten
2017 · Directed by Justin Barber · 87 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: alien, found footage, aliens · 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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The Thing
1982 · Directed by John Carpenter · 109 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: alien, alien infection · Also horror and science fiction
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · Directed by Philip Kaufman · 116 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: alien, alien infection · Also science fiction and horror
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
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The Faculty
1998 · Directed by Robert Rodriguez · 104 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: alien, alien infection · Also horror and science fiction
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
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Wer
2013 · Directed by William Brent Bell · 89 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: moon, found footage · Also horror and thriller · From the same decade (2010s)
A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.
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Grave Encounters
2011 · Directed by Stuart Ortiz · 93 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: found footage, pseudo-documentary · Also thriller and horror · From the same decade (2010s)
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
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Alien
1979 · Directed by Ridley Scott · 117 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: alien · Also horror and science fiction
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a…
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Interstellar
2014 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 169 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: nasa, astronaut · From the same decade (2010s)
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.
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A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · Directed by John Krasinski · 97 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: alien · Also science fiction and thriller
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk…
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Starship Troopers
1997 · Directed by Paul Verhoeven · 129 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: moon · Also thriller and science fiction
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against…