20 movies like The Day of the Triffids, ordered by similarity : The Endless(2017), Crack in the World(1965), The Hidden(1987), Robinson Crusoe on Mars(1964), Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977), The War of the Worlds(1953), Annihilation(2018), Upgrade(2018), Brainstorm(1983), The Sender(1997), Hardwired(2009), Splice(2009) ...
Sci-Fi
1963
93 Minutes
Howard Keel Nicole Maurey Janette Scott Kieron Moore Mervyn Johns Janina Faye Alison Leggatt Ewan Roberts Collette Wilde Carol Ann Ford Geoffrey Matthews
military officer scientist wife young girl creature campy suspenseful engaging london hospital france island alien invasion scientific experiments resistance survival blindness plants quest pursuit
A Navy officer (Howard Keel) and others (Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott) not blinded by meteorites seek a way to stop cosmic plants from killing people.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
USA
2017
111 Minutes
Aaron Moorhead Aaron Moorhead Justin Benson Callie Hernandez Tate Ellington Lew Temple James Jordan Shane Brady Kira Powell Emily Montague Peter Cilella
brother cult leader cult member creature camper chilling dark thrilling intense suspenseful disturbing camp woods lake compound boat forest cult mystery mythical creatures
As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began.
Sci-Fi
USA
1965
96 Minutes
Dana Andrews Janette Scott Kieron Moore Alexander Knox Peter Damon Gary Lasdun Mike Steen Todd Martin Jim Gillen
scientist terminally ill person geologist doctor ambassador dying person outlandish engaging suspenseful tense striking intense africa scientific experiments geology science fiction science gone awry doomsday device apocalypse discovery
A dying scientist pushes forward his project to tap through to the Earth's magma layer, with results that threaten to destroy the Earth as we know it.
Sci-Fi
1987
96 Minutes
Michael Nouri Kyle MacLachlan Ed O'Ross Clu Gulager Claudia Christian Clarence Felder William Boyett Richard Brooks
everyman aaron burr serial killer alien police chief fbi agent engaging thrilling suspenseful melodramatic gripping fascinating apartment hospital science fiction aliens alien attack murder investigation alien invasion
An FBI agent (Kyle MacLachlan) and a homicide detective (Michael Nouri) hunt the current human host of an orally exchanged alien life-form.
Sci-Fi
USA
1964
109 Minutes
astronaut space traveler alien slave monkey commander chilling creative dark engaging tense suspenseful mars mars stranded alien attack human-animal friendship survival space exploration quest
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
Sci-Fi
USA|UK
1977
135 Minutes
Richard Dreyfuss François Truffaut Teri Garr Melinda Dillon Cary Guffey Bob Balaban J. Patrick McNamara Warren Kemmerling Roberts Blossom Philip Dodds Shawn Bishop
alien researcher worker mother dark tense suspenseful motel india forest small town aliens military media collaboration conspiracy expedition quest pursuit discovery
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO.
Sci-Fi
USA
1953
85 Minutes
Gene Barry Ann Robinson Les Tremayne Lewis Martin Robert Cornthwaite Sandro Giglio Bill Phipps Jack Kruschen Vernon Rich Paul Birch
scientist pastor sheriff alien marine suspenseful creepy los angeles farmhouse church laboratory alien invasion showdown survival discovery revenge 1950s
A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
UK
2018
115 Minutes
Natalie Portman Jennifer Jason Leigh Gina Rodriguez Tessa Thompson Tuva Novotny Oscar Isaac Benedict Wong David Gyasi Sonoya Mizuno John Schwab
biologist soldier husband monster creature scientist creepy dark uneasy frightening thrilling base camp house woods forest secret location cabin creatures mutation saving the planet
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Sci-Fi, Action, Horror
USA|Australia
2018
95 Minutes
Logan Marshall-Green Betty Gabriel Harrison Gilbertson Christopher Kirby Benedict Hardie Melanie Vallejo Richard Cawthorne Clayton Jacobson Sachin Joab Michael M. Foster Linda Cropper
mugger paraplegic wife murderer doctor artificial intelligence brutal dark amusing gory gripping unrestrained parking lot hospital room laboratory house office car superhuman abilities revenge
Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when the world of Grey, a self-labeled technophobe, is turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant.
Sci-Fi
USA
1983
106 Minutes
Christopher Walken Natalie Wood Louise Fletcher Cliff Robertson Joe Dorsey Jordan Christopher
researcher scientist government official military officer wife thrilling tense suspenseful disturbing research station north carolina brain-reading device scientific experiments military industrial complex near-death experience sex tape technology discovery rivalry wretched excess
Researchers develop a system where they can jump into people's minds. But when people involved bring their personal problems into the equation, it becomes dangerous - perhaps deadly.
Sci-Fi
USA
1997
98 Minutes
Michael Madsen R. Lee Ermey Robert Vaughn Shelli Lether Brian Bloom Steven Williams Diane Cannon Josh Clark
pilot son girl woman military officer government official rousing suspenseful house bermuda triangle military base aliens superhuman abilities father/daughter relationship supernatural military secret pursuit escape discovery
U.S. Senator is assassinated by Men in Black, mysterious organization which surpresses all knowledge about UFOs. Agent Rafferty from U.S. Secret Service will confront them and discover the ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Action
Canada|USA
2009
94 Minutes
Cuba Gooding Jr. Val Kilmer Michael Ironside Robert Clarke Dave Cote Alastair Gamble Rachel Luttrell Tatiana Maslany
survivor executive hacker nurse detective husband thrilling intense suspenseful hospital house office car amnesia injury technology secrets survival brain implants discovery
After a tragic accident nearly claims Luke Gibson's life the Hexx Corporation hardwire an implant into his brain to save him, but Luke soon finds out that this new technology comes at price.
Sci-Fi, Horror
Canada|France|USA|Germany
2009
107 Minutes
Adrien Brody Sarah Polley Delphine Chaneac Simona Maicanescu David Hewlett Abigail Chu Brandon McGibbon Jonathan Payne
scientist creature husband wife brother boss thrilling offbeat melodramatic playful laboratory farm apartment woods barn science experiments unusual romance marriage evolution
Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.
Sci-Fi
USA
1957
82 Minutes
William Hopper Joan Taylor Frank Puglia John Zaremba Thomas B. Henry Tito Vuolo Jan Arvan Arthur Space Bart Braverman George Pelling George Khoury
alien zoologist medical student colonel major scientist campy rousing outlandish incredible mediterranean coast sicily colosseum rome tiber river alien invasion extraterrestrial life moral dilemma playing god monsters
The first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows gigantic.
Sci-Fi
UK
1964
102 Minutes
Edward Judd Martha Hyer Lionel Jeffries Betty McDowall Miles Malleson Gladys Henson Hugh McDermott Erik Chitty Gordon Robinson Laurence Herder Marne Maitland
scientist inventor explorer alien campy engaging england spacecraft moon underground aliens moon exploration space travel inventions discovery adventure escape 1960s
When a spaceship lands on the moon, it is hailed as a new accomplishment, before it becomes clear that a Victorian party completed the journey in 1899, leading investigators to that mission's last survivor.
Sci-Fi, Horror
USA
1956
80 Minutes
Kevin McCarthy Dana Wynter Carolyn Jones Larry Gates King Donovan Jean Willes Ralph Dumke Virginia Christine Tom Fadden Kenneth Patterson Guy Way
alien doctor patient ex-girlfriend psychiatrist townsperson creepy gripping suspenseful thrilling small town california aliens epidemic conformity unusual behavior invasion pursuit metamorphosis discovery
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Sci-Fi
1956
98 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon Anne Francis Leslie Nielsen Warren Stevens Jack Kelly Richard Anderson Earl Holliman George Wallace Robert Dix Jimmy Thompson James Drury
captain scientist daughter robot engaging incredible altair iv spaceship aliens technology survival discovery mystery quest 23rd century
An astronaut (Leslie Nielsen) and crew land on Altair-4 in 2200 and find a mad doctor (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis) and Robby the robot.
Sci-Fi, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy
USA
1985
116 Minutes
Michael J. Fox Christopher Lloyd Crispin Glover Lea Thompson Wendie Jo Sperber Marc McClure Claudia Wells Thomas F. Wilson James Tolkan Casey Siemaszko Billy Zane
son mother father scientist teenager bully endearing engaging incredible california small town hill valley time travel daunting task romance weird science experiments family history adventure discovery
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
Sci-Fi
USA
1953
80 Minutes
Paul Hubschmid Paula Raymond Cecil Kellaway Kenneth Tobey Donald Woods Jack Pennick Lee Van Cleef Steve Brodie Ross Elliot Ray Hyke Mary Hill
professor researcher doctor scientist corporal colonel campy outlandish spectacular thrilling arctic canada maine massachusetts new york city coney island nuclear weapons testing dinosaurs uncontrollable experiment radiation
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Sci-Fi
USA
1983
94 Minutes
Paul Le Mat Nancy Allen Diana Scarwid Michael Lerner Louise Fletcher Wallace Shawn Fiona Lewis Kenneth Tobey June Lockhart Charles Lane
professor wife alien newspaper reporter campy unrestrained outlandish suspenseful centerville, ill. new york city small town alien abduction aliens tabloid journalism invasion missing persons marriage discovery metamorphosis mystery
Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he travels to where she grew up--a rural town in the Midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
USA|Canada
2012
117 Minutes
Colin Farrell Kate Beckinsale Jessica Biel Bryan Cranston Bokeem Woodbine Bill Nighy John Cho Will Yun Lee Milton Barnes James McGowan Natalie Lisinska
factory worker wife rebel fighter prostitute scientist leader thrilling suspenseful intricate gripping euromerica city office household europe factory memories science gone awry political intrigue espionage
A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run.