20 movies like Xtro, ordered by similarity : Beyond Skyline(2017), Flight of the Navigator(1986), The Box(2009), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers(1956), The Body Stealers(1968), Proximity(2019), Star Trek(2009), I'll Follow You Down(2013), Strange Invaders(1983), Midnight Special(2016), Critters(1986), Tron: Legacy(2010) ...
Sci-Fi
UK
1982
80 Minutes
Philip Sayer Bernice Stegers Danny Brainin Simon Nash Maryam d'Abo David Cardy Anna Wing Peter Mandell Robert Fyfe Arthur Whybrow
father wife son boyfriend babysitter alien gory shocking eerie disturbing england family home forest cottage alien abduction broken home father/son relationship disappearance telekinesis mutation
An alien creature impregnates a woman who gives birth to a man that was abducted by aliens three years ago. The man reconnects with his wife and son for a sinister purpose.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA|Canada|Indonesia|UK|China|Singapore
2017
106 Minutes
Frank Grillo Bojana Novakovic Jonny Weston Callan Mulvey Antonio Fargas Jacob Vargas Iko Uwais Yayan Ruhian
detective prisoner son alien thrilling suspenseful airy gory prison alien planet spaceship street kidnapping alien attack danger father/son relationship adventure rise fall rescue
A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship.
Sci-Fi, Kids & Family, Adventure
USA
1986
89 Minutes
Joey Cramer Veronica Cartwright Cliff De Young Sarah Jessica Parker Matt Adler Howard Hesseman Paul Reubens Robert Small Albie Whitaker Jonathan Sanger Iris Acker
boy father mother scientist brother spaceship emotional campy florida fort lauderdale, fla. nasa facility abduction family father/son relationship aliens nasa cover-up adventure escape 1980s
In 1978, a boy travels 8 years into the future and has an adventure with an intelligent, wisecracking alien ship.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
USA
2009
113 Minutes
Cameron Diaz James Marsden Frank Langella James Rebhorn Holmes Osborne Sam Stone Gillian Jacobs Celia Weston Deborah Rush Lisa K. Wyatt Mark Cartier
mother father son grandfather mysterious man sister eerie shocking chilling melodramatic household wedding car police station suburb home moral dilemma unintended consequences greed mysterious deaths
A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.
Sci-Fi
USA
1956
83 Minutes
Hugh Marlowe Joan Taylor Donald Curtis Morris Ankrum Thomas B. Henry John Zaremba Grandon Rhodes Larry J. Blake Harry Lauter Charles Evans Clark Howat
scientist wife father general alien major chilling eerie gripping melodramatic outlandish united states alien attack alien abduction science save the planet escape adventure 1950s
Extraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth.
Sci-Fi
UK|USA
1968
91 Minutes
George Sanders Maurice Evans Patrick Allen Neil Connery Hilary Heath Robert Flemyng
alien alien abductee paratrooper investigator eerie disturbing tense great britain sky plane aliens alien abduction disappearance investigation search mystery discovery 1960s
In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-beam of alien origin.
Sci-Fi
USA
2019
119 Minutes
Ryan Masson Highdee Kuan Christian Prentice Shaw Jones Don Scribner Ben Sullivan Christopher Murray Sarah Navratil
scientist alien alien abductee cheeky dark eerie alien planet united states train abduction alien abduction alien/human relationship escape mystery quest 21st century
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.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy, Action
USA|Germany
2009
126 Minutes
Chris Pine Zachary Quinto Leonard Nimoy Eric Bana Bruce Greenwood Karl Urban Zoe Saldana Simon Pegg John Cho Anton Yelchin Ben Cross
captain kirk spock cadet friend father alien spirited engaging intricate rousing thrilling amusing space earth spaceship starship enterprise alien planet black hole exploration mystery
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
2013
92 Minutes
Haley Joel Osment Gillian Anderson Rufus Sewell Victor Garber Sarah Manninen Sherry Miller John Paul Ruttan Brandon Firla Kiara Glasco Susanna Fournier
scientist college student time traveler missing person father son emotional engaging gripping rousing somber princeton, n.j. university time portal city home lecture hall time travel relationships family
After a scientist disappears during a business trip, his son (Haley Joel Osment) and wife (Gillian Anderson) struggle to cope, then they make a bizarre discovery years later that may bring him home.
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, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Greece
2016
111 Minutes
Michael Shannon Joel Edgerton Kirsten Dunst Jaeden Martell Adam Driver Sam Shepard Bill Camp Scott Haze Sean Bridgers Dana Gourrier Paul Sparks
father son cult member young boy army officer tense thrilling on the run road army base family home car government building united states escape cult father/son relationship special power government secrets running away
A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers.
Sci-Fi
USA
1986
84 Minutes
Dee Wallace M. Emmet Walsh Terrence Mann Billy Green Bush Scott Grimes Nadine Van der Velde Billy Zane Don Opper Ethan Phillips Jeremy Lawrence Lin Shaye
mother father son daughter alien bounty hunter amusing creepy kansas farm house spaceship alien attack family survival kidnapping hunting escape pursuit 1980s
A group of small but vicious alien creatures called Crites escape from an alien prison transport vessel and land near a small farm town on earth, pursued by two shape-shifting bounty hunters.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA
2010
125 Minutes
Jeff Bridges Garrett Hedlund Olivia Wilde Bruce Boxleitner James Frain Michael Sheen Beau Garrett Jeffrey Nordling Christine Adams Dale Wolfe Cillian Murphy
programmer father son computer artificial intelligence creative thrilling cool computer world los angeles arcade computers artificial intelligence father/son relationship disappearance video games virtual reality adventure discovery escape
The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.
Sci-Fi
USA|UK
1989
103 Minutes
Christopher Walken Lindsay Crouse Joel Carlson Frances Sternhagen Andreas Katsulas Terri Hanauer Basil Hoffman
novelist wife son alien abductee psychiatrist alien creepy dark tense brooding disturbing engaging cabin forest horror mental breakdown hypnosis discovery fall mystery
Oct.4 and Dec.26 the Strieber family drives from NYC to their cabin in the woods. Both nights there are some powerful lights outside and maybe aliens. The dad is mentally affected by the "bad dream", goes to the shrink and is hypnotized.
Sci-Fi, Fantasy
West Germany
1985
95 Minutes
Joshua Morrell Eva Kryll Jan Zierold Tamy Shields Matthias Kraus
young boy bully best friend dead person puppet father engaging emotional thrilling suspenseful melodramatic shocking house school reviving the dead father/son relationship danger science fiction death of father love
Believing to be able to communicate with his deceased father, a young boy develops psychic powers where he uses them to try to stop supernatural forces threatening his family and friends, especially a possessed ventriloquist dummy.
Sci-Fi, Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1985
104 Minutes
Ethan Hawke River Phoenix Jason Presson Amanda Peterson Dick Miller Robert Picardo Dana Ivey Meshach Taylor James Cromwell Mary Kay Place
boy friend alien father bully amusing endearing california household spacecraft outer space inventions space travel childhood friendship aliens culture clash adventure discovery quest
A boy obsessed with 50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what?
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
USA
2013
99 Minutes
Jaden Smith Will Smith Sophie Okonedo Zoë Kravitz Glenn Morshower Kristofer Hivju Sacha Dhawan Chris Geere Diego Klattenhoff David Denman Lincoln Lewis
space traveler father son alien mother crew member emotional gripping powerful tense spacecraft earth jungle volcano spaceship river father/son relationship survival crash landing alien life-forms
A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1983
103 Minutes
Christopher Walken Brooke Adams Tom Skerritt Herbert Lom Anthony Zerbe Colleen Dewhurst Martin Sheen Nicholas Campbell Sean Sullivan Jackie Burroughs Geza Kovacz
psychic ex-girlfriend politician father sheriff student brooding uneasy new england small town political rally household psychic phenomena father/son relationship assassination isolation recovery accident discovery quest
A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability.
Sci-Fi
USA
1994
108 Minutes
Donald Sutherland Eric Thal Julie Warner Will Patton Richard Belzer Yaphet Kotto Tom Mason Gerry Bamman
alien creature federal agent biologist father son tense creepy iowa small town spacecraft race against time mind control alien invasion investigation aliens quest discovery rivalry metamorphosis
The Earth is invaded by stingray-shaped alien "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds.
Sci-Fi
USA
1953
73 Minutes
Helena Carter Arthur Franz Jimmy Hunt Morris Ankrum Leif Erickson Hillary Brooke Max Wagner Milburn Stone Walter Sande Janine Perreau John Eldredge
young boy astronomer doctor alien father police officer suspenseful campy house woods small town office alien invasion family science escape mystery 1950s
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
Sci-Fi
USA
1972
104 Minutes
Michael Sacks Ron Leibman Valerie Perrine Eugene Roche Sharon Gans Roberts Blossom Sorrell Booke Kevin Conway Gary Waynesmith John Dehner Stan Gottlieb
optometrist prisoner of war alien actress soldier wife creative fascinating intricate amusing emotional dresden, germany ilium, n.y. tralfamadore prison camp zoo mental institution time travel horrors of war alien abduction
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.