If You Liked Monsters, Watch These Next
Finished Monsters (2010) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Monsters, most of them are drama, thriller, science fiction.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Vast of Night(2019)
6.6DramaMysteryScience FictionAlso drama and science fiction
At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
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2.Coyote Lake(2019)
6.0ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
Two dangerous and unwanted guests threaten a young woman and her overbearing mother at a small bed-and-breakfast near the U.S.-Mexico border.
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3.Disclosure Day(2026)
7.5Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove there's life beyond our understanding.
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4.The Truth About Emanuel(2013)
6.0DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
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5.Upstream Color(2013)
6.3DramaScience FictionAlso drama and science fiction
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
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6.Dark Waters(2019)
7.5DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
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7.Contact(1997)
7.5DramaScience FictionMysteryAlso drama and science fiction
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
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10.Brothers Under Fire(2026)
5.9ActionThrillerMysteryAlso thriller and drama
Captain Jordan Wright's squadron on leave for a wedding in Mexico encounters a murderous cartel. As Jordan tries to lead survivors to safety, war erupts between his squad and the cartel, forcing him into a battle to save his men.
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11.War of the Worlds(2005)
6.6AdventureThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
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12.Dawn of the Planet of the Apes(2014)
7.3Science FictionActionDramaAlso science fiction and drama
A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
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13.The Day the Earth Stood Still(1951)
7.4Science FictionThrillerDramaAlso science fiction and thriller
An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
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14.Frequency(2000)
7.3Science FictionCrimeThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering…
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15.Self/less(2015)
6.4Science FictionActionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its…
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16.Capricorn One(1977)
6.8DramaActionThrillerAlso drama and thriller
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to…
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17.Moon(2009)
7.6Science FictionDramaAlso science fiction and drama
With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.
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18.The Arrival(1996)
6.0Science FictionThrillerMysteryAlso science fiction and thriller
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.
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19.The Core(2003)
5.8Science FictionAdventureThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the…
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20.Super 8(2011)
6.8ThrillerScience FictionMysteryAlso thriller and science fiction
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 sense of fear, as they uncover that something terrifying has been set loose.
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