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10 Best Movies Like Dark Skies

If you loved Dark Skies, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Doctor Who: Deep Breath

Doctor Who: Deep Breath

2014★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Skies for fans of Drama & Adventure & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite with the Paternoster Gang to inve...

#2
Doctor Who: The Snowmen

Doctor Who: The Snowmen

2012★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Skies for fans of Drama & Adventure & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess named Clara has stumbled upon a p...

#3
Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

2009★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Skies for fans of Drama & Adventure & TV Movie. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including som...

#4
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

2009★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Skies for fans of Mystery & TV Movie. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awai...

#5
Real Men

Real Men

1987★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Skies for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind....

#6
Earth to Echo

Earth to Echo

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Skies for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

After a construction project begins digging in their neighbourhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. ...

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