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10 Best Movies Like Resident Alien

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

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#1
Landscape with Invisible Hand

Landscape with Invisible Hand

2023★ 5.9

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

Years into a benevolent alien occupation, mankind is still adjusting to its new overlords. Their technology initially held promise for global prosperity, but rendered most human jo...

#2
Real Men

Real Men

1987★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Resident Alien 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....

#3
Superintelligence

Superintelligence

2020★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Resident Alien for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, ...

#4
Happy Accidents

Happy Accidents

2000★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Resident Alien for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A comedy that pays tribute to the science fiction genre -- specifically, the sub-genre of time travel. But here the alternate reality is contemporary New York City where past and f...

#5
Planet 51

Planet 51

2009★ 5.9

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

When Earth astronaut Capt. Chuck Baker arrives on Planet 51 -- a world reminiscent of American suburbia circa 1950 -- he tries to avoid capture, recover his spaceship and make it h...

#6
Dark Star

Dark Star

1974★ 6.0

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

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intell...

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