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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: 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...

#2
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...

#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
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. ...

#5
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...

#6
Roswell

Roswell

1994★ 6.1

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

Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on ...

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