35 Best Movie Like Signs You Need to Watch
Signs is a sci-fi thriller movie that keeps you on your seat from the begging to the end. It comes from the pen of M. Night Shyamalan, known for movies with contemporary supernatural plots and twist endings. Now, after watching Signs, you are still looking for more movies like that, well, don’t worry, because this article will bring you the best movies like Signs you can watch.
Signs focuses on a former Episcopal priest named Graham Hess, played by Mel Gibson, who discovers a series of crop circles in his cornfield and that the phenomenon is a result of extraterrestrial life. It also stars Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, and Abigail Breslin. Signs explores the themes of faith, kinship, and extraterrestrials.
The movies on this list will be very similar to Signs, some are even from the same writer and director M. Night Shyamalan. So, let’s check them out.
The Visit (2015)
Visiting grandparents is not a happy experience for every child. After sending her son and daughter to visit their grandparents, a single mother discovers that things in her family’s life are not what they seem. After grandfather forbids them to leave the room after 9:30 p.m., terrible things begin to happen that reveal grandmother’s disturbing secret.
Devil (2010)
It’s morning in Philadelphia and five strangers start their day with a routine – entering the elevator of a business tower. They share that cramped common space, do not know each other and are not interested in each other, because they will only spend a few minutes together. The twist happens when the elevator gets stuck and an unexpected development begins. One of the five people is Satan.
Under the Skin (2013)
In this psychological sci-fi story, Scarlett Johansson stars as an alien who assumes the guise of an attractive young woman to lure men into her trap. She stalks the streets of Scotland leading lonely, unsuspecting men to their deaths.
The Village (2004)
The action takes place in a village that lives an unchanging life in a community that does not use money and everyone takes care of each other. The inhabitants are technologically, and still in the 19th century, separated from the rest of the world by a forest inhabited by “those who are not spoken of” and with whom, it seems, there is an agreement that people do not enter the forest, and these beings into the village.
Unbreakable (2000)
Philadelphia security guard at the university stadium, also a former football player, David Dunn (Bruce Willis), is the only survivor of a catastrophic train accident. Not only did he survive, but he came through without the slightest injury. After the accident, he is convinced that he is lucky in life, that nothing can harm him and that he is invulnerable.
Soon after these discoveries, comic book publisher Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) approached him in a bizarre way and presented him with a fantastic assumption: Price was born with a rare disorder that causes him to have “glass” bones, and so far he has had as many as 54 fractures.
He assumes that somewhere in the world there must be his antipode, someone who has never been hurt or sick. He’s pretty sure that man, a sort of comic book superhero, is David Dunn. Dunn doesn’t believe him, but his son Joseph, a teenage boy, really wants to believe it.
The Happening (2008)
Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), is a teacher who, together with his wife, Alma (Zooey Deschanel), is on the run from terrifying events happening around the world. Namely, the plants began to emit a neurotoxin which, after being inhaled, forces the victim to commit suicide. This young couple will do everything they can to survive a world that is getting closer to total destruction.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Dr. Malcolm Crowe (B. Willis) is a respected expert on children’s mental problems, disorders and diseases. When he meets little Cole Sear (H.J. Osment), a boy who other people consider a freak, Cole reminds him of one of his patients, Vincent (D. Wahlberg), the only one he failed to help. Vincent grew up to be a completely distracted and disturbed young man, and once he crept into Dr. Crowe’s house and shot him.
Cautiously approaching Cole, Dr. Crowe gradually learns the boy’s terrible secret: he sees dead people and they speak to him. He lives in constant fear of everything he sees and what the dead ask of him. “Maybe you should listen to them,” Malcolm advises him. At the first opportunity, Cole listens to him: the recently deceased girl Kyra (M. Barton) hands him a box that her father should receive.
War of the Worlds (2005)
For centuries, people have observed the universe, at first only with their naked eyes, and later with the most modern technological instruments, wondering if there is anyone else in that vast expanse, what their intentions are, and if our civilizations will ever make contact. It turned out that we were looking in the wrong direction because they have been on our planet for many, many years and now they have decided to conquer us!
Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a worker from New Jersey, whose life is not exactly blooming roses, because he does not have the relationship he wants with his children from a broken marriage. However, when one day the long-planned alien attack on our planet begins, it is up to Ray to do everything to protect his son Robbie (Justin Chatwin) and daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning).
A Quiet Place (2018)
Our world has been invaded by seemingly invulnerable predators, who – at the slightest possible noise – immediately attack with deadly force. Everything therefore revolves around one important rule – move carefully and never make any sound, not even the slightest noise. One ingenious family managed to survive in silence, carefully muting every possible sound in their daily life.
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
A place of silence 2 continues at the end of the first part. After their safe home is destroyed, Evelyn and her three children move on into an unknown world, where even the slightest sound means death. They try to find other survivors and expand their new knowledge on how to kill these creatures.
Cloverfield (2008)
How would a group of ordinary little people react to a monster attack on their town? The sane ones would take a camera and film what was happening. This is exactly what happened to five young people who were preparing a farewell party for a friend, and a monster the size of a skyscraper just attacked New York. This film is a document about their attempt to survive the most terrifying event in their lives.
Like The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield was shot from the perspective of a small portable camera. The chaos captured by a hand-held camera, which shakes and hides the horrors more than it shows them, leaves the worst things to our imagination. But don’t worry, this time the monster that is destroying New York will be shown. Do not think that this is a low-budget film, on the contrary, the visual and sound effects will really surprise you, and the camera work will completely immerse you in the events.
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
After a car accident, a young girl wakes up in the basement of an unknown man. He claims that he saved her and that in the meantime an ecological disaster has occurred in the world. The girl doesn’t know if she can trust him and decides to escape from the basement, even though she doesn’t know what awaits her outside.
The Witch (2015)
The critically and audience-acclaimed feature debut of director and screenwriter Robert Eggers takes us to seventeenth-century New England, where we meet a family of seven that has been beset by a terrifying curse.
- RELATED: 15 Scariest Fairy Tale Horror Movies
Dreamcatcher (2003)
Jonesy, Pete, Beaver and Henry are childhood friends, tightly bound by a shared secret. Every year they go on a hunting trip in the wilderness and enjoy being together. In the middle of a storm full of lightning and thunder, they accidentally stumble upon a man, who has been wandering completely lost in the forest for days. The man has very unusual wounds on his face.
They find out too late that the man is actually infected with a dangerous alien virus, because the army has already surrounded the entire area. It turns out that an alien spacecraft crashed nearby, from which the deadly virus originated. Four friends try to survive and somehow get out of the forest, which the military commander wants to wipe out from the face of the earth.
Bird Box (2018)
The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world where we meet Malorie Hayes and two children trying to cross a river in a boat, all blindfolded. Five years ago, supernatural creatures were found on Earth, and if people look at them, their mere presence will drive them to madness and suicide. The only way to survive is blindfolded.
Annihilation (2018)
Something strange is happening in Zone X. We only know that there are no human beings living in the zone, the animal and plant life is unknown and unpredictable, and everything inside the Zone seems alive, as if it is part of one huge invisible entity.
Eleven expeditions have entered Zone X so far and all have ended badly. At the beginning of the story, we follow the 12th expedition, four women who put everything on the line to discover the real truth behind Zone X.
Extinction (2018)
When an infection turns most of humanity into rabid zombies, two men and a 9-year-old girl must barricade themselves against their monstrous attackers.
The Invasion (2007)
Something terrible has come to Earth, something that attacks us while we sleep and turns us into unfeeling carbon copies of human beings. The clock is ticking as psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) and her colleague Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig) embark on a terrifying journey into a world of their worst nightmare, where, in order to survive, they must stay awake at all costs!
The Arrival (1996)
Charlie Sheen plays an astronaut who thinks he hears a signal from space, but when he brings it to his boss, he learns that due to budget cuts, his department is closing. The signal cannot be analyzed and therefore his signal theory remains neglected.
After that, he doesn’t tell anyone what’s going on. He does not reveal the secret to the people around him. He can’t believe what he has discovered and is genuinely scared showing true human character.
The Langoliers (1995)
On a flight from Boston to Los Angeles, ten people wake up and realize that most of the passengers and the crew have disappeared. When they try to get in touch with the switchboard, no one answers.
They manage to land but realize that everything is the same as it was. But it seems as if the world is dead. There is no one. The air is still. The sound does not wail. The food is tasteless. And the only sound they hear in the distance is getting closer to them. A race of monstrous creatures bent on their destruction came upon them, devouring everything in their path.
Storm of the Century (1999)
The inhabitants of a quiet town on a small island located near the mainland are completely cut off from the world when they are hit by the worst snowstorm of the century. While the snow buries all living things, real fear arrives in the form of an evil stranger.
The streets disappear and ghostly darkness envelops the city, while a series of bizarre murders instills terrible fear among the people. With no help coming from the outside world, no calming of the storm in sight, the locals are forced to take drastic measures before it’s too late.
Midnight Special (2016)
Roy goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton, a boy with mysterious powers that even Roy can’t fathom. What begins as a run from religious extremists and local police soon escalates into a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the Federal Government.
Putting everything on the line, Roy is dedicated to helping Alton reach his ultimate goal, whatever it may be and regardless of the consequences, in a story that takes audiences on a perilous journey from Texas to the coast of Florida as he explores the bonds of love and trust and the nature of faith.
Contact (1997)
Ever since she was a child, Eleanor (Jodie Foster) was interested in communicating with beings from outer space. The main person who encouraged her to do this was her father. After his death, Eleanor continues her studies and graduates under the mentorship of Dr. David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), and is given the opportunity to work as an expert, studying space communication in Puerto Rico.
There she meets Kent (William Fichtner), a blind researcher, who helps her listen to various signals, and Palmer (Matthew McConaughey), a student of Christian theology, who is writing a book about the effects of science on the Third World. Eleanor and Palmer begin a romantic relationship, which ends when Dr. Drumlin decides to shut down the project.
Eleanor is then forced to find the means to continue studying the sounds she hears. After finding a new financier and starting research in New Mexico again, Dr. Drumlin decides to close the program again, but then Eleanor hears a signal from a star and believes that she is on the trail of a great discovery. Despite the disdain of her colleagues, Dr. Eleanor persistently listens to the universe.
One morning she hears a mysterious signal. While the world’s scientists fight to decipher the message, Eleanor must fight to become the only emissary of the Earth on the journey, which has no basis in either practice or theory, and her discovery intrigues the National Security Agency, led by Michael Kitz (James Woods). Looking for support, she turns to her only ally, former lover, religious scholar and important government adviser Palmer. Separated by different beliefs, they unite in their passion for knowledge and truth.
The Fourth Kind (2009)
In 1972, precautionary measures were adopted for encounters with extraterrestrials. The discovery of UFOs is called an encounter of the first kind. Gathering evidence is known as an encounter of another kind. Contact with extraterrestrials marks an encounter of the third kind. The next stage, kidnapping, is called the fourth type. Currently, it is most dangerous in Alaska, where a significant number of the population is declared missing from year to year. Despite constant FBI investigations, the truth about their disappearance has never been revealed.
In this lonely region, psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler began recording sessions with traumatized patients and accidentally discovered some of the most disturbing evidence of alien abductions ever
The Last Days On Mars (2013)
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he’s made a historic discovery; fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up, and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples.
But a routine excavation turns to disaster, when the porous ground collapses, and he falls into a deep crevice and near certain death. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they begin to realize; the life-form they’ve discovered is highly dangerous to all human life.
The Signal (2014)
Nic, Haley and Jonah are three students who are thinking about the future. Haley is moving away for a year, and her boyfriend Nic and his friend Jonah help her move. But their journey across the American Southwest takes a detour: they are hacked by a computer genius who previously hacked the MIT University system and exposed holes in the security system.
Nic and Jonah piqued the interest of this mysterious hacker and vice versa. There are more and more clues, online provocations are exchanged, and the trio finds themselves in an isolated area. When night falls, contact is made and a blackout occurs. When Nic regains consciousness, he finds himself in the middle of a nightmare. His friends have disappeared, but he is determined to find them – in whatever viable form.
The only trace of him is the man who is now closely examining him, Dr. Wallace Damon (Laurence Fishburne). Damon is worried about Nico’s safety and tries to gauge his sense of reality. And while the two are outsmarting each other, Nic tries to escape
The Vast of Night (2019)
The action takes place during one evening in the late 1950s in a small town in the middle of the desert. While much of the town cheers for the local basketball team, young radio host Everett Sloan (Jake Horowitz) and even younger switchboard operator Fay Crocker (Sierra McCormick) discover a strange signal that is jamming the phones and radio.
Calls soon follow from people reporting unusual occurrences and offering disturbing explanations. In the dark of night, Fay and Everett will try to solve the mystery of the mysterious signal.
Dark Skies (2013)
Spouses Daniel and Lacy Barrett witness an escalating series of disturbing events in their own family, causing their safe and peaceful home to soon begin to fall apart. After it becomes clear that the Barretts are being targeted by an incredibly terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacy take matters into their own hands to protect the family and solve the mystery of what’s following them.
Super 8 (2011)
In 1979, US forces closed down Area 51. All materials from that place were to be transported by train to fully protected facilities. The freight train was destroyed in a spectacular accident under cover of the night just before reaching its destination. The cargo and its fate remained shrouded in secrecy. The film Super 8 follows a group of teenagers and the adventure they embark on after these dramatic events.
Arrival (2016)
A total of twelve egg-shaped crafts have landed in various locations around the world. The American army soon recruits linguist Louise Banks, whose task, with the help of physicist Ian Donnelly, is to find out whether our visitors have come in peace or whether they pose a threat to the entire humanity.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Energy company worker Roy Neary (Dreyfuss) experiences an encounter with an unidentified craft during a field trip. After an unusual encounter, Neary becomes obsessed with visions of an unknown mountain, and in every free moment, he makes sculptures that add to his emotional burden. In search of answers, Roy meets Gillian (Dillon), a single mother convinced that her son has been abducted by aliens.
Fire in the Sky (1993)
A group of people occasionally hired by the government to perform specific jobs return to town after one such mission and claim that their member has been abducted by aliens. No one believes them and, regardless of the lack of motive and evidence, they are accused of murder.
Knowing (2009)
The capsule, which contains the students’ predictions, was buried on the school property during the opening of the new school in 1958. Instead of a drawing, one girl handed in a seemingly randomly written series of numbers. On the 50th anniversary of the opening of the school, the capsule was excavated so that a new generation of students could study the drawings.
Young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury) is intrigued by the found series of numbers and takes them to his father, Professor Joh (Nicolas Cage). Studying the numbers, John concludes that the document is actually a coded message containing the exact dates, death tolls and coordinates of all major accidents of the last fifty years. Moreover, it includes the dates of three more great catastrophes yet to occur, the last prophecy of which relates directly to John.
Skyline (2010)
Jarrod and Elaine’s trip to Southern California was supposed to be a simple weekend where Jarrod would visit his best friend Terry and Terry’s girlfriend Candice for his birthday. But when the sun rises two hours early in the form of an eerie light from an unknown source, life as they know it is over. As they watch in horror from the top floor window of Terry’s apartment, people all over the city exit and disappear into the giant spaceships that obscure the Los Angeles skyline.
Now they will need all their survival instincts to avoid the thousands of monstrous creatures that are rampaging through the city and claiming all the people in their path. From cranks to hydra-shaped aliens, aliens are inescapable and seemingly indestructible
Radius (2017)
Liam wakes up after a car accident with no memory of who he is. As he goes into town to seek help, he encounters only dead bodies with strange pale eyes. Liam’s first conclusion is that there is a virus in the air, but he soon discovers the terrible truth: anyone who comes within 15 meters of him dies instantly.
