Movies Like The War of the Worlds (1953)

The War of the Worlds (1953) Movie Release Dates / Movie Details

G | 1h 27m | Thriller, Sci-Fi, Action
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The War of the Worlds Movie Information:

Directors:
Byron Haskin
Stars:
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio … (full cast)
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  1. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

    Synopsis/Plot: Travelling with mind-boggling speed, a gleaming unidentified flying object zooming in from the boundless deep space, penetrates the Earth's atmosphere, landing smoothly in Cold War-Washington, D.C.

    Encircled by large yet feeble military forces, the peaceful…

    Tagline: A robot and a man . . . hold the world spellbound with new and startling powers from another planet!
    Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

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  2. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

    Synopsis/Plot: Dr.

    Miles Bennell returns to his small town practice to find several of his patients suffering the paranoid delusion that their friends or relatives are impostors.

    He is initially skeptical, especially when the alleged doppelgangers…

    Tagline: The original Black & White classic
    Genres: Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi

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  3. Forbidden Planet (1956)

    Synopsis/Plot: When Adams and his crew are sent to investigate the silence from a planet inhabited by scientists, he finds all but two have died.

    Dr.

    Morbius and his daughter Altaira have somehow survived a hideous…

    Tagline: It's out of this world!
    Genres: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure

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  4. The Time Machine (1960)

    Synopsis/Plot: On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking H.G.

    Wells - George to his friends - arrives late to his own dinner party.

    He tells his guests of his travels in his time machine, the work…

    Tagline: You Will Orbit into the Fantastic Future!
    Genres: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Romance

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  5. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

    Synopsis/Plot: A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discovers a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon.

    The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks free.

    The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the…

    Tagline: Not since the beginning of time has the world beheld terror like this!
    Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi, Adventure

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  6. The Thing from Another World (1951)

    Synopsis/Plot: Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice.

    Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot.

    All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he…

    Tagline: Look Out...It's
    Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

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  7. The Blob (1958)

    Synopsis/Plot: A mysterious creature from another planet, resembling a giant blob of jelly, lands on earth.

    The people of a nearby small town refuse to listen to some teenagers who have witnessed the blob's destructive power.…

    Tagline: Beware of the Blob! It creeps, and leaps, and glides and slides across the floor.
    Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

  8. The Fly (1958)

    Synopsis/Plot: After her husband Andre Delambre is crushed to death in a mechanical press, his wife recounts to his brother Francois Delambre and police Inspector Charas the events of the previous few months.

    They were very…

    Tagline: If she looked upon the horror her husband had become... she would scream for the rest of her life!
    Genres: Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi, Fantasy

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  9. Them! (1954)

    Synopsis/Plot: In the New Mexico desert, Police Sgt.

    Ben Peterson and his partner find a child wandering in the desert and sooner they discover that giant ants are attacking the locals.

    FBI agent Robert Graham teams…

    Tagline: The Amazing New Warner Bros. Sensation!
    Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

  10. It Came from Outer Space (1953)

    Synopsis/Plot: John Putnam is a writer and an amateur stargazer with a new home out in the beautiful Arizona desert, which he enjoys with Ellen Fields, his girlfriend and a local schoolteacher.

    John is not trusted…

    Tagline: Terror In 3-D... Reaching From The Screen To Seize You In Its Grasp!...
    Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Movies like The War of the Worlds include The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Forbidden Planet (1956), The Time Machine (1960), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), The Thing from Another World (1951), The Blob (1958), The Fly (1958), Them! (1954), and It Came from Outer Space (1953).