Encounter

Dec 3, 2021

1h 48m

★ 6.3

When you stand by each other, you can get through anything.

Overview

A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.

Genres

Mystery

Thriller

Drama

Production Companies

Amazon Studios

RAW

Film4 Productions

Automatik Entertainment

Big Indie Pictures

Encounter Trailers

Cast

Malik Khan

Riz Ahmed

Hattie Hayes

Octavia Spencer

Jay Khan

Lucian-River Chauhan

Shepard West

Rory Cochrane

Bobby Khan

Aditya Geddada

Piya

Janina Gavankar

Dylan

Misha Collins

Grant

Keith Szarabajka

Lance

Shane McRae

Raul

Antonio Jaramillo

Dwight McKinley

Brennan Keel Cook

Kurt McKinley

Bill Dawes

From an early age, Arnold believes he is an extraterrestrial. Day in, day out, he is busy trying to build a flying machine that will finally take him "home". Protected by his mother Ida and her long-time admirer, the country doctor Emil, he is regarded as a quirky but lovable outsider in his home village.

5.6

Dreamcatcher

Mar 21, 2003

Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the four of them.

6.7

Cloverfield

Jan 15, 2008

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

6.0

Alien Nation

Oct 7, 1988

A few years from now, Earth will have the first contact with an alien civilization. These aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after years of quarantine.

6.1

Sphere

Feb 13, 1998

A spacecraft is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the Habitat, a state-of-the-art underwater living environment, to investigate.

6.7

The Thing from Another World

Apr 5, 1951

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

6.7

Signs

Aug 2, 2002

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

4.4

Possessed by the Night

May 25, 1994

A horror writer buys an odd looking mutant embryo creature, pickled in a jar, from a shop in Chinatown, hoping it will be a creative inspiration for his work. Instead, the odd mutation provokes a rage of violence and lust to envelop the suburban villa where the writer lives with his wife and sexy secretary.

7.7

Mysterious Skin

Mar 30, 2005

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

6.6

Cocoon

Jun 21, 1985

When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

7.9

The Iron Giant

Aug 6, 1999

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

5.4

What Planet Are You From?

Mar 3, 2000

A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their planet. The alien ends up falling in love while a suspicious FAA agent tails him.

5.7

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Dec 10, 2008

A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.

6.9

Starman

Dec 13, 1984

When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

5.0

The 11th Green

Jan 8, 2020

A respected journalist uncovers the truth behind the mythology of President Eisenhower's long-alleged involvement in extraterrestrial events.

6.9

Enemy Mine

Dec 12, 1985

A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

7.5

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Feb 5, 1956

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

7.1

Parasyte: Part 1

Nov 29, 2014

Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat murders'. High school student Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, having replaced his right hand, and he might be the discoverer of truth.

7.1

Parasyte: Part 2

Apr 25, 2015

Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.

6.0

The Arrival

May 31, 1996

Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a Hitchcockian labyrinth of paranoia and intrigue.