Top 19 movies like The Man Who Fell to Earth

The Man Who Fell to Earth

Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou, a quiet hotel clerk, and begins to fall in love with her. Just as he is ready to leave Earth, Thomas is intercepted by the U.S. government, and his entire plan is threatened.

The Man Who Fell to Earth is of 2 hour(s) and 18 minute(s). It is Produced By:  British Lion Films, Houtsnede Maatschappij N.V., Cinema 5. It was released on 1976-03-18. It has the tagline: Power, space, time and a visitor. It has an average vote of 6.417 on TMDB.

Genres: Science FictionDrama

1. How About You...

How About You...

A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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2. Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets

Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets

Pulp found fame on the world stage in the 1990s with anthems including ‘Common People’ and ‘Disco 2000’. 25 years later, they return to Sheffield for their last UK concert. In addition to performing, band members share their thoughts on fame, love, mortality — and car maintenance.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

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3. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3, 1973. British singer David Bowie performs his alter ego Ziggy Stardust for the very last time. A decadent show, a hallucinogenic collage of kitsch, pop irony and flamboyant excess: a musical symbiosis of feminine passion and masculine dominance that defines Bowie's art and the glam rock genre.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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4. The Boy in Blue

The Boy in Blue

Ned Hanlan was Canada's most successful sculling champion at the turn of the 20th century. This dramatization of his life begins in his youth, when the wild young man is informally adopted by a gambler who promotes Ned on the sculling circuit, betting on the boy's rowing skills solely to make money off him. Later, a ruthless businessman named Knox takes over Ned's career, but when Ned realizes how dishonest Knox is, he finds another manager. Walter is an inventor and the first honest man Ned has dealt with in his career and, under Walter's guidance, Ned rises to great success in the sculling world.

It has an average vote of 4.6 on TMDB.

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5. Absolute Beginners

Absolute Beginners

A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...

It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.

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6. The Luzhin Defence

The Luzhin Defence

Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

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7. Vinylmania: When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions Per Minute

Vinylmania: When Life Runs at 33 Revolutions Per Minute

My mother used to wake me up with a vinyl record. It's the first thing I remember about life. Many years have passed but vinyl records have never abandoned me. And you? Have you ever listened to a vinyl record? With its unique sound and crackling that gives you butterflies. Have you ever plunged into the colours of the sleeves artwork? Have you smelled it? Music captures a unique taste, seductive. In "Vinylmania" the director guides us through the grooves of an object that has never lost its soul. He investigates what makes it so legendary in a world dominated by liquid music: Simple nostalgia? Possession? The search for an idenitity? A cry against the fast food music? The digital river that has no heart or soul, just ones and zeros...

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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8. Laserblast

Laserblast

Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California desert, making him the target of a pair of aliens who had recently executed its previous owner.

It has an average vote of 3.1 on TMDB.

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9. Octubre Pilagá, relatos sobre el silencio

Octubre Pilagá, relatos sobre el silencio

In October 1947, the second year of the first government of Juan Domingo Perón, in a place called La Bomba, in northern Argentina, hundreds of people belonging to the Pilagá people were murdered. The fear planted by the State covered the facts with a cloak of silence. More than sixty years after the massacre, the survivors reveal details of what happened in a documentary that demanded its director more than three years of investigation in the province of Formosa and in official files.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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10. The Windshield Wiper

The Windshield Wiper

Inside a cafe while smoking a whole pack of cigarettes, a man poses an ambitious question: "What is Love?". A collection of vignettes and situations will lead the man to the desired conclusion.

It has an average vote of 7.073 on TMDB.

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11. The Great Buck Howard

The Great Buck Howard

When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician struggling to resurrect his career. This leads to a journey across the country staging the comeback of a lifetime.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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12. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal (劇場版 魔法少女まどか☆マギカ[後編] 永遠の物語)

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal

As the young girls have discovered the truth about the cruel fate of a magical girl, one magical girl after another is destroyed. Throughout it all, there is one magical girl who continues to fight alone - Homura Akemi. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part II: Eternal is a retelling of the second half of the TV anime series.

It has an average vote of 7.558 on TMDB.

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13. The Face of Another (他人の顔)

The Face of Another

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

It has an average vote of 7.758 on TMDB.

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14. Fellini Satyricon (Fellini – satyricon)

Fellini Satyricon

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.

It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.

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15. The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.

It has an average vote of 6.715 on TMDB.

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16. Certified Copy (Copie conforme)

Certified Copy

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

It has an average vote of 6.95 on TMDB.

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17. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

It has an average vote of 7.716 on TMDB.

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18. Pather Panchali (পথের পাঁচালী)

Pather Panchali

Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.

It has an average vote of 7.974 on TMDB.

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19. Drugstore Cowboy

Drugstore Cowboy

Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, who skillfully steal from drugstores and hospital medicine cabinets in order to appease their insatiable need for drugs. But neither fun nor luck last forever.

It has an average vote of 7.099 on TMDB.

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