15 Movies Like The Mediator
Loved The Mediator? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
#1
Arrival
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#2
Predator 2
A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#3
Contact
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#4
Starship Troopers
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#5
Stalker
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Mediator.
#6
The 5th Wave
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#7
Osiris
Special Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#8
Lifeforce
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#9
The War of the Worlds
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#10
Iron Mask
Commissioned to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire, cartographer Jonathan Green sets off on a long journey of unbelievable adventures—making breath-taking discoveries and meeting mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even the King of Dragons.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Mediator.
#11
The Host
A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free humans.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#12
Invasion
Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Mediator.
#13
The Arrival
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.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#14
Extinction
A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Mediator.
#15
The Star Inspector
A commander of the Russian space police begins looking for the capitalist space pirates who have been wreaking intergalactic havoc upon the surrounding planets.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Mediator.