Found Footage Movies Like Chronicle and Project Almanac

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   Cloverfield (2008)

   Friends record a night in Manhattan on one handheld camera as something massive attacks the city

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   Afflicted (2013)

   Two best friends film a world trip for a web series, until one of them wakes up changed after a night in Paris

3. 3

   Earth to Echo (2014)

   Young friends follow strange maps on their phones to a small alien who needs help, a family adventure

4. 4

   Trollhunter (2010)

   Norwegian film students follow a man who secretly hunts real trolls for the government

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   Warden (2025)

   An ordinary young man in a Brazilian city gains powers and becomes its first public hero

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   Project X (2012)

   Not sci-fi: three high school friends hire a classmate to film a birthday party that grows far too big

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   Big Man Japan (2007)

   A deadpan Japanese mockumentary about a second-rate superhero who grows giant to fight monsters

8. 8

   Time Travel Is Dangerous! (2024)

   Two friends who run a London vintage shop borrow stock from the past with a time machine, a deadpan comedy

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   Europa Report (2013)

   Calm, realistic sci-fi: the first crewed mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, seen through the ship's cameras

10. 10

    The Dirties (2013)

    Two bullied teenage friends film a school movie about getting revenge, and the line to real life blurs

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    Area 51 (2015)

    Friends with cameras and night vision try to break into the secret base in the Nevada desert

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    Apollo 18 (2011)

    A cancelled Moon mission goes ahead in secret, told through the footage its crew recorded

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    The Darkest Dawn (2016)

    A girl gets a camera for her 16th birthday just as an alien attack hits London

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    Phoenix Forgotten (2017)

    Three teenagers set out to find the source of the 1997 Phoenix Lights, revisited in a documentary

How we pick them: films with the same kind of story, setting, camera style or tone, checked against what fans and critics recommend. Films from the same series are left out. Hybrid = only partly found footage.