Found Footage Movies Like Cloverfield

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   [REC] (2007)

   A TV crew's camera follows people trapped in one building as something spreads from floor to floor

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   Trollhunter (2010)

   Students follow a secretive hunter whose job is to keep Norway's very real trolls a secret

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   Chronicle (2012)

   Three teens gain telekinetic powers and film everything as their powers grow

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   Quarantine (2008)

   The US remake of [REC]: a reporter and her cameraman are sealed inside an infected apartment block

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   The Bay (2012)

   A seaside town's Fourth of July, pieced together from phones, webcams and news cameras as an outbreak spreads

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   Apollo 18 (2011)

   Footage from a secret Moon mission shows the astronauts are not alone up there

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   Diary of the Dead (2007)

   Film students keep shooting as the dead rise all over the country, from George A. Romero

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   Jeruzalem (2015)

   Tourists in Jerusalem record a holiday that turns into chaos, all through smart glasses

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   Project Almanac (2015)

   Teens build a time machine and film every jump, each one changing more than they planned

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    The Blair Witch Project (1999)

    The film that made the found tape famous: three students and their own cameras in the woods

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    Area 51 (2015)

    Friends with cameras and night-vision goggles break into the secret base, from Paranormal Activity's Oren Peli

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    Project X (2012)

    Not horror: a birthday party filmed by a hired classmate grows until nobody can control it

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    The McPherson Tape (1989)

    A family films a child's birthday party on camcorder, until the lights go out and something is in the sky

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    Monster (2008)

    Two American reporters in Tokyo are caught in a giant monster attack, told through their camera

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.