The movie Signs (2002) staring Mel Gibson follows an average family whose life changes dramatically when they discover they must defend their home from a hostile Alien invasion.

I feel this movie really relates to the encountering conflict context and to the Secret River as it demonstrates how any race, if threatened, will violently protect its home, whether it is Human vs. Alien, or ‘white’ men vs. ‘black’ men as we see within the Secret River. Signs also relates directly to the Secret River as it follows an invasion of earth, similarly to the way the English invaded Australia and the way in which both the aboriginals and English react to such threats over what they believe to be rightfully theirs.