Best "extraterrestrial" Movies of All Time

80 movies found (page 1/3):

Independence Day(1996)

PG-13

| 2h 25min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

3.4/5 (with 4,482 votes)

On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.

Directed by Roland Emmerich - With Will Smith, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Vivica A. Fox, Margaret Colin, Harry Connick Jr., ...

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CJ7(2008)

| 1h 26min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 276 votes)

Ti, a really poor construction worker that struggles to keep his son, Dicky, in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.

Directed by Stephen Chow - With Stephen Chow, Xu Jiao, Zhang Yuqi

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Fire in the Sky(1993)

PG-13

| 1h 49min | Science Fiction, Drama, Mystery

3.3/5 (with 234 votes)

A group of men who were clearing brush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is treated as murder.

Directed by Robert Lieberman - With D. B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, James Garner, Henry Thomas, ...

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Attraction(2017)

1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love, Science Fiction, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 340 votes)

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk - With Oleg Menshikov, Alexander Petrov, Sergei Garmash, Lyudmila Maksakova, Irina Starshenbaum, Rinal Möxämmätef, ...

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Howard the Duck(1986)

| 1h 50min | Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

2.7/5 (with 431 votes)

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...

Directed by Willard Huyck - With Tim Robbins, Jeffrey Jones, David Paymer, Paul Guilfoyle, Richard Edson, Paul Comi, ...

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Area 51(2015)

| 1h 31min | Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery

2.4/5 (with 255 votes)

Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.

Directed by Oren Peli

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The Arrival(1996)

PG-13

| 1h 55min | Science Fiction, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 311 votes)

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.

Directed by David Twohy - With Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, Buddy Joe Hooker, ...

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Independence Daysaster(2013)

1h 26min | Action, Science Fiction

2.3/5 (with 35 votes)

When Earth is attacked by a hostile alien force, a small town firefighter and a rogue SETI scientist team up to activate the only technology capable of defeating the invaders.

Directed by W.D. Hogan

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Boonie Bears: Back to Earth(2022)

1h 37min | Animation, Kids & Family, Science Fiction, Adventure, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

When an unknown object from space lands on Earth, Bramble gains new abilities and an extraterrestrial sidekick.

Directed by Huida Lin

War of the Worlds: Annihilation(2021)

1h 53min | Science Fiction, Action

2.6/5 (with 39 votes)

A mother and son find themselves faced with a brutal alien invasion where survival will depend on discovering the unthinkable truth about the enemy.

Directed by Maximilian Elfeldt

Mac and Me(1988)

| 1h 35min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure

2.2/5 (with 104 votes)

A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC) escaping from nefarious NASA agents, is befriended by a young boy in a wheelchair. Together, they try to find MAC's family from whom he has been separated.

Directed by Stewart Raffill - With Christine Ebersole, Squire Fridell, Nikki Cox, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary, Danny Cooksey, ...

Occupation(2018)

| 1h 59min | Action, Science Fiction, Drama

2.2/5 (with 85 votes)

Town residents must band together after a devastating alien invasion. As they struggle to survive, they realize they must stay one step ahead of their attackers and work together for a chance to strike back.

With Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Bruce Spence, Jacqueline McKenzie, Izzy Stevens

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La Belle Verte(1996)

1h 39min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 89 votes)

As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.

Directed by Coline Serreau - With Coline Serreau, Vincent Lindon, James Thiérrée, Marion Cotillard, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Alain Sachs, ...

The Untamed(2016)

1h 38min | Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller, Horror

3.0/5 (with 70 votes)

Desperate to flee but consumed by fear, Alejandra, a young mother and working housewife, is trapped in a violent and unsatisfying relationship with her husband, Angel. She leans on her brother Fabián for support, but he has secrets of his own. All of their lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the mysterious Veronica. She convinces them that in the nearby woods, inside an isolated cabin, dwells something not of this world that could be the answer to all of their problems... something whose force they cannot resist and with whom they must make peace or suffer its wrath.

Directed by Amat Escalante - With Ruth Ramos

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The Miracle of P. Tinto(1998)

1h 44min | Comedy, Fantasy

3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they decide to try adoption, a series of misroutings and chance encounters results in an escaped adult mental patient arriving at their door with adoption papers in hand. P. Tinto and Olivia accept this without question and welcome him in as their son. Can this family arrangement work?

Directed by Javier Fesser - With Luis Ciges, Pepe Viyuela, Goizalde Núñez, Germán Montaner, Ricardo Arroyo, Emilio Gavira, ...

Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind(2020)

2h | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 40 votes)

Dr. Steven Greer’s previous works, SIRIUS and UNACKNOWLEDGED, broke crowdfunding records and ignited a grassroots movement. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FIFTH KIND features groundbreaking video and photographic evidence and supporting interviews from prominent figures such as Adam Curry of Princeton’s PEAR Lab; legendary civil rights attorney Daniel Sheehan, and Dr. Russell Targ, who headed the CIA’s top secret remote viewing program. Their message: For thousands of people, contact has begun. This is their story.

Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1(2017)

1h 35min | Science Fiction

2.3/5 (with 30 votes)

An aggressive race of aliens took over Planet Earth and humanity's at its end, living in giant bunkers below ground. Young Military rookie S.U.M.1 (Iwan Rheon) is sent to the surface to save a group of unprotected survivors.

Directed by Christian Pasquariello

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Alien Rising(2013)

1h 33min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Action

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

When a seemingly abandoned alien spacecraft is discovered orbiting Neptune, a top secret expedition is sent to investigate. In the derelict hulk they discover two surviving alien life forms telepathically linked to one other. 13 years later a savvy, ex-DEA agent and martial arts expert finds herself renditioned to a high security establishment on a remote island where they are conducting experiments on the incarcerated aliens.

Directed by Dana Schroeder

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Moment of Contact(2022)

1h 48min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Centered on a series of events that occurred back in 1996 when many citizens of Varginha, Brazil, reported seeing a UFO crash along with one or more strange creatures.

The Return of James Battle(2004)

1h 32min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror

2.5/5 (with 21 votes)

James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. Bataille escapes from behind bars to make an appointment to fix the car of music biz tycoon, as well as watch the love of his life take part in the town's annual talent show.

Directed by Didier Poiraud - With Benoît Poelvoorde, Bouli Lanners, Daniel Cohen, Didier Poiraud, Dominique Bettenfeld, Jacky Lambert, ...

Alexandre Astier - L'Exoconférence(2015)

1h 46min | Comedy

3.8/5 (with 37 votes)

After his show That remains my joy! Alexandre Astier returns to the stage ventures where we do not expect it and raises the question of extraterrestrial life.

Directed by Jean-Christophe Hembert - With Alexandre Astier

Astro(2018)

1h 44min | Science Fiction, Action, Thriller

2.2/5 (with 9 votes)

A science-fiction story of a billionaire's private space exploration program returning to Earth with an abducted extraterrestrial from a newly discovered alien planet.

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Monolith(1993)

| 1h 35min | Action, Science Fiction

2.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become invloved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don't want them to stick their noses into this.

Directed by John Eyres - With Bill Paxton, John Hurt, Louis Gossett Jr., Musetta Vander, Lindsay Frost

Shadowzone(1990)

| 1h 28min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

After someone is killed in the subterranean project called "Shadowzone," a NASA captain is called in to investigate. In the project, sleeping subjects are induced into a deep EDS state whereby they become portals to a parallel universe. Unfortunately this causes adverse reactions in the subject, and something gets through the portal, the consequence of which is an attrition problem.

Directed by J. S. Cardone - With Louise Fletcher, David Beecroft, James Hong, Shawn Weatherly

Phantom from Space(1953)

| 1h 13min | Science Fiction, Horror

2.2/5 (with 15 votes)

After a UFO sighting, a mysterious phantom in a bizarre outfit starts attacking people in San Fernando Valley.

Directed by W. Lee Wilder - With Ted Cooper, Harry Landers, Rudolph Anders

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Gray Matter(2018)

| 1h 25min | Science Fiction

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Since the 1940's alien beings known as "GRAYS" have been sighted around the globe with the thought that they visit our planet to study our species and civilization before they eventually invade...but what if we're wrong? What if they are only here to protect us? After a meteorite crashes to earth awakening the extraterrestrial creature within, a young woman is abducted by an alien "GRAY" to aide in hunting down and destroying the creature before it can reach a second meteorite that fell to earth decades earlier unleashing its deadly infestation of earth.

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Nukie(1988)

1h 46min | Kids & Family, Science Fiction

1.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Two alien brothers crash their ship in the U.S. They get separated, and one searches the country for the other one.

Directed by Sias Odendaal, Michael Pakleppa - With Steve Railsback, Glynis Johns, Carin C. Tietze

The McPherson Tape(1989)

1h 3min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 19 votes)

On October 8th, 1983, the McPherson family gathered together to celebrate the 5th birthday of Michelle, the littlest member of their household. Everything was captured on VHS by Michael McPherson and his new camcorder — including the alien invasion.

Directed by Dean Alioto

The Beast with a Million Eyes(1955)

| 1h 18min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.0/5 (with 14 votes)

An alien space craft lands in the desert. The alien takes over the minds of some of the local humans and animals and is able to see through them. The animals attack and the terror begins.

Directed by Roger Corman - With Dick Sargent, Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Chester Conklin

Battle for the Lost Planet(1986)

1h 31min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

To escape his captors an industrial spy hijacks a space shuttle only to find the controls malfunctioning. Catapulting through outerspace, he sights alien battleships approaching earth. Many years later when the arc of his flight path returns him to earth, he discovers the planet is completely under alien domination, totally devastated by thermo-nuclear battles. Desperate and alone, he searches for any human existence. Finding a group of survivors, together they fight the aliens to save mankind.

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Movies: Best "extraterrestrial" Movies

Independence Day(1996)

CJ7(2008)

Fire in the Sky(1993)

Attraction(2017)

Howard the Duck(1986)

Area 51(2015)

The Arrival(1996)

Independence Daysaster(2013)

Boonie Bears: Back to Earth(2022)

War of the Worlds: Annihilation(2021)

Mac and Me(1988)

Occupation(2018)

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La Belle Verte(1996)

The Untamed(2016)

The Miracle of P. Tinto(1998)

Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind(2020)

Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1(2017)

Alien Rising(2013)

Moment of Contact(2022)

The Return of James Battle(2004)

Alexandre Astier - L'Exoconférence(2015)

Astro(2018)

Monolith(1993)

Shadowzone(1990)

Phantom from Space(1953)

Gray Matter(2018)

Nukie(1988)

The McPherson Tape(1989)

The Beast with a Million Eyes(1955)

Battle for the Lost Planet(1986)

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