| Sunshine (2007) | 7.2 | |
| Predator (1987) | 7.8 | |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) | 7.9 | |
| Prometheus (2012) | 7.0 | |
| Sphere (1998) | 6.1 |
First contact movies and TV shows – page 4
Best films
New films
| Dual (2022) | 5.8 | |
| First Signal (2021) | 3.3 | |
| Nope (2022) | 6.8 | |
| Cosmic Sin (2021) | 2.5 | |
| Warning (2021) | 4.6 |
List of first contact movies
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Loneliness, death and the meaning of life, explored through vastly separate lives colliding in interweaving short stories set in future Earth.
Style:
surreal, apocalyptic
Plot:
space, apocalypse, astronaut, asteroid, contact, epidemic, dystopia, distopia, first contact, pandemic, overdose, satellite ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The company soldier Hannah and the scientists Gavin and Dimitri are researching an algae project on board the Rubikon space station, which is supposed to permanently supply humanity with oxygen and food. But suddenly the earth disappears below them ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, futuristic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
space station, planet, apocalypse, space, space shuttle, save the world, rescue mission, moral dilemma, struggle for survival, humanity, human in outer space, fate of humanity ...
Is relevant?
30K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear ...
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
evil alien, alien, fear, monster, alien creature, outer space, extraterrestrial, creature, ufo, alien life-form, alien contact, scientist ...
Time:
year 1983, 20th century, 2020s, 80s
Place:
soviet union, kazakhstan, russia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
During a perilous 24-hour mission on the moon, space explorers try to retrieve samples from an abandoned research facility steeped in classified secrets.
Style:
mysterious, suspense, futuristic, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
research, moon, astronaut, space, mission, elite, space station, moon base, planet, asteroid, space exploration, space mission ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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89K
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In the future where humans are able to “upload” themselves into their preferred choice of afterlife, Nathan meets his early death and is greeted by Nora in his version of heaven. Follow the two as Nathan grows accustomed to life away from his ...
Style:
futuristic, romantic, humorous, light, funny ...
Plot:
virtual reality, virtual world, looking for sex, mysterious death, hi-tech, life after death, afterlife, love interest, murder, technology, love and romance, sex scene ...
Time:
near future, 2030s, future, 2020s
Place:
brooklyn new york city
Is relevant?
651K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Style:
suspense, scary, disturbing, visually stunning, frightening ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
creature, post apocalypse, sign language, monster, survival, creature feature, silence, survival horror, deafness, fear, alien invasion, self sacrifice ...
Time:
2010s, near future, distant future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york state
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Salyut 7, the Soviet space station, was orbiting Earth in unmanned regime. Suddenly it stops responding to signals from the Ground Control. Fall of this station, the pride of soviet science and space industry, would not only damage the image of the ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, touching, mind blowing ...
Plot:
cosmonaut, space station, space, space exploration, human in outer space, danger, friendship, hopes, zero gravity, astronaut, mathematics, deep space ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary, Spain, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The sixth film in the "Terminator" series will pick up where the second film left off, ignoring all the subsequent sequels.
Style:
saga, action adventure, apocalyptic, tech noir, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
terminator, time travel, robot, androids and robots, gunfight, technology, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, hand to hand combat, killer robot, escape, shapeshifter ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, year 2019, future, 90s ...
Place:
mexico, texas, mexico city, guatemala
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder.
Style:
mind bending, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
changing the past or future, clairvoyance, time travel, eye, regret, danger, self sacrifice, chase, tragedy, organized crime, young man, philosophy ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
48K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Style:
suspense, minimal cast, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, oxygen, trapped in space, memory loss, space travel, cryogenics, panic, clone, female protagonist, running, pandemic, memory lapse ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
49K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, mindfuck, lovecraft ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time dilation, cave, friendship, time loop, twists and turns, college professor, youth, danger, time portal, investigation, legend ...
Is relevant?
15K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a super-hero squad, which includes members of multiple soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but in hard times they must show themselves again.
Style:
costume drama, suspense, psychotronic, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
cold war, villain, superhero team, mission, superpower, violence, patriot, death, power, bear, brutality, hopes ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
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161K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK, India, Australia, Brazil, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other ...
Style:
exciting, slasher, psychotronic, suspense, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, alien monster, predator, hunter, extraterrestrial, alien creature, warrior, female warrior, soldier, monster, child, mission ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
xian, georgia, mexico
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Style:
futuristic, visually stunning, saga, scenic, tense ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, adult
Plot:
star wars, space opera, female protagonist, robot, strong female lead, rebel, space travel, tough girl, self sacrifice, redemption, jedi, rebellion ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 2010s
Place:
space western, london
Is relevant?
1.3M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When ...
Style:
futuristic, touching, feel good, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
loneliness, robot, space travel, outer space, post apocalypse, technology, love, artificial intelligence, ecology, dystopia, happy ending, ecological disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 2008, 2000s
Is relevant?
306K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, black comedy, cyber, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens, manly
Plot:
cyberpunk, robot, cyborgs, androids and robots, dystopia, robocop, police, revenge, graphic violence, law enforcement, satire, gory ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 1987
Place:
usa, detroit, michigan
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.
Style:
medical horror, suspenseful, serious, scary, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
exploitation, mutant, cocoon, female scientist, monster attack, experiment gone awry, genetic engineering, creature feature, monster, laboratory, creature, babe scientist ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, future
Is relevant?
46K
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
Style:
futuristic, funny, surreal, slapstick, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
satire, dystopia, robot, cryogenics, distopia, time travel, cloning, resistance movement, food, surrealism, dystopian future, imagination ...
Time:
future, 70s, 22nd century, year 1973, 1920s
Place:
usa, new york
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636K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, visually stunning, epic, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
space travel, star trek, space opera, spacecraft, time travel, heroic mission, heroes, space and aliens, teamwork, alien, space wars, human versus alien ...
Time:
future, year 2009, 24th century, 23rd century, 2000s
Place:
san francisco, iowa, bay area, space western
Is relevant?
314K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl ...
Style:
futuristic, action packed, visually stunning, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
space travel, dystopia, space opera, escapades, spaceship, space adventure, outer space, spacecraft, space and aliens, psychic, super soldier, distopia ...
Time:
future, year 2005, 2000s, distant future
Place:
space western
Is relevant?
484K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, cult classic, horror comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, monster, nerd, transformation, accountant, imagination, giant monster, chase, friendship, librarian, haunting ...
Time:
80s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1989, year 1984 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, nova scotia, usa, new york state ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An alien mother ship hovering in Earth's atmosphere is the base for an attempted alien invasion of Earth.
Style:
suspense, tension, retro, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Plot:
alien invasion, ufo, paranoia, outer space, invasion, conspiracy, survival, body horror, isolation, cold war era, flying saucer, distopia ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nevada
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation
Country: USA, Australia, Malaysia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
It's 2162 and life is a blast for space adventurer siblings, Jet and Adelaide Nova. After all, what tween wouldn't want to divide their days between living on an international space station and accompanying their parents on awesome ...
Style:
light, captivating, funny, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
robot, space adventure, space exploration, space, spacecraft, space station, space travel, human in outer space, space and aliens, cosmonaut, cosmos, space mission ...
Place:
australia
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that they decide to cut their session short and leave. Later, when they develop the photos they took, they ...
Style:
tension, suspense, atmospheric, psychological thriller, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, ufo, alien invasion, paranoia, macabre, alien encounter, surveillance, forest, isolation, paranormal, slow burn, conspiracy ...
Place:
britain
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story:
Adam's plan to propose to Allie hits a snag when he must win over her skeptical dad and survive a wild family gathering.
Little does this family know that a much bigger problem crashed down in the woods the night they arrived: a big, ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, thrilling, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
creature feature, alien, creature, family relations, alien life-form, evil alien, problem, alien contact, alien creature, human alien relationship, alien encounter, alien monster ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In the brief period of peace after a terrible war on a far future Earth, an outer-space military academy is attacked by an unknown and unstoppable alien force. The commander, along with a group of newly graduated cadets, escapes to a large research ...
Style:
tense, exciting, captivating, cliffhanger, dread
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
end of the world, alien invasion, space opera, ice, outer space, distant planet, dystopian future, alien encounter, fight, alien creature, alien contact, battles ...
Time:
distant future
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When a scientist and a pilot volunteer for a high profile space mission they are told their goal will be to do what no one has ever done before to find the end of the universe. After 13 years in space the ship crashes through the end of the known ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
space, space exploration, spacecraft, trapped in space, scientist, mission, universe, space travel, outer space, astronaut, exploration, problem ...
Time:
future, near future
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, ...
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, mindfuck, twisted, cerebral ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
twists and turns, hacker, secret laboratory, alien, alien abduction, road trip, alien invasion, alien contact, computer hacker, cyborgs, space, danger ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, nevada, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, human prey, disguise, femme fatale, nudity, seduction, nightclub, creature, deformity, arthouse horror, female nudity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Set in the year 2245 when Earth's sun threatens to wipe out all of humanity, "The Dawnseeker" follows five hired mercenaries who travel to an uncharted planet to collect a rare mineral known as stardust to replenish the dying star. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, futuristic, suspense, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mission, imaginary, trapped, survival, catastrophe, monster, fear, alien contact, team, space marine, human in outer space, alien creature ...
Time:
future
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