Alien movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant alien movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, cult classic and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, space, space and aliens, ufo, danger, supernatural, outer space and monster plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as alien: Alien: Covenant (2017), A Quiet Place Part II (2020), The Predator (2018), District 9 (2009), Arrival (2016), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), Outlander (2008), The Thing (2011), V (2009), The Thing (1982).

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 6.4
 302K
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – which has its sole inhabitant the ...
Style: bad ending, futuristic, suspense, enigmatic, dark ...
Plot: alien, creature, space travel, outer space, extraterrestrial, robot, alien life-form, androids, monster, human versus alien, space exploration, survival ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: space western
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A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, alien, creature, survival horror, deaf, silence, survival, monster, deafness, alien invasion, child in peril, macabre ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, near future
Place: new york, usa, new york state, atlantic ocean, america
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 5.3
 143K
The Predator (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
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: tense, exciting, slasher, psychotronic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: alien, predator, alien monster, hunter, ufo, monster, soldier, survival, chase, alien contact, warrior, alien invasion ...
Time: 2010s, future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: xian, georgia, mexico
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 7.9
 714K
District 9 (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United ...
Style: mockumentary, serious, suspense, biting, futuristic ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, distopia, space and aliens, alien encounter, apocalypse, transformation, mutation, metamorphosis, refugee, society ...
Time: year 2009, future, 2000s, year 2000, year 1982 ...
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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 7.9
 759K
Arrival (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style: psychological, intellectual, philosophical, reflective, futuristic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: alien, first contact, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, time, science, alien race, alien contact, extraterrestrial, scientist, creature ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: china, montana, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, exciting, clever, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, invasion, battles, repeated event, military, danger, soldier, time paradox, space and aliens ...
Time: future, year 2014, near future, 2010s, 2020s ...
Place: france, paris france, united kingdom, europe, big ben london ...
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 6.2
 78K
Outlander (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story: During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another world crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator. The man must fuse his advanced technology with the weaponry of the vikings to fight the monster.
Style: epic, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, viking, alien invasion, norse mythology, space, survival, alien encounter, apocalypse, kaiju, battles, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: middle ages, 2000s, year 2008, 8th century
Place: europe
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 6.2
 145K
The Thing (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, alien, gory, alien invasion, deadly creature, evil alien, chase, alien encounter, survival, apocalypse, danger, transformation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 80s, year 1982 ...
Place: antarctica
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 6.8
 59K
V (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: V is an American science fiction television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009 to March 15, 2011. A remake of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a ...
Style: cliffhanger, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ufo, alien invasion, invasion, alien, fate of humanity, evil alien, alien encounter, conspiracy, fbi, uncover truth, world domination, disguise ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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 6.6
 134K
The Faculty (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, teen, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, alien, youth, teenager, parasite, transformation, high school, space and aliens, evil alien, teacher, first contact, alien encounter ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, ohio
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, minimal cast, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, kidnapping, bunker, ufo, strong female character, survivalist, end of the world, bomb shelter, conspiracy theory ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
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 5.9
 85K
Species (1995)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from ...
Style: suspense, scary, sexy, erotic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, toddlers, adult
Plot: alien, genetic engineering, cocoon, monster, nudity, deadly creature, genetics, femme fatale, dna, danger, interspecies sex, cloning ...
Time: 90s, jurassic, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, utah
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 5.8
 256K
Battleship (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of ...
Style: exciting, serious, entertaining, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: alien invasion, alien, military, u.s. navy, ufo, battleship, navy, ship, evil alien, invasion, sea battle, battles ...
Time: year 2012, future, 2010s, year 2006, year 2005 ...
Place: hawaii, london, pacific ocean, tokyo, new york ...
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, end of the world, survival, disaster, invasion, space and aliens, destruction, creature, evil alien, catastrophe ...
Time: year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, los angeles, boston ...
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 7.9
 1.4M
Avatar (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
Style: futuristic, breathtaking, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: alien, fantasy world, ecology, culture clash, creature, beautiful scenery, battles, space and aliens, alien life-form, alien planet, space travel, alien encounter ...
Time: future, 2000s, 20th century, year 2009, 22nd century
Place: iran, space western
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 6.4
 243K
Predators (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A mercenary reluctantly leads a motley crew of warriors who soon come to realize they've been captured and deposited on an alien planet by an unknown nemesis. With the exception of a peculiar physician, they are all cold-blooded killers, ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, futuristic, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, monster, jungle, evil alien, space and aliens, predator, deadly creature, alien life-form, creature, hunting, alien invasion, survival horror ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century, future
Place: texas
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 5.6
 11K
Altered (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Fifteen years ago, a group of men's lives were forever changed by a strange occurrence. Now, the same group of men will spend a night together ... in terror.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, creature, abduction, revenge, alien abduction, hysteria, supernatural, alien encounter, haunted by the past, friendship, danger, race against time ...
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 8.5
 943K
Alien (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast ...
Audience: kids, manly, adult
Plot: alien, monster, space travel, outer space, space and aliens, evil alien, space, heroine, female protagonist, survival horror, spaceship, alien monster ...
Time: future, 22nd century, 20th century, year 1979, distant future
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 6.8
 51K
Enemy Mine (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds ...
Style: futuristic, cult classic, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: alien, stranded, evil alien, space exploration, space and aliens, survival, space wars, friendship, space travel, space opera, desert, space ...
Time: future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: space western
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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two ...
Style: suspense, serious, rough, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, alien invasion, gory, evil alien, survival, monster, predator, small town, space, creature, space and aliens, extraterrestrial ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 2004 ...
Place: colorado, usa
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Style: suspenseful, breathtaking, captivating, cerebral, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, adult, teen drama
Plot: ufo, alien, alien abduction, first contact, space and aliens, contact, alien contact, space, benign alien, technology, chase, airplane ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977, future, near future
Place: indiana, wyoming, india, ohio, mongolia ...
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 6.1
 25K
Impostor (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
Style: futuristic, exciting, psychological thriller, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, cyborgs, androids and robots, manhunt, space, on the run, save the world, dystopian future, imaginary, rivalry, race against time ...
Time: future, year 2001, 21st century
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
Style: light, cult classic, funny, philosophical, stylized ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: space travel, alien, outer space, space and aliens, robot, fantasy world, end of the world, benign alien, sarcasm, space, spacecraft, buddies ...
Time: future, year 2005, 2000s
Place: madagascar, himalaya
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 7.0
 110K
The X Files (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, cerebral, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ufo, alien, conspiracy, first contact, conspiracy theory, virus, chase, evil alien, paranoia, fbi, obsession, twists and turns ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, prehistory, prehistoric times
Place: washington d.c., london, usa, europe, antarctica ...
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 6.3
 80K
Dark Skies (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing ...
Style: scary, serious, psychological, creepy, twist ending ...
Plot: supernatural, alien, alien abduction, danger, extraterrestrial, ufo, bird, disorder, paranormal activity, abduction, family in danger, alien invasion ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.1
 93K
Falling Skies (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, serious, stylized, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, ufo, alien encounter, apocalypse, military, evil alien, survival, resistance, life is a bitch, human spirit ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.3
 15K
Area 51 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, intense, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, ufo, alien abduction, military base, conspiracy, found footage, extraterrestrial, secrets, supernatural, secret base, adaptation, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, nevada, las vegas, america
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Project Blue Book (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.”
Style: enigmatic, captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: ufo, alien, physicist, political conspiracy, alien abduction, investigation, state affairs, space and aliens, paranormal activity, alien technology, alien contact, scientific research ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place: usa
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 6.9
 265K
Paul (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing ...
Style: funny, entertaining, unusual plot structure, hilarious, road movie ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: alien, road trip, benign alien, ufo, friendship, first contact, space and aliens, alien invasion, alien encounter, space travel, buddies, chase ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 1940s, 80s, future ...
Place: nevada, arizona, usa, austin texas, wyoming ...
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