Alien attack movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant alien attack movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful, exciting, psychotronic and captivating films and TV shows about / with alien attack, alien, alien invasion, alien encounter, extraterrestrial, alien contact, alien creature, danger, evil alien and space and aliens plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as alien attack: The War of the Worlds (2019), War of the Worlds (2005), Battleship (2012), No One Will Save You (2023), Battle Los Angeles (2011), Gray Matter (2018), War of the Worlds (2019), Alienate (2016), Project 'Gemini' (2022), Conspiracy Theory (2016).
Best films
New films
| War of the Worlds (2025) | 2.5 | |
| Settlers (2021) | 4.8 | |
| No One Will Save You (2023) | 6.2 | |
| Kecksburg (2019) | 3.2 | |
| Xeno (2025) | 5.1 |
List of alien attack movies
Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy the prejudices of society and start a life together, all the while swerving the ongoing chaos of an alien invasion.
Style:
apocalyptic, costume drama, frightening, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien attack, alien, end of the world, apocalypse, post apocalypse, alien race, martian, survival, ufo, fight, evil alien ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 20th century ...
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 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, futuristic, scary, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, apocalypse, disaster, survival, end of the world, alien, invasion, space and aliens, evil alien, extraterrestrial, catastrophe, humanity in peril ...
Time:
year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, boston, los angeles ...
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268K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
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, action packed, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, u.s. navy, military, battleship, navy, ship, evil alien, danger, invasion, ufo, space and aliens ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, future, 2000s, year 2005 ...
Place:
hawaii, london, pacific ocean, tokyo, new york ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An exiled anxiety-ridden homebody must battle an alien who's found its way into her home.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, bleak, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
alien abduction, alien attack, female protagonist, terror, alien, secret, fight, alien contact, alien creature, evil alien, survival, alien encounter ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, apocalypse, evil alien, alien encounter, survival, battlefield, invasion, military, heroic mission, chaos, alien attack, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, mojave desert, america, santa monica california ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
extraterrestrial, flying saucer, alien invasion, alien technology, alien abduction, alien possession, meteorite, alien attack, danger, society, violence, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in contemporary Europe, the reimagining follows the pockets of humanity left on earth following an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
survival horror, alien contact, post apocalypse, alien abduction, post-apocalyptic future, interracial relations, alien attack, ex husband ex wife relationship, bonding, love interest, struggle for survival, evil alien ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A couple on the brink of ending their marriage spend a weekend in different cities. After a cataclysmic event strikes, the husband embarks on a physical and emotional quest to return home as a nation prepares for the worst.
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, husband wife relationship, human versus alien, near death experience, worldwide chaos, heroes, family relations, alien creature, humanity in peril, escape attempt, alien contact ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sci-fi thriller about a space mission sent to terraform a distant planet. However, the mission encounters something unknown that has its own plan for the planet.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, exciting, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
alien encounter, evil alien, space and aliens, apocalypse, ufo, alien, alien invasion, spacecraft, monster, extraterrestrial, alien creature, solar system ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A television crew heads to Nevada to search for alien life.
Style:
bleak, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
alien abduction, alien, found footage, television, alien attack, human versus alien, humanity in peril, brutality, rescue, chaos and mayhem, alien technology, escape attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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312K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Plot unknown.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
massacre, alien, first contact, chimpanzee, alien monster, ufo, brother sister relationship, horse, childhood trauma, eaten alive, horse ranch, alien invasion ...
Time:
2020s, year 1998, future, 90s, year 1996
Place:
california, los angeles
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350K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The ...
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful, spooky, saga ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
prison, alien, evil alien, deadly creature, outer space, space travel, monster, human versus alien, cryogenics, survival, self sacrifice, creature ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 90s
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Evacuated from their home, two teenage sisters unite with fellow survivors and escape London by river to embark on an odyssey across the badlands of Britain.
Style:
tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
alien, apocalypse, post apocalypse, found footage, sister sister relationship, alien invasion, military, survival, alien space craft, alien attack, resistance, alien encounter ...
Place:
london, united kingdom
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
In this satirical comedy, when most of Earth is destroyed by aliens, can a few survivors rebuild what’s left of America and form a more perfect union?
Style:
adult animation, captivating, entertaining, satirical, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, alien attack, planet, robot, society, politics, invasion, post apocalyptic, planet earth, survival, political satire, social commentary ...
Time:
near future
Place:
usa
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411K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Style:
suspense, twist ending, creepy, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
alien invasion, ufo, alien, alien encounter, single father, faith, first contact, survival, loss of faith, death of wife, extraterrestrial, natural disaster ...
Time:
2000s, future, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, north america, mexico ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Remmy and her parents, refugees from Earth, have found peace on the Martian outskirts until strangers appear in the hills beyond their farm. Told as a triptych, the film follows Remmy as she struggles to survive in an uneasy landscape.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, minimal cast
Plot:
mars, alien attack, space station, space program, life, secret, space mission, humanity, struggle for survival, battles, showdown, life is a bitch ...
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423K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The story of a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.
Style:
cerebral, saga, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
superhero, alien race, alien attack, space and aliens, death, alien encounter, artifact, lgbt, multiverse, desert, archaeologist, valet ...
Time:
1940s, 16th century, 2020s, year 1945, 21st century
Place:
london, usa, south dakota, mumbai india, india ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A mother and son find themselves faced with a brutal alien invasion where survival will depend on discovering the unthinkable truth about the enemy.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, harsh, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, catastrophe, alien invasion, alien attack, invasion, fantasy world, evil, good versus evil, life & death, monster, rescue, disaster ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After an alien spacecraft destroys Washington, D.C., the residents of a small town must fight off a unit of alien soldiers on the hunt for the President of the United States and the mysterious device he's carrying after his escape chopper crash ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
soldier, siege, satire, alien attack, humanity in peril, alien encounter, heroes, mercilessness, panic, violence, chase, evil alien ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
ambiguous ending, captivating, tense, futuristic, disturbing ...
Plot:
future war, alien, soldier, rat, military, extraterrestrial, conspiracy, alien attack, alienation, isolated place, solitude, alien race ...
Time:
2010s, future
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835K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspense, space horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, strong female character, space travel, creature, female warrior, survival, space and aliens, outer space, monster, space, creature feature, spaceship ...
Time:
22nd century, 20th century, year 1986, future
Place:
space western
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Two years into an intergalactic invasion of Earth, survivors in Sydney, Australia, fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies, uncover a plot that could see the war come to a ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
alien encounter, female warrior, apocalypse, good versus evil, alien technology, fictional war, danger, death, fear, violence, mercilessness, chase ...
Place:
australia, oceania, sydney australia, new zealand
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A band of ninja warriors, led by an Iga Ninja named Yamata, witness a giant ball of fire drop from the sky and crash into the forest. When the warriors find and attempt to identify the object, they discover aliens that attack and feast on them. ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, humorous, captivating, not serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, dark humor, ninja warrior, extraterrestrial, alien creature, save the world, survival, rivalry, heroic mission, escapades, danger ...
Time:
future, 16th century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The human race is thrown into chaos as an alien invasion takes control of the planet in an effort to find one boy out of 7 billion people who holds the power to destroy them.
Style:
psychotronic, exciting, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, friendship, human versus alien, alien attack, man versus machine, heroes, humanity in peril, rescue, spacecraft, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
The beautiful, beastly Beverly returns and faces a new gaggle of gargantuan gals, hell bent on achieving deluxe diva domination. Get ready for the cinematic smackdown thrills of Giantess Battle Attack. Size really does matter.
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, captivating, satirical
Plot:
alien attack, women, fight, alien encounter, female protagonist, satire, giantess, kaiju, alien, flowers, stonehenge, scientist ...
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An outbreak occurs in the infamous Area 51 leading a group of survivors to an underground bunker.. only to learn.. they are not alone.
Style:
tense, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful, tension ...
Plot:
alien, alien attack, survival, alien creature, alien contact, alien monster, against humanity, alien encounter, alien race, human versus alien, alien life-form, threat ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The year is 2314 AD, two years have passed since the defeat of the Innovators and the exposure of the A-Laws' crimes against humanity. The A-Laws have been abolished and their infrastructure integrated into the Earth Sphere Federation Army. ...
Style:
anime, mecha, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
alien attack, mobile suit gundam, fight, space and aliens, extraterrestrial, battles, alien encounter, space battle, human versus alien, teamwork, alien creature, alien invasion ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After Air Force One goes down during a storm over the Bermuda Triangle, the United States Navy is dispatched to find the escape pod holding the President. A giant monster beneath the ocean awakens and attacks the fleet.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, mockbuster
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sea monster, military, animal attack, killer animal, bermuda triangle, battles, escapades, deadly creature, rescue mission, alien attack, alien, danger ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After spending three months doing experiments in space, scientists Antón and Daniel return to civilization. They're astounded to discover that the Earth has undergone an enormous cataclysm and the law of the gravity has even been altered in ...
Style:
sinister, tense, surreal, bleak, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cave, post apocalyptic, cataclysm, experiment, survival, exploration, disaster, desolation, isolation, speculation, estrangement, adaptation ...
Time:
70s, near future
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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, suspenseful, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, creature, deaf, monster, alien, survival horror, silence, survival, alien creature, alien invasion, deafness, alien monster ...
Time:
near future, future, 2010s, 2020s
Place:
usa, new york, atlantic ocean, new york state, america
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