Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore stories tagged with aliens and extraterrestrial encounters.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 402 films.
Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
As the planet is on the brink of a nuclear war, cybersecurity specialist Dr. Daniel Kellner has stolen material from his employer, a secretive U.S. government contractor known as the Wardex Corporation (Waived Reporting, Development, and E…
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Action, Computeranimation, Romantic Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, epic film, live-action/animated film, military science fiction, science fiction film, white savior film
In 2154, Earth suffers from resource exhaustion and ecological collapse. The Resources Development Administration (RDA) mines the valuable mineral unobtanium on Pandora, a lush habitable moon in the Alpha Centauri star system. Pandora is i…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
In Afghanistan, an unnamed Staff Sergeant arrives to help his brother's broken-down convoy. His brother tries to convince him that they should apply to become Army Rangers, when they are attacked by Taliban insurgents. Everyone is killed e…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, religious horror, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
As a spacecraft departs a planet, a tall humanoid alien drinks a black liquid, causing its body to dissolve. Its remains crumble into a waterfall and the alien's DNA falls apart and starts to recombine. In 2089, archaeologists Elizabeth Sh…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, body horror film, fantasy film, girls with guns, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
The commercial space tug Nostromo is returning to Earth with a seven-member crew in "stasis": captain Dallas, executive officer Kane, warrant officer Ripley, navigator Lambert, science officer Ash, and engineers Parker and Brett, along wit…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, body horror film, drama film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, survival film, suspense film, thriller film
In Antarctica, a Norwegian helicopter pursues a sled dog to an American research station. The Americans witness the passenger fumble a grenade and accidentally blow up the helicopter and himself. The pilot fires a rifle at the dog and shou…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
In Agua Dulce, California, the Haywood family trains and handles horses for film productions. One day, at their ranch, small metallic objects begin rapidly falling from the sky. A nickel strikes Otis Haywood Sr.
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Action, Aliens, Sci-Fi, War Film, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
An extraterrestrial spacecraft deploys a shuttle to Earth. Sometime later, Major Dutch and his paramilitary rescue team - consisting of mercenary Mac Eliot, explosives specialist Poncho Ramirez, heavy gunner Blain Cooper, expert tracker Bi…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Marital Tragedy, Romantic Drama, Social Drama, black comedy film, comedy drama, drama film, flashback film
Lester Burnham, a middle-aged media executive in suburbia, despises his job and is unhappily married to neurotic, status-obsessed Carolyn. Their 16-year-old daughter and only child, Jane, resents her parents and has low self-esteem. Retire…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 2104, the spaceship Covenant is en route to colonize the planet Origae-6, carrying 2,000 colonists and 1,140 human embryos in cryogenic stasis. An unexpected shockwave from a nearby star damages the ship and kills 47 colonists, includin…
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Action, Aliens, Monster Film, Space Opera, Thriller, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
A deep-space salvage crew find an escape shuttle where Ellen Ripley has been in stasis for 57 years after destroying her ship, the Nostromo, to kill an alien creature that slaughtered the crew. Ripley is debriefed by her Weyland-Yutani Cor…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, crossover fiction, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the representative of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for obtaining the Tesseract, a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises to provide Loki with …
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
The planet Krypton is destabilizing due to reckless mining of the planetary core. The Kryptonian Council ignores the warnings of renowned scientist Jor-El, who then steals and infuses the Kryptonian genetics codex into his new-born son, Ka…
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Natural Disaster, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, adventure science fiction, alien invasion, disaster film, science fiction film, thriller film
On July 2, 1996, an extraterrestrial mothership, entering Earth's orbit outside the Moon, deploys its flying saucers, each in diameter, over major cities worldwide. U.S. Marine Captain Steven Hiller and his unit, the Black Knights fighter …
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Aliens, Fantasy, Military Film, Political Satire, Satire On War, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, dystopian film, military science fiction, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the future, Earth is governed by the United Citizen Federation, a stratocratic regime founded generations earlier by "veterans" after democracy and social scientists brought civilization to the brink of ruin. Citizenship is exclusively …
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
After being transported to Earth-616 by Doctor Strange's spell, Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote are drunk in a bar in Mexico. As the bartender fills them in about Thanos and the Infinity Stones, they are forced back to their home univer…
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Cartoon, Dramedy, Sci-Fi, buddy film, comedy drama, comedy film, science fiction film
On the planet Turo, the United Galactic Federation convicts Dr. Jumba Jookiba of illegal genetic experimentation; he has created Experiment 626, an aggressive, near-indestructible creature with advanced learning capabilities. Captain Gantu…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, War Film, dystopian film, military science fiction, science fiction action film, science fiction film
In 2015, an alien race known as "Mimics" lands in Germany and swiftly conquers much of continental Europe, killing millions. By 2020, humanity has formed a global military alliance, the United Defense Force (UDF), to combat the Mimics. How…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Family Drama, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, disaster film, drama film, fantasy film, katastrophe, science fiction film, thriller film
A narrator opens the film stating that extraterrestrials with immense intelligence have grown envious of humanity's dominion of Earth and are plotting against them. Charming but self-absorbed longshoreman Ray Ferrier works as a crane opera…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, science fiction film
The planet Cybertron was ravaged by a civil war between two Transformer factions — the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, and the Decepticons, led by Megatron. Both search for a lost artifact called the AllSpark, the source of all Cybertronia…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officer Will Radford works for a government surveillance program that can monitor every person on Earth. His relationship with his pregnant daughter Faith and son Dave is strained due to his use of the…
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Action, Japanese Monster Movie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, apocalyptic film, dystopian film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In 2013, colossal extraterrestrials called Kaiju emerge from an interdimensional portal called the Breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and begin to attack coastal cities along the Pacific Rim. In response, humanity constructs massive…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
After an argument with her fiancé, a young woman named Michelle leaves her New Orleans apartment. That night, while driving through rural Louisiana, she hears news reports of blackouts in several major cities. Suddenly, her car is struck o…
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Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, science fiction film, thriller film
Primary school teacher Gemma and her boyfriend Tom, a landscaper, visit a housing development called Yonder, where all the homes appear identical. They are shown house number 9 by an unusual real estate agent named Martin, who unsettlingly…
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