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 · Page 11.
Komödie, Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
The film opens with mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester, working from an underground laboratory, explaining the premise of the film (and associated series). Mike Nelson and the robots Crow T.
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Art (Pattinson) is not talented, but aspires to be a musician. He has a dead-end job at a supermarket, despite having a degree (which he doesn't seem to value much). His girlfriend ends their relationship.
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Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
A flying saucer arrives on Earth, searching for planets suitable to raise Gargons, lobster-like but air-breathing monsters that are a reserve food supply on their home planet. Crewman Thor vaporizes a dog named Sparky with a raygun. Anothe…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
After an attempt at suicide, Nora King regains consciousness and discovers that her building has no electricity or water, so she wanders into the now quiet, empty streets of the city. Stumbling over the body of a dead woman, who has been k…
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Dramedy, Psychodrama, Road Movie, comedy drama, comedy film
Former pro golfer Wallace Avery is struggling with depression and a life from which he longs to escape. Trapped in an unfulfilling FedEx floor manager job in Florida, he finds little comfort in his failed first marriage or his current rela…
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Aliens, Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, mockbuster, monster film, science fiction film
As the world awaits the return of a crew of astronauts from a deep space mission, a young woman named Thelma Joyce appears on a television talk show to discuss caves. Soon after her interview begins, Thelma has a horrible psychic vision. A…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, biographical film
The film introduces Barney and Betty Hill, two ordinary people who have had the most extraordinary experience. Barney is a postman and Betty is a social worker. They are an interracial couple who are very happy with each other, but they ar…
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Action, Japanese Animation Film, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
In 2183, the human colony of Fehl Prime, a major producer of pharmaceuticals for the Systems Alliance, comes under attack by a group of Blood Pack mercenaries led by the krogan Archuk. In response, the Alliance dispatches several teams of …
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, independent film, mockbuster, science fiction film, thriller film
The film centers on soldier Josh Myron, as six hundred and sixty six gigantic extraterrestrial robots land on Earth. As the robots are landing, two alien humanoids also arrive, one male and one female. Both are eventually captured by the m…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction action film
In 1965, a series of mysterious and devastating incidents are happening on Earth. These incidents range from a railroad bridge levitated off the ground causing a train wreck in Japan; an ocean liner lifted out of the Panama Canal by a wate…
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Aliens, Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
Two campers are nearby when a meteor falls to Earth. When they investigate, they are attacked and eaten by a lifeform that emerges from the crashed rock. A house near the crash site is the home of Sam and Barb, who are set to venture out o…
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Komödie, action film, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In the fictional town of Glenview, Ohio, Evan Trautwig is a passionate volunteer in the community and senior manager of the local Costco. His life is changed when the store's night security guard is murdered. The local police have no leads…
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Animalhorror, Horror, action film, monster film, science fiction film
An alien spacecraft crashes down in a U.S. national park. A mosquito sucks the blood of the craft's deceased extraterrestrial pilot, causing the insect to mutate to an abnormally large size.
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Sci-Fi, science fiction film
Drama, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
A group of friends make a remarkable discovery in a rural field: a crashed spacecraft. Then they discover that there was a survivor. They bring the otherworldly being back to their home, but they soon discover that it holds even greater se…
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Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
All of the women on the planet Mars have died in an atomic war, except for Martian Princess Marcuzan (Marilyn Hanold). Marcuzan (evidently unwilling or unable to conceive) and her right-hand man, Dr. Nadir (Lou Cutell), decide they will tr…
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Sci-Fi, monster film, science fiction film
An outer space terrorist from a planet named Arous, a brain-shaped creature named Gor, arrives on Earth and possesses young scientist Steve March. Gor proceeds to use his vast, destructive powers to bend the world to his will, threatening …
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Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, comedy horror, zombie comedy
After losing her family farm to the bank, local beauty pageant winner Rene decides to leave the small town of Berkeley. A number of strange meteorites are seen falling nearby, turning the local inhabitants into zombies. Rene and other surv…
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Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
A submarine is destroyed near the North Pole by a mysterious undersea light. The loss of this and several other ships in the Arctic alarms the world. Governments temporarily close the polar route and convene an emergency meeting at the Pen…
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Sci-Fi, science fiction film
A spaceship from a previously unknown planet lands in the Scottish moorlands, bringing a humanoid alien to Earth near the observatory of Professor Elliot. When the professor and his friend, American reporter John Lawrence, discover the spa…
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Action, Aliens, horror film, monster film
After a sinister crash on the highway in a small New Mexican town, people start disappearing, and animals begin dying. The cause of the crash is later revealed to be a 900-year-old creature which was unearthed during an archaeological dig …
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Action, Sci-Fi, science fiction
An enormous artifact is discovered in hyperspace and is towed to Babylon 5 for investigation. The xenoarchaeology corporation Interplanetary Expeditions sends a representative, Dr. Elizabeth Trent, to take control of the artifact's examina…
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Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
Five years after the establishment of the Interstellar Alliance, President John Sheridan and Mr. Garibaldi rendezvous in deep space to oversee the completion of IAS Excalibur, and IAS Victory, the first in a series of prototype destroyers …
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Horror comedy, Sci-Fi, alien invasion, horror film, science fiction film
A flying saucer lands in the woods. A teenage couple, Johnny Carter and Joan Hayden, while driving to their local lover's lane without the headlights on, accidentally run down one of the little green men from the saucer. Joe Gruen, a drunk…
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