Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore stories tagged with aliens and extraterrestrial encounters.
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Dark Comedy, Satire, Sci-Fi, comedy film, parody film, retrofuturism, science fiction film
On the planet Mars, a Martian spaceship gathers hundreds of other ships and travels to Earth. U.S. President James Dale, along with his aides, addresses the United States concerning this historic event.
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
200 years after Ellen Ripley's death, military scientists aboard the space vessel USM Auriga create a clone of her, designated Ripley 8, using DNA from blood samples taken from Fiorina "Fury" 161. The Xenomorph queen's DNA has been combine…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure fiction, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction
Ten-year-old Walter and six-year-old Danny are two brothers who do not get along with each other or their teenage sister, Lisa. While their father is away at work and Lisa is napping, Danny discovers an old science fiction-themed board gam…
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Drama, Marital Tragedy, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, romance film
Paige Collins and her husband Leo come out of a movie theater on a snowy evening. On their way home, at a stop sign, Paige unbuckles her seatbelt to lean over and kiss Leo. At that very moment, a salt truck rams their car from behind and P…
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Animation, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy drama, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In 1957, during the Cold War, a gigantic extraterrestrial robot crash-lands off the coast of Rockwell, Maine. The following night, 9-year-old Hogarth Hughes investigates reports of power outages and discovers the Giant feeding on electrica…
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Action, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, martial arts film, ninja film
Mortal Kombat is a martial arts tournament that is held once every generation between representatives of the realms of Earth and the otherworldly dimension of Outworld. If Outworld achieves ten consecutive victories, the Outworld Emperor w…
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Animation, Komödie, Sport, children's film, comedy film, crossover fiction, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, sport film
In 1973, a young Michael Jordan tells his father, James, about his dreams of playing in the NBA. Twenty years later, following James' death, Jordan retires from basketball to pursue a career in baseball. In outer space, amusement park Moro…
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Action, Adventure, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Romance Film, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
Ten years after the Battle of Naboo, the Galactic Republic is threatened by a Separatist movement consisting of star systems and planets in the outer rim seceding from the republic that has been organized by Count Dooku, a former Jedi Mast…
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Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1979, Deputy Sheriff Jack Lamb of Lillian, Ohio and his 14-year-old son Joe mourn the death of wife and mother Elizabeth in a workplace accident. Jack blames Elizabeth's co-worker Louis Dainard for the accident, as Dainard had a hangove…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, apocalyptic film, post-apocalyptic film, romantic comedy, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Gary King, an immature 40-year-old alcoholic, decides to recapture his youth by inviting boyhood friends Oliver Chamberlain, Peter Page, Steven Prince, and Andrew Knightley to complete the "Golden Mile", a pub crawl encompassing 12 pubs in…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Brynn is a seamstress who lives alone in her childhood home in a forest on the outskirts of a small town. Mourning the loss of both her best friend, Maude, and her mother, Sarah, Brynn copes by constructing a model town in her living room.…
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Action, action film, disaster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, war film
In 2005, potentially habitable "Planet G" is discovered, and in 2006, a communications array to reach any extraterrestrial life is built on Oʻahu. There, a slacking Alex Hopper is arrested while attempting to impress Samantha "Sam" Shane, …
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Action, Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1997, Los Angeles is experiencing a heat wave and a turf war between heavily armed Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels. A Predator watches a shootout between the gangs and the LAPD, observing as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan charges into the…
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Retro Science Fiction, Thriller, Western, Western film, action film, alien invasion, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In 1873 New Mexico Territory, a man awakens injured in the desert with a strange metal bracelet attached to his left wrist and no memory. He wanders into the town of Absolution, where preacher Meacham treats his wound. Sheriff John Taggart…
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Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, drama film, road movie, romantic comedy
Frank Goode, a recently widowed retiree whose career was making telephone cables, is getting ready for his children to visit him. They call to cancel at the last minute, so he decides to visit them instead. Despite warnings from his doctor…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, action comedy film, comic book, live action, parody film, science fiction film
In 1982, Sam Brenner and his friends Will Cooper and Ludlow "The Wonder Kid" Lamonsoff play at an amusement arcade together before Brenner participates in a video game championship, where he seemingly loses a Donkey Kong match to Eddie "Th…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the year 2678, the spaceship Hunter-Gratzner is struck by micrometeoroids that penetrate the hull, killing the captain and sending it off course toward a nearby planet. First Officer Owens and docking pilot Carolyn Fry attempt an emerge…
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Action, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, comedy film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In 2012, alien criminal Boris the Animal escapes from a maximum-security prison on the Moon to take revenge on Men in Black (MIB) Agent K, who shot off his arm and arrested him in 1969. He eventually confronts K and his partner Agent J, te…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
Billions of years ago, the Guardians of the Universe used the green essence of willpower to create an intergalactic police force called the Green Lantern Corps. They divided the universe into 3,600 sectors, with one assigned Green Lantern …
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Aliens, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, crossover fiction, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film
A Yautja ship leaves Earth carrying captured Xenomorph facehuggers and Scar's body before a chestburster emerges, with characteristic traits of both species. The chestburster quickly matures into an adult Predalien, and starts slaughtering…
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Aliens, Horror, Komödie, Sci-Fi, body horror film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, zombie comedy
A meteorite brings a malevolent, sentient extraterrestrial parasite to Earth. The parasite enters the town of Wheelsy, South Carolina, where it infects wealthy resident Grant by taking over his body and absorbing his mind. With the alien i…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fantasy, science fiction film
A crew of bounty hunters led by Toombs arrives at the frozen planet U.V. 6 to hunt down Riddick, a notorious wanted fugitive. Riddick effortlessly kills Toombs' crew and forces Toombs to reveal the source of his intel: New Mecca on planet …
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Computeranimation, Komödie, Sci-Fi, children's film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, disaster film, family film, fantasy film, musical film, science fiction film
In the town of Oakey Oaks, "Chicken Little" Cluck rings the school bell and warns everyone to run for their lives. This sends the town into a panic. Eventually, the Head of the Fire Department calms him down enough to ask him what is going…
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Komödie, Satire, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, science fiction film
In 1978, a group of aliens called the Zarthans, led by Princess Lauranna, travel to Earth and beg the Men in Black (MIB) organization for help in guarding a powerful item called the Light of Zartha before a shapeshifting alien called Serle…
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