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 4.
Action, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Ohio high schooler Cassie Sullivan, armed with an M4 carbine, emerges from the woods to raid an abandoned gas station. Upon entering, she hears a voice calling for help. She finds a wounded man who points a gun at her, and then each of the…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film
Nine years have passed since the failure of the Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, in which commander David Bowman and his crew were lost. Amid international tensions, the United States and Soviet Union each prepare separate missions to…
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Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, Time Travel, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
A group of aliens disguised as humans arrive in St. Petersburg, Florida from their home planet, Antarea. They rent a house with a swimming pool and charter a boat, the Manta III, from local captain Jack Bonner, who helps them retrieve coco…
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Aliens, Horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, slasher film
In the winter of 1982, members of the Norwegian research station "Thule" discover an alien spacecraft and a nearby alien body buried in the Antarctic ice. Dr. Sander Halvorson and his assistant Adam Finch recruit American paleontologist Ka…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
On November 5, 1975, in Snowflake, Arizona, logger Travis Walton, and his five co-workers—Mike Rogers, Allan Dallis, David Whitlock, Greg Hayes and Bobby Cogdill—head to work in the White Mountains. Driving back towards town that night, th…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, drama film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
After a Space Shuttle crashes on Earth, an intelligent fungus-like organism is discovered on the scattered wreckage across the United States. Soon afterward, people begin behaving strangely, showing detachment and a loss of emotion. Among …
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Computeranimation, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, flashback film, science fantasy, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In Modesto, California, Susan Murphy prepares for her wedding to weatherman Derek Dietl, who switches their honeymoon in Paris, France to Fresno, California for a career opportunity. However, just before the ceremony, a meteorite from a de…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action comedy film, adventure film, family film, superhero film
Missy Moreno is at home with her dad, Marcus, when they receive word to come to the rescue of heroes where Missy has to go with her father and be with other Heroics children. Missy meets these other children there: Wheels, who possesses su…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, children's film, fantasy film, science fiction film, teen film
In the future, humanity is preparing to launch an attack on the homeworld of an alien race, called the Formics, that had attacked Earth and killed millions. The Formic invasion was stopped by Mazer Rackham, who crashed his fighter jet into…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Computeranimation, Family Comedy, apocalyptic film, road movie, science fiction film
Katie Mitchell is a quirky aspiring teenage filmmaker in Kentwood, Michigan, who often clashes with her father Rick, a middle-aged, nature-obsessed, and technophobic man, and has recently been accepted into film school in California. The e…
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Buddy Film, Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, musical film, science fiction film
A cowardly alien race called the Boov, led by Captain Smek, commences their "friendly" invasion on Earth. Relocating the humans, whom they deem as simple and backwards, to the Australian Outback, the Boov inhabit their homes. Oh, an accide…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film, zombie film
In 2026, the Ark, a wormhole portal to an ancient city on Mars, is discovered deep below the Nevada desert. Twenty years later, the 85 personnel at the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) research facility on Mars are attacked by an unknown …
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Retro Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film
thumb|Film trailer In the 23rd century, after more than a year's journey, the United Planets starship C-57D arrives at the distant planet Altair IV to determine the fate of the ship Bellerophon, sent there 20 years before. Dr. Edward Morbi…
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Horror, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, alien invasion, drama film, horror film, independent film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
A psychiatrist, Dr. Hill, is called to a Los Angeles hospital, where a man named Dr. Miles Bennell is being held in custody.
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Satire, Sci-Fi, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Upon discovering a UFO in American airspace, the National Guard sends fighter jets to investigate, which fire on the unresponsive craft and cause it to crash into the Atlantic Ocean, near Manhattan. The aliens from the planet Remulak, Beld…
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Sci-Fi, action film, superhero film, teen film, thriller film
John Smith is an alien from the planet Lorien. He was sent to Earth as a child with eight others, collectively called the Garde, to escape the invading Mogadorians, who destroyed Lorien. John is protected by a guardian (who is called Cêpan…
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Animation, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 3028 A.D. (The 31st century), a groundbreaking scientific project known as "The Titan Project" incurs the wrath of the Drej, a hostile race of aliens made of pure energy, who fear that it will allow humans to challenge them. Determined …
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film
Riya wakes up aboard a scientific research station on a distant, barren planet with no recollection of how she got there. While exploring the station, she suffers nightmarish flashbacks and finds several corpses. She encounters a man named…
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Mysterie, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film
Washington Post columnist John Klein and his wife Mary are involved in a car accident when Mary swerves to avoid a huge, flying, black figure that only she witnesses. John survives the crash unscathed, but Mary is hospitalized. There she i…
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Komödie, comedy drama, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy
Twenty-one-year-old Montclair State University graduate Annie Braddock has no idea what or who she wants to be. One day, while sitting in the park, Annie sees a young boy about to be hit by a Segway. Annie saves him and meets the boy's mot…
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Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, buddy film, horror film, science fiction film
Jonesy, Beaver, Pete, and Henry are four friends on an annual hunting trip in Maine. As children, they all acquired telepathic powers which they call "the line" after saving a boy with disabilities named Douglas "Duddits" Cavell from bulli…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, adventure film, mystery film, science fiction film, time-travel film
A spacecraft presumed to be of alien origin is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, estimated to have been there for nearly 300 years. A team of experts, including marine biologist Dr. Beth Halperin, mathematician Dr.
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Fantasy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, comedy film, science fiction comedy, superhero film
On Duckworld, an Earth-like planet inhabited by anthropomorphic ducks, Howard the Duck is propelled out of his apartment building and into outer space; he lands on Earth, in Cleveland, Ohio. Upon arriving, he encounters a woman being attac…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Daffy Comedy, Gross Out Film, Satire, alien invasion, biopunk, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Late one night, a large meteor crashes in the Arizona desert, witnessed by aspiring firefighter Wayne Grey. The next morning, college professors Ira Kane and Harry Block investigate the crash site, discovering that the meteor has landed in…
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