Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore stories tagged with aliens and extraterrestrial encounters.
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Mark Corley, a Los Angeles police detective, helps his estranged son, Trent, out of jail just as an alien invasion begins. Much of the city's population is taken up into various spaceships by a blue light. Mark leads a group of surviving h…
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Action, Adventure, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
Farm world Akir is threatened by the tyrannical warlord Sador, ruler of the Malmori Empire. Sador's body parts are deteriorating and he lives only by stealing organs from others. Sador demands that the peaceful Akira submit to him when he …
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Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film
A man calling himself prot (not capitalized and pronounced with a long O, rhyming with boat) is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan after claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet 'K-PAX', 1,000 light years away in…
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Aliens, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
While participating in a human mission to Mars, astronauts led by Commander Patrick Ross, Anne Sampas and Dennis Gamble collect soil samples. While returning to Earth, the soil thaws and releases an alien substance that contaminates them a…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Akademik Vladislav Volkov, a Russian research vessel in the South Pacific, communicates with the orbiting space station Mir. An energy source traveling through space strikes Mir, killing the cosmonauts and beaming itself down to Volkov. Th…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2018, Chicago is placed under martial law after a global extraterrestrial invasion. As the Drummond family attempts to flee the city, they break through a barricade but are confronted by the aliens, who vaporize the parents but leave th…
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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, horror film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Spencer Armacost is an astronaut working for NASA, and his wife Jillian is a second-grade teacher. While he and Alex Streck are walking in space on a mission, an explosion knocks out their communication with the command center. They land s…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, B movie, Fantasy, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
A nomadic scavenger treks through an irradiated wasteland and discovers a buried robot. He collects the pieces and takes them to junk dealer Alvy, who is talking with 'Hard Mo' Baxter, a former soldier, and Mo's friend Shades. When Alvy st…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi
A Star Wars–style text crawl explains how a resistance force led by Princess Serina has stolen vital radio transmissions from an evil Galactic Alliance. The Darth Vader–like villain, Lord Buckethead (named only in the closing credits), pur…
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Action, Sci-Fi
In Edwardian England, 1905, journalist George (Rafe Spall) has left his unhappy marriage behind to start a life with his partner Amy (Eleanor Tomlinson), an aspiring researcher, in the town of Woking. There, they befriend Ogilvy (Robert Ca…
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Adventure, Family Comedy, Sci-Fi, children's film, comedy film, science fiction film
A meteor shower rockets through the dark galaxy, and four glowing pods are seen hiding behind the meteor shower. Suddenly the four glowing pods makes a hard right and heads towards a distant planet Earth. In a Chicago suburb, Stuart Pearso…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, dark fantasy, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, war film
George Gardner encourages his 12-year-old son David's dreams of becoming an astronaut by stargazing with him. A thunderstorm wakes David, and he observes a strange alien spaceship landing on Copper Hill, just beyond the house. His father a…
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Aliens, Retro Science Fiction, Thriller, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
thumb|The rocket lands The British-American Rocket Group, headed by Professor Bernard Quatermass, launches its first crewed rocket into outer space. All contact is soon lost with the rocket and its three-man crew: Carroon, Reichenheim and …
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Drama, Sci-Fi
V: The Final Battle was played out over three episodes, starting four months after the events of the original miniseries concluded. Part 1 Teleplay by Brian Taggert and Peggy GoldmanStory by Lillian Weezer & Peggy Goldman & Faustus Buck (p…
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Aliens, Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
On the planet Morganthus, a monster kills the last survivor of a crashed spaceship. On the world of Xerxes, the Planet Master, someone whose face is obscured by an aura, instructs one of his military commanders to take the spaceship Quest …
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
Teenager Max McGrath moves with his mother Molly to the town of Copper Canyon, where he was born and where his father Jim McGrath died in a supposed storm. In his first few days at school, he realizes that almost everyone in town knows mor…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, alien invasion, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Late one night, David MacLean, a young boy, is awakened by a loud thunderstorm. From his bedroom window, he sees a flying saucer descend and disappear into the sandpit area behind his home. He tells his scientist father George, who goes to…
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superhero film
Ben Tennyson, Gwen Tennyson and Kevin Levin negotiates with a group of black market dealers attempting to sell alien nanochips, which are causing interference with the Omnitrix. One of them reveals herself to be Elena Validis, Ben and Gwen…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, science fiction film
Workers building an extension to the London Underground at Hobbs End dig up a skull. Palaeontologist Dr. Matthew Roney identifies it as a five-million-year-old apeman, more ancient than previous finds.
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
In 1964, the United Nations sends a rocket to the Moon. A multi-national group of astronauts land, believing themselves to be the first lunar explorers. However, they discover a battered Union Jack flag and a handwritten note, dated some 6…
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Animation, Family Comedy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
While driving the Mystery Inc. gang through the desert amidst a sandstorm, Shaggy Rogers accidentally drives onto government property before a UFO sighting causes him to crash near a small town. Shaggy and his dog Scooby-Doo stay with the …
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Action, Adventure, Family Comedy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, superhero film
The story opens in Bellwood as a mysterious black figure appears on the town’s main street and immediately starts destroying things around him. Ten-year-old Ben Tennyson, in the form of Heatblast, confronts and obliterates him after a shor…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
In 2654, an interstellar war rages between the Terran Confederation and the Kilrathi Empire. The cat-like Kilrathi seek the complete eradication of the human race. A massive Kilrathi armada attacks Pegasus Station, a remote but vital Confe…
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Family Drama, crime film, drama film
In 1996, at the 45th-year reunion of the class of '51 at Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey, writer Nathan Zuckerman meets one of his old friends, Jerry Levov. They talk about Jerry's older brother, former all-state star athlete S…
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