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 8.
Horror, Horror comedy, Sci-Fi, comedy film, comedy horror film, science fiction film, zombie comedy
In 1959, on board a spacecraft, two aliens race to keep an experiment from being released by a third member of the crew. The seemingly possessed third alien shoots the canister into space where it crashes to Earth. Nearby, a college man ta…
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Japanese Monster Movie, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, kaiju, science fiction film
In the year 196X, two astronauts, Fuji and Glenn, are sent to investigate the surface of the mysterious "Planet X" recently detected on the far side of Jupiter. There they encounter advanced and seemingly benevolent human-like beings calle…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
Lee Hayden is an aging Western actor in his 70s with a golden voice, whose best performances are decades behind him. He mostly gets voice work for ads. Peter, Lee's agent, calls to tell him a group wants to give him a lifetime achievement …
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Romance Film
Young Taiwanese-American Waverly Liu is frustrated with her parents for changing their summer plan in Taipei for her to intern in Toronto. She impulsively visits her aunt Rachel in tiny coastal town Holden, who offers Waverly her guest roo…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, extraterrestrial film, speculative fiction film
Having been captured by the US Air Force's Alien Task Force (ATF) while attempting escape from Earth, Gordon Shumway, also known as ALF, has been detained at Edmonds Air Force Base under the orders of Colonel Gilbert Milfoil, the ATF's hea…
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Action, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Interstellar warrior Shep Ramsey is on a mission to capture intergalactic despot General Suitor. The general has kidnapped planetary ruler President Hashina. Shep boards Suitor's flagship but is unable to rescue Hashina, who is killed by S…
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Aliens, Found Footage, Sci-Fi, found footage film, horror film, science fiction film
Three close friends, Reid, Darrin, and Ben, attend a party together, during which Reid vanishes. Unable to locate him, Ben and Darrin leave. Driving home on a dark, secluded road, the two nearly run over Reid, who is inexplicably standing …
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Aliens, Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, adventure film, horror film, monster film, rape and revenge film, science fiction film
On a frozen planet in the future, a team of 12 Xeno Project archaeologists and scientists are excavating the ruins of an alien civilisation. They discover a cave system containing wall markings and crystals of unknown origin. During one of…
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Aliens, Animalhorror, Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
Mitch MacAfee, a civil aeronautical engineer, spots a UFO while engaged in a radar test flight in the Arctic. Jet fighters are scrambled to pursue and identify the object, despite it not appearing on radar, but one aircraft goes missing. M…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sitcom, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
At a corporation's base on the Neptunian moon Triton, mercenaries are setting up a defense perimeter to try to hold off an unstoppable cyborg warrior. The company's CEO E.J. Saggs and chief scientist Dr.
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Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
In 1947 New Mexico, a radio operator receives a bizarre signal coming from Roswell, New Mexico. He decides to investigate its origin and disappears tracking it. In the present day, the same signal is received from the South Pole and then r…
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Aliens, Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
As Sam Phillips and his son Tony are playing outside their farm, Sam is suddenly abducted by a bright light. Three years later, the light returns and plants a seed in a forest. A half-human, half-alien creature develops from the seed, and …
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Christmas film, Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
The Martians Momar (Mom Martian) and Kimar (King Martian) are worried that their children Girmar (Girl Martian) and Bomar (Boy Martian) are watching too much Earth television, most notably station KID-TV's interview with Santa Claus in his…
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Animation, Christmas film, Komödie, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Two years after Box Network executives cancel Planet Express's contract, the executives are fired and Planet Express is back "on the air." As the crew celebrates, Hermes is decapitated, causing his wife LaBarbara to leave him. His head is …
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy film
Keith Michaels is a divorced and depressed screenwriter whose only successful work was Paradise Misplaced, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay fifteen years ago. Unemployed and low on funds after a long period of unsuc…
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Sci-Fi, fantasy film, independent film, kaiju, mockbuster, monster film, science fiction film
A live video feed of the surface of Mars is destroyed by an unseen force. Astronomer George Herbert (Howell) and his wife Felicity (Van Wyk Loots) are packing for a trip to Washington, D.C. to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary.
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Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Zombiefilm, horror film, science fiction film, zombie film
In the 2040s, a Martian research base, Tantalus Base outpost, is established. The eight-person crew, which has been stationed there for six months, is only nineteen hours from the completion of their research mission. The spacecraft Aurora…
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Action, Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film
In 2242 A.D., Earth is suffering an extinction level event, and 300,000 survivors are selected to board a spaceship called the Ark that will take them to a new colony called New Earth. Noah stows away on the Ark impersonating a junior jani…
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Sci-Fi, alien invasion, science fiction film
Special Constable Tom Campbell encounters a jewellery shop burglary. Running to what appears to be a police box to summon backup, he enters Tardis, a time and space machine operated by its inventor Dr. Who, his niece Louise and granddaught…
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Action, Sci-Fi
In 2031, humanity establishes its first space colony on Mars. By 2042, the "The Alliance" world government is formed, and quantum propulsion enables travel beyond the Solar System. After the Mars colony fails in 2281, the Alliance controls…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, alien invasion, drama film, science fiction film
In the year 2039, Earth is attacked by an alien civilization from Alpha Centauri. Force field domes are put in place to protect cities, and a totalitarian global military government is established to effect the war and the survival of huma…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
Two years after the first film, Zane Zaminsky is found dead in a remote Inuit community. It is reported that he died of a heart attack. His broadcast to the world about the aliens is widely believed to have been a UFO hoax due to his dismi…
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Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, monster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Scientist Dr. Russell Marvin and his new bride Carol are driving to work when a flying saucer appears overhead. With no proof of the encounter other than a tape recording of the ship's sound, Dr.
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Aliens, Horror comedy, comedy film, science fiction film
A parasitic organism attacks All-Mart employee Monty as he prepares the store for its Black Friday sale. Monty mutates into a monster and attacks two coworkers. Because he has to work on Thanksgiving, Ken Bates drops off his daughters Lyla…
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