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1. Prometheus (I) (2012)
R | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron
Votes: 643,587 | Gross: $126.48M
2. Battleship (2012)
PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rihanna
Votes: 257,135 | Gross: $65.42M
3. Independence Day (1996)
PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell
Votes: 605,005 | Gross: $306.17M
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
G | 92 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
An alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 85,690
5. Childhood's End (2015)
TV-PG | 82 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After peaceful aliens invade Earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?
Stars: Mike Vogel, Osy Ikhile, Daisy Betts, Georgina Haig
Votes: 13,003
6. It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 11,020
7. The Darkest Hour (2011)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race who have attacked Earth via our power supply.
Director: Chris Gorak | Stars: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor
Votes: 63,847 | Gross: $21.43M
8. The War of the Worlds (1953)
G | 85 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 38,489 | Gross: $4.36M
9. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
Unrated | 83 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Extraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 9,099
10. The Big O (1999–2003)
TV-PG | Animation, Action, Adventure
In a futuristic city with lost memories, an expert negotiator fights threats to the city with the help of an android and his own giant robot.
Stars: Mitsuru Miyamoto, Steve Blum, Akiko Yajima, Motomu Kiyokawa
Votes: 2,343
11. They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Unrated | 85 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Scientists investigating an unusual meteor shower in a rural field are possessed by an alien force bent on an ulterior purpose.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin, Bernard Kay
Votes: 2,038
12. Invisible Invaders (1959)
Approved | 67 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Invisible aliens from the Moon invade the Earth by occupying the bodies of recently deceased humans but a scientist, his daughter and an army Major, try to fight them.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: John Agar, Jean Byron, Philip Tonge, Robert Hutton
Votes: 1,957
13. Killers from Space (1954)
Passed | 71 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An atomic scientist claims he was abducted by aliens after being injured in a plane crash.
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Peter Graves, James Seay, Steve Pendleton, Frank Gerstle
Votes: 2,557
14. I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens arrive on Earth to possess the bodies of humans. One of their first victims is a young man, whose new wife soon realizes something is wrong with him.
Director: Gene Fowler Jr. | Stars: Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott, Peter Baldwin, Robert Ivers
Votes: 3,088
15. Fight! Iczer-1 (1985 Video)
Not Rated | 100 min | Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
Iczer-1 needs to stop the Earth invasion by the evil Cthuwulf and she needs to now find a partner to defeat the forces of evil.
Director: Toshiki Hirano | Stars: Arisa Andô, Beau Billingslea, Lilly Browne, Steve Bulen
Votes: 215
16. The Brain Eaters (1958)
Approved | 61 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
The inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.
Director: Bruno VeSota | Stars: Ed Nelson, Alan Jay Factor, Cornelius Keefe, Joanna Lee
Votes: 1,803
17. Time Runner (1993)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
During the unstoppable alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992 in hope of changing the future. But attempt after attempt is made by someone there to catch and kill him.
Director: Michael Mazo | Stars: Mark Hamill, Rae Dawn Chong, Brion James, Mark Baur
Votes: 1,144
18. Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)
Passed | 167 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The invaders come to Earth to create an H-bomb to blast Earth out of orbit so that Mars can take its place.
Director: Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Judd Holdren, Aline Towne, Wilson Wood, Lane Bradford
Votes: 480
19. The Salena Incident (2007 Video)
R | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A group of prisoners manage to escape during a routine exercise and take their guards as hostage. But as they arrive in the seemingly quiet town of 'Selena' they encounter an alien terror.
Director: Dustin Rikert | Stars: Dan Southworth, Avery Clyde, Sam McConkey, James Luca McBride
Votes: 317
20. Blue Demon y las invasoras (1969)
87 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Blue Demon must battle against a group of alien women looking to kidnap men from planet earth.
Director: Gilberto Martínez Solares | Stars: Alejandro Moreno, Regina Torné, Gilda Mirós, Agustín Martínez Solares
Votes: 44
21. Hell Target (1987 Video)
50 min | Animation, Horror, Sci-Fi
A spaceship is lost near the forbidden planet of Inferno II. Some years later, a second ship with a crew of nine gets there and encounters a monster that rapidly makes mince meat of most of... See full summary »
Director: Keito Nakamura | Stars: Kouichi Chiba, Shingo Hiromori, Katsunosuke Hori, Asami Mukaidono
Votes: 50
22. First World (2007)
25 min | Short, Action, Drama
China's first manned mission to the Moon reveals the Apollo 11 cover-up that mankind has never been alone.
Directors: Mark Lund, Adam Starr | Stars: Angelina Spicer, Jeffrey Phillips, Zebulun Huling, Lindy Nettleton
Votes: 67
23. Future Wars (2004)
33 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Professor Kirk Williams is sent through the Timeportal and into the future.. Now he must battle the most ferocious creatures in the universe with his pipe, coat and a Walther PPK
Director: Fredrik Myklebust | Stars: Sven Veine, Trond-Ove Skrødal, Gudmund Saksvik, Trond Bjørnstad
Votes: 150
24. 11½ (2009)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A group of young, naive and passionate filmmakers fighting with a series of unfortunate events.
Director: Giacomo R. Bartocci | Stars: Frank Impellizzeri, Angelo Squitieri, Erika Toa Russo, Lamberto Mongiorgi
Votes: 55
25. Flying Cups and Saucers (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
When two cats from the Moon, in search of mice, descend from the skies in a large flying object, resembling a cup-and-a-saucer, a furious fight results between the lunar-cats and the ... See full summary »
Director: Connie Rasinski | Star: Dayton Allen
Votes: 21
27. 10 + ½ + 1 = Making of 11½ (2010)
6 min | Documentary, Short, Action
What's the worst nightmare of any director? To be persecuted by his own characters.
Director: Giacomo R. Bartocci | Stars: Riccardo Tamburini, Giacomo R. Bartocci, Alexander Ananasso, Corrado Ceron
Votes: 18
28. Cubes From Above (2021)
3 min | Animation, Short, Action
Planet earth is attacked by an alien race of cubes.
Director: Mano Cuypers | Stars: Casper Cuypers, Mano Cuypers, Juul Poppe, Rune Schutyser
Votes: 9
29.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
Spearhead from Space: Episode 1
(1970)
TV-Y | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
As the newly regenerated Doctor arrives on Earth, so does the Nestene.
Director: Derek Martinus | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney, Hugh Burden
Votes: 980
30.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Two Doctors: Part One
(1985)
TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Time Lords have dispatched the Doctor (in his 2nd incarnation) along with Jamie to a space research station to see Dastari, the Director of Projects, about dissuading two of his ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Moffatt | Stars: Colin Baker, Patrick Troughton, Nicola Bryant, Frazer Hines
Votes: 559
31.
Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode:
The Space Eaters
(1991)
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In this tribute to 1950s monster movies, two old gentlemanly friends are playing a game of chess, when a sinister telepathic alien invader shaped like a giant tentacled eyeball arrives to eat their brains.
Director: Robert T. Megginson | Stars: Richard Clarke, Mart Hulswit, Richard Hughes
Votes: 83
32.
Sliders (1995–2000)
Episode:
Genesis
(1998)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Quinn and Maggie track Remmy and Wade to Home World three months after being separated, but find the world has been conquered by the Kromaggs.
Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: Jerry O'Connell, Cleavant Derricks, Kari Wuhrer, Sandra Hess
Votes: 233
33.
The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode:
Treehouse of Horror II
(1991)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
The Simpson family receives a severed monkey's paw which can grant wishes, Bart gains magical powers which he uses to turn Homer into a Jack-in-the-box, and Mr. Burns uses Homer's brain to create a robot.
Director: Jim Reardon | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 4,149
34.
The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode:
Treehouse of Horror XVIII
(2007)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
The eighteenth Simpsons Halloween Special features parodies of the movies "E.T." and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith."
Directors: Chuck Sheetz, Mark Kirkland | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 1,749
35.
Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil (1959–1962)
Episode:
The Spots Off a Leopard/Invasion of Earth by Robots/Cecil Meets the Singing Dinasor
(1962)
29 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Beany and Cecil hunt for Old Spot the Leopard. Cecil confronts a pair of Venusian robots - a mother robot and her baby. The gang sets out to capture a singing dinosaur.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Jim MacGeorge, Irv Shoemaker
36.
Futurama (1999– )
Episode:
Reincarnation
(2011)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The gang is reincarnated as 1930s black and white cartoons, 1980s Saturday morning television characters, and Japanese anime heroes.
Director: Peter Avanzino | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 2,222
37.
Amphibia (2019–2022)
Episode:
All In
(2022)
TV-Y7-FV | 48 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Anne and her friends fight for their lives as the fate of both worlds hangs in the balance.
Directors: Roxann Cole, Joseph D. Johnston, Jennifer Strickland | Stars: Brenda Song, Justin Felbinger, Bill Farmer, Amanda Leighton
Votes: 818