Alien invasion movies and TV
by max_jaison | created - 22 Sep 2020 | updated - 3 days ago | PublicList of movies that I watched in the sci-fi sub genre of alien invasions
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1. 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
Not Rated | 82 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
The first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows gigantic.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Thomas Browne Henry, Frank Puglia
Votes: 8,037
2. E.T. (1982)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
Votes: 437,666 | Gross: $435.11M
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
PG | 138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Votes: 216,944 | Gross: $132.09M
4. Predator (1987)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo
Votes: 455,019 | Gross: $59.74M
5. Men in Black (1997)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
James, an NYC cop, is hired by Agent K of a secret government agency that monitors extraterrestrial life on Earth. Together, they must recover an item that has been stolen by an intergalactic villain.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 613,099 | Gross: $250.69M
6. Super 8 (2011)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Elle Fanning, AJ Michalka, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney
Votes: 367,598 | Gross: $127.00M
7. 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: 605,809 | Gross: $306.17M
8. The Blob (1958)
Approved | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
Directors: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Russell S. Doughten Jr. | Stars: Steve McQueen, Aneta Corsaut, Earl Rowe, Olin Howland
Votes: 29,387
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: 9,114
10. 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: 11,053
11. The Thing from Another World (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 33,367
12. The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Approved | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
Directors: Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis | Stars: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore
Votes: 8,927
13. 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: 38,547 | Gross: $4.36M
14. The Andromeda Strain (1971)
G | 131 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: James Olson, Arthur Hill, David Wayne, Kate Reid
Votes: 40,450 | Gross: $3.42M
15. Invaders from Mars (1953)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings.
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Helena Carter, Arthur Franz, Jimmy Hunt, Leif Erickson
Votes: 8,836
16.
Tales of Tomorrow (1951–1953)
Episode:
The Search for the Flying Saucer
(1951)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An airman travels to a small town looking for clues about flying saucers and only meets denial.
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Jack Carter, Olive Deering, Vaughn Taylor, Maurice Manson
Votes: 92
17.
Tales of Tomorrow (1951–1953)
Episode:
The Invader
(1951)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A research team led by Dr. Burroughs witnesses a UFO crash into the sea. Burroughs' son Roy makes a dive on the ship, but when he surfaces, his father begins to realize that Roy is not himself.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Eva Gabor, William Eythe, Edgar Stehli, Salem Ludwig
Votes: 81
18.
Tales of Tomorrow (1951–1953)
Episode:
Plague from Space
(1952)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
USAF Colonel Jeffrey Ward's abilities are put to the ultimate test when a Martian spaceship lands at his base. At first glance the craft has only one passenger, but when an infection breaks out it becomes clear that there was more than one Martian on the ship.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Gene Raymond, Charles Proctor, Phillip Pine, James Doohan
Votes: 68
19. The Quatermass Experiment (1953)
30 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Follows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.
Stars: Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean, Hugh Kelly, Paul Whitsun-Jones
Votes: 440
20.
Quatermass II (1955)
Episode:
The Bolts
(1955)
32 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Army captain John Dillon defies a clampdown to take the remains of a crashed object to Quatermass's British Rocket Group. Quatermass returns with him to the crash site - a huge domed ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, John Stone
Votes: 46
21.
Quatermass II (1955)
Episode:
The Mark
(1955)
30 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Dillon has been affected and now has a scar on his cheek. He is taken away to the plant by some zombie-like guards and Quatermass is unable to find out what has happened to him. He later ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, John Stone
Votes: 43
22.
Quatermass II (1955)
Episode:
The Food
(1955)
33 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Broadhead becomes the latest victim of the gas. Quatermass tricks his way inside the plant with Ward and Fowler. Ward gets separated and strays into one of the food domes - then emerges ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, Rupert Davies
Votes: 40
23.
Quatermass II (1955)
Episode:
The Coming
(1955)
29 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Quatermass visits the community near the plant but encounters suspicion as he tries to stir up the workers - until a new falling of objects convinces them. They march on the plant and, ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, Austin Trevor
Votes: 35
24.
Quatermass II (1955)
Episode:
The Frenzy
(1955)
31 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
The workers take over the plant and it is destroyed by an explosion. Quatermass gets back to the Rocket Group and prepares to launch his Quatermass II rocket - destination: the asteroid.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, John Stone
Votes: 34
25.
Quatermass II (1955)
Episode:
The Destroyers
(1955)
33 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror
Quatermass succeeds in launching his rocket and he and Pugh head for the asteroid. However, Pugh has been taken over and Quatermass must overcome his attack before he can defeat the evil force on the asteroid.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, John Stone
Votes: 33
26.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
To Serve Man
(1962)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A linguist and his team set out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce is "To Serve Man."
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Lloyd Bochner, Susan Cummings, Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright
Votes: 5,227
27.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Galaxy Being
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientific technician working at a radio station makes first contact with an energy alien from the Andromeda galaxy. An underling's disobedience brings it to Earth.
Director: Leslie Stevens | Stars: Lee Philips, Jacqueline Scott, Cliff Robertson, Burt Metcalfe
Votes: 1,283
28.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
(1963)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: William Shatner, Christine White, Ed Kemmer, Asa Maynor
Votes: 5,501
29.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Corpus Earthling
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Enabled by the metal plate in his head, Dr. Paul Cameron can overhear the immediate invasion plans of two parasitic rock aliens. Now they must kill him.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Robert Culp, Salome Jens, Barry Atwater, Ken Renard
Votes: 694
30.
My Favorite Martian (1963–1966)
Episode:
Unidentified Flying Uncle Martin
(1964)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Martin needs to fly his spaceship which is deteriorating due to inertia. Tim's fear is realized: Martin's flight is spotted as a UFO. Martin needs to take another flight but Mrs. Brown calls in UFO researchers who have a plutron detector.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Ray Walston, Bill Bixby, Pamela Britton, James T. Callahan
Votes: 60
31.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Behold Eck!
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A two-dimensional alien, stranded in our three-dimensional world, inadvertently causes havoc in Los Angeles. Only a mild-mannered optician and his secretary have the power to help.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Peter Lind Hayes, Joan Freeman, Parley Baer, Douglas Henderson
Votes: 496
32.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
Episode:
The Sky Is Falling
(1964)
TV-G | 52 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A U. F. O. has been spotted flying around the United States, terrifying people and violating every airspace regulation in the book. It falls into the sea, which, after another ship is ... See full summary »
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Charles McGraw, Adam Williams
Votes: 119
33.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
Beachhead
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An architect's close encounter with a spaceship leads him to investigate a small town's hydroelectric plant.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Diane Baker, J.D. Cannon, James Daly
Votes: 385
34.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Experiment
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
David Vincent meets with an eminent astrophysicist who has proof that aliens are invading the planet.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Roddy McDowall, Laurence Naismith, Harold Gould
Votes: 292
35.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Mutation
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a border town, David Vincent meets a stripper who claims to have seen something strange in the desert.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Edward Andrews, Lin McCarthy, Suzanne Pleshette
Votes: 289
36.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Tomorrow Is Yesterday
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1960s Earth.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roger Perry, DeForest Kelley
Votes: 4,308
37.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Leeches
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
David Vincent meets with the president of an electronics company, a man who believes aliens have kidnapped various heads of their fields and are planning to kidnap him as well.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Peter Mark Richman, Diana Van der Vlis, Arthur Hill
Votes: 256
38.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
Genesis
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
David Vincent discovers the aliens have taken over a sea lab for sinister purposes.
Director: Richard Benedict | Stars: Roy Thinnes, John Larch, Carol Eve Rossen, Frank Overton
Votes: 249
39.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
Vikor
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
David Vincent, using an assumed name, gets a job as a chauffeur in order to infiltrate a manufacturing plant and find proof of alien activity.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Jack Lord, Alfred Ryder, Diana Hyland
Votes: 257
40.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
Nightmare
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
David Vincent visits a small Kansas town, resentful of strangers, and uncovers an alien plot to control locusts and other insects.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Kathleen Widdoes, Robert Emhardt, Jeanette Nolan
Votes: 229
41.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
Doomsday Minus One
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The aliens plan to explode an anti-matter bomb in Utah during a nuclear test.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Roy Thinnes, William Windom, Andrew Duggan, Wesley Addy
Votes: 239
42.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Betrayed
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
David Vincent steals a computer tape in order to expose alien activity on Houston oil fields.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Laura Devon, Nancy Wickwire, Norman Fell
Votes: 207
43.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
Storm
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A mysterious hurricane strikes, sparing only a small Florida town. That draws David's attention, and he soon discovers a nest of aliens there, determined to use the weather against humanity... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Joseph Campanella, BarBara Luna, Dean Harens
Votes: 222
44.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
Wall of Crystal
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Newly married Bill and his new bride lose control of the car. They run a truck off the road, and its driver staggers from the vehicle, falls, glows red and vanishes! Then the young couple ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Linden Chiles, Julie Sommars, Edward Asner
Votes: 209
45.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Saucer
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
John Carter has summoned the local sheriff to a site where he claims saucers have landed, not once but several times. Each time, the saucers are gone when the sheriff finally arrives. Now ... See full summary »
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Anne Francis, Charles Drake, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 195
46.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Enemy
(1967)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An alien saucer crashes in the Utah foothills. Reports of its fiery demise draw David Vincent, even after flyovers by Air Force jets failed to locate the site of the mysterious fireball. ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Butler | Stars: Roy Thinnes, Barbara Barrie, Richard Anderson, Paul Mantee
Votes: 200
47.
The Invaders (1967–1968)
Episode:
The Organization
(1968)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
David and Mike Calvin board a ship in search of several crates that contain "wreckage" that rained down from the sky - the pieces of a crashed saucer! But the crates are gone; the aliens ... See full summary »
Director: William Hale | Stars: Roy Thinnes, J.D. Cannon, Chris Robinson, Larry Gates
Votes: 164
48. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
PG | 115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 69,885 | Gross: $24.95M
49.
Project U.F.O. (1978–1979)
Episode:
Sighting 4007: The Forest City Incident
(1978)
60 min | Sci-Fi
A group of teenagers believe they saw a UFO while they were out parking in the wilderness.
Director: Dennis Donnelly | Stars: William Jordan, Caskey Swaim, Don Dubbins, Skip Homeier
Votes: 14
50.
Project U.F.O. (1978–1979)
Episode:
Sighting 4001: The Washington D.C. Incident
(1978)
60 min | Sci-Fi
A woman on a Virginia farm reports a strange object in her yard, and a robot-like creature which communicates with her; a U.S. Air Force pilot chases a UFO and dies.
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: William Jordan, Caskey Swaim, Anne Schedeen, Len Wayland
Votes: 31
51.
Project U.F.O. (1978–1979)
Episode:
Sighting 4008: The Desert Springs Incident
(1978)
60 min | Sci-Fi
Major Gatlin and S Sgt. Fitz encounter a woman who was visited by two men from Venus who say they can reunite her with long lost husband for $40,000. Later, they investigate a more credible sighting in the mountains of California.
Director: Robert M. Leeds | Stars: William Jordan, Caskey Swaim, Jack Sheldon, Peggy Webber
Votes: 15
52.
Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979)
Episode:
Saga of a Star World
(1978)
TV-PG | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After the Twelve Colonies of Mankind were destroyed in a sneak attack by the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar Galactica leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.
Directors: Richard A. Colla, Alan J. Levi | Stars: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson Jr.
Votes: 693
53. 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: 2,045
54. Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
PG | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In New Mexico mineralogist student Paul Carlson is struck in the head by a tiny shard of a meteor causing him to unknowingly transform into a bloodthirsty reptilian creature.
Director: Richard Ashe | Stars: Chase Cordell, Leigh Drake, Gregorio Sala, Patrick Wright
Votes: 3,852
55. Contamination (1980)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé, Siegfried Rauch
Votes: 5,297
56.
Benson (1979–1986)
Episode:
Close Encounters on the Third Hole
(1983)
TV-G | Comedy, Family
The governor and Benson go golfing and spend the day on the greens. When searching for a ball lost in the woods, a beam of light appears and Benson disappears, but reappears in seconds. The governor is sure Benson was captured by aliens.
Director: Bill Foster | Stars: Robert Guillaume, James Noble, Inga Swenson, Missy Gold
Votes: 29
57.
The Greatest American Hero (1981–1983)
Episode:
The Shock Will Kill You
(1982)
TV-14 | 49 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
While rescuing a stricken space shuttle Ralph becomes hyper-magnetized resulting his being attracted to all things metal.
Director: Rod Holcomb | Stars: William Katt, Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, Faye Grant
Votes: 70
58.
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Episode:
Galactica Discovers Earth: Part 1
(1980)
49 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After years of searching for Earth, the Galactica finds Earth. Adama would like to land but a child prodigy named Dr. Zee advises Adama against it because he believes that if they do that ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene
Votes: 228
59. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 466,821 | Gross: $13.78M
60.
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Episode:
Galactica Discovers Earth: Part 2
(1980)
49 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
The thrilling adventures of "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA" continue in Part Two of "Galactica Discovers Earth, " when Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) dispatches two young pilots, Capt. Troy (Kent ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene
Votes: 203
61.
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Episode:
Galactica Discovers Earth: Part 3
(1980)
49 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Troy and Dillon leap back with Jamie to 1944 to stop Xaviar's attempt to help the development of the V-2 rocket at Peenemunde. Later they return to 1980 CA but need to secure their impounded Vipers from U.S. military inspection.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene
Votes: 204
62.
Wonder Woman (1975–1979)
Episode:
Mind Stealers from Outer Space: Part 2
(1977)
TV-G | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
If Wonder Woman and Andros don't find a way to defeat the alien Skrill in 48 hours, Earth will be decontaminated by higher forces from outer space who use insanity-inducing procedures to force their targets out of hiding.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Dack Rambo, Pamela Mason
Votes: 202
63.
Wonder Woman (1975–1979)
Episode:
Mind Stealers from Outer Space: Part 1
(1977)
TV-G | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Space traveler Andros returns seeking Wonder Woman's help in defending earth from an invasion of the body and mind snatching Skrill.
Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Dack Rambo, Kristin Larkin
Votes: 213
64. Galactica 1980 (1980)
60 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
When the Battlestar Galactica finally arrives at Earth, they find they must subtly raise its tech level while protecting it from the Cylons.
Stars: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene
Votes: 4,092
65.
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Episode:
The Super Scouts
(1980)
49 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Troy and Dillon are teaching some of the children raised on the Galactica about what they can expect on Earth if and when they get to go there. But when their vessel is attacked by the ... See full summary »
Director: Vince Edwards | Stars: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene
Votes: 192
66.
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Episode:
The Super Scouts: Part II
(1980)
49 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
When three of the children Troy and Dillon brought to Earth get sick after drinking some water from a lake. The doctor who treats them says that the water was polluted with a toxic waste ... See full summary »
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Stars: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene
Votes: 175
67.
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Episode:
The Night the Cylons Landed
(1980)
48 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Earthbound Troy and Dillon rush to the East Coast to intercept what they believe to be a downed Galactican spacecraft, but find that it is really the first ship of the treacherous Cylons to... See full summary »
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Stars: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene
Votes: 190
68.
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Episode:
The Night the Cylons Landed: Part II
(1980)
48 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
The planet's future hangs in the balance when Troy and Dillon alert Galactica that they are pursuing two enemy Cylons bent on commandeering a powerful New York City broadcasting facility to... See full summary »
Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Kent McCord, Barry Van Dyke, Robyn Douglass, Lorne Greene
Votes: 183
69.
Newhart (1982–1990)
Episode:
Heaven Knows Mr. Utley
(1983)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy
George becomes the joke of the town after he spies a UFO and nobody believes him.
Director: Will Mackenzie | Stars: Bob Newhart, Mary Frann, Steven Kampmann, Jennifer Holmes
Votes: 115
70. The Tomorrow War (2021)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past.
Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin
Votes: 227,896
71. Starman (1984)
PG | 115 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
An alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona. Distrustful government agents, along with a more ambivalent scientist, give pursuit in hopes of intercepting them.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel
Votes: 52,228 | Gross: $28.70M
72.
MacGyver (1985–1992)
Episode:
The Visitor
(1990)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
While driving through a small town, MacGyver sees something resembling a UFO landing, and starts to investigate.
Director: William Gereghty | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Ken Pogue, Beth Toussaint
Votes: 278
73. Lifeforce (1985)
R | 101 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
Votes: 29,480 | Gross: $11.60M
74.
The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992)
Episode:
Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellar!
(1989)
TV-14 | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An insecure man begins to suspect that the mushrooms his son ordered from a boy's magazine and is growing in the basement may be alien invaders.
Director: David Brandes | Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Marc Reid, Patricia Phillips, Judy Mahbey
Votes: 130
75. Aliens (1986)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Paul Reiser
Votes: 763,309 | Gross: $85.16M
76. Maximum Overdrive (1986)
R | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A group of people try to survive when machines start to come alive and become homicidal.
Director: Stephen King | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 35,851 | Gross: $7.43M
77. Invaders from Mars (1986)
PG | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A boy tries to stop aliens who have taken over his town and are attempting to brainwash its inhabitants.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman
Votes: 10,592 | Gross: $4.88M
78. Night of the Creeps (1986)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.
Director: Fred Dekker | Stars: Jason Lively, Tom Atkins, Steve Marshall, Jill Whitlow
Votes: 26,126 | Gross: $0.59M
79. V (1983)
Unrated | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A seemingly peaceful alien race, arrives at earth and asks for help to ensure their own planets survival. However, the visitors agenda turns out be much darker.
Stars: Jane Badler, Michael Durrell, Faye Grant, Peter Nelson
Votes: 17,155
80. V (1984–1985)
TV-PG | 1,088 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A year after Liberation Day, courtesy of the red-dust bacteria, the humanoid, lizard-like aliens develop a resistance to the micro-organism and try to regain control of the Earth--only now, some humans are knowingly working with them.
Stars: Marc Singer, Faye Grant, Michael Ironside, Jane Badler
Votes: 14,046
81. Alien Nation (1989–1990)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
In the near future, a human cop and his alien partner fight crime and discrimination in Los Angeles.
Stars: Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint, Michele Scarabelli, Lauren Woodland
Votes: 5,510
82. The Hidden (1987)
R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A cop and an FBI agent race for answers after law abiding people suddenly become violent criminals.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Nouri, Claudia Christian, Clarence Felder
Votes: 22,611 | Gross: $9.75M
83. The Curse (1987)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.
Director: David Keith | Stars: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare, Cooper Huckabee
Votes: 3,881 | Gross: $1.93M
84. ALF (1986–1990)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
When an ugly creature, who loves eating cats, crash-lands into the Tanner family's garage, they treat him as a guest and allow him to live with them as he comments on the stupidity of mankind.
Stars: Mihaly 'Michu' Meszaros, Paul Fusco, Max Wright, Anne Schedeen
Votes: 39,146
85. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.
Director: Stephen Chiodo | Stars: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, John Vernon
Votes: 45,501 | Gross: $15.63M
86. Alien Nation (1988)
R | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In 1988, Earth makes the first contact with an alien civilization. In 1991, these aliens, known as Newcomers, slowly begin to be integrated into human society after three years of quarantine.
Director: Graham Baker | Stars: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp, Kevyn Major Howard
Votes: 16,669 | Gross: $25.22M
87. 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: 63,876 | Gross: $21.43M
88.
ALF (1986–1990)
Episode:
Consider Me Gone
(1990)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
ALF hears from his friends Skip and Rhonda, who have established the colony of New Melmac and invite ALF to live with them. But when the Air Force's Alien Task Force finally capture ALF as he is about to depart Earth, is all hope lost?
Director: Nick Havinga | Stars: Max Wright, Anne Schedeen, Andrea Elson, Benji Gregory
Votes: 311
89.
Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode:
Micro Minds
(1990)
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An astronomy student believes she has contacted an alien lifeform that is frighteningly close to earth.
Director: Anthony Santa Croce | Stars: Troy Donahue, Belle Avery, David Parmenter
Votes: 90
90.
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
91.
The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode:
Treehouse of Horror
(1990)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
The Simpsons move into a cursed house, then are abducted by aliens, before Homer is ensconced in a tale by Edgar Allen Poe.
Directors: Wesley Archer, Rich Moore, David Silverman | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 5,363
92.
Newhart (1982–1990)
Episode:
Take Me to Your Loudon
(1987)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy
It's Halloween, and the townspeople believe the town is about to be invaded by aliens.
Director: Zane Buzby | Stars: Bob Newhart, Mary Frann, Peter Scolari, Julia Duffy
Votes: 123
93.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode:
Awakening
(1979)
TV-14 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1987, a space phenomenon sends NASA astronaut William "Buck" Rogers and his space shuttle off course and freezes his life support systems for 500 years. In 2491, he awakens aboard the ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, Pamela Hensley
Votes: 422
94.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979–1981)
Episode:
Space Vampire
(1980)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Buck Rogers and Wilma Deering arrive at Theta Station to have Twiki serviced, but soon a freighter crashes with the space station. The freighter crew are found in a state between life and ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Stewart | Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, Christopher Stone
Votes: 306
95. They Live (1988)
R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George 'Buck' Flower
Votes: 145,527 | Gross: $13.01M
96. My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A creature from another planet tries to seduce a shy Earth physicist to gain control over his researches. The result of this important mission much exceeded her expectations.
Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, Jon Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan
Votes: 27,732 | Gross: $13.85M
97. Not of This Earth (1988)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien arrives on Earth looking to take human blood in an attempt to preserve his dying planet.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Traci Lords, Arthur Roberts, Lenny Juliano, Ace Mask
Votes: 2,736 | Gross: $0.11M
98. Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Southern California girl befriends three furry aliens after their spaceship lands in her swimming pool.
Director: Julien Temple | Stars: Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans
Votes: 25,220 | Gross: $3.92M
99. Critters 2 (1988)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Eggs of the small but voracious alien creatures called Crites are left behind on earth and, after hatching, set their appetites on the small farm town of Grover's Bend.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Terrence Mann, Don Keith Opper
Votes: 16,852 | Gross: $3.81M
100. The Blob (1988)
R | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A deadly entity from space crash-lands near a small town and begins consuming everyone in its path. Panic ensues as shady government scientists try to contain the horrific creature.
Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Shawnee Smith, Kevin Dillon, Donovan Leitch Jr., Jeffrey DeMunn
Votes: 43,526 | Gross: $8.25M
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