Top 10 Alien Films

Now that the Defense Department has declassified Navy footage of U.F.O.s, it's time to go back to those alien movies that once looked like pure fantasy. For testing, this time. Hollywood may not be the best source to appease your imagination if you're an impassioned fanatic or an Area 51 stormer. However, if you find yourself wanting to "binge-watch" the three fuzzy videos in hopes of some lasers and CGI jump-scares, you could put your radar on a comprehensive catalogue of alien flicks.

Posted On March 2nd, 2021

Close Encounters

Close Encounters of the Third Kind introduces a more complex human lens to the genre of extraterrestrial encounters, another sci-fi success by director Steven Spielberg. The film follows the story of Roy Neary, an electrical lineman whose intimate contact with a U.F.O. causes him, in search of his newfound fascination, to abandon his everyday life.

The Arrival

When he gets an eerie letter, Astrophysicist Zane stumbles across intelligent alien life. Fired from his work, he begins looking deeper into the mystery that engulfs him in paranoia and intrigue.

War of The Worlds

In this Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of H.G Wells' book in 1898, Tom Cruise stars as a divorced father determined to protect his family through an extraterrestrial attack. Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning, playing his daughter, form an unforgettable survival couple in the middle of this action drama, as tensions run high.

Prometheus

A squad of adventurers are led to the deepest areas of the world by the discovery of a key to the origins of mankind on Earth. The expedition is being led by two talented young scientists. Shaw (Noomi Rapace) believes they will encounter a race of compassionate, godlike creatures who will test her religious convictions in some way, while Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) is out to contradict any divine ideas. Neither the scientists nor their shipmates, though are ready for the horrific terrors awaiting them.

District 9

Thirty years ago, aliens landed on Earth to seek asylum from their dying world, not to conquer or offer help. In a South African region called District 9, isolated from humans, the aliens are controlled by Multi-National United, which is not concerned with the wellbeing of the aliens, nor can do anything to master their sophisticated technologies. There is only one place he can escape as a business field agent (Sharlto Copley) contracts a sinister infection that starts to change his DNA: District 9.

Annihilation

Lena, a retired soldier and biologist, joins a mission to discover what happened inside Area X to her husband—a dark and enigmatic phenomenon that is creeping across the American coastline. The expedition finds, once within, a world of mutant environments and animals, as deadly as they are magnificent, threatening both their life and their health.

Life

Onboard the International Space Station, astronauts (Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds) are on the cutting edge of one of the most groundbreaking developments in human history: Mars' earliest signs of extraterrestrial existence. The quickly changing life-form proves much more intelligent and frightening than anybody might have expected as members of the crew perform their study.

Signs

As he finds a letter - an elaborate pattern of circles and lines - etched into his crops, everything that farmer Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) believed about the universe is changed. What he discovers will forever change the life of his brother (Joaquin Phoenix) and children (Rory Culkin) (Abigail Breslin) as he explores the unfolding mystery. A fascinating story that discusses crop signs' enigmatic real-life phenomenon and the influence they have on one person and his family.

Edge of Tomorrow

No military unit in the world is able to defeat them as Earth falls under attack from unstoppable aliens. An officer who has never seen war, Maj. William Cage (Tom Cruise), is assigned to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage finds himself plunged into a time loop in which, over and over again, he relives the same vicious struggle—and his death. For each encore, however, Cage's fighting abilities strengthen, taking him and a comrade (Emily Blunt) ever closer to defeating the aliens.

Oblivion

In the year 2077, Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) lives on a Planet left vacant and destroyed after a battle with aliens as a defense repairman. Before his quest concludes, Jack has two weeks remaining and he joins his fellow refugees in a faraway colony. However after he rescues a stunning stranger (Olga Kurylenko) from a downed spaceship, Jack's sense of truth comes crashing down. The arrival of the woman starts a series of events that culminates in Jack's almost single-handed struggle to save mankind.