These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.

For your extraterrestrial viewing needs, Stacker ranked the top 30 alien movies, according to their IMDb user rating.

So if you’re needing your alien fix this week, here are the five best alien movies worth adding to your Netflix watchlist. It only makes sense to start off this list with an actual alien invasion ...

Steven Spielberg might be best known for "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park", but it's aliens where Spielberg seems to keep returning. Despite a huge roster of movies, "E.T". and "Close Encounters of the Third ...

William likes taking edibles, watching movies with his dogs, and then writing about those movies, because what else is there to do while the world burns? Space. The final frontier. It’s a setting that ...

Noah Hawley has brought the sci-fi/horror series to television. Many filmmakers have taken on the "Alien" franchise: James Cameron, David Fincher, Fede Álvarez. Ridley Scott even returned to the well ...

With 'Disclosure Day,' the director returns to a longtime preoccupation. Two Times staffers explore his ongoing fascination with extraterrestrials.

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For every "Alien" or "Event Horizon," there are dozens of lesser-known space horror movies that deserve much more love and ...