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  1. Arrival

    Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are...

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  2. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

    An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the...

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  3. Contact

    A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and...

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  4. War of the Worlds

    Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young...

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  1. The Day the Earth Stood Still

    A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether...

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  2. Cocoon

    When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

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  3. Starman

    When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

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  4. The Thing

    A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

    #304Attention Score5.2
  5. Prometheus

    A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they...

    #728Attention Score3.3
  6. Signs

    A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

    #1,105Attention Score2.5
  7. Under the Skin

    A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

    #1,148Attention Score2.4
  8. Independence Day

    Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it...

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  1. The Fourth Kind

    Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the...

    #1,789Attention Score1.7
  2. The Abyss

    A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself...

    #1,824Attention Score1.7
  3. Super 8

    In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is...

    #2,249Attention Score1.3
  4. Fire in the Sky

    After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of...

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  5. Sphere

    A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists...

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  6. The Andromeda Strain

    When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air...

    #3,594Attention Score0.8
  7. Europa Report

    A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to...

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  8. The Man Who Fell to Earth

    Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his...

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  9. The Arrival

    Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is...

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