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Space/Aliens

by kayte15 • Created 7 years ago • Modified 3 days ago
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  • The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

    1. The Cloverfield Paradox

    20181h 42mPG-1337Metascore
    5.5 (118K)
    Orbiting a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis, and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
    DirectorJulius OnahStarsGugu Mbatha-RawDavid OyelowoDaniel Brühl
  • Cloverfield (2008)

    2. Cloverfield

    20081h 25mPG-1364Metascore
    7.0 (436K)
    A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.
    DirectorMatt ReevesStarsMike VogelJessica LucasLizzy Caplan
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

    3. 10 Cloverfield Lane

    20161h 43mPG-1376Metascore
    7.2 (374K)
    A young woman is held in an underground bunker by a man who insists that a hostile event has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable.
    DirectorDan TrachtenbergStarsJohn GoodmanMary Elizabeth WinsteadJohn Gallagher Jr.
  • Sanctum (2011)

    4. Sanctum

    20111h 48mR42Metascore
    5.9 (58K)
    An underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world.
    DirectorAlister GriersonStarsRhys WakefieldAllison CratchleyChristopher James Baker
  • The Abyss (1989)

    5. The Abyss

    19892h 20mPG-1362Metascore
    7.5 (203K)
    A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
    DirectorJames CameronStarsEd HarrisMary Elizabeth MastrantonioMichael Biehn
  • Justin Long and Freddie Benedict in Planet 51 (2009)

    6. Planet 51

    20091h 31mPG39Metascore
    6.0 (61K)
    An alien civilization is invaded by Astronaut Chuck Baker, who believes that the planet was uninhabited. Wanted by the military, Baker must get back to his ship before it goes into orbit without him.
    DirectorsJorge BlancoJavier AbadMarcos MartínezStarsDwayne JohnsonSeann William ScottJessica Biel
  • D.B. Sweeney in Fire in the Sky (1993)

    7. Fire in the Sky

    19931h 49mPG-1342Metascore
    6.5 (30K)
    An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and contempt as they are wrongly accused of murder.
    DirectorRobert LiebermanStarsD.B. SweeneyRobert PatrickCraig Sheffer
  • Explorers (1985)

    8. Explorers

    19851h 49mPG58Metascore
    6.4 (25K)
    A boy obsessed with '50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now what?
    DirectorJoe DanteStarsEthan HawkeRiver PhoenixBobby Fite
  • Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Natalia Dyer, Caleb McLaughlin, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, and Gaten Matarazzo in Stranger Things (2016)

    9. Stranger Things

    2016–202542 epsTV-14TV Series
    8.6 (1.5M)
    In 1980s Indiana, a group of young friends witness supernatural forces and secret government exploits. As they search for answers, the children unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries.
    CreatorsMatt DufferRoss DufferStarsMillie Bobby BrownFinn WolfhardWinona Ryder
  • Nick Stahl, Katie Holmes, and James Marsden in Disturbing Behavior (1998)

    10. Disturbing Behavior

    19981h 24mR
    5.7 (27K)
    The new kid in Cradle Bay, Washington stumbles across something sinister about the town's method of transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens.
    DirectorDavid NutterStarsJames MarsdenKatie HolmesNick Stahl
  • Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnett, Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, and Usher in The Faculty (1998)

    11. The Faculty

    19981h 44mR61Metascore
    6.6 (143K)
    When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.
    DirectorRobert RodriguezStarsJordana BrewsterClea DuVallLaura Harris
  • Kevin Spacey and Jeff Bridges in K-PAX (2001)

    12. K-PAX

    20012hPG-1349Metascore
    7.4 (199K)
    PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
    DirectorIain SoftleyStarsKevin SpaceyJeff BridgesMary McCormack
  • Reese Witherspoon, Will Arnett, Hugh Laurie, and Seth Rogen in Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

    13. Monsters vs. Aliens

    20091h 34mPG56Metascore
    6.4 (184K)
    A woman transformed into a giant after she is struck by a meteorite on her wedding day becomes part of a team of monsters sent in by the U.S. government to defeat an alien mastermind trying to take over Earth.
    DirectorsRob LettermanConrad VernonStarsReese WitherspoonRainn WilsonStephen Colbert
  • Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, and Tim Allen in Galaxy Quest (1999)

    14. Galaxy Quest

    19991h 42mPG70Metascore
    7.4 (187K)
    The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.
    DirectorDean ParisotStarsTim AllenSigourney WeaverAlan Rickman
  • Meet the Applegates (1990)

    15. Meet the Applegates

    19901h 30mR
    5.5 (2.8K)
    Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
    DirectorMichael LehmannStarsEd Begley Jr.Stockard ChanningDabney Coleman
  • Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey in Contact (1997)

    16. Contact

    19972h 30mPG62Metascore
    7.5 (305K)
    Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.
    DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsJodie FosterMatthew McConaugheyTom Skerritt
  • Independence Day (1996)

    17. Independence Day

    19962h 25mPG-1359Metascore
    7.0 (633K)
    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.
    DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsWill SmithBill PullmanJeff Goldblum
  • Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

    18. Independence Day: Resurgence

    20162hPG-1332Metascore
    5.2 (196K)
    Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?
    DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsLiam HemsworthJeff GoldblumBill Pullman
  • Jade Calegory in Mac and Me (1988)

    19. Mac and Me

    19881h 39mPG26Metascore
    3.4 (15K)
    An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.
    DirectorStewart RaffillStarsChristine EbersoleJonathan WardJade Calegory
  • Cillian Murphy in Sunshine (2007)

    20. Sunshine

    20071h 47mR64Metascore
    7.2 (279K)
    A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
    DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyRose ByrneChris Evans
  • Supernova (2000)

    21. Supernova

    20001h 30mPG-1319Metascore
    4.9 (20K)
    A deep space rescue and recovery spaceship with a crew of 6 receives a distress call from a mining operation 3432 light years away. A rescue operation via dimension jump is made. Bad idea.
    DirectorsWalter HillFrancis Ford CoppolaJack SholderStarsJames SpaderPeter FacinelliRobin Tunney
  • Tom Hanks in Apollo 13 (1995)

    22. Apollo 13

    19952h 20mPG78Metascore
    7.7 (328K)
    NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
    DirectorRon HowardStarsTom HanksBill PaxtonKevin Bacon
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

    23. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    19772h 18mPG90Metascore
    7.6 (227K)
    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.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRichard DreyfussFrançois TruffautTeri Garr
  • Lloyd Owen, Ryan Robbins, and Warren Christie in Apollo 18 (2011)

    24. Apollo 18

    20111h 26mPG-1324Metascore
    5.2 (59K)
    Decades-old found footage from NASA's abandoned Apollo 18 mission, where three American astronauts were sent on a secret expedition, reveals the reason the U.S. has never returned to the moon.
    DirectorGonzalo López-GallegoStarsWarren ChristieLloyd OwenRyan Robbins
  • Love (2011)

    25. Love

    20111h 24mNot Rated
    5.4 (9.1K)
    A man spends years alone on a space station orbiting Earth after losing communication with Houston/Earth. He spends time on maintenance, exercise, watching old messages, and reading a journal by a soldier in the American Civil War.
    DirectorWilliam EubankStarsGunner WrightCorey RichardsonBradley Horne

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