Are you looking for the best alien movies ever made? Alien movies offer a space for viewers to explore what it would be like if we were invaded by extraterrestrials. So if you are the one who loves these kinds of movies, we have come up with this list of the best alien movies ever made.
Best Alien Movies Ever Made
1. Aliens (1986)
Director: James Cameron
Genres: Action/Sci-fi
Star Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn
Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron. It is the sequel to the 1979 science fiction horror film Alien, and the second film in the Alien franchise.
Set in the far future, the film stars Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of an alien attack on her ship. When communications are lost with a human colony on the moon on which her crew first encountered the alien creatures, Ripley agrees to return to the site with a unit of Colonial Marines to investigate.
2. Alien (1979)
Director: Ridley Scott
Genres: Sci-fi/Horror
Star Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O’Bannon. Based on a story by O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who, after coming across a mysterious derelict spaceship on an undiscovered moon, find themselves up against an aggressive and deadly extraterrestrial set loose on the Nostromo.
3. Prey (2022)
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Genres: Action/Sci-fi
Star Cast: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegrot
Prey is a 2022 American science fiction action horror film based on the Predator franchise. It is the fifth installment and is a prequel to the first four films, being set in the Northern Great Plains in North America in 1719.
The story revolves around Naru, a skilled Comanche warrior, who is striving to prove herself as a hunter. She finds herself having to protect her people from a vicious, humanoid alien that hunts humans for sport, as well as from French fur traders who are destroying the buffalo they rely on for survival.
4. Predator (1987)
Director: John McTiernan
Genres: Action/Sci-fi
Star Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall
Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. It is the first installment in the Predator franchise.
It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of an elite paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in the guerrilla-held territory in a Central American rainforest, who encounter the deadly Predator, a skilled, technologically advanced alien who stalks and hunts them down.
5. Independence Day (1996)
Director: Roland Emmerich
Genres: Action/Sci-fi
Star Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum
Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin.
The film focuses on disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a worldwide attack by a powerful extraterrestrial race. With the other people of the world, they launch a counterattack on July 4 – Independence Day in the United States.
6. Avatar (2009)
Director: James Cameron
Genres: Action/Sci-fi
Star Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
Avatar is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver.
It is set in the mid-22nd century when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium.
The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na’vi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film’s title refers to a genetically engineered Na’vi body operated from the brain of a remotely located human that is used to interact with the natives of Pandora.
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7. Men in Black (1997)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Genres: Action/Sci-fi
Star Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino
MIB: Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and written by Ed Solomon.
Loosely based on the Marvel comic book series of a similar name created by Lowell Cunningham and Sandy Carruthers, the film stars Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as two agents of a secret organization called the Men in Black, who supervise extraterrestrial lifeforms who live on Earth and hide their existence from ordinary humans.
8. A Quiet Place (2018)
Director: John Krasinski
Genres: Horror/Thriller
Star Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski and written by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and Krasinski, from a story conceived by Woods and Beck.
The plot revolves around a father and a mother who struggle to survive and rear their children in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind monsters with an acute sense of hearing.
9. War of the Worlds (2005)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Genres: Action/Sci-fi
Star Cast: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins
War of the Worlds is a 2005 American science fiction action film[2] directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Josh Friedman and David Koepp, based on the 1898 novel by H. G. Wells.
The film follows an American dock worker who is forced to look after his children, from whom he lives separately, as he struggles to protect them and reunite them with their mother when extraterrestrials invade the Earth and devastate cities with giant war machines.
10. Life (2017)
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Genres: Sci-fi/Horror
Star Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds
Life is a 2017 American science fiction film directed by Daniel Espinosa, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, and Ryan Reynolds. The film follows a six-member crew of the International Space Station that uncovers the first evidence of life on Mars.
11. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Director: Doug Liman
Genres: Action/Sci-fi
Star Cast: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton
Edge of Tomorrow is a 2014 American science fiction action film. The film takes place in the future where most of Europe is occupied by an alien race. Major William Cage, a public relations officer with limited combat experience, is forced by his superiors to join a landing operation against the aliens, only to find himself experiencing a time loop as he tries to find a way to defeat the invaders.
12. The Fifth Element (1997)
Director: Luc Besson
Genres: Action/Sci-fi
Star Cast: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman
The Fifth Element is a 1997 English-language French science fiction action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, as well as co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen.
Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film’s central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas, a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman falls into his cab.
To accomplish this, Dallas joins forces with her to recover four mystical stones essential for the defense of Earth against the impending attack of an evil cosmic entity.
