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Top 100 Best Alien Movies Ever Made

What are the best alien movies? One of the most popular and the oldest mystery that has puzzled human being since evolution is that – Is there Life anywhere else in universe other than earth? If So, then How we can contact them? This mystery has attracted the whole world for decades. Hollywood surely knows about its audience, for it has produced hundreds of movies on extra terrestrial life and cashed billions of dollars. People are fascinated towards alien movies and such films are always cult and commercial hits. However Alien and space movies needs a lot of budget and that is why we do not get to see alien movies very often.

Most alien movies project alien as enemies who are on a mission to capture earth and destroy human civilization. As this makes a great scenario for action and war. However some films focusing on space and aliens also projects the extra terrestrial life as our friends. In both cases Alien are shown with magical powers which includes Telepathy, levitation, telekinesis and quick healing. Also they are shown with much advanced technology which is obvious as this is how they came too far to us.

Here is the list of 100 Greatest Alien Movies. We have not only included alien movies but also have included space movies that focuses on interplanetary physics and showcases the beauty of universe and space with a very detailed cinematography. So hang on tight on your space ship and check out these great alien films:

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100. Masters of the Universe

Director – Gary Goddard
Cast – James Tolkan, Courteney Cox, Frank Langella, Dolph Lundgren, Meg Foster, Christina Pickles
IMDB Rating – 5.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 17%
Release Date – 7 August 1987
Box Office – $17.3 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Awards – None
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99. Outland (1981)

Director – Peter Hyams
Cast – James B. Sikking, Peter Boyle, Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen, Kika Markham
IMDB Rating – 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 58%
Release Date – 22 May 1981
Box Office – $20,000,000
Genre – Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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98. Screamers

Director – Christian Duguay
Cast – Jennifer Rubin, Andy Lauer, Roy Dupuis, Peter Weller
IMDB Rating – 6.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 31%
Release Date – 8 September 1995
Box Office – $5,711,695
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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97. G.O.R.A.

Director – Ömer Faruk Sorak
Cast – İdil Fırat, Özge Özberk, Cem Yılmaz, Şafak Sezer, Özkan Uğur, Rasim Öztekin
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 70%
Release Date – 12 November 2004
Box Office – $30,805,474
Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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96. The Andromeda Strain

Director – Robert Wise
Cast – George Mitchell, James Olson, Arthur Hill, Kate Reid, Paula Kelly, David Wayne
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 67%
Release Date – 12 March 1971
Box Office – $12.4 million
Genre – Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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95. Ghosts of Mars

Director – John Carpenter
Cast – Jason Statham, Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Joanna Cassidy, Clea DuVall, Pam Grier
IMDB Rating – 4.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 21%
Release Date – 24 August 2001
Box Office – $14 million
Genre – Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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94. Coneheads

Director – Steve Barron
Cast – Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd
IMDB Rating – 5.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 35%
Release Date – 23 July 1993
Box Office – $21.3 million
Genre – Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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93. Starman

Director – John Carpenter
Cast – Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Karen Allen, Jeff Bridges
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 84%
Release Date – 14 December 1984
Box Office – $28.7 million
Genre – Romance, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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92. Flight of the Navigator

Director – Randal Kleiser
Cast – Joey Cramer
IMDB Rating – 6.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 83%
Release Date – 30 July 1986
Box Office – $18,564,613
Genre – Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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91. Europa Report

Director – Sebastián Cordero
Cast – Anamaria Marinca, Michael Nyqvist, Christian Camargo, Karolina Wydra, Daniel Wu, Embeth Davidtz.
IMDB Rating – 6.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 81%
Release Date – 2 August 2013
Box Office – $125,687
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

90. Flash Gordon

Director – Mike Hodges
Cast – Mariangela Melato, Timothy Dalton, Sam J. Jones, Max von Sydow, Ornella Muti, Melody Anderson, Topol
IMDB Rating – 6.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 82%
Release Date – September 1980
Box Office – $27.1 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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89. The Last Starfighter

Director – Nick Castle
Cast – Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Preston, Dan O’Herlihy
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 77%
Release Date – 13 July 1984
Box Office – $28,733,290
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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88. The Arrival

Director – David Twohy
Cast – Ron Silver, Lindsay Crouse, Charlie Sheen, Teri Polo
IMDB Rating – 6.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 64%
Release Date – 31 May 1996
Box Office – $14 million
Genre – Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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87. Lost in Space

Director – Stephen Hopkins
Cast – Matt LeBlanc, William Hurt, Gary Oldman, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Jared Harris, Lacey Chabert
IMDB Rating – 5.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 28%
Release Date – 3 April 1998
Box Office – $136.2 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Family
Awards – None
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86. Red Planet

Director – Antony Hoffman
Cast – Carrie-Anne Moss, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore, Terence Stamp, Simon Baker, Benjamin Bratt
IMDB Rating – 5.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 14%
Release Date – 10 November 2000
Box Office – $33.5 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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85. Skyline

Director – Greg Strause, Colin Strause
Cast – David Zayas, Crystal Reed, Eric Balfour, Brittany Daniel, Scottie Thompson, Donald Faison
IMDB Rating – 4.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 16%
Release Date – 12 November 2010
Box Office – $68.3 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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84. Soldier

Director – Paul W. S. Anderson
Cast – Gary Busey, Kurt Russell, Connie Nielsen, Jason Scott Lee, Michael Chiklis
IMDB Rating – 6
Rotten Tomatoes – 12%
Release Date – October 23, 1998
Box Office – $14.6 million
Genre – Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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83. Cocoon

Director – Ron Howard
Cast – Wilford Brimley, Don Ameche, Brian Dennehy, Hume Cronyn, Tahnee Welch, Steve Guttenberg, Jack Gilford
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 77%
Release Date – 21 June 1985
Box Office – $85.3 million
Genre – Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 2 Oscars
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82. The Darkest Hour

Director – Chris Gorak
Cast – Max Minghella, Emile Hirsch, Rachael Taylor, Olivia Thirlby
IMDB Rating – 4.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 12%
Release Date – 22 December 2011
Box Office – $64.6 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Horror
Awards – None
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81. Species

Director – Roger Donaldson
Cast – Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Forest Whitaker, Michael Madsen
IMDB Rating – 5.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 44%
Release Date – 7 July 1995
Box Office – $113.3 million
Genre – Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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80. 2010

Director – Peter Hyams
Cast – Roy Scheider, Keir Dullea, John Lithgow, Bob Balaban, Helen Mirren
IMDB Rating – 6.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 65%
Release Date – 7 December 1984
Box Office – $40.4 million
Genre – Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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79. Titan A.E.

Director – Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, Art Vitello
Cast – Drew Barrymore, Janeane Garofalo, Matt Damon, Nathan Lane, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo
IMDB Rating – 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 51%
Release Date – 16 June 2000
Box Office – $36.8 million
Genre – Animation, Action, Adventure
Awards – None
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78. The Fourth Kind

Director – Olatunde Osunsanmi
Cast – Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Elias Koteas, Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Corey Johnson
IMDB Rating – 5.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 18%
Release Date – 6 November 2009
Box Office – $47.7 million
Genre – Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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77. Slither

Director – James Gunn
Cast – Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker, Gregg Henry, Nathan Fillion
IMDB Rating – 6.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 86%
Release Date – 31 March 2006
Box Office – $12.8 million
Genre – Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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76. Mission to Mars

Director – Brian De Palma
Cast – Gary Sinise, Connie Nielsen, Don Cheadle, Tim Robbins, Kim Delaney, Jerry O’Connell
IMDB Rating – 5.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 25%
Release Date – 20 October 2000
Box Office – $111 million
Genre – Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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75. Outlander

Director – Howard McCain
Cast – Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, with Ron Perlman, and John Hurt
IMDB Rating – 6.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 37%
Release Date – 23 January 2009
Box Office – $7,033,683
Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Awards – None
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74. Apollo 18

Director – Gonzalo López-Gallego
Cast – Ryan Robbins, Lloyd Owen, Warren Christie
IMDB Rating – 5.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 24%
Release Date – 1 September 2011
Box Office – $25.5 million
Genre – Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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73. The Astronaut’s Wife

Director – Rand Ravich
Cast – Charlize Theron, Johnny Depp, Clea DuVall, Joe Morton
IMDB Rating – 5.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 15%
Release Date – 27 August 1999
Box Office – $19.6 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –

72. Monsters

Director – Gareth Edwards
Cast – Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy
IMDB Rating – 6.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 73%
Release Date – 30 September 2010
Box Office – $4.24 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –

71. Another Earth

Director – Mike Cahill
Cast – William Mapother, Brit Marling
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 66%
Release Date – 22 July 2011
Box Office – $1.8 million
Genre – Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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70. Attack the Block

Director – Joe Cornish
Cast – John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker, Franz Drameh, Alex Esmail, Simon Herold, Leeon Jones, Jumayn Hunter
IMDB Rating – 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 13 May 2011
Box Office – $4.1 million
Genre – Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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69. Dreamcatcher

Director – Lawrence Kasdan
Cast – Damian Lewis, Jason Lee, Donnie Wahlberg, Thomas Jane, Morgan Freeman, Timothy Olyphant
IMDB Rating – 5.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 29%
Release Date – 19 March 2003
Box Office – $75.7 million
Genre – Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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68. Iron sky

Director – Timo Vuorensola
Cast – Götz Otto, Christopher Kirby, Julia Dietze, Stephanie Paul, Udo Kier, Peta Sergeant
IMDB Rating – 5.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 39%
Release Date – 13 March 2012
Box Office – $8.1 million
Genre – Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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67. Sphere

Director – Barry Levinson
Cast – Samuel L. Jackson, Dustin Hoffman, Peter Coyote, Sharon Stone, Liev Schreiber
IMDB Rating – 6.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 12%
Release Date – 13 February 1998
Box Office – $50.1 million
Genre – Drama, Horror, Mystery
Awards – None
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66. The Watch

Director – Akiva Schaffer
Cast – Richard Ayoade, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill
IMDB Rating – 5.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 17%
Release Date – 27 July 2012
Box Office – $68.3 million
Genre – Action, Comedy, Horror
Awards – None
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65. Lockout

Director – Stephen St. Leger, James Mather
Cast – Vincent Regan, Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Peter Stormare, Joseph Gilgun, Lennie James
IMDB Rating – 6.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 37%
Release Date – 22 February 2012
Box Office – $32.2 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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64. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Director – Kerry Conran
Cast – Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Jude Law
IMDB Rating – 6
Rotten Tomatoes – 71%
Release Date – 31 December 2004
Box Office – $58 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Crime
Awards – None
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63. Doom

Director – Andrzej Bartkowiak
Cast – Dwayne Johnson, Razaaq Adoti, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike
IMDB Rating – 5.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 19%
Release Date – 20 October 2005
Box Office – $56 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Awards – None
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62. Dune

Director – David Lynch
Cast – Brad Dourif, Francesca Annis, Linda Hunt, Leonardo Cimino, Linda Hunt, Richard Jordan, Freddie Jones
IMDB Rating – 6.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 53%
Release Date – 14 December 1984
Box Office – $30.9–37.9 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

61. The Faculty

Director – Robert Rodriguez
Cast – Clea DuVall, Jordana Brewster, Laura Harris, Shawn Hatosy, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Famke Janssen
IMDB Rating – 6.5
Rotten Tomatoes –
Release Date – 12 November 1998
Box Office – $40.3 million
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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60. They Live

Director – John Carpenter
Cast – Meg Foster, Roddy Piper, Keith David
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 85%
Release Date – 4 November 1988
Box Office – $13 million
Genre – Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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59. Battle Los Angeles

Director – Jonathan Liebesman
Cast – Michelle Rodriguez, Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Ne-Yo, Michael Peña, Bridget Moynahan
IMDB Rating – 5.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 36%
Release Date – 11 March 2011
Box Office – $211.8 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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58. Evolution

Director – Ivan Reitman, Nayeon Cho
Cast – David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore, Ted Levine, Seann William Scott
IMDB Rating – 6.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 43%
Release Date – 14 July 2001
Box Office – $98.4 million
Genre – Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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57. Reign of Fire

Director – Rob Bowman
Cast – Gerard Butler, Christian Bale, Izabella Scorupco , Matthew McConaughey
IMDB Rating – 6.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 42%
Release Date – 12 July 2002
Box Office – $82.2 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Awards – None
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56. Knowing

Director – Alex Proyas
Cast – Ben Mendelsohn, Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
IMDB Rating – 6.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 33%
Release Date – 20 March 2009
Box Office – $186.5 million
Genre – Action, Drama, Mystery
Awards – None
Plot –

54. The X files

Director – Rob Bowman
Cast – Armin Mueller-Stahl, David Duchovny, Martin Landau, Gillian Anderson, Blythe Danner
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 65%
Release Date – 20 November 1998
Box Office – $189.2 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

53. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Director – Garth Jennings
Cast – Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Martin Freeman, Anna Chancellor, Bill Nighy, John Malkovich
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 60%
Release Date – 28 April 2005
Box Office – $104.5 million
Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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52. Elysium

Director – Neill Blomkamp
Cast – Sharlto Copley, Jodie Foste, Matt Damon, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, William Fichtner, Wagner Moura
IMDB Rating – 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 66%
Release Date – 7 August 2013
Box Office – $286.1 million
Genre – Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

51. Spaceballs

Director – Mel Brooks
Cast – Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, John Candy, Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers, Daphne Zuniga, George Wyner
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 59%
Release Date – 24 June 1987
Box Office – $38.1 million
Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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50. Deep Impact

Director – Mimi Leder
Cast – Vanessa Redgrave, Téa Leoni, Robert Duvall, Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman, Maximilian Schell
IMDB Rating – 6.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 45%
Release Date – 8 May 1998
Box Office – $349.5 million
Genre – Action, Drama, Romance
Awards – None
Plot –

49. Stargate

Director – Roland Emmerich
Cast – James Spader, Kurt Russell, Viveca Lindfors, Jaye Davidson
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 48%
Release Date – 28 October 1994
Box Office – $196.6 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

48. Battleship

Director – Peter Berg
Cast – Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano
IMDB Rating – 5.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 34%
Release Date – 13 April 2012
Box Office – $303 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

47. Galaxy Quest

Director – Dean Parisot
Cast – Tony Shalhoub, Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Daryl Mitchell, Sam Rockwell,
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 25 December 1999
Box Office – $90.7 million
Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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46. Event Horizon

Director – Paul W. S. Anderson
Cast – Joely Richardson, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 27%
Release Date – 15 August 1997
Box Office – $26.7 million
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –

45. Sunshine

Director – Danny Boyle
Cast – Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Cliff Curtis, Cillian Murphy, Troy Garity, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 76%
Release Date – 5 April 2007
Box Office – $32 million
Genre – Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –

44. Paul (2011)

Director – Greg Mottola
Cast – Kristen Wiig, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jason Bateman, Bill Hader, Blythe Danner, Joe Lo Truglio
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 71%
Release Date – 14 February 2011
Box Office – $98 million
Genre – Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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43. Solaris (1972)

Director – Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast – Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 95%
Release Date – May 13, 1972
Box Office – $829,000
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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42. Cowboys and Aliens

Director – Behind the Scenes
Cast – Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano, Noah Ringer, Clancy Brown, Adam Beach
IMDB Rating – 6
Rotten Tomatoes – 45%
Release Date – 29 July 2011
Box Office – $174.8 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –

41. I am Number Four

Director – D. J. Caruso
Cast – Teresa Palmer, Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Kevin Durand, Callan McAuliffe
IMDB Rating – 6.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 33%
Release Date – 17 February 2011
Box Office – $150 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

40. Pandorum

Director – Christian Alvart
Cast – Cam Gigandet, Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Antje Traue, Eddie Rouse, Cung Le
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 28%
Release Date – 25 September 2009
Box Office – $20.6 million
Genre – Action, Horror, Mystery
Awards – None
Plot –

39. Ender’s Game

Director – Gavin Hood
Cast – Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Viola Davis
IMDB Rating – 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 61%
Release Date – 1 November 2013
Box Office – $125.5 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Awards – None
Plot –

38. John Carter

Director – Andrew Stanton
Cast – Ciarán Hinds, Lynn Collins, Taylor Kitsch, Samantha Morton, Dominic West, Ciarán Hinds, James Purefoy
IMDB Rating – 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 22%
Release Date – 9 March 2012
Box Office – $284.1 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

37. Forbidden Planet (1956)

Director – Fred M. Wilcox
Cast – Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 98%
Release Date – 15 March 1956
Box Office – $2,765,000
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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36. Enemy Mine

Director – Wolfgang Petersen
Cast – Louis Gossett, Jr., Dennis Quaid
IMDB Rating – 6.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 59%
Release Date – 20 December 1985
Box Office – $12.3 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Drama
Awards – None
Plot –

35. Contact

Director – Robert Zemeckis
Cast – John Hurt, Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, James Woods, Angela Bassett
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 63%
Release Date – 11 July 1997
Box Office – $171.1 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

34. Signs

Director – M. Night Shyamalan
Cast – Rory Culkin, Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Abigail Breslin
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 73%
Release Date – 29 July 2002
Box Office – $408.2 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

33. Super 8

Director – J.J. Abrams
Cast – Joel Courtney, Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Gabriel Basso, Noah Emmerich, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 81%
Release Date – 14 September 2011
Box Office – $260.1 million
Genre – Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –

32. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Director – Philip Kaufman
Cast – Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Leonard Nimoy
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 95%
Release Date – 22 December 1978
Box Office – $24.9 million
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

31. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Director – Robert Wise
Cast – Hugh Marlowe Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Sam Jaffe
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 94%
Release Date – 18 September 1951
Box Office – $1.85 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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30. Pitch Black

Director – David Twohy
Cast – Cole Hauser, Vin Diesel, Keith David, Radha Mitchell
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 59%
Release Date – 18 February 2000
Box Office – $53.2 million
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
Plot –

29. Oblivion

Director – Joseph Kosinski
Cast – Melissa Leo, Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Freeman, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 53%
Release Date – 12 April 2013
Box Office – $286.2 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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28. Mars Attacks!

Director – Tim Burton
Cast – Glenn Close, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Martin Short, Michael J. Fox
IMDB Rating – 6.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 53%
Release Date – 13 December 1996
Box Office – $101.4 million
Genre – Comedy, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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27. The Abyss

Director – James Cameron
Cast – Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 9 August 1989
Box Office – $90 million
Genre – Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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26. Starship Troopers

Director – Paul Verhoeven
Cast – Patrick Muldoon, Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey, Denise Richards, Neil Patrick Harris
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 63%
Release Date – 4 November 1997
Box Office – $121.2 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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25. Apollo 13

Director – Ron Howard
Cast – Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, Gary Sinise
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 95%
Release Date – 22 June 1995
Box Office – $355.2 million
Genre – Adventure, Drama, History
Awards – Won 2 Oscars
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24. Total Recall

Director – Paul Verhoeven
Cast – Ronny Cox, Rachel Ticotin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside
IMDB Rating – 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 82%
Release Date – 1 June 1990
Box Office – $261.3 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –

23. Armageddon

Director – Michael Bay
Cast – Bruce Willis, Liv Tyler, Billy Bob Thornton, Will Patton, Keith David, Steve Buscemi, Ben Affleck
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 38%
Release Date – 30 June 1998
Box Office – $553.7 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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22. War of the Worlds

Director – Steven Spielberg
Cast – Dakota Fanning, Tom Cruise, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins
IMDB Rating – 6.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 75%
Release Date – 28 June 2005
Box Office – $591.7 million
Genre – Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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21. The Fifth Element

Director – Luc Besson
Cast – Bruce Willis, Chris Tucker, Ian Holm, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 71%
Release Date – 7 May 1997
Box Office – $263.9 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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20. Moon

Director – Duncan Jones
Cast – Sam Rockwell
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 12 June 2009
Box Office – $9.8 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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19. Pacific Rim

Director – Guillermo del Toro
Cast – Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day, Max Martini, Rinko Kikuchi, Idris Elba, Mana Ashida, Rob Kazinsky, Ron Perlman
IMDB Rating – 6.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 72%
Release Date – 12 July 2013
Box Office – $411.5 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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18. Serenity

Director – Joss Whedon
Cast – Adam Baldwin, Nathan Fillion, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alan Tudyk, Summer Glau
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 83%
Release Date – 24 August 2005
Box Office – $38.9–40.3 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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17. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Director – Steven Spielberg
Cast – Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 95%
Release Date – 10 December 1978
Box Office – $306.1 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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16. The Thing (1982)

Director – John Carpenter
Cast – Kurt Russell
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 84%
Release Date – 10 December 1982
Box Office – $19.6 million
Genre – Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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14. Blade Runner

Director – Ridley Scott
Cast – Edward James Olmos, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 25 June 1982
Box Office – $32.9 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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13. Planet of the Apes

Director – Tim Burton
Cast – Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Kris Kristofferson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Paul Giamatti
IMDB Rating – 5.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 45%
Release Date – 28 September 2001
Box Office – $362.2 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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12. Men in Black Series

Director – Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast – Vincent D’Onofrio, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, Rip Torn, Will Smith
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 92%
Release Date – 4 July 1997
Box Office – $589.4 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Comedy
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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11. Predator Series

Director – John McTiernan
Cast – Richard Chaves, Bill Duke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura, Shane Black, Sonny Landham
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 81%
Release Date – 12 June 1987
Box Office – $98.7 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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10. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

Director – Steven Spielberg
Cast – Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 98%
Release Date – 10 June 1982
Box Office – $792.9 million
Genre – Family, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 4 Oscars
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9. Transformers Series

Director – Michael Bay
Cast – Josh Duhamel, Rachael Taylor, Shia LaBeouf, Tyrese Gibson, Megan Fox, John Turturro, Anthony Anderson
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 58%
Release Date – 4 August 2007
Box Office – $709.7 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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8. Independence Day

Director – Roland Emmerich
Cast – Judd Hirsch, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Randy Quaid, Will Smith, Robert Loggia
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 65%
Release Date – November 1996
Box Office – $817.4 million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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7. District 9

Director – Neill Blomkamp
Cast – Vanessa Haywood, Sharlto Copley, Mandla Gaduka, Jason Cope, David James, Kenneth Nkosi, Louis Minnaar
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 90%
Release Date – 11 September 2009
Box Office – $210.8 million
Genre – Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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6. Prometheus

Director – Ridley Scott
Cast – Guy Pearce, Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 73%
Release Date – 8 June 2012
Box Office – $403.4 million
Genre – Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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5. Avatar

Director – James Cameron
Cast – Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 82%
Release Date – 18 December 2009
Box Office – $2.790 billion
Genre – Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Awards – Won 3 Oscars
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4. Gravity

Director – Alfonso Cuarón
Cast – George Clooney, Sandra Bullock
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 96%
Release Date – 11 October 2013
Box Office – $723.2 million
Genre – Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – Won 7 Oscars
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3. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Director – Stanley Kubrick
Cast – Gary Lockwood, Keir Dullea
IMDB Rating – 8.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 2 April 1968
Box Office – $138–193 million
Genre – Adventure, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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1. Alien Series

Director – Ridley Scott
Cast – Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, John Hurt
IMDB Rating – 8.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
Release Date – 6 December 1979
Box Office – $104.9–203.6 million
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –

Which film on alien and space is your favorite? As alien movies often introduces new species and galaxies which Galaxy or species is your favorite? Do you believe that extra terrestrial life exist? Support your answer with a solid fact.