Classic alien movies recommendation
# Evolution
Año: 2001 | País: US
Director: Ivan Reitman
Reparto: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Ted Levine
Sinopsis
A comedy that follows the chaos that ensues when a meteor hits the Earth carrying alien life forms that give new meaning to the term "survival of the fittest." David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, and Julianne Moore are the only people standing between the aliens and world domination... which could be bad news for the Earth.
# 10 Cloverfield Lane
Año: 2016 | País: United States of America
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Reparto: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr., Bradley Cooper, Douglas M. Griffin
Sinopsis
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
# Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Año: 2017 | País: FR
Director: Luc Besson
Reparto: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke
Sinopsis
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where species from across the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures. At the center of Alpha is a mysterious dark force which threatens the peaceful existence of the City of a Thousand Planets, and Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
# Oblivion
Año: 2013 | País: US
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Reparto: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Sinopsis
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
# Alienoid
Año: 2022 | País: KR
Director: Choi Dong-hoon
Reparto: Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Woo-bin, Kim Tae-ri, So Ji-sub, Yum Jung-ah
Sinopsis
Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.
# Stargate
Año: 1994 | País: FR
Director: Roland Emmerich
Reparto: James Spader, Kurt Russell, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Alexis Cruz
Sinopsis
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
# Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Año: 1977 | País: GB
Director: Steven Spielberg
Reparto: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban
Sinopsis
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
# Annihilation
Año: 2018 | País: GB
Director: Alex Garland
Reparto: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny
Sinopsis
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
# The Day the Earth Stood Still
Año: 2008 | País: Canada, United States of America
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A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have
# Mars Attacks!
Año: 1996 | País: US
Director: Tim Burton
Reparto: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito
Sinopsis
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
# Cloverfield
Año: 2008 | País: US
Director: Matt Reeves
Reparto: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel
Sinopsis
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.
# Home
Año: 2015 | País: United States of America
Director: Tim Johnson
Reparto: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Matt Jones
Sinopsis
When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when
# Alien: Covenant
Año: 2017 | País: US
Director: Ridley Scott
Reparto: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir
Sinopsis
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.
# The World's End
Año: 2013 | País: United Kingdom
Director: Edgar Wright
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Sinopsis
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
# Prometheus
Año: 2012 | País: US
Director: Ridley Scott
Reparto: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce
Sinopsis
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 must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
# Paul
Año: 2011 | País: GB
Director: Greg Mottola
Reparto: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig
Sinopsis
For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.
# Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Año: 1979 | País: US
Director: Robert Wise
Reparto: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei
Sinopsis
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.
# Lilo & Stitch
Año: 2002 | País: United States of America
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As Stitch, a runaway genetic experiment from a faraway planet, wreaks havoc on the Hawaiian Islands, he becomes the mischievous adopted alien "puppy" of an independent little girl named Lilo and learn
# Total Recall
Año: 2012 | País: CA
Director: Len Wiseman
Reparto: Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale, Ethan Hawke, Bill Nighy
Sinopsis
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.
# Arrival
Año: 2016 | País: US
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Reparto: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O'Brien
Sinopsis
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 a threat.
# Dark City
Año: 1998 | País: AU
Director: Alex Proyas
Reparto: Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien
Sinopsis
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
# Starship Troopers
Año: 1997 | País: US
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Reparto: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
Sinopsis
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."
# The Abyss
Año: 1989 | País: United States of America
Director: James Cameron
Reparto: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Todd Graff
Sinopsis
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 on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocea
# Guardians of the Galaxy
Año: 2014 | País: US
Director: James Gunn
Reparto: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper
Sinopsis
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
# The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Año: 2005 | País: GB
Director: Garth Jennings
Reparto: Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell, Alan Rickman
Sinopsis
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
# The Thing
Año: 1982 | País: US
Director: John Carpenter
Reparto: Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon
Sinopsis
In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.
# Star Trek
Año: 2009 | País: US
Director: J.J. Abrams
Reparto: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood
Sinopsis
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.
# Independence Day
Año: 1996 | País: US
Director: Roland Emmerich
Reparto: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch
Sinopsis
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
# Edge of Tomorrow
Año: 2014 | País: United States of America
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Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with hi
# Alien
Año: 1979 | País: United States of America, United Kingdom
Director: Ridley Scott
Reparto: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt
Sinopsis
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs
# Men in Black
Año: 1997 | País: United States of America
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Reparto: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn
Sinopsis
After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black.
# Contact
Año: 1997 | País: US
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Reparto: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Sinopsis
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
# K-PAX
Año: 2001 | País: Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
Director: Iain Softley
Reparto: Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, Ajay Naidu
Sinopsis
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
# Star Wars
Año: 1977 | País: United States of America
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Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the
# E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Año: 1982 | País: US
Director: Steven Spielberg
Reparto: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
Sinopsis
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliot who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliot, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home.
# Avatar
Año: 2009 | País: United States of America, United Kingdom
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In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.