Classic alien movies recommendation
# Evolution
Ano: 2001 | País: US
Diretor: Ivan Reitman
Elenco: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Ted Levine
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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
Ano: 2016 | País: United States of America
Diretor: Dan Trachtenberg
Elenco: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr., Bradley Cooper, Douglas M. Griffin
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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
Ano: 2017 | País: FR
Diretor: Luc Besson
Elenco: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2013 | País: US
Diretor: Joseph Kosinski
Elenco: Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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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
Ano: 2022 | País: KR
Diretor: Choi Dong-hoon
Elenco: Ryu Jun-yeol, Kim Woo-bin, Kim Tae-ri, So Ji-sub, Yum Jung-ah
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1994 | País: FR
Diretor: Roland Emmerich
Elenco: James Spader, Kurt Russell, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Alexis Cruz
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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
Ano: 1977 | País: GB
Diretor: Steven Spielberg
Elenco: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2018 | País: GB
Diretor: Alex Garland
Elenco: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny
Sinopse
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
Ano: 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!
Ano: 1996 | País: US
Diretor: Tim Burton
Elenco: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2008 | País: US
Diretor: Matt Reeves
Elenco: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel
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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
Ano: 2015 | País: United States of America
Diretor: Tim Johnson
Elenco: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Matt Jones
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2017 | País: US
Diretor: Ridley Scott
Elenco: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2013 | País: United Kingdom
Diretor: Edgar Wright
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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
Ano: 2012 | País: US
Diretor: Ridley Scott
Elenco: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2011 | País: GB
Diretor: Greg Mottola
Elenco: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1979 | País: US
Diretor: Robert Wise
Elenco: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei
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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
Ano: 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
Ano: 2012 | País: CA
Diretor: Len Wiseman
Elenco: Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale, Ethan Hawke, Bill Nighy
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2016 | País: US
Diretor: Denis Villeneuve
Elenco: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O'Brien
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1998 | País: AU
Diretor: Alex Proyas
Elenco: Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien
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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
Ano: 1997 | País: US
Diretor: Paul Verhoeven
Elenco: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
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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
Ano: 1989 | País: United States of America
Diretor: James Cameron
Elenco: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Todd Graff
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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
Ano: 2014 | País: US
Diretor: James Gunn
Elenco: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper
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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
Ano: 2005 | País: GB
Diretor: Garth Jennings
Elenco: Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Zooey Deschanel, Sam Rockwell, Alan Rickman
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1982 | País: US
Diretor: John Carpenter
Elenco: Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2009 | País: US
Diretor: J.J. Abrams
Elenco: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1996 | País: US
Diretor: Roland Emmerich
Elenco: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch
Sinopse
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
Ano: 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
Ano: 1979 | País: United States of America, United Kingdom
Diretor: Ridley Scott
Elenco: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt
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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
Ano: 1997 | País: United States of America
Diretor: Barry Sonnenfeld
Elenco: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio, Rip Torn
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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
Ano: 1997 | País: US
Diretor: Robert Zemeckis
Elenco: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
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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
Ano: 2001 | País: Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
Diretor: Iain Softley
Elenco: Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, Ajay Naidu
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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
Ano: 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
Ano: 1982 | País: US
Diretor: Steven Spielberg
Elenco: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
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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
Ano: 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.