For your extraterrestrial viewing needs, Stacker ranked the top 30 alien movies, according to their IMDb user rating.

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The moment of first contact with extraterrestrials is a staple of science fiction. It usually involves a frantic scientist having a Eureka moment, realising in a single dramatic instant that Earth is ...

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Left to Right: Steven Yeun in "Nope," the alien in Steven Spielberg's "E.T." and Scarlett Johansson in "Under the Skin" (Universal Pictures / A24) It didn’t take long for stories about ...

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Steven Spielberg makes a plea for empathy with Disclosure Day.

Spielberg returns to one of his favorite subjects with a fun and goofy popcorn movie that shows how far he's come in the last 50 years.

Larson's love of science in 'The Far Side' led to some strips that took the strip into the realm of sci-fi: these are the ...

Independence Day didn’t invent or perfect the summer movie, but it arguably understood it better than anything since.

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