Six sliders. No stars.
Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
53 films tagged aliens, showing 50
Move a slider to sort by what films are like.
2018 · Science fiction
A biologist joins an all-woman expedition into a stretch of coastline sealed off behind a shimmering wall, where the plants and animals have gone strange. It moves slowly and gets stranger the further in they walk.
AI estimate, not yet described
2023 · Comedy
Families gather in a tiny desert town in 1955 for a junior stargazing convention, and the week does not go to plan. The whole thing is staged inside a story about a play being written.
AI estimate, not yet described
2009 · Science fiction
A paralysed marine ships out to a moon on the far side of the galaxy, where a lab-grown body lets him walk among the people whose forest sits on what his employers want. Long, and built to be looked at.
AI estimate, not yet described
2022 · Science fiction
Jake Sully's family leaves the forest and asks the reef clans for shelter, learning to live on and under the water. It runs well over three hours and is built to be looked at.
AI estimate, not yet described
2018 · Action
A warlord crosses the galaxy collecting six stones that would let him do anything he likes with the universe, and every hero on the board tries to stop him. It cuts between half a dozen groups on different planets.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
A school security guard in Los Angeles, carrying a lot from his own childhood and about to become a father, sees a beam of light on a night shift and wakes in hospital. After that he cannot stop drawing aliens and empty desert.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Science fiction
On a retro-futurist Earth where four astronauts came home with powers and became celebrities, a planet-eating giant marks the world for destruction. They go up to meet him, with a baby on the way.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Family
A lonely girl in Hawaii, whose sister is fighting to keep custody of her, adopts a strange dog from the animal shelter that is in fact an escaped alien experiment. It is the live-action remake of the cartoon.
AI estimate, not yet described
1968 · Science fiction
A strange black slab turns up at three points in human history, and a ship heads for Jupiter to find out why. Very little is explained, and long stretches carry no dialogue at all.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Science fiction
A Homeland Security officer who watches the world through a surveillance program is at his desk when meteors start landing and machines climb out of them. The whole film plays out on his screens.
AI estimate, not yet described
2018 · Horror
Something arrives that kills anyone who looks at it, so a woman takes two small children down a river blindfolded. It cuts between that trip and the crowded house where it all started.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Horror
An astronaut crash-lands after her shuttle is hit, and is kept alone in a rural cottage while the Pentagon works out what happened. Strange things start in the woods, and it is mostly her.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Documentary
Former military, intelligence and government officials say on camera that the United States has known about alien craft since 1947 and hidden it. It is interviews, one after another.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
A special forces team is ambushed in the desert and wakes up in stasis pods aboard an alien ship, with whatever weapons they can scavenge. From there it is corridors, creatures and gunfire.
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Science fiction
A cybersecurity analyst walks out of a secret government contractor with an alien artefact and decades of files. He and a weather presenter who has started speaking an unknown language try to get it public.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2026 · Science fiction
A staff sergeant who lost his brother in Afghanistan puts himself through Ranger selection, and the final training exercise turns into a fight with an otherworldly killing machine. It is straight-ahead action, fast and loud.
AI estimate, not yet described
2009 · Science fiction
Twenty years after an alien ship stalls above Johannesburg, its passengers live in a fenced-off slum and a company man is sent in to hand out eviction notices. It starts as a fake documentary and turns into a chase with a lot of gunfire.
AI estimate, not yet described
2014 · Science fiction
An officer with no combat experience is dropped into a losing war against aliens and wakes up at the start of the same day every time he is killed. Most of it is him getting better at it, and it is funnier than it sounds.
AI estimate, not yet described
2014 · Action
A small-time thief picks up a mysterious orb and ends up in an alien prison with a green assassin, a talking raccoon and a tree. Big, loud, colourful, and joking most of the way through.
AI estimate, not yet described
2016 · Science fiction
Twelve alien craft arrive without explanation, and a linguist is brought in to work out how to ask them what they want. Most of it is the slow business of translation.
AI estimate, not yet described
2022 · Horror
A brother and sister running their late father's horse ranch notice something in the sky above the valley and decide that filming it is the way out of their money troubles. Wide open country, long quiet stretches, then bursts of chaos.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2012 · Science fiction
Scientists follow a set of matching cave paintings to a distant moon, on a ship paid for by a dying billionaire who wants to meet whoever left them. Big empty landscapes first, then a lot of running.
AI estimate, not yet described
1979 · Horror
The crew of a commercial towing ship is woken early to investigate a signal from a nearby moon, and brings something back aboard. Long stretches of corridor and waiting.
AI estimate, not yet described
2011 · Science fiction
A group of kids shooting a zombie movie on Super 8 film are filming at a railway station when a train comes off the tracks, and soldiers fill their town soon after. A summer-of-1979 adventure with the kids doing most of the work.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2012 · Action
Six heroes who cannot stand each other are put on the same team because a god from another realm has turned up on Earth with an army. Bright, jokey, and built towards one very long fight.
AI estimate, not yet described
2013 · Comedy
A man in his forties drags four old schoolfriends back to their hometown to finish the twelve-pub crawl they failed as teenagers, and the town is not quite as they left it. Fast, very English, jokes stacked on jokes, and it turns into a fight.
AI estimate, not yet described
2013 · Horror
A woman drives a van around Glasgow picking up men, and she is not from here. Very slow, almost no dialogue, and long stretches of black space and noise.
AI estimate, not yet described
2024 · Horror
Young colonists board an abandoned space station to steal the equipment that would let them leave their mining planet, and find what was being kept there. Straight-ahead scares in corridors.
AI estimate, not yet described
1986 · Science fiction
The only survivor of the first encounter goes back to the colony that has stopped answering, this time with marines. Half setup and half sustained firefight.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2011 · Science fiction
A teenage gang on a South London estate mug a nurse, then have to defend the block when something lands in the playground. Fast and funny, and over in ninety minutes.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Science fiction
The Sully family comes up against a Na'vi clan with no interest in peace, on a part of Pandora shaped by fire. Very long, and built for the size of the screen.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Science fiction
Two conspiracy-minded cousins kidnap the chief executive of a pharmaceutical company, convinced she is an alien sent to end the human race. Mostly three people in a basement.
AI estimate, not yet described
1977 · Science fiction
An Indiana lineman sees something over a road and cannot stop building the same shape out of everything in his house. Builds slowly to one very long encounter.
AI estimate, not yet described
1997 · Science fiction
A radio astronomer picks up a signal from Vega carrying instructions, and the argument over who should go turns political and religious. Long, talky, and serious about the science.
AI estimate, not yet described
1998 · Science fiction
A man wakes in a bath with no memory, in a city where it is always night and the buildings rearrange themselves after midnight. It explains itself slowly and then all at once.
AI estimate, not yet described
1982 · Science fiction
A boy in a California suburb finds something living in the shed and hides it in his bedroom from his mother and the government. Shot at child height throughout.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2013 · Science fiction
A privately funded crew goes to a moon of Jupiter to look for life under the ice, told through the ship's own cameras. Small, procedural, and assembled out of order.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
1999 · Science fiction
The cast of a cancelled space television series, stuck doing conventions, are recruited by real aliens who took the episodes for documentaries. Affectionate and very silly.
AI estimate, not yet described
1996 · Science fiction
Ships fifteen miles across park over the world's cities, and the survivors of the first day plan one counterattack. Big, loud and openly corny.
AI estimate, not yet described
2017 · Horror
A crew on the space station receives a soil sample from Mars with something living in it, and it grows quickly. Tight, wet and mean.
AI estimate, not yet described
2002 · Animation
A lonely girl in Hawaii adopts what she thinks is a dog, and it is an escaped genetic experiment. Funny, and the family part is played straight.
AI estimate, not yet described
1997 · Science fiction
A New York cop is recruited into the agency that polices aliens living on Earth, and issued a suit and a memory eraser. Quick, funny, ninety minutes.
AI estimate, not yet described
2013 · Science fiction
A technician servicing drones on an abandoned Earth has two weeks left before he leaves for good, and then a craft comes down. Clean, quiet and very good-looking.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Science fiction
A young Predator cast out by his clan hunts the one creature that would prove him, on a planet where everything is trying to kill him. Told from the hunter's side.
AI estimate, not yet described
2002 · Horror
Crop circles appear on a Pennsylvania farm belonging to a priest who has stopped believing, and his family shut the doors. Almost all of it is the house.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2009 · Science fiction
A young Kirk and a young Spock are thrown together on the Enterprise when a Romulan mining ship arrives from the future. Fast, bright, and built on the rivalry.
AI estimate, not yet described
1997 · Science fiction
School-leavers sign up to fight giant insects on distant worlds, in a future that broadcasts its own recruitment adverts. Gory, and the satire is not subtle.
AI estimate, not yet described
2018 · Horror
A family lives on a farm in total silence, because anything that hears them comes for them. Most of it is signed or whispered, with long stretches where nobody makes a sound at all.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2020 · Horror
A mother and her children leave the farm and go looking for other survivors, in a world where anything that hears you comes for you. Long stretches with no talking, and it keeps moving.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
1997 · Science fiction
A New York cab driver in the twenty-third century has a woman fall through his roof who turns out to be the thing that stops a great evil. Loud, colourful and very silly.
AI estimate, not yet described