Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "alien-invasion-sci-fi"

1. 3 Body Problem (2024)

TV-MA | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A fateful decision made in 1960s China reverberates in the present, where a group of scientists partner with a detective to confront an existential planetary threat.

Stars: Jovan Adepo, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jess Hong

Votes: 82,624

2. Three-Body (2023– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Focuses on humans dealing with the incoming invasion of a highly-advanced alien civilization called Three-Body.

Stars: Luyi Zhang, Hewei Yu, Yongjian Lin, Xiaoran Li

Votes: 5,875

3. The X-Files (1993–2018)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two F.B.I. Agents, Fox Mulder the believer and Dana Scully the skeptic, investigate the strange and unexplained, while hidden forces work to impede their efforts.

Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis

Votes: 249,397

4. Arrival (II) (2016)

PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.

Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg

Votes: 769,312 | Gross: $100.55M

5. Nope (2022)

R | 130 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.

Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott

Votes: 264,863 | Gross: $123.28M

6. Annihilation (I) (2018)

R | 115 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

Director: Alex Garland | Stars: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Benedict Wong

Votes: 360,580 | Gross: $32.73M

7. Starship Troopers (1997)

R | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Humans, in a fascist militaristic future, wage war with giant alien bugs.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey

Votes: 320,718 | Gross: $54.81M

8. Transformers (2007)

PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An ancient struggle between two Cybertronian races, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, comes to Earth, with a clue to the ultimate power held by a teenager.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson

Votes: 674,173 | Gross: $319.25M

9. The Thing (1982)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur

Votes: 465,887 | Gross: $13.78M

10. Prey (I) (2022)

R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.

Director: Dan Trachtenberg | Stars: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Stormee Kipp

Votes: 226,627

11. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson

Votes: 735,775 | Gross: $100.21M

12. A Quiet Place (2018)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.

Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe

Votes: 582,655 | Gross: $188.02M

13. Battleship (2012)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rihanna

Votes: 257,140 | Gross: $65.42M

14. Mars Attacks! (1996)

PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening

Votes: 243,245 | Gross: $37.77M

15. Independence Day (1996)

PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell

Votes: 605,011 | Gross: $306.17M

16. Invasion (2021–2024)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity's existence. Events unfold in real time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them.

Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Shioli Kutsuna, Shamier Anderson, Billy Barratt

Votes: 45,798

17. Pixels (2015)

PG-13 | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games.

Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage

Votes: 159,009 | Gross: $78.75M

18. Men in Black (1997)

PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

James, an NYC cop, is hired by Agent K of a secret government agency that monitors extraterrestrial life on Earth. Together, they must recover an item that has been stolen by an intergalactic villain.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio

Votes: 612,205 | Gross: $250.69M

19. No One Will Save You (2023)

PG-13 | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An exiled anxiety-ridden homebody must battle an alien who's found its way into her home.

Director: Brian Duffield | Stars: Kaitlyn Dever, Elizabeth Kaluev, Zack Duhame, Lauren L. Murray

Votes: 64,832

20. Signs (2002)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin

Votes: 385,277 | Gross: $227.97M

21. War of the Worlds (2005)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto

Votes: 474,720 | Gross: $234.28M

22. District 9 (2009)

R | 112 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.

Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Vanessa Haywood

Votes: 716,209 | Gross: $115.65M

23. A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats lurking beyond the sand path.

Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Cillian Murphy, John Krasinski

Votes: 272,230 | Gross: $160.07M

24. The Tomorrow War (2021)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past.

Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin

Votes: 227,385

25. They Live (1988)

R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George 'Buck' Flower

Votes: 145,232 | Gross: $13.01M

26. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

PG | 138 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon

Votes: 216,624 | Gross: $132.09M

27. War of the Worlds (2019– )

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Set in contemporary France, this Anglo-French reimagining of H. G. Wells' classic in the style of Walking Dead follows pockets of survivors forced to team up after an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.

Stars: Léa Drucker, Gabriel Byrne, Bayo Gbadamosi, Ty Tennant

Votes: 17,918

28. Men in Black: International (2019)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The MIB tackle a mole in their organization.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, Rebecca Ferguson

Votes: 146,827 | Gross: $80.00M

29. The Faculty (1998)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses the murder of a nurse and sees her alive again, he decides to investigate the bizarre happenings.

Director: Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett

Votes: 134,952 | Gross: $40.06M

30. V (2009–2011)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An extraterrestrial race arrives on Earth with seemingly good intentions, only to slowly reveal their true machinations the more ingrained into society they become.

Stars: Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Logan Huffman

Votes: 58,841

31. Colony (2016–2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the wake of a mysterious alien invasion, a family fights to stay together in a new world order.

Stars: Josh Holloway, Sarah Wayne Callies, Peter Jacobson, Tory Kittles

Votes: 39,290

32. The Predator (2018)

R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

Director: Shane Black | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key

Votes: 143,275 | Gross: $51.02M

33. Howard the Duck (1986)

PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invasion with the help of a nerdy scientist and a struggling female rock singer.

Director: Willard Huyck | Stars: Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale

Votes: 50,672 | Gross: $16.30M

34. The 5th Wave (2016)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.

Director: J Blakeson | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders

Votes: 117,166 | Gross: $34.92M

35. Evolution (2001)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

A fire-fighting cadet, two college professors, and a geeky but sexy government scientist work against an alien organism that has been rapidly evolving since its arrival on Earth inside a meteor.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Julianne Moore, Seann William Scott

Votes: 136,147 | Gross: $38.35M

36. The Iron Giant (1999)

PG | 86 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.

Director: Brad Bird | Stars: Eli Marienthal, Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Aniston, Vin Diesel

Votes: 226,994 | Gross: $23.16M

37. Paul (2011)

R | 104 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Two English comic book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51.

Director: Greg Mottola | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Mia Stallard

Votes: 265,922 | Gross: $37.41M

38. Falling Skies (2011–2015)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.

Stars: Noah Wyle, Drew Roy, Maxim Knight, Will Patton

Votes: 92,971

39. Predator 2 (1990)

R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Predator returns to Earth, this time to stake a claim on the war-torn streets of a dystopian Los Angeles.

Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Kevin Peter Hall, Rubén Blades

Votes: 182,267 | Gross: $30.67M

40. Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A spaceship arrives in 1873 Arizona to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. All that stands in their way: a posse of cowboys and natives.

Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Abigail Spencer

Votes: 232,329 | Gross: $100.24M

41. Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe

Votes: 188,591 | Gross: $103.14M

42. Lifeforce (1985)

R | 101 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay

Votes: 29,418 | Gross: $11.60M

43. Fire in the Sky (1993)

PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy

An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. His co-workers endure ridicule and contempt as they are wrongly accused of murder.

Director: Robert Lieberman | Stars: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg

Votes: 28,373 | Gross: $20.10M

44. The World's End (2013)

R | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from twenty years earlier unwittingly become humanity's only hope for survival.

Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike

Votes: 297,985 | Gross: $26.00M

45. Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

PG | 94 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A woman transformed into a giant after she is struck by a meteorite on her wedding day becomes part of a team of monsters sent in by the U.S. government to defeat an alien mastermind trying to take over Earth.

Directors: Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Rainn Wilson, Stephen Colbert, Seth Rogen

Votes: 175,880 | Gross: $198.35M

46. Torchwood (2006–2011)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

The members of the Torchwood Institute, a secret organization founded by the British Crown, fight to protect the Earth from extraterrestrial and supernatural threats.

Stars: John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Kai Owen, Gareth David-Lloyd

Votes: 43,415

47. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

PG-13 | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith

Votes: 178,429 | Gross: $79.37M

48. Battle Los Angeles (2011)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A squad of U.S. Marines becomes the last line of defense against a global invasion.

Director: Jonathan Liebesman | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ramón Rodríguez

Votes: 185,090 | Gross: $83.55M

49. Alien

TV-MA | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Filming

A prequel series set three decades before the events of the 1979 film.

Stars: Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Alex Lawther

50. V (1984–1985)

TV-PG | 1,088 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A year after Liberation Day, courtesy of the red-dust bacteria, the humanoid, lizard-like aliens develop a resistance to the micro-organism and try to regain control of the Earth--only now, some humans are knowingly working with them.

Stars: Marc Singer, Faye Grant, Michael Ironside, Jane Badler

Votes: 14,015