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1. 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: 266,693 | Gross: $123.28M
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
G | 149 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
Votes: 720,179 | Gross: $56.95M
3. Spaceballs (1987)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman
Votes: 206,738 | Gross: $38.12M
4. 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: 159,500 | Gross: $78.75M
5. 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: 217,062 | Gross: $132.09M
6. Repo Man (1984)
R | 92 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.
Director: Alex Cox | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash
Votes: 41,183 | Gross: $3.57M
7. 2010 (1984)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A joint USA-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn exactly what happened to the "Discovery" and its H.A.L. 9000 computer.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban
Votes: 57,313 | Gross: $40.20M
8. UFO (1970–1971)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Sci-Fi
The missions of the Supreme Headquarters Alien Defence Organization (SHADO), which defends Earth from extra-terrestrial threats.
Stars: Ed Bishop, Dolores Mantez, Michael Billington, Ayshea Brough
Votes: 4,139
9. Sphere (1998)
PG-13 | 134 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A spaceship is discovered under three hundred years' worth of coral growth at the bottom of the ocean.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote
Votes: 112,555 | Gross: $37.02M
10. The Transformers (1984–1987)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Two opposing factions of transforming alien robots engage in a battle that has the fate of Earth in the balance.
Stars: Frank Welker, Peter Cullen, Corey Burton, Christopher Collins
Votes: 23,563
11. Xanadu (1980)
PG | 96 min | Fantasy, Musical, Romance
A struggling artist living in Los Angeles meets a girl who may hold the key to his happiness.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan
Votes: 15,399 | Gross: $22.76M
12. Project Blue Book (2019–2020)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A tough US Air Force officer and a skeptical scientist investigate UFO and alien conspiracies as Cold War paranoia spreads.
Stars: Aidan Gillen, Michael Malarkey, Laura Mennell, Ksenia Solo
Votes: 14,455
13. The Tommyknockers (1993)
R | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The small town of Haven becomes a hot-bed of inventions all run by a strange green power device. The whole town is digging something up in the woods, and only an alcoholic poet can discover the secret of the Tommyknockers.
Stars: Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, John Ashton, Allyce Beasley
Votes: 12,269
14. Bacurau (2019)
Not Rated | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.
Directors: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stars: Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima
Votes: 30,718
15. This Island Earth (1955)
Passed | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.
Directors: Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller
Votes: 10,687
16. Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)
PG-13 | 91 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck.
Director: Jeff Daniels | Stars: Jeff Daniels, Harve Presnell, Joey Albright, Wayne David Parker
Votes: 1,998
17. Jiang hu er nü (2018)
Not Rated | 136 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A story of violent love within a time frame spanning from 2001 to 2017.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Zheng Xu, Casper Liang
Votes: 10,623 | Gross: $0.42M
18. Beyond the Sky (2018)
Not Rated | 82 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
While shooting a documentary to expose the lies of alien abductees, a provocative filmmaker and his crew encounter a young woman with a dark secret who leads them to uncover a disturbing truth.
Director: Fulvio Sestito | Stars: Ryan Carnes, Jordan Danger, Claude Duhamel, Martin Sensmeier
Votes: 5,114
19. Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers (2018)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
In 1989, physicist Bob Lazar broke the story of Area 51 and the US government's work on alien spacecrafts. He blew the whistle, shocked the world, then went silent - until now.
Director: Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell | Stars: Bob Lazar, George Knapp, Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, Mickey Rourke
Votes: 6,596
20. The Eel (1997)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baishô, Akira Emoto
Votes: 6,406 | Gross: $0.41M
21. Inuyashiki (2018)
Not Rated | 127 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
An middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.
Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Noritake Kinashi, Takeru Satoh, Kanata Hongô, Fumi Nikaidô
Votes: 2,811
22. Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton (2015)
90 min | Documentary
Travis Walton, his friends, the sheriff, and the townsfolk of Snowflake, AZ recount the world famous 1975 UFO abduction incident and the impact it has had on their lives since then. Includes commentary from UFO experts and researchers.
Director: Jennifer Stein | Stars: Richard Dolan, Chuck Elliott, James Fox, Stanton Friedman
Votes: 655
23. Skyrunners (2009 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 92 min | Family, Sci-Fi
Fourteen-year-old Tyler encounters an alien ship which makes him appear older, inexplicably turns him into a "Skyrunner" with incomprehensible powers. This turns his high school life upside... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Hemecker | Stars: Kelly Blatz, Joey Pollari, Linda Kash, Conrad Coates
Votes: 1,457
24. Alien vs. Ninja (2010)
80 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A comet crashes into a Japanese forest and a group of mighty ninjas must fight a group of killer Aliens before they reach their village and kill everyone.
Director: Seiji Chiba | Stars: Masanori Mimoto, Shûji Kashiwabara, Donpei Tsuchihira, Mika Hijii
Votes: 2,329
25. Please Teacher! (2002)
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance
An alien who becomes a teacher, and a student start a relationship and have to keep it all secret.
Stars: Sôichirô Hoshi, Kikuko Inoue, Ayako Kawasumi, Sayaka Ôhara
Votes: 1,250
26. The Bamboo Saucer (1968)
G | 103 min | Sci-Fi
A flying saucer hidden in a Red Chinese peasant village is sought by teams from the United States and U.S.S.R. On finding it, they band together to explore the saucer and take a trip into ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Telford | Stars: Dan Duryea, John Ericson, Lois Nettleton, Bob Hastings
Votes: 553
27. Agents of Project Blue Book
Action | Post-production
Welcome back to the 20th century for a story that actually occurred, 100 years in the making. The time before Twitter, Facebook, and The Google. A time when people drank, smoked, and led ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Davis | Stars: Jeff Etter, William Kircher, Tom Sizemore, Bill Mumy
28. I epithesi tou gigantiaiou mousaka (1999)
99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Around the year 2000, a terrible incident shocks the city of Athens: a huge piece of moussaka appears on the city streets, spreading panic and death. Everyone keeps wondering: why, where, how? But no one can give an answer.
Director: Panos H. Koutras | Stars: Giannis Angelakis, Christos Mantakas, Myriam Vourou, Gregory Patrick Karr
Votes: 1,120
29. Mezhzvyozdnyie voyny. Sila probuzhdayetsya (2015)
48 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
In a parody of Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) rouge Jehi knight Vade Dartus attacks small Russian town with little success.
Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Artyom Tromskiy, Andrey Gromov, Yarik Slyusarchuk
Votes: 459
30. UFO Fact or Fiction (1974)
G | 22 min | Documentary, Short
A short documentary that traces the history of unidentified flying objects from 1947 to the present.
Director: George Gale | Stars: Robert A. Baker, Stanton Friedman
31. Neuropolitical Gas (2018)
3 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Witnessed through blurry VHS, an unexplained nightmare arises over an unsuspecting town.
Director: Mykola Yeriomin | Stars: Leonid Syplyi, Yaroslav Kozak, Mikhail Bondarev, Artur Naumenko
32. Northern Abductions (2012)
10 min | Short, Action, Mystery
Recently, strange phenomenons rage in a region north of Montreal. Under the influence of an invisible threat and despite all efforts, three innocents will become the next victims. Law ... See full summary »
Directors: Francis Richard, David Rosa | Stars: Chris Ramsay, Christina Sciortino, Jérémi Lopez, Michael Findlay
Votes: 5
33. World Order 5 (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
In this science fiction animation short Alien beings discover a dangerous secret when they happen upon a now desolate planet called Earth.
Director: Sabrina Peña Young
34. Hollywood UFO (2007 Video)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
Quirky documentary about paranormal investigators and reported UFO abduction.
Director: George Willis | Star: Joel Connable
35. Attack of the blue shark hedgehog (2022)
7 min | Short, Action, Comedy
A hedgehog shark breaks into a Smurfs fan's room, wanting a lot of blood.
Directors: Sergey A., Oleg Zolotnitskiy | Stars: Sergey A., Ruslan Zakirov-Koloshmat, Oleg Zolotnitskiy
Votes: 23
36. Theoretically, an even more paranoid conspiratorial phone call (2021)
88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When The Pro Bono Spy Hunter obtains data that can destroy the world, he must share it with The Boss at 3600 meters above the sea level in a faraway traditional Andean village with plenty of historic value located in Peru before the end.
Director: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato | Star: Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato
37. Ginger's Encounter (2010)
5 min | Short, Drama, Family
On a dark night, a young girl named Ginger encounters an Extraterrestrial being. When the FBI agent who answers the phone won't help, She decides to take matters in to her own hands.
Directors: Christopher Dierenfeldt, Gabrielle Dierenfeldt | Star: Gabrielle Dierenfeldt
38.
Space: 1999 (1975–1977)
Episode:
The Immunity Syndrome
(1977)
TV-14 | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
The arrival of the Alphans on another planet seems to cause a change in its atmosphere, setting off pollution and poisoning of the water. They meet Zoran, the sole survivor of the last ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Brooks | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
Votes: 215
39.
The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode:
Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy
(1994)
TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
Homer and Abe hit the road to sell Abe's miraculous aphrodisiac.
Director: Wesley Archer | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith
Votes: 3,020
40.
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (1998–2000)
Episode:
UFOs
(1998)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary
Louis investigates the strange world of UFO seekers, beginning with a group called the Alien Resistance Movement, before heading to Colorado, where many sightings have occurred, and then on to Nevada's infamous Area 51.
Director: Debbie Geller | Stars: Louis Theroux, Glenn Campbell, Robert Short
Votes: 305
41.
Fargo (2014–2024)
Episode:
Waiting for Dutch
(2015)
TV-MA | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In a small Minnesota town, a shooting at a diner disrupts the lives of a state officer, a married couple, and a North Dakota crime syndicate.
Directors: Randall Einhorn, Michael Uppendahl | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart
Votes: 10,509
42.
BuzzFeed Unsolved: Supernatural (2016–2021)
Episode:
The Creepy Real-Life "Men in Black"
(2016)
Not Rated | 9 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror
Ryan and Brent discuss some cases of people who claim to have met with real-life Men in Black.
Director: Ryan Bergara | Stars: Ryan Bergara, Brent Bennett
Votes: 101