Alien Invasion
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1.
Independence Day
(1996)
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. (145 mins.)
Director: Roland Emmerich
2.
Ender's Game
(2013)
Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion. (114 mins.)
Director: Gavin Hood
3.
The Avengers
(2012)
Earth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity. (143 mins.)
Director: Joss Whedon
4.
Falling Skies
(2011 TV Series)
Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back. (42 mins.)
5.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
(1951)
An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. (92 mins.)
Director: Robert Wise
6.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(1956)
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates. (80 mins.)
Director: Don Siegel
7.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(1977)
After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen. (137 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
8.
The Fifth Element
(1997)
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay. (126 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
9.
The World's End
(2013)
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. (109 mins.)
Director: Edgar Wright
10.
Pacific Rim
(2013)
As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. (131 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
11.
Starship Troopers
(1997)
Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival. (129 mins.)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
12.
They Live
(1988)
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth. (93 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
13.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(1978)
In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. (115 mins.)
Director: Philip Kaufman
14.
Transformers
(2007)
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. (144 mins.)
Director: Michael Bay
15.
Men in Black
(1997)
A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth. (98 mins.)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
16.
The War of the Worlds
(1953)
A small town in California is attacked by Martians. (85 mins.)
Director: Byron Haskin
17.
Signs
(2002)
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come. (106 mins.)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
18.
Attack the Block
(2011)
A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion. (88 mins.)
Director: Joe Cornish
19.
The Faculty
(1998)
Students suspect that their teachers are aliens after bizarre occurrences. (104 mins.)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
20.
Mars Attacks!
(1996)
Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor. (106 mins.)
Director: Tim Burton
21.
Oblivion
(2013)
A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself. (124 mins.)
Director: Joseph Kosinski
22.
The Arrival
(1996)
Zane, an astronomer, discovers intelligent alien life. But the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop Zane from learning it. (115 mins.)
Director: David Twohy
23.
Cowboys & Aliens
(2011)
A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way. (119 mins.)
Director: Jon Favreau
24.
I Am Number Four
(2011)
Aliens and their Guardians are hiding on Earth from intergalactic bounty hunters. They can only be killed in numerical order, and Number Four is next on the list. This is his story. (109 mins.)
Director: D.J. Caruso
25.
War of the Worlds
(2005)
As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival. (116 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
26.
Evolution
(2001)
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. (101 mins.)
Director: Ivan Reitman
27.
The Invasion
(2007)
As a Washington psychiatrist unearths the origin of an alien epidemic, she also discovers her son might be the only way it can be stopped. (99 mins.)
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
28.
Battleship
(2012)
A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals. (131 mins.)
Director: Peter Berg
29.
Battle Los Angeles
(2011)
A squadron of U.S. Marines becomes the last line of defense against a global invasion. (116 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
30.
V
(2009 TV Series)
An extraterrestrial race arrives on Earth with seemingly good intentions, only to slowly reveal their true machinations the more ingrained into society they become. (42 mins.)
31.
V
(1983 Mini-Series)
When aliens come to Earth to ask for our help, a few suspicious humans discover their horrific true intentions and prepare to resist. (197 mins.)
Director: Kenneth Johnson
32.
V
(1984 TV Series)
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. (60 mins.)
33.
Skyline
(2010)
Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. (97 mins.)
Director: The Brothers Strause, The Brothers Strause
34.
Fire in the Sky
(1993)
An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975. (109 mins.)
Director: Robert Lieberman
35.
The X Files
(1998)
Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth. (121 mins.)
Director: Rob Bowman
36.
Monsters
(2010)
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. (94 mins.)
Director: Gareth Edwards
37.
Lifeforce
(1985)
A race of space vampires arrive in London and infect the populace. (116 mins.)
Director: Tobe Hooper
38.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
(2008)
A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth. (104 mins.)
Director: Scott Derrickson
39.
The Watch
(2012)
Four men who form a neighborhood watch group as a way to get out of their day-to-day family routines find themselves defending the Earth from an alien invasion. (102 mins.)
Director: Akiva Schaffer
40.
Invaders from Mars
(1953)
A young boy learns that space aliens are taking over the minds of earthlings. (78 mins.)
Director: William Cameron Menzies
41.
It Came from Outer Space
(1953)
A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert, and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strange. (81 mins.)
Director: Jack Arnold
42.
Predator
(1987)
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior. (107 mins.)
Director: John McTiernan